I could bullshit you some reason but that was a mistake on my behalf
Bowe to start with Shaggy on the other wing
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Its his decision. Keep convincing him sends the wrong message to the rest of the players as well. Player politics involved there maybe?
Eh i called for Stringer and Boss to be brought in. I have very little time for Reddan. TOL was shit, but so was more or less everyone else.
Lads,
Serious question but what has O’Leary ever brought to scrum half that Stringer for instance didn’t? Stringer was tactically very astute, an excellent passer out of the ruck, got it out of the ruck very quickly - the only part of his game he was poor in was lack of physicality and this had an impact on his ability to make breaks.
O’Leary on Saturday gave one of the worst performances I have seen from a scrum half, the delay out of the ruck was criminal at times and he continues this practise if kicking the ball at amlost every opportunity. And the more I think of it, the more he has been doing this for years but got shown up against a tight defense like France.
Reddan is a much better player - maybe not as astute as Stringer but a better breaker from the base of the ruck.
Its basically because he passed him out at Munster. Kidney hasn’t ever been Stringers absolutely biggest fan.
It was interesting that O Connell fumbled two restarts in the game on Saturday.
One would have thought he would learn his lesson.
David Wallace is one bad game from retirement.
failure to put points on the board in the first 20 killed Ireland not to mention the litany of individual errors that followed.
Cian Healy yellow card, what was it 17 minutes in? the game turned on that moment and all the other disasters that followed were as a result of having to play for 10 minutes without ferris. remember, Ireland had given them plenty up to that point but when Ferris and Healy returned in hindsight i think the game was won, France were flying.
Jerry Flannery handing them 3 points when we were looking at possession inside their 22, stupid.
O’Leary turning away 3 points when we badly needed something on the board,stupid.
the 2nd half is irrelevant imo as you cant really play catchup in Paris when they have their tails up, damage done in first half.
Sexton has to start and id leave out Hayes at this point and look to the future, id put DOC back if fit for his physicality but id leave it there. Look to the future at this point but no whole sale changes for the sake of it.
To be fair to the man he rarely has bad games, but the end is coming for him as it does us all at some point.
What was the year that we nearly did it before? Think we got within one try and were much further behind at half time.
France can be very fickle if things start going against them - we panicked in the second half and made woeful, schoolboy errors like forward passes and spilling the ball.
David Wallace is my favourite Munster player, and faourite Irish player after O’Driscoll. He has been consistently superb for years now and deserves all the credit he gets. He is not the force he once was though but still was on O’Driscoll’s shoulder to pop over the try. He has delivered when mattered on many, many occassions.
There was no coming back from such a physical mauling as that one.
They were tore a new arsehole, as simple as that.
No line break in two matches against the Italians and French & unable to compete with proper No.7’s at the breakdown.
Taxi for Wallace.
On his own at the breakdown Tipper, and there was little or no linebreaks made. I think Saturday showed up teh importance of DOC to the Irish work at the breakdown, this simply isnt part of Cullens game.
Incredibly harsh on Wallace there, who for many was MOTM on Saturday.
That is selective analysis at best. Being destroyed by a much superior pack does not point to the absense of an ordinary second row but more to the fact that the opposing pack was just far, far superior.
Not at all Farmer, I’m just pointing out that Wallace was on his own at the breakdown and that in teh past this has been where DOC has done most of his best work. Its not Cullens fault that the breakdown is not one of his better areas, he has other positives to his game which were shown up over the last 2 games.
In fairness, the team must collectively take the blame for those fumbles, they weren’t individual mistakes at all.
Those bearing grudges are not going to deal in fairness on this subject.
MBB has lost his sarcasm meter…
Is MI not one of the bigger Irish, Munster and POC rugby fans on the forum? His view on rugby is one to be listened to in awe. :rolleyes: