The Official Irish Rugby Thread

[nelly sham]

Itoje carded within 20 seconds of coming on. The invisibility cloak is gone.

 

[Debanks]

Wales may as well pack it in

Looks like the packed it in even before the start of the game.

 

[How bad boy]

Italy will bate us at the Aviva.

I'm going to put on a few quid and all.

This is the worst Irish side since the early 90s. I remember going to the matches at Lansdowne road in the early 90s as a schoolboy. Tickets were £3 from CBC. This is when guys like Philip Danaher were playing out half. They were absolutely woeful.

Iirc, paid £1 for a Fiji game back in 1995

 

[Tyrone Biggums]

14 centrally contracted players on the top money.

At least 3 of them nowhere near good enough to be playing for the national side. Probably a lot more by next year




Big clear out needed . 'Fez' doesnt have the appetite for it.

 

[keamoresouth]

The WRU could go and pitch for sponsorship from Hallmark after that game

 

[Jukka]

I wonder how Leinster will feel about paying 40% of Furlongs wages next year. We saw more of Snyman than they have of him in recent years.

Of course, the injuries magically disappeared when the Lions tour and the few hundred grand on offer for it came around…

 

[MerchantOfEnnis]

The U20s game is live on RTE player if anyone is interested

 

[Meridian]

I wonder is this an indication that D4 media are starting to turn on their darling Pretendergast:

 

[nelly sham]

I wonder is this an indication that D4 media are starting to turn on their darling Pretendergast:

I think the big difference is the media abroad are openly questioning it now too. They were all in on the hype train but its not delivering. It may well do, at some stage but not now.

One of the English journalist had a pretty damning summary stating that 2 years ago Ireland bate France off the pitch over there with Crowley leading the way. Won them the 6 nations and was just cast aside since.

 

[nelly sham]

Hard to know what England are capable of too. They had Wales well beaten but were still just kicking the leather off the ball

The Welsh were incredibly poor. That's 10 cards in the last 5 games Biggar was saying. 11 penalties in 20 minutes. That's near impossible to do. That second row Jenkins seems to he bigged up too but I've never seen him being anything other than average, for Wales or Exeter.