shootermacg wrote: » Stockdale will be a better full back than a winger. That makes sweet FO sense to me. Wingers are essentially the blondes of the team and Stockdale is a blonde with zero positional sense. Wonder who Daly pissed off in camp? He's better to Keenan IMO, bigger, faster and stronger. What's going on there?
ionadnapokot wrote: » "Oi! van Graan. NO!
aloooof wrote: » There's merits to both, and they have their similarities, in that attack is their strength and defence their weakness. But to say Zebo shouldn't even be in the camp (with the "if he was available / playing in Ireland" caveat) is going overboard imo.
shootermacg wrote: »
aloooof wrote: » Even if he didn't field any balls in the backfield in the final, I would still contend he's superior in the air than Lowe, tho. Lowe is definitely far more physical in the tackle. Zebo has put in some brilliant last-ditch try saving tackles in his time tho. Zebo probably has the better boot too? There's merits to both, and they have their similarities, in that attack is their strength and defence their weakness. But to say Zebo shouldn't even be in the camp (with the "if he was available / playing in Ireland" caveat) is going overboard imo.
shootermacg wrote: » Stockdale will be a better full back than a winger. That makes sweet FO sense to me. Wingers are essentially the blondes of the team and Stockdale is a blonde with zero positional sense.Wonder who Daly pissed off in camp? He's better to Keenan IMO, bigger, faster and stronger. What's going on there?
kingofthekong wrote: » Massively disrespectful to stockdale....you wouldnt say any of the above to his face but being on an anonymous forum fills you with the confidence you probably lack in real life On Keenan ahead of Daly, personally think Keenan is better, and coaches spend far more time analysing the guys in trainning...something must not be good enough or they will maybe rotate Daly in for Georgia
molloyjh wrote: » EDIT: On rereading that I should probably point out that what I mean is that I see no reason the playing abroad rule should be broken for Zebo. Obviously if he was playing here then that would be a different story. He would be in the squad. But I also think he would be showing up better defensively too. He was when he was at Munster previously.
ionadnapokot wrote: » ...... Disappointed no Minozzi at 15
sydthebeat wrote: » allowed to stay and play with Wasps in the premiership final.
sydthebeat wrote: » callow enough italy team, that back line is a bit all over the place.... and using a 6 / 2 split on the bench.... only 6 caps between the locks... canna at 12 is obviously to give a hand to Garbisi who is, at last, supposed to be the real deal at 10 for them..... a lot of pressure on the young lads head we need to keep the ball away from, and play out of, contact as often as we can and holes will absolutely appear in that defense. we need to pretty much play an anti-schmidt game
ionadnapokot wrote: » anti-schmidt game? you mean more off-loads? Mori will also win his 1st cap off the bench.https://youtu.be/vb-xCkfVzz0?t=179
kingofthekong wrote: » Italys pack look powerful
sydthebeat wrote: » i dont necessarily mean more offloads only. Schmidths game plan was predicated on holding onto possession by taking the contact and recycling quickly to find gaps out wide. It was very much centered around retaining possession where possible.in this new Farrell era, and in the new climate of ruck and jackle interpretations... against this italian team id like to see us try to play through the contact, whether thats an offload out of a tackle, or quicker hands before contact... essentially playing for space rather than for contact. I think we have more ball carrying options now in the forward pack, and id like to see them using their hands more often. Theres no need to have grunter rucking specialists if the plan is to avoid rucks where optimal (under joe it was closer to seeking rucks where possible.. a strategy that worked well, quite often, at that time) we had 130 rucks against italy last time we played them in 2019 with 58% possession id imagine we will have similar possession on saturday, but id like to see about 20 less rucks in our end of game stats... weather permitting of course
ionadnapokot wrote: » thats a joke that is imagine if Racing did that with Zebo:D but seriously. fuppin joke
bilston wrote: » To be fair Italy agreed to it, and presumably Minozzi himself made the decision. Its a chance for silverware (albeit Exeter are massive favourites) for Minozzi. The Ireland game is fairly meaningless for Italy at this stage. It would have been interesting if Scotland had had a 6Ns match this weekend (I know they play Georgia). What would their captain have done?
WhoamI2022 wrote: » Was Schmidt not the most successful coach Ireland has ever had?
sydthebeat wrote: » Of course he was Your point??
WhoamI2022 wrote: » It seems some fans are acting as if Schmidt was the worst coach ever because of a bad few months. I seen it happen with other coachs as well as soon as they leave Ireland, it looks to be the fashionable thing to slag them off. No idea what it brings to the conversation.
thomond2006 wrote: » I imagine those English and French clubs aren't exactly in the market either. Some tough decisions however might have to be taken on some of the older players who aren't in the Ireland picture.
Clegg wrote: » BOD was talking about this in a recent interview with Murray Kinsella. This is a gem for a few reasons. BOD playing at outhalf, wearing the 17 jersey and looking like a baby. And there's an utter lack of rush defence. So alien in the modern game.https://twitter.com/Murray_Kinsella/status/1319669914425176064?s=19
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