Ireland Team Talk XII: Farrell's First Fifteen

I thought the ball had squirted out of the ruck

Argentina looked a complelty different team after break, Contemponi roasted them , second half looked like Puma team I have been watching recently.

Sheahan is seriously better than Kelleher , a few years back ther wasnt much beteween them.

Sort out the lineout, sort out our ruck and sort out our discipline and we’ll be fine. Plenty of work to be done.

Thought Argentina got a lot of joy at the start of the second half from putting up kicks and challenging in the air-either you get a hand on it, force the knock on from us and win a scrum or we get the ball back behind the gain line scrambling to source the breakdown as players have had to move away from the catching zone. We haven’t managed to exploit the new law to the same degree.

The only reasonable reaction to this post, which unfortunately I can't find, is that Gif of the late Bill O Herlihy on Naked Camera, bemused and asking-

"What sort of a f****** eejit....?"

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No I don't think so. We're going back and forth, side to side in attack with no plan. We're taking the ball at half speed to the line. Balls hitting the deck. No players on the latch. Players getting isolated. That's not Ireland over the last 4 years. That's new and it's much easier to defend against.

Ryan down for 5 dominant tackles, he was really throwing himself into them. VDF had 24 tackles, serious workrate

Less time cutting each others hair in training and concentrating on holding the ball and we'll be fine.

Argentina very unfortunate.

you beat me to it on Pendergast. The posters on here saying get Crowley off and than saying Pendergast had a positive 20 minutes are full of it.
I am not saying Pendergast was poor but he did very little.
Gibson park was poor tonight as was ringrose Lowe and Hansen. Keenan was quiet.
the lineout was a complete shambles, what’s with not contesting their lineout.
Our forwards as a unit were poor.
At the breakdown we were inept on our ball and weak on theirs.
The last 2 weeks Porter beirne van der flier Dorris and McCarthy who are brilliant players look like average players, they look like they have never seen a breakdown .

The only positive was our bench and osbourne and Casey and clarkson were very good and it’s a pity about Baird going off.

Farrell needs to get it in his head , the jig is up, he needs to start the rebuild immediately.

It's a friendly, nothing on the line, whats the point in taking a penalty

I thought Prendergast's performance was very promising, it's extremely impressive for such a young player to come in in a tight test match at not try to do too much. The opposite of Frawley last week really.

Amazing how people can get exactly the opposite view of the same game

I thought Ringrose was Ireland's best player. I do agree that Osbourne was very good. But Casey!? He did nothing of note - albeit he had very little time. Van Der Flier had an excellent game too.