Yes because of the money. Eddie o Sullivan and Declan kidney ,lost their jobs after bad six nations.
I didnt say that at all.
But the 6N is massively important to the IRFU because it funds the entire sport in the country. Past coaches have often bemoaned the fact that they cant be used for experimentation as much as they would like for that exact reason
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Tracksuit pants has a point here. A large number of rugby people would consider the Leinster schools final more important the rugby World Cup final.
Sorry mate, I really need to read some posts, when I have hundreds unread I just jump in at the last one
Ah come on now.
A neighbor of mine will be playing junior cup rubby this year, That is of infinite more interest to me than the World Cup final
Kiely won his province and got to a semi finalā¦ Schmidt realisticallu only has to win 2 games to get to a semi final
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Anyway my own personal opinion is schidmt is probably a victim off his success from Leinster and Ireland in many ways. He took over a team falling slowly apart. Dealt with two of our greatest ever players retiring and losing zebo, Jackson, olding and Ryan really well not to mind the likes of Payne and headlip. Pretty much rebuilt the squad and changed our mentality where we now expect to beat the boks, the aussies and Nz. No other Ireland coach achieved this. Heās also moved away from the core group and designed a system multiple players can come in and play with minimal fuss which in turn means we arenāt too reliant on any one player like before. I donāt really buy into this if we get to a semi final his tenure is a success and if he doesnāt itās a failure. If drew scotland in a 1/4 final and win and then get hammered by nz in a semi final itās not a success. We could play a great game and lose by a point v NZ in 1/4. Im really confident well get to the final. Not sure After that. Overall schidmt has ticked so many boxes no other Ireland manger has and changed Ireland rugby for the good imo heās been a success. Heās leaving the job in a much better place than he took it over too. I will also add Andy Farrell will be a huge failure and Iām deeply worried for our future.
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The World Cup is a gimmicky tournament thatās only been around since 1987. The Championship has been there since 1883. Itās the big one.
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If Ireland win the rugby World Cup do think Rory best could be knighted?
Ya apart from that opinion you have the rest of what I said is correct about the players. Carrying injuries and players like best, the fucking captain of Ireland. This can go south very quickly, the manager announced his leaving after it. Its as bad it gets preparation wise. so I guess itās all done from the back pitch of Carlton house. Canāt wait to buy the dvd.
You would expect players to retire over the course of his career, heās been there a long time. He didnāt lose Ryan, he discarded Ryan. He wouldnāt play zebo most of the time when he had him, and if he wanted he could still select him.
Jackson completely replaceable. olding 
What a meaningless list.
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How did he disregard Ryan? And he played zebo pretty much all the the time?
Obsessed.
Jackson could easily be starting now if he stayed. Olding is quality and would be ahead of Farrell.
Stop now
do you actually believe this?
Youād be hard pressed to find a weaker pool. Ireland are a weak top seed and Scotland are barely ever top 8. A couple of other teams then that we should expect to beat.
If you want to argue that we got a tough quarter final draw it might have some merit. But generally you donāt progress in a competition without beating at least one good team, so to be honest thatās nonsense too.
Last world cup we had a relatively handy pool which we made a big job of followed by an quarter we would expect to win 8 times out of 10. Apparently the pool was so āattritionalā it took it out of us for the Argentina game.
This time our pool is hardly that difficult/"attritional but we have a challenging game after it. You canāt have it every way.
Thereās always an excuse with the rugby crowd. They want a handy pool and a handy quarter final and they donāt want to be judged by world cup.