Aki has been stone useless since coming on and if my sources are correct he’s lucky to be playing for Ireland at the moment
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I’m no rugby fan but that looks like a right good Ireland team.
Harsh enough yellow with the way North took a knee
I’d agree with all of that but it was still definitely a red in fairness
It was definitely a red.
That being said I’m glad we beat them clearly 15 v 15 with no excuses. We now know we have their number
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Conan must be living on borrowed time too, the both of them could be cut adrift now.
Just looking at the World Cup draw and Ireland seem to have a bastard of one.
Scotland and South Africa in the group and even if we top it it’s France or New Zealand in the quarters.
Other side of the draw seems very ordinary.
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Almost certainly want to play New Zealand in the q/f. Would be closer to home game with the Irish crowd.
A big ask to beat them in a World Cup no matter how well the team is doing at the moment.
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It is but beating a French team with a home crowd in a World Cup isn’t easy either imo.
I thought irelands fitness won the game at the weekend.
I’d fully expect the French to be a different beast come the autumn.
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Ireland play Scotland in the final group game on October 7th. That game is pretty much certain to have a lot on the line. It’s a big disadvantage to have a crunch clash in the final group game and I think a look over the run of the fixtures in previous World Cups would bear that out.
For serious rugby playing countries the Six Nations is like the hurling league. Its for builing up a panel for the serious competition later on in the year.
Sounds bad for tagdh beirne
An ever-present in the last two Championships, as well as last summer’s series win in New Zealand and unbeaten Autumn series, when asked about this Six Nations in the prism of a World Cup, Beirne made clear Ireland’s desire to shoot for a first title since 2018.
“We’re here to win. That’s what we want to do. You’re talking about experimenting, I don’t know if I’ll be here this time next year in the Six Nations. Who knows? I want to be involved in every single game I can be and I obviously want to win this Championship, I’ve never won it before.
Twas definitely worth paying off Pivac and signing Gatty up to a long term multi million euro contract
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The gatty for president crowd on here are very quiet these days
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You’d be very foolish to rule out the greatest rugby manager in the game over the past 30 years.
Professional rubby seems to be a very Mickey Mouse set up
Gatland is playing this one magnificently.
They’ve learned everything from the Cork hurlers. Thought leaders.