Ireland Team Talk XII: Farrell's First Fifteen

When have players not been rotated into the team?

Ireland have lost how many games over the last 2 years so how did you come up with "regardless of how well or poor the starting 15 play there is zero repercussions"?

This nugget is spun out all the time and it's based on something which happened in 2007.

But he isn't just a Munster "fan boy". You don't have to go onto a podcast and slag off players.

Listening to it now he calls out Crowley for not taking the first kick instead of Lowe, made a few comments about Murray

He also criticised the backrow as a unit. He said collectively we failed and he is right.

Don't see anything in that podcast to say he is a Munster "fan boy"

THe kick might have been the right option but it was the wrong place and the secondly the wrong person. Quinlan was right that is Murray was taking it he should have taken it before that when he had a better angle

In that position he would have been better giving it to another player to get distance.

To me, with 6 new forward on we could of held onto it

Quinlan is good, I have had my gripes with him before but find it fairly balanced. Based on the interview I listened to not sure how anyone could claim he is a "Munster fanboy", he called out a number of players including Munster ones and he was right in what he said. The team didn't perform.

The first kick which Lowe sent infield, England counter attacked knocking out Nash and then scoring in the place Nash would have been defending.

He is saying Crowley would have been better as a right footed kicker to get the ball out and not Lowe.

It's all if's, but's, maybe's. Like if Nash didn't get a heavy knock he would have been back in the line and could have stopped the try