The Official Irish Rugby Thread

[nelly sham]

What's the point of having Mark Sexton coach the As if they're just going to play the same shite Faz ball? It didn't matter a jot who played outside the 9 and 10 they weren't ever getting the ball.

The Frawley experiment will crash and burn out West too

 

[Jukka]

That type of match tells you absolutely nothing. A regular URC match would be a much better basis to judge the merit of players.

 

[How bad boy]

That type of match tells you absolutely nothing. A regular URC match would be a much better basis to judge the merit of players.

Unfortunately, I think it told us just how far behind England the second rank of talent is in Ireland

 

[Barry K O Bama]

I commented on it briefly. They don't have the pool to stand referees down anymore. Look at Piardi getting the Lions games and Ridley still hanging around.

I appreciate this but with Dickson and Tempest - you knew you were going to get an anti Ireland bias

Both of these 2 clowns have loads of recent form.

Tempo was the TMO responsible for Beirne's inane red v AB's (later rescinded) and failed to see the clear biting on Aoife Waters at the WWC.

Dickson awarded a match winning penalty to Toulon - the only person in the Stade Mayol who saw it as a penalty.

It's been tough for the English to stomach little Ireland climb to the top of the rankings and it's hard for them to pass up the opportunity to put us back in our box.

But these incompetent clowns are allowed to make bad call after bad call - there has to be a method to drive improvement.

Get Nigel to mentor a few of them - he's done a fantastic job with the Wales lad Jones

 

[Jukka]

Unfortunately, I think it told us just how far behind England the second rank of talent is in Ireland

That wasn’t a second rank though. It was almost like an Irish barbarians type selection such was the randomness of who was in and who wasn’t.

England’s was more of a proper A team.

 

[Barry K O Bama]

Unfortunately, I think it told us just how far behind England the second rank of talent is in Ireland

I think it's always been that way.

We've been managing our resouces better in the Schmidt/Faz era.

Unfortunately Faz has taken the Leinster centricity to new levels and it's coming unstuck.

 

[Meridian]

What he said