Ireland Team Talk XII: Farrell's First Fifteen

If POC was in any other job on the planet, he'd have been given his P45 years ago. Lineout was dog 💩 and has been for an age. Ryan is a shadow of his former self.

Really can’t understand how a former player like Paul O’Connell, can’t coach even a competitive defensive lineout at this level. We come up against these top teams, that can go out and steal multiple Irish throws, while we can’t seem to get near theirs.

Our lineout issues, both offensively and defensively, have been going on for a few years now. It’s a bad reflection on Paul and the rest of the staff.

Henderson was evidently done in RWc23. Persistentig wuth him, Murray, Pom, Healy is a joke.

Poor judge Andy.

Age profile is terrible. 11 of 23 over 30. We are too slow in refreshing the squad. The fact that Cian Healy is still out back up loose head at 37 is atrocious. If Gibson-park was 23 you could understand keeping Murray as back up SH but persisting with is doubling the job to replace both of them. No value in bringing O’Mahony other than sentiment in his last season. Again if he was backing up a 25 year old maybe. But the 6 was 32. I fear a bit of a missing generation in many positions

Said on here this afternoon that post Sexton we've been sloppy and that NZ would win. I keep going back to the players openly admitting standards went up when Sexton was on the pitch. Still good enough to beat a disinterested France and the likes of Wales and Scotland but we were found out against England and for large parts of the series in South Africa. Sadly I fear this team peaked last year and I'd be shocked if we're in the top 4 come the next RWC.

FFS we need to move away from Sexton

Bloody Virgin media

yeah the jury is still very much out on him imo since he hasnt actually played that much at 10, let him become first choice 10 for leinster before catapulting him into the ireland team.

What was wrong with the Lowe 50:22 celebration? It was clearly done to pump up his teammates and elicit a response from the stadium.

We were down by 10 points with 10 minutes to go. We had very little attacking ball for the majority of the second half and the stadium was quiet.

Especially when you consider we had 3 second rows and a no.8 who's a decent lineout option on the pitch.

When he's the nailed on starter at 10 for Leinster, maybe your argument has merit. Until then we'll have to make do with Crowley