Six Nations Rugby 2018

[Sidney]

@gilgamboa

They created this advantage. It wasnt handed to them.

You admit that I’m correct. Thanks.

Refer to my posts last week for a comprehensive Tour de France as to how the advantage came about.

[flattythehurdler]

Ah right. I’m none the wiser tbh, but that’s fair enough.
I often wondered whether coty could attract legal interest. @rocko is a brave and principled person, and that is a rare enough thing.
COTY this year was appalling though.
Geldof was very brave. One of the first to publicly take on the church/state machine, in an era in which it was very difficult to do so. And live aid was a remarkable achievement. His autobiography is fantastic.

[mick_jones]

Ah, he’s still a cunt though

[Sidney]

@caoimhaoin

I just got off the phone from someone who was unfortunate enough to spend a large portion of last night in the company of a former cunt of the year from here who shall remain nameless.

The person I’m question is just an admitted bandwagon er and had no idea who he was as they have little interest in sport. Apparently he did not drop it for the night.

When I explained the esteemed award they said “I can see why”

That could be an interesting tale, but it’s very, very poorly told.

You don’t clarify whether it’s your friend or the former COTY who is the bandwagoner.

You don’t clarify whether your friend didn’t recognise the former COTY or whether the COTY didn’t recognise your friend.

If it’s the latter, why on earth would a former COTY recognise your friend? And why would failure to do so sho that they have no interest in sport?

And you don’t clarify what was “not dropped” for the night.

Rating: must do a lot better.

[flattythehurdler]

But not in a nasty way. There were a few real nasty ones in the running this year.
He never tried to destroy a person’s life by smearing them as a paedophile for instance.

[HBV]

Choked up watching this.

JohnBKeaneBar (JohnBKeaneBar)

[caoimhaoin]

Exactly.

Fellas here have their values stuck up their hole

[mick_jones]

Williams really should’ve run away with it. For shame TFK

[flattythehurdler]

Williams had sterling competition from individuals embroiled in the same scandal.

[Esso_Oil]

Rocko seems to be a glitch in the software. COTY discussions showing up in a rugby thread? Or maybe not. Sorry work away.

[Sidney]

@mick_jones

Williams really should’ve run away with it. For shame TFK

Wading into the jiggery pokery that has been conducted in COTY polls over the years is like wading into Russian corruption.

It’s best not to go there.

But anyway.

@Rocko fixed the poll.

[Tassotti]

Very emotional scenes there

[Tim_Riggins]

@Sidney

People can’t eulogise the IRFU’s player management system in comparison to the other countries and then say they don’t have an inbuilt advantage.

That’s an advantage that doesn’t exist during a World Cup because the other Northern Hemisphere countries’ player won’t play any club matches from May, or June in France’s case, until the World Cup starts in September. The Southern Hemisphere teams will build their 2019 season around peaking at a World Cup.

Except Ireland suffered numerous injuries before and during this tournament as well.

The reality is that the IRFU have grown Ireland’s player base substantially and the Academy system is working wonders.

[Little_Lord_Fauntleroy]

Mate, I’m on board the bandwagon now so this isn’t a pop but how does your point about growing the playing pool to back to ewans article recently about the percentage of players who went to private schools?

[GeoffreyBoycott]

@Sidney

I think @GeoffreyBoycott detailed Wales’s injury list at the start of the championship and it was an extensive one.

So in an average Six Nations season, Ireland have an inbuilt advantage, even more so in the season after a British Loins tour.

People can’t eulogise the IRFU’s player management system in comparison to the other countries and then say they don’t have an inbuilt advantage.

You must not be very familiar with the personnel on the Ireland rugby team. If you were, you probably would have realised that Ireland had a bit of an injury crisis as well. Robbie Henshaw and Jared Payne have been the first choice centre partnership for the past few years. Payne missed the entire championship, Henshaw got injured in the second game against Italy and his replacement Chris Farrell picked up an injury after the third game against Wales which ruled him out of the last two games.

Our back row was decimated by injury. We started and finished the campaign without our first choice Number 8 of the last decade, Jamie Heaslip, 95 Ireland caps and 5 British Lions caps of experience and class gone. Sean O’Brien, an ever present and best forward for the British Lions in New Zealand last summer missed the entire campaign. Rhys Ruddock and Josh Van der Flier the back ups both got injured and missed almost the entire Championship. Dan Leavy who at best would have been an 8th choice in the back row ended up getting pressed into action and playing almost the entire campaign.

Against Wales, the British Lions tight head prop Tadhg Furlong was absent injured as was another British Lions, Iain Henderson.

Jonathan Sexton played through an injury for most of the championship and was well below his best.

As a consequence of the good coaching and dedication of the rugby community from schools and grass roots level up and the support structures of the IRFU, as @gilgamboa outlined this morning, we were able to throw in young fellows with a handful of caps between them, like Andrew Porter (22) James Ryan (21), Dan Leavy (23), Joey Carbery (22), Garry Ringrose (23), Jacob Stockdale (21) and Jordan Larmour (20) and they became men overnight.

[Little_Lord_Fauntleroy]

A lad that thinks CJ plays for Leinster slagging other posters off for not being familiar with the Irish rugby team

Take a hike you fraud

[GeoffreyBoycott]

@Little_Lord_Fauntleroy

A lad that thinks CJ plays for Leinster slagging other posters off for not being familiar with the Irish rugby team

Take a hike you fraud

Take a hike you rape apologist bandwagoner.

[Little_Lord_Fauntleroy]

You are a fraud , we don’t want clowns like you supporting Ireland

[Tim_Riggins]

@Little_Lord_Fauntleroy

Mate, I’m on board the bandwagon now so this isn’t a pop but how does your point about growing the playing pool to back to ewans article recently about the percentage of players who went to private schools?

I don’t read Ewan’s articles.

Is rugby at its most popular in fee paying schools? Certainly, but that hardly tells you the whole story now does it? No doubt Ewan would have the likes of Joey Carburry as a fee paying schooled player. The reality is that he went to Blackrock for one year. He really is a product of the Youths system.

[Little_Lord_Fauntleroy]

I’ll read the article but it’s something like 80% of Munster rugby players went to fee paying schools

I’m delighted our elite our beating the elite of Britain though