O'Sullivan please leave

tony ward

What was it that got Gatland the sack despite being recognised as a good coach? O'Sullivan has the best Irish squad for a generation and squanders it. Domiciled in London what am I missing about him, he seems to be devoid of any presence or creavity. As Matthews said on Saturday, this Irish side hasn't really performed for 18 months, and yet Eddie trots out the usual rubbish with a wonderful ability to make it seem that he is not responsible for the performances of the team. I was at Cardiff last year and we were inept, ditto Aus and NZ, and Italy and France. Five poor performances in a row and yet despite the talent in the squad he doesn't seem to be under any pressure.

Explain please as I'm about to throw the towel in. No more trips until he goes.

CJhaughey

Gatland didn't get the sack, he was knifed in the back by EOS and the IRFU, and ably assisted by Keith Wood.
Gatland has since gone on to show what he is capable of, while our own Me Feiner has gone on to show the world exactly what he is capable of...

bigshow

Eddie is one of the best we've ever had,our poor performance on saturday was due to a high risk game we played, this is the first time we really gave it a go so sunday week i'm sure we'll see a marked improvment. the way the welsh played sunday we won't have to worrie at all.

CJhaughey

Sorry , I must have been watching a different team to the one that EOS has been coaching all these years, My mistake, now will the real eddie please stand up?
Our poor performance has not been limited to this years 6n but also the November Internationals against NZ, and Australia, Oh I forgot Ireland beat Romaniawow.
Not to put too fine a point on it but EOS has run out of Ideas at this level.
He inherited a team that Gatland had identified and took the ball from there.
He has done nothing to develop Irish rugby but has done plenty to damage it.
from where I sit the ONLY option is for him to go.
If Ireland was any good they would have beaten probably the worst Aussie side to tour here in a long time.

dub_skav

I agree Eddie has had his chance and must go.
Getting destroyed in the first scrum is not a result of a high risk game plan, the props should have hit that pitch looking to launch themselves into that first scrum as if they didn't care about the rest of the match, that then sets the platform for the rest of the match - France did it and it worked.

Eddie tries to be so controlling that there is no room for individual creativity, just his gameplan.
It is very easy for an opposition coach to plan for one man's ideas, i.e. outthink Eddie. It is very difficult to plan for the individual brilliance of O'Driscoll, D'Arcy, Wallace and Murphy - if they were allowed to play the game as they see it.

Ireland only got into the game when they decided to ignore Eddie's gameplan and started to offload in the tackle (something Eddie doesn't encourage).

Time for Eddie to go, every Ireland performance is more disappointing than the last and we have a World Cup group to qualify from.

LostinBlanch

bigshow wrote:

Eddie is one of the best we've ever had,our poor performance on saturday was due to a high risk game we played, this is the first time we really gave it a go so sunday week i'm sure we'll see a marked improvment. the way the welsh played sunday we won't have to worrie at all.

Oh yeah I nearly forgot "we played all the rugby" :eek:

What a load of self serving rubbish. His tactics were wrong and continued that way for the first 50 minutes. It was only when France switched off with the game won and got tired that we began to play our own game. I think this happened because the senior players said feck this for a game of soldiers to EOS gameplan. Unfortunately it has just papered over the cracks. It still begs the question why those self same players can play like demons for Declan Kidney and Michael Cheika and not EOS? Riddle me that.

If you want to keep on whistling past the graveyard be my guest but don't expect too many people to join in with you.

An Tarbh

Bloody EOS was given most of the credit, wrongly so when we started to play some decent rugby in 2000, must have paid some PR company well, and as had been widely accepted knifed Gatland in the back. We should only have 3 more matches to put up with, surely the IRFU are beginning to see the error of their ways.

daveirl

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An Tarbh

If only BOD, O'Donovan and the IRFU would let history repeat itself then.