Ah stop it now. They are in the weakest pool of all time.
When you start giving some rugby related reasons for your arguments than the emotional tabloid related anti media rants people might engage you in a serious manner. I havenât forgotten your lies here during the week about 50% of Schmidtâs caps being foreigners. I suspect you might be rabble rousing
Im sorry but that is wrong. Only tournanent that matters is world cup. Failure to get beyond last 8 will be an abject failure of his reign imho. All these 6 nations are meaningless in the greater scheme.
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Youâd be a fool to read anything into warm up games.
Incorrect. Irish rugby survives off the six nations performances. Provinces included in that. You have no chance in a World Cup if you havenât been beating nz, oz and South Africa regularly in the four years leading up to it. Look at England between 99 to 03.
Because it keeps failing at world cups?
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Our front row is shite, Healy and best past it, second row average, back row are good players but too small for the likes of South Africa and Nz, Murray is playing shite, sexton and jc are coming back off an injury, henshaw also, Kearney too old, earls is our best player. Our lineouts are a mess, confidence is gone, suffered our biggest defeat to England two weeks ago. Its worrying times. I wouldnât be surprised if fucking Scotland bate us.
The pool isnât the problem. If they donât get out of that pool it would be an unmitigated disaster, without question. Beating SA or NZ in a quarter final is a different matter entirely.
No because the six nations is worth a fortune to the irfu. World Cup is once off every four years.
Really? So if Ireland fails to get beyond quarters yet again with arguably the best squad they have ever had, then JSâs reign will be deemed a success? Go away out of that.
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You said the six nations is meaningless. It isnât. The irfu make a packet off the six nation performances and that money is used to fund the four provinces. Defining a 6 year coaching on the basis of a 1/4 final is just stupid.
I said meaningless in context of world cup.
It will be a massive blot on his record. But it wonât render everything else meaningless either as some claim
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Like Munster & National League titles?
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I know and this bizarre line being rolled out about making a semi final or final. If we beat Scotland in a World Cup 1/4 final and qualified for a semi final would that make schidmts coaching tenure a success? Bizarre.
It could be argued that you donât understand the mindset of rugby supporters with that opinion, like the regular hilarious quip about âfriendlyâ games,
The World Cup is all that matters to a lot of people because it apes the soccer crowd, the six nations is a big deal to rugger heads, itâs has history, itâs not that long who they it was all we knew (admittedly as the five nations and probably 4 nations)
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You can be sure of one thing, it wouldnât count for much on TFK anyway
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Is kloops Liverpoolâs career a failure if he doesnât win a league?
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So when IRFU appoints someone, six nations performances are deemed to have a higher currency than world cup performances?
For an organisation that is lauded for its structures and professionalism, I am having a hard time getting my head around that.
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Which is both untrue and utterly irrelevant.
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