Ireland Team Talk XII: Farrell's First Fifteen

Your last sentence is bang on.

Not only are people just pure determined to find negatives in absolutely everything, they defend the negativity by saying its "just their opinion"

Someone whose actively trying to opine such negative thoughts constantly and complain about it all just kinda wears me down. Hence rarely posting or scrutinising this thread.

It's just not good for me. I work hard to keep myself in a good mental state and there's people in here that just wear me down. It's why I stopped visiting the Ireland subreddit too.

It appears the intersection on the Venn Diagram of "Irish forum posters" and "people who find flaws in everything and moan about it" is extremely large....

Life is short folks, it's only rugby, try smile see some good in things. Your mental health will thank you :)

Reading the article in the 42 I think he pretty much is guessing. The way he was phrasing the article didn’t sound anything like some form of inside track. It was just an educated guess from him I reckon. He’s probably not far off of course, as I said this needs to be the warm up for next week. Otherwise next week becomes a complete waste of time at best and a massive issue for our development and consistency at worst. Farrell still has to manage the squad beyond also managing our depth and upcoming talent.

Well, if you do the lotto, do you think it's probable that you'll win? Or possible that you'll win?

It's a shame, tho. There are posters who's opinion I would have valued that pretty much never post here now. I largely put it down to the absence of modding since the change over. There's plenty of stuff that previously would've been infracted, which might've nipped the worst of it in the bud. I'm expecting it to be even worse once the AI's kick off.

Incidentally, does anyone know if the modd-ing functionality is likely to be back any time soon?

Agree that he'll use this for a warm up for NZ. I think he'll use the Argentina game to try a couple of things but a NZ scalp will be his main target. NZ are getting a lot of praise but I think it's a game we can definitely win. I don't think they're as strong as past NZ teams.

Yeah maybe Kinsella is guessing but he's done previous articles like this and been very accurate with his team. I should have said possible team but don't think it would have made any difference to the chat. But at least it gave a couple of posters something to moan about lol

It's quite clear I used the wrong word but again would the chat have been any different if I said possible?

Your going on like people wouldn't have moaned about the team if that was the case which I beg to differ

But here you go

"Oops sorry everyone for getting the word wrong"

Money I spend on it I'd go with probable!

Frailty? Is that Carbery's new nickname? ;)

The actual team won't be out until Thursday so yesterday was a bit too early for Murray to have the exact team. I'm sure he will have at least 90% idea of it tomorrow evening

Yesterday he might have seen training and who was taking reps.

Alternatively the 42 makes money by clicks so putting in a few bombs on the team automatically draws more traffic to the comments section.

I think we all know the team for Japan will be at close to full strength. And In a number of positions there is not a lot between players.

Any 3 of Bierne, Ryan and Henderson could be picked in second row.

Any of the players in the squad could start in the in multiple combinations in the back row.

Its a pity the US game was called off last weekend. It think if that game had gone ahead we would have had a number of combinations tried out over the 2 matches.

I'm suprised when that game was called off the IRFU didn't organise a 4th game even for a "wolfhound" team this weekend to get additional game time into players.

Maybe they tried and failed?

With no URC games oncurrently An original squad of 45 or so could have been announced for 2 weeks and then reduced down to 35 or so after this weekend for the last 2 games

I agree. Couple of youngsters in the forwards and a couple more in the backs. See how they go.

Start Kelleher and Doris or Coombes (have the other on the bench). Start either JGP and Byrne or Casey and Sexton. Have the other combo on the bench. Start Hume in midfield or Balacoune on the wing. If they perform ok against the ABs they're ready for the 6 Nations.

I don't have an issue if he wants to start Sexton here, with a view to the NZ game, but I hope whoever is on the bench gets a good 25+ minutes. Part of the problem tho is if he intends for Murray to start vs NZ, then I think he's a cert to start here as he's only played 21 mins all season.

I think I'd prefer to see Murray/Carbery with Sexton getting 20 odd mins off the bench.

I’d absolutely hate it if anyone in the Ireland set-up thought like that tbh.

I’d hate them to think that it’s a meaningless game that they are highly unlikely to win. You know, the thing you said in the post I quoted.

Yes. If it’s 50/30 mins for Carbery/Sexton or vice versa, I think that’s reasonable enough. If Sexton is still on after 70 mins, then I'd be much more critical. Or if a combo of Murray and Sexton are on beyond 55 mins.

Question for you, TRC. Presumably you were absolutely delighted with Farrell's 8 new caps in the USA game, given all your criticism in the lead up around it? It was exactly the kind of thing you were calling for, right?

You're missing the point completely.

It's not about giving new caps.

I have never once criticised Farrell for not giving enough new caps. He's done brilliantly in that regard.