Will Andy Farrell get the adoration Jack Charlton got?

What’s bollòcks is your contention that there is a conscious effort on the part of the “elites” as you called them to exclude everyone else. Total rubbish.

As has been explained already the preponderance of private school players is a function of tradition and coaching. They’ve simply been playing rugby for far longer than new coming schools.

Why are Kilkenny so good at hurling? Are they genetically different to the average Irish person?

No. It’s because hurling is the main sport there and people grow up playing it and their grandfathers and fathers and uncles and cousins all probably played too. They are steeped in it from a young age - this provides a positive feedback loop in that there are a lot more people that can coach and train other people to a high level. It’s something that’s very difficult to replicate in a short period of time for other counties, but it can be done.

It’s the same with the private schools - some of them have been taking rugby very seriously for 100+ years, of course it’s going to take a while for formerly non rugby schools and clubs in non traditionally rugby areas to catch up. But it will happen as time goes on.

Your idea that people in rugby deliberately exclude others because of background is total nonsense. Everyone is happy to see the sport grow as much as possible and to see the best players play regardless of their background. What you’re saying is close minded, ignorant rubbish.

That post makes no sense.

It's clear you have an agenda. What, I don't know...actually I have a good idea.

Inferiority complex perhaps. Hatred of unusual proportions to those who've done absolutely nothing to you.

Such unbelievable reverse snobbery and complete horseshit.

The number of schools providing players to the Irish Rugby team is growing annually with more and more non fee paying schools represents. Even Leinster, where the private schools were in the ascendancy are seeing more and more players form non fee paying schools (eg. Henshaw, Furlong).

The bulk of the Munster and Ulster squads would be from non fee paying schools.

Yes, they tend to be on average form more privileged backgrounds. That's not a reasonable reason not to support them though. You want to take care of your back, carrying around all those chips.

And here we go again.

High profile rugby games get big viewing figures, but that vanishes once you drill down.

How many are watching a URC game between Connacht and some Italian team on a random Friday night in February ?

Rugby people constantly fall into this trap of thinking that just because the high profile stuff is popular the whole sport is popular.

It's not.

You’re obviously blinded by prejudice of people you don’t even know and it’s clear you’re not very informed on the sport in general with that conspiracy theory level analysis you’re giving.

Happy to leave it there.