Real depth in nearly every position but one glaring weakness. Weāre in serious trouble at scrum half if anything happens to Conor Murray.
Yes I canāt really understand why Cooney hasnāt been given a chance. Heās a talented player and excelled in an awful ulster team.
Did you watch the game yesterday, he was absolutely outstanding in Defense.
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Heās extremely limited. Good defender and teak tough but when it comes to opening up a defense he isnāt at the required level. He simply doesnāt have the hands. Likewise as good a twelve henshaw is heās seriously suspect going forward at 13. Couldnāt have them together in a centre partnership going forward. You need that creativity in your midfield.
Yeah centre is an issue of balance. Henshaw and Ringrose is clearly the best choice but I wouldnāt mind seeing any of them lining up with Ringrose really.
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A mate told me Dillane is out of favour cause he canāt keep track of the lineout calls at all, any truth?
Henshaw seemed like a player with great creativity playing 15 and 13 at Connacht and now heās a bosh merchant 12, Aki is probably better at that job than henshaw.
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Is a 33 year old Rob Kearney at full back not a bit of concern for Ireland at the world cup? He does the basics excellently but Iād have thought to go far in a world cup you need a bit more. Is there any chance of Lamour taking that spot in the next 14 months?
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His mother died a few months back and she was ill beforehand. Thats my understanding of his poor form. Not knowing the lineout calls would be a cardinal sin for schmidt alright, we dont have many athletes like dillane though
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If some of the illiterate idiots who play American football can remember intricate calls than so can rugby players for relatively few lineout calls.
I hope thatās the reason and not what I heard, heās an outrageous athlete, would love to see him back in the team. They have to lose Kearney by next year.
Fair enough but dillane is on rollerblades in the scrum. Some footballer all the same.
Irish rugby / English soccerā¦
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Either way the loudest haters of English soccer/Irish rugby are in the thrall of them.
Henshaw is a vastly superior 12 to aki but isnāt a 13. Itās remarkable how easy ringrose has replaced BOD. If him or Murray go down where fucked.
We can win without Ringrose but lose a lot.
Big worry is that he is picking up a lot of injuries.
I think without ringrose weāre too easy to defend. As I said before bob offers nothing but has outstanding basics. You need a lad that create something from nothing at 15 particularly if weāve aki/henshaw in the centres.