Ireland v France 2021 6n

walshb · 14-02-2021 06:03PM

So many here love to stick the knife in to the lads, team and country when we lose a rugby match...

A single score was all. Against France...60 million people. Far more into their rugby than we ever were..

doughef · 14-02-2021 06:03PM

*** not trolling ***

But as an Irishman I’m delighted they lost.
The team is as Irish as an ‘Irish bar’ in Bangkok.

Rugby is and always has been an elitist sport.
.. and don’t start me on the national anthem mega mix !!

mod -banned.

FixdePitchmark · 14-02-2021 06:03PM

Henderson didn't sound right there ?

Annabella1 · 14-02-2021 06:03PM

Not negative after that all
Brave gutsy performance esp with injuries

irishfeen · 14-02-2021 06:04PM

Ireland are so one dimensional it’s absolutely frightening.

Teferi · 14-02-2021 06:04PM

doughef wrote: »

*** not trolling ***

But as an Irishman I’m delighted they lost.
The team is as Irish as an ‘Irish bar’ in Bangkok.

Rugby is and always has been an elitist sport.
.. and don’t start me on the national anthem mega mix !!

Okay, but has Ja Rule released a statement about the game yet?

UAEguy2020 · 14-02-2021 06:04PM

walshb wrote: »

So many here love to stick the knife in to the lads, team and country when we lose a rugby match...

A single score was all. Against France...60 million people. Far more into their rugby than we ever were..

Ahhh so now we are going to use population as an excuse to accept mediocrity...

It’s not 60 million v 7 Million

It’s 23 v 23.

Hurrache · 14-02-2021 06:04PM

walshb wrote: »

A single score was all. Against France...60 million people. Far more into their rugby than we ever were..

I didn't think they had that many on?

mun1 · 14-02-2021 06:04PM

French were very poor today, we could have sneaked it in the end . A bit more composure and it could have worked out for us .
I’d pick the following team for Italy match , who will be a lot better than France were today

1. Healy/kilcoyne
2. Kelleher
3. Porter/furlong.
4. Henderson
5. Ryan
6. Beirne
7. VDF
8. Stander
9. Murray
10. Sexton
11. Earls
12. Henshaw
13. Ringrose
14. Larmour/Conway
15. Keenan.

thomas 123 · 14-02-2021 06:04PM

walshb wrote: »

So many here love to stick the knife in to the lads, team and country when we lose a rugby match...

A single score was all. Against France...60 million people. Far more into their rugby than we ever were..

You can’t hide the fact this game might have been won had different decisions been made behind lads sticking the knife in.

Pudsy33 · 14-02-2021 06:05PM

FixdePitchmark wrote: »

Henderson didn't sound right there ?

Hes just Northern :pac:

clsmooth · 14-02-2021 06:05PM

We would have been pinned in our own 22 for the whole of the second half if it wasn’t for the boot of Lowe. Has a cannon on him.

FixdePitchmark · 14-02-2021 06:05PM

walshb wrote: »

So many here love to stick the knife in to the lads, team and country when we lose a rugby match...

A single score was all. Against France...60 million people. Far more into their rugby than we ever were..

Have to agree with above. Poor performance from "fans"

As for stadium sound. Jaysus sounded like playing away in Turkey. He should be sacked.

kingtiger · 14-02-2021 06:06PM

clsmooth wrote: »

We would have been pinned in our own 22 for the whole of the second half if it wasn’t for the boot of Lowe. Has a cannon on him.

pity about his tackling skills

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kilns · 14-02-2021 06:06PM

doughef wrote: »

*** not trolling ***

But as an Irishman I’m delighted they lost.
The team is as Irish as an ‘Irish bar’ in Bangkok.

Rugby is and always has been an elitist sport.
.. and don’t start me on the national anthem mega mix !!

Hi Ewan stop trolling

Pudsy33 · 14-02-2021 06:06PM

Happy to be wrong about Byrne, both him and Burns were fine. I don't think either will reach the requisite standard though so.

Thrashssacre · 14-02-2021 06:06PM

Man of the match for Ireland is Paul o connell the line-out is a few leagues above where it's Been for years, as for the game it shows where we are comfortably 3rd in the northern hemisphere. There's room to improve but solid in contact need to find a way to drag our marquee player's into games more.

bennyl10 · 14-02-2021 06:07PM

clsmooth wrote: »

We would have been pinned in our own 22 for the whole of the second half if it wasn’t for the boot of Lowe. Has a cannon on him.

Well at least he can kick

Pity his tacking and defensive reads aren’t functioning

walshb · 14-02-2021 06:07PM

thomas 123 wrote: »

You can’t hide the fact this game might have been won had different decisions been made behind lads sticking the knife in.

Yes. That’s sport. That’s life

It’s the almost glee like comments and criticisms that are so prevalent against our rugby team...

doughef · 14-02-2021 06:07PM

Teferi wrote: »

Okay, but has Ja Rule released a statement about the game yet?

I’m not mad into rap either ..

StevenToast · 14-02-2021 06:07PM

walshb wrote: »

So many here love to stick the knife in to the lads, team and country when we lose a rugby match...

A single score was all. Against France...60 million people. Far more into their rugby than we ever were..

Head in the sand...Ireland are going nowhere under Farrell and Catt....

breezy1985 · 14-02-2021 06:08PM

mun1 wrote: »

French were very poor today, we could have sneaked it in the end . A bit more composure and it could have worked out for us .
I’d pick the following team for Italy match , who will be a lot better than France were today

1. Healy/kilcoyne
2. Kelleher
3. Porter/furlong.
4. Henderson
5. Ryan
6. Beirne
7. VDF
8. Stander
9. Murray
10. Sexton
11. Earls
12. Henshaw
13. Ringrose
14. Larmour/Conway
15. Keenan.

Why go with guys like Sexton and Murray against Italy in a tournament we are out of. Ide be throwing out some new caps

walshb · 14-02-2021 06:09PM

StevenToast wrote: »

Head in the sand...Ireland are going nowhere under Farrell and Catt....

Head is not in the sand

We lost a match....

Some of the slagging and criticisms are way OTT, but not surprising..

Larbre34 · 14-02-2021 06:09PM

I'm going to say we did better than I expected before the game.

I'm also going to say I'm frustrated at the apparent the lack of ideas in locker to bring our best players onto the ball and advance up the pitch.

I would also congratulate France for their ability to change up and down the gears at will and also for putting Robbie Henshaw in their pocket all day.

Beechwoodspark · 14-02-2021 06:09PM

Williams more or less saying Farrell has not brought ireland forward

lawrencesummers · 14-02-2021 06:09PM

Lowe had as many bad kicks as good kicks.
His almost try was only an almost try.
His missed tackles were criminal.

The only reason we lost by two wasn’t down to our ability, it was French mistakes that stopped them scoring more and allowed us a soft try.

The French mistakes flattered the score line but the were never in trouble.

Thrashssacre · 14-02-2021 06:10PM

I think a leading voice is something were missing too in the times where we were really under pressure, during the 3rd quarter of the game there were no Irish voices to be heard in an empty stadiums. Very telling nobody driving performances, nobody overly confident. But a team of world class players who can very much put it up too anyone.

almostover · 14-02-2021 06:10PM

We replaced Ryan and POM with Henderson and Ruddock. Little to no drop off in quality. Replaced Murray and Sexton with JGP and BB. Huge drop off in quality. Therein lies the issue.

KaneToad · 14-02-2021 06:10PM

Beechwoodspark wrote: »

Williams more or less saying Farrell has not brought ireland forward

Reddan disagrees

VANG1 · 14-02-2021 06:10PM

We were beaten by a better team, well done France. We need more quality players to match the large playing population countries. More investment in youth, get all the academies to Leinster standard and have more a level matches.

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