2022 Six Nations rugby championship

[gilgamboa]

@ChairmanDan

The Eire soccer set spun an 11 game winless streak to the start of Stephen Kenny’s tenure (including a home defeat to Luxembourg and failures to beat the might of Qatar and Azerbaijan) as some sort of a soccer revolution and modern approach to the game and rewarded all that failure with a new contract.

You might be better than I with the search function… I’d say there are dozens of @Thomas_Brady posts spinning Liverpool moral victories into something brave and joyous

[gilgamboa]

@Thomas_Brady

You rubby lads are always the same in loss

You soccer lads are too reactive… Steady as she goes… Game played out as expected yday. We were a bit closer than I expected if anything

[Watchthepost]

Ooooooft

[Biff_Egan]

I’m getting aroused just thinking about this French team @Ralphie

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[Tank]

The team has peaked and failed. Certain posters are extremely delusional.

They didn’t shit their pants, the best team and best players won. Ireland will remain 2nd or 3rd best in the northern hemisphere for the next 3 years, after that who knows.

[Chucks_Nwoko]

That’s bollocks. After all we learned from the weekend’s match, i’d really fear for France if we got them again in a couple of weeks.

[glasagusban]

@BruidheanChaorthainn

Henderson should come in for James Ryan and possible Coombes for Conan and switch Doris to 8.

I suggested this ages ago. Henshaw for ringrose also.

[Fagan_ODowd]

@Chucks_Nwoko

That’s bollocks. After all we learned from the weekend’s match, i’d really fear for France if we got them again in a couple of weeks.

We won’t play them for another year.

[Tank]

That would be the dream scenario but as Fagan says, we are unlikely to play them again until next year.

The average age of the Irish team is 28 so next year they will only be 29. The problem is that the average age of the French team is 24 so next year they will only be 25. Rugby players are typically expected to make more progress between the ages of 24 and 25 than between 28 and 29. Paul O’Connell, for example, only made his international debut aged 22.

Ireland have shown that they can stay competitive against the new Northern Hemisphere superpower so that’s very exciting. If they keep up the morale they might get lucky one year and break up a potential French 3 or 4 Championships in a row. That’s huge. Ireland didn’t win a single championship for over 20 years after 1985 and they’re very hard won. Fair-weather soccer fans like Thomas Brady forget that.

[gilgamboa]

Ringrose was outstanding on Saturday.

[Juhniallio]

Glas doesn’t know much about rugby. He’s not actually that interested for a lad who grew up practically inside thomond Park. But he has a healthy disregard for most things Leinster when it comes to it. He still feels henshaw is more rural cos he plays trad.

[Ralphie]

As always Gervais Thornley has his finger on the pulse of French rugby

[gilgamboa]

@Juhniallio

Glas doesn’t know much about rugby.

He knows more than he let’s on the rogue

[glasagusban]

That’s it exactly.

[glasagusban]

For a smaller player he’s a great lad to put the head down and carry into traffic, you’d have to give him that.

[BruidheanChaorthainn]

He was outstanding on Saturday.

[glasagusban]

Didn’t I just compliment him?

[Fagan_ODowd]

@Ralphie

As always Gervais Thornley has his finger on the pulse of French rugby

I think he is hoping against hope that Les Bleus don’t do Le Grand Chelem and come unstuck against Les Rosbifs.

[gilgamboa]

He is. I think your harking back to the good old days of philippe sella for a more swashbuckling style of 13. Aren’t we all

[glasagusban]

You’d like your 13 to make breaks or be good enough at passing or offloads to put other players away into space alright. It’s a pity we don’t have a 13 like that.