There’s one angle which shows it held up when it’s over the line and that it’s back behind the line by the time it touches the ground. Fairly clear. There’s no angle that even suggests it was a try. The question was “try, yes or no?”
Never saw that on the replays yesterday, never saw anything clearly, but I had pints on board so that could be contributing. He couldnt give it if that was the question.
Interesting game in Murrayfield, serious hits being doled out and taken.
Scotland playing well. A bit more of a killer instinct and they’d have had it wrapped up by now. Hard to fathom how so called experts have France as unassailable favourties for this years Championship considering how utterly sh*te they’ve played for the last two years.
Maybe it’s because they are the second best team in the world?
RELAND Team & Replacements (v France, 2012 RBS 6 Nations Championship, Stade De France, Sunday, March 4, kick-off 4pm local time/3pm Irish time):
15 - Rob Kearney (UCD/Leinster)
14 - Tommy Bowe (Ospreys)
13 - Keith Earls (Young Munster/Munster)
12 - Gordon D’Arcy (Lansdowne/Leinster)
11 - Andrew Trimble (Ballymena/Ulster)
10 - Jonathan Sexton (St. Mary’s College/Leinster)
9 - Conor Murray (Garryowen/Munster)
1 - Cian Healy (Clontarf/Leinster)
2 - Rory Best (Banbridge/Ulster)
3 - Mike Ross (Clontarf/Leinster)
4 - Donncha O’Callaghan (Cork Constitution/Munster)
5 - Paul O’Connell (Young Munster/Munster) (capt)
6 - Stephen Ferris (Dungannon/Ulster)
7 - Sean O’Brien (Clontarf/Leinster)
8 - Jamie Heaslip (Naas/Leinster)
Replacements:
16 - Sean Cronin (St. Mary’s College/Leinster)
17 - Tom Court (Malone/Ulster)
18 - Donnacha Ryan (Shannon/Munster)
19 - Peter O’Mahony (Cork Constitution/Munster)
20 - Eoin Reddan (Lansdowne/Leinster)
21 - Ronan O’Gara (Cork Constitution/Munster)
22 - Fergus McFadden (Old Belvedere/Leinster)
Why do they even bother including their clubs.
As usual no changes, what has Donnacha Ryan to do, to get a start. Reddan can feel hard done as well. The rest picks itself.
Your anti-Munster agenda is starting to become tiresome Anto
Explain please, or just more rubbish out of your mouth.
He was never going to start Anto. I think he most certainly should and even in his limited time on the pitch he has been very impressive but just wouldn’t be Kidneys way to pick him away to France. International form is of lesser importance to experience and who Kidney knows and trusts.
I would agree here but that would be an attack minded move to include both… Same old conservative shite from Declan.
He was excellent last week Larry for that brief cameo. He cleared a lot of rucks which allowed Reddan to get quick ball out. Agree with you on the last point, but it is a major flaw to have on Kidneys part.
Irish rugby has enough burials in Paris, while Ryan isn’t raw, is Paris the place for a 6 Nations start? O’Callaghan isn’t playing poorly and Ryan does a job when introduced. Its a settled team and it would seem a tad unfair to change a side that has won by 30 plus points. Plus the IRFU doesnt exactly encourage experimentation in the 6 Nations.
In answer to Runts question, its their piss poor attempt to appease the Clubs to make them believe that they still matter.
Is it not something to do with ticket allocations as well?
You have me if it is. I havent a scooby. Do Clubs with representatives get more tickets or something?
That’s what I thought, or it means they’re entitled to more tickets if they want them or possibly something along those lines. Although it’s a bit ridiculous to think that Eoin Reddan would ever be togging out for Lansdowne or Sean O’Brien for Clontarf! At least Hayes changed his club back to Bruff. You’d think SOB would do the same (although maybe they have to be an AIL club)
Your constant pro-Shannon posts are sickening in the extreme
Mick Fitzgibbon was the only worth while player ever to come out of Shannon
Yea O Brien was my first thought when you mention the ticket thing, I’d imagine Tullow would love to have that sort of recognition and the tickets, because like you said, you could count on one hand how many times the front liners have lined out with their Clubs in recent times. Only when coming back from a bad injury along the lines of O Connell and Flannery comes to mind.
You have me there, what Pro Shannon posts you pleb.