Ireland Team Talk XII: Farrell's First Fifteen

It's not an excuse first off, but he is a big loss

The decision was right IMO, why wouldn't he try to win a golden medal at a Olympics?

I do suspect SA will win on Saturday (I’ll wait until we get official team selections before making my final prediction) and going into the tour I was pessimistic but now I’ve a feeling a lot of posters are suffering from confirmation bias. It seems these posters are only looking at the negative factors affecting Ireland and the positive factors affecting SA and making a prediction based on that, there seems to be little to no objectivity in the analysis to the point I’m starting to doubt the credibility of it. 

I just know if this was Ireland and we were first in the world with a new attack and defence coach playing our first game of the season at home versus the number 2 side in the world I know we would be going into this series with doubts and would at least mention this as a reason to be cautious…but here not a peep (I suspect if SA lose it’ll be used by posters as a method of damage control though). 

Which point exactly? If you consider it painful then you are easy to annoy.

Well because SA are at home and are ranked higher than Ireland, the objective view point at this moment is to back SA to win. The issue I have is when I look at the analysis written here I've seen little to none done on the issues facing SA, which are actually legit reasons to have doubts about their chances, but then will back against Ireland because they are tired, based on nothing more than just the fact its been a long season rather than anything we've seen from the Irish players.

If fans wanted to be objective they could just look at facts such as this is ultimately a big clash between two heavy weights where SA will likely come out on top because they are at home and are the current world champions…but nope, we must go into hyperbolic nonsense that I wont even bother repeating just because Ireland lost their 2nd game in 23 matches and these fans can get over the pain…at the end of the day the bookies have this as a 1 score game for a reason.

All I'm saying is if Ireland win I dont want to hear any crap such as "SA were in transition" from the said wingers on here, they've had their chance to mention it and they blew it.

Is it time yet?

How so?