How was Dave Kearney starting ahead
Of Luke Fitz in 2015 v the argies? I forgot how good Fitz was when he came on.
O Connell, Pom, Sean o brien, Jared Payne and sexton were some loss.
nope, he is a repeated failure at world cup
He was second choice out half behind Ronan OāGara at his first World Cup in 2011.
Why do you say he was a failure in the 2015 World Cup?
Juan Martin Hernandez was some player.
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Ireland under his watch have never finished higher than 8th in a 8 team tournament
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The quarter final in 2015 against Argentina was hardly under his watch. He missed it through injury.
Ditto the 2011 quarter final against Wales. OāGara played out half. Sexton got just a few minutes at the end after the game was lost.
On a point of order, 20 teams and not 8 have competed in the final tournaments of all the World Cups that Sexton has okayed in.
Itās a bit like saying Portugal shouldnāt play Ronaldo as heās keeping someone from getting experience. Sexton is as good a player weāve ever produced, even now Ireland are twice the team with him in it. Heāll be going to the World Cup at 38 I reckon
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1 I donāt think United should be playing Ronaldo anyway, whatever about Portugal.
2 Sexton will go and play world cup. And heāll be hit late and injured. Any team worth their salt will do it. SA love it.
Because coach Schmidt had a plank in his eye.
Nothing triggers the Munster lads like the words Dave Kearney!
Sexton could be in nappies long before the world cup
Ian Madigan comes a close second.
āExperience not essentialā
āCan learn on the jobā
Hopefully more so than a manager.
Or anyone in the epl.
Was the game that poor?
I was a big fan of Madigan but Iād say I was the exception alright
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Too many (if all) munster fans* are obsessed with players from other teams getting ahead of a munster player in the ireland team. Similarly Leinster fans who wind them up about where a lot of munster players are from.
Social media is terrible
*fans who donāt understand there is an entire sport inside and outside of the 16th man
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Rugby can be decent to watch on tv but hard watch when you are at the game.
The only Rugby Football match I have ever attended in the flesh was when I saw a last gasp JJ Hanrahan drop-goal win a Munster Schools Cup quarter final for Rockwell College in Clanwilliam Football Club Tipp Town back in 2010 as I dossed off last class in school.
It was an absolutely horrendous spectacle but was regarded at the time in the newspapers as an absolute classic.