Exactly; the masses bought into a false narrative made up by the IRFU and fuelled by Sky Sports money, creating the impression that there was massive rivalries between the provinces. Players were cossetted and minded with success in the Beer Cup the perogative. The IRFU cherry pick what games the players may play, allowing them to be in peak condition for test match friendlies and piss up tours of the Southern hemisphere. This approach doesnât seemed to have worked, as Ireland appear to be the only Tier 1 country not to make a World Cup quarter final since the tournamentâs inception.
Of course, in Limerick alone there was plenty of real inter club rivalry between the likes of Young Munster, Garryowen and Shannon, but the IRFU took the 30 pieces of silver offered by the television companies to the detriment of the club game.
A melt down over rubby? - I called your shit out, thats all.
The provinces are set up to win the beer cup. The Irish rubby team is set up to win the 6ns ⌠you confuse this for âgolden generationsâ ⌠They;'re not and never will be⌠they just have an advantage over the competition.
So youâve admitted Irish players focus more on the European cup than the other countries. Weâll forget about this meltdown from you yesterday when I suggested it. If Ireland are to be successful in a World Cup the focus needs to be Ireland and not the four provinces.
I donât think you could be more wrong here. The irfu player time policy benefits the club teams and thatâs it. It doesnât benefit the national team at all in my opinion. Anytime Ireland are asked to play three weeks in a row we either get hammered in at least one game or get a whole pile of injuries. The European cup is a series of one games or a maximum two games in a week and one could be against a shit side. I think Irish players arenât used to playing week in week out and to win a World Cup you have to do that. England will play the 3 big Southern Hemisphere sides in 14 days and have barely gotten an injury. Their players are used to games week in week out.
Iâve never heard the expression and find it laughable. They did fuck all except win a tournament that they were set up to win. They collapsed when the playing field was even at the WC.
@choclatemice here you go. Rightly or wrongly that was the golden generation of Irish rugby. The provinces were dominant at club level, Ireland won a grand slam for the first time in forty years but we failed miserably to wales in the World Cup. That was a brilliant Irish team on paper compared to the current side. That is the one Irish rugby will always regret.
Carberry appears to be made of glass. Heâs constantly injured. Seeing what happened New Zealand over the last 18 months too Iâd suggest Carberry is played at 15.
- I called your shit out, thats all.
