Rugby world cup post mortem

A few posters here will be out cheering them home I’d venture

What's wrong with acknowledging their achievements and effort, your expectations are your own business, not too many sports we getting as far in,I am ashamed of some of the Irish people crawling out of the woodwork to criticize the team today, people with no interest in sport just looking to knock our own mainly from what I can see, lurking in the shadows xxxxxx

Go out and shake your plastic green white and orange hammer at them so and enjoy yourself.

Yeah you do that - embarrass them and yourself in that lack of self awareness manner to your hearts content

You must be some athlete, fair play

That's not it, but I would be feeding the parasites to answer further, enjoy, good night

When you look back at it there was a lot of things that could have been done differently. Fatigue was definitely a factor. Not using proper squad rotation for those earlier games especially with some of our ageing key players. I think the others weren't to be trusted and a few had injuries. Its damn near impossible to win a WC with the same group week in week out. Our set pieces and the breakdown let us down and we still managed to beat SA and come within a score of NZ. I think there was a lot of postiives but we need to continue to learn and adapt to tournament rugby if we're to ever get past a QF.

It’s not ‘on the day’ though as far as the question of Hemisphere performance in the World Cup is concerned, is it? The weight of data keeps adding up as we play more tournaments and the conclusion is very clear: Rugby Union is a Southern Hemisphere game. One Northern Hemisphere win from nine tournaments, and frequent outcomes like this where we have majority Southern Hemisphere participation in the semi finals.

The hype we see for the Six Nations and Autumn Internationals seems misplaced imo because it is clearly not the pinnacle of the game. We have a fair barometer of who are the best teams every four years and the answer is consistently New Zealand and South Africa. It is what it is, they are better than us.

Irish rugby is at the end of something now.

It's important during the transition that has to come that we don't do a soccer thing on it and let the negative voices take over. The bitter recriminatory 'I told you so' embarassers will win if they are let.

That is what they do, they love to see good things crash and burn and will be waiting in the wings to get their fix.

The reality is we lost a 50/50 game while deservedly being viewed as one of the best teams in the world.

We still are one of the best and that is where we are at.

The negative ninny's will keep shouting 'bottlers', but they should be ignored as we use the structures and systems to rebuild. Learn from how Irish soccer ripped itself apart and didn't prepare for a future that was going to come.

Lowe normally has a long and ACCURATE kick. Maybe he has a gap in the NZ back line and thought that his kick would go over the sideline

The poster you quoted isn't great with numbers.

On another thread they claimed that a million Irish fans went to the world cup this year.

These guys think it is them playing in the 6 Nations.

Of course it isn't and like in every sport after a competition, new players will emerge with their own targets to achieve.

Come the 6 Nations the real support will be up for cheering on the team, just like of old.

There is a desire for a crash and burn of recrimination and unwarranted criticism from some, they'll rightly be ignored.