68 minutes to get on Reddan & Sexton.
A damning indictment of the coaching staff.
Reddan and Sexton on after 68 minutes. 68 minutes of utter rubbish by the half back pairing and finally the coach has noticed. This is Declan’s version of Kidney Failure.
What was Heaslip at there? Seemed afraid to take it into contact and once he did he thew the ball behind him.
Awful.
How many knock ons by Munster players today now? David Wallace now, in fairness to him one of the very few Munster men who can hold their head up to some extent.
“O’Connell decides not to compete” - a telling quote there from Ryle Nugent.
What a beautiful striker of the ball that Perra is. That kick by the sideline and the following drop goal were incredible. As good a skill as there is in any sport.
The French arrogance during the week has been completely justified…
Ireland have been on the backfoot since the sinbinning…Poor performance all round, very few will come out of it with credit…The lineout has gone well apart from that we have been very poor…But credit where credit is due this has been an excellent french performance and they should go on and win the grand slam now, some embarrassment of riches when you see the likes of Marty, Michilak and Bonnaire all coming in off the bench…
Scrum has settled down a lot since Tom Court & Rory Best came on.
Court has been in good form for Ulster all season. He deserves his chance instead of a washed up Hayes.
Kidney failure indeed…
This knock-on fest is all very annoying…
Is there some new initiative or tactic in rugby to pass head high to your team mate.
It’s an epidemic in our team.
It’s blindingly obvious to anybody who knows the game that Bob Casey needs to come in as pack leader for Twickenham.
My 15 for Twickers would be
Kearnivore
Horgan
BOD
Darce
Bowe
Sexy
Boss (with Flannery as reserve SH)
Heaslip
Wallace
Ferris
Casey
Cullen
Court
Best/Flannery (toss up)
Healy
Ireland are very lucky not to have conceeded 50+ points in this match…Destroyed in the second half…
Imperious display from the French.
This should cut the number of Irish ‘rugby fans’ by a good fifty percent or so.
It doesn’t get much worse that that.
France were good and deserve an awful lot of credit but that shouldn’t absolve Ireland of blame. Selection didn’t work out, gameplan was wrong and too many players underperformed.
It must be gauling (get it) for Brian O’Driscoll. Nevertheless the captain kept on going right until the end. Some real home truths have been told today for a lot of that team.Something that hasn’t been mentioned yet is the incalculable loss of Luke Fitzgerald.
In fairness, that result is good for rugby football generally despite our own natural bias towards Ireland. Good to see flair and a commitment to attack being rewarded in the modern game after an extremely conservative and risk averse style won out in the tournament last year.
well thats the idiotball bubble burst at last
Very true. Kearney getting ‘injured’ helped us keep it respectable.
Hard to quibble too much with that selection. Possibly Reddan at scrum half to start with Boss in reserve. Tight call between D’Arcy & Wallace but D’Arcy will probably get the nod as in fairness he was one of the few Irish players to emerge with any credit today.
A dose of realism for the wannabe upper classes.
The likes of Kev and MBB really have no need to comment on this thread from now on.
The only thing to do now is to give as much game time to the fringe players for the rest of the tournament with a view towards the world cup. I’d be starting Court, Sexton, Reddan, Ryan and O’Brien the next day. Give Hayes, O’Gara, O’Connell and Wallace the day off. A combined age of nearly 130 between the 4 of them :blink:
Kearney
Bowe, O’Driscoll, Darcy, Trimble
Sexton, Reddan
O’Brien, Heaslip, Ferris
Ryan, Cullen
Court, Best, Healy