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Ireland v France 2021 6n

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Who will win? Farrell and Burns under immense pressure - last chance saloon?

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Clareman

If JGP did that he'd be lynched here

mfceiling

Dupont passes into his own players head.

Definitely should be dropped for that.

lawrencesummers

Herring providing the turnstile

fitz

Poor from Herring

I see sheep

France are too good for us I'm afraid.

[Deleted User]

talk about fortunate

Clareman

DuPont f**ked up there

A-Train

Too easy for France, blessed we got away with that

Clegg

Jesus Christ

Got out of jail

Cluedo Monopoly

Lowe has a strange kicking style.

Fichou playing well.

Got lucky there

Lucky

Here we go

Our scrum and lineout are clearly on top.

We need to play 10 man rugby to have a chance here.

France will have us for breakfast in fast open play

D.Q

lawrencesummers wrote: »

He’s been blue raw useless in the second quarter of the first half

Blue raw useless hahaha

Clegg

I don't think any player has been bad. We've a lot of lads actually excelling. Set piece has been excellent and our pressure game on point.

But as soon as the ball goes past 10 we look clueless. We're wasting the abilities of some very gifted outside backs.

statesaver

Come on Ireland.

Sanjuro

I see the match threads are becoming as unreadable as the main Ireland thread.

[Deleted User]

KaneToad wrote: »

Sure. We have much better options at 9:

Cooney
Marmion
Blade

Casey is not (yet) international standard 9. Those guys are and offer us more.

Ah no I said more than just he's not good enough. You said he's not the answer those guys are not options because they are not in the team. He's got bags of talent. He may not be the best option right now but youve given no actual reason why.

thomas 123

I feel henshaw and ringrose of offered nothing in the the middle of the park ball in hand.

awec

TheCitizen wrote: »

There has to be a better option than Burns.

Yea there is, Sexton.

theVersatile

lawrencesummers wrote: »

In Freddie burns’s defence Sexton would have missed one of those place kicks as well.

Freddie Burns, Jesus Mary and Joseph.

Arduach

We're in a rebuilding phase.

But the big thing for me isn't so much the players, but is AF the man to lead us forward.

lawrencesummers

In Freddie burns’s defence Sexton would have missed one of those place kicks as well.

dh1985

awec wrote: »

No.

People are looking for issues with JGP and Burns because of the fuss that's been made about us playing with neither Sexton nor Murray.

Sexton misses kicks all the time, and t's harsh to blame JGP for the try. They tore through us and the defence was scrambling.

Both the half backs have been grand.

Haven't seen anyone mention the jgp tackle on the French second row that saved a certain try. The two lads have done alright. Ireland on top for large passages but France have the killer blow on offense that ireland dont possess. Definitely not out 9f this yet. French set piece is a shambles. Dont see a grand slam in those guys

mfceiling

breezy1985 wrote: »

Na Burns has sucked. His kicks for touch from penalties have been poor in terms of ground gained

Wrong.

If I've one criticism of sexton is that he rarely gains much ground when kicking for touch out of hand.

Burns gets plenty....Lowe even better.

TheCitizen

TomsOnTheRoof wrote: »

Ross Byrne has failed to impress on numerous occasions. Burns had a good Autumn. He **** the bed last week but he still has credit in the bank from November and rightly so. He deserves his shot. Personally I'd prefer to see Carty there but I don't have an issue with Burns being given a chance.

There has to be a better option than Burns.

lawrencesummers

ecoli3136 wrote: »

Do you mean a spent force or a beaten docket? I like my props ljke healy and my metaphors untortured.

He’s been blue raw useless in the second quarter of the first half

TomsOnTheRoof

StevenToast wrote: »

Billy burns has been terrible....anyone can miss a kick...but the nature of the first miss was shocking..

Offers nothing in attack

Burns isn't the only reason out attack has faltered. We haven't set the world alight with Sexton there either. People need to take off the blinkers, we have two very good centres but they aren't world beaters. Henshaw looks to be a bit more dynamic since shedding the weight but he's not going to step two or three fellas and score a breakaway. Likewise, Ringrose is a very good footballer but he doesn't have the sheer acceleration needed to turn those half breaks into scores. Additionally, Catt looks to have brought nothing worthwhile. Burns is not the only reason our backline can't score.

KaneToad

nerd69 wrote: »

Would you mind elaborating. more than he's just not good enough please

Sure. We have much better options at 9:

Cooney
Marmion
Blade

Casey is not (yet) international standard 9. Those guys are and offer us more.