Another Irish media narrative.
The Irish media are in control of NZ Rugby? Iām as confused as yourself here.
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So your blaming joe schidmt for injuries now? Your issue seems to be with the media and not the facts.
@glasagusban posing many pertinent questions here but heās only getting bluster as answers so far.
Itās one thing winning end of season friendlies, itās another to do it on the big stage.
Thanks. Thatās essentially been my point.
If you say so. In my opinion the world cup has to be the litmus test. If he goes to two world cups and doesnāt make it past the last eight in a sport that about eight teams are competitive in, then thatās certainly an underachievement.
Why canāt you set moderately ambitious targets for rugby?
Injuries is an excuse. Ireland were torn apart because of their limited and inhibited ambition.
Gats has a better coaching record than Schmidt.
You said earlier heās overrated. Now you saying are if he doesnāt make a semi final this time heās an underachiever.forget about the World Cup coming up. How do you rate schidmts tenure as Ireland coach? 2 wins in Paris, 3 six nations wins, 1 slam, beat new zeal and x 2 and South Africa in South Africa plus won a series in Australia. During his 6 years heās lost Ryan and zebo plus Jackson and olding not to mind the retirements of o Connell and drico.
Did I? I merely asked a question and the rubby crowd have lambasted me for it. This is exactly what Iād expect from Irish media coverage of rugby. Anything other than best coach in the world and world class players and you get ate.
If you take maybe 5 of the 7 best players out of a team theyāll always struggle. In fact theyāll usually get hammered. Look at limerick v tipp In championship this year with 4 good players missing and 2 weeks later with the players back v the same team. Also schidmt has learnt from this and weāve far more depth and experience in every position something heās built on for 4 years now.
Ah Jesus pal, itās the worst French team in living memory. Itās no achievement beating them.
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Record defeat to England too
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Heās done it though. Regularly winning in Paris is something we struggled with. Heās pretty much ticked every single box as Irish manager.
That beating was coming dude to Irelandās set up. I suppose the injuries were a freak occurrence of bad luck as well and completely outside of anyoneās control. More excuses.
Did I?
How was it coming? Injuries are part and parcel of the game. Heād only 2 years to prepare for the last World Cup so creating the depth was difficult. Losing Sexton, Pom, o Connell and o brien was cruel. Youād expect to lose 3 or 4 but losing your 3 best players is cruel and bad look.
Exactly. Pretty minor achievements taken completely out of context and overinflated. Wins in France and wins against weakened NZ in meaningless games overegged. Beating NZ is of course an achievement, but it shouldnāt be unexpected.
The one measure that adds proper context is a world cup but for some reason Iām not allowed use it as a barometer. Thatās ridiculous.
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Werenāt Wales crippled by injuries against England at the last World Cup and they beat them on their own turf?
Ireland were playing an average enough Argentina side and got filleted - an Argentina side themselves who got devoured in the semi final.
Even with a few absentees that Ireland team should have been good enough to dig it out. That they werenāt falls on the coach to a large extent.
Bad luck is nonsense. More excuses. And SOB was suspended due to his own indiscipline and idiocy.
A weakened New Zealand team? You said missing players are excuses 
we canāt complain about losing our 3 best players versus Argentina but your happy to downgrade our wins v New Zealand as they were missing players we were missing plenty of players for both New Zealand games too chief. Injuries are a part of the game.
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