6N '25 Ireland v France Match Thread: Sat8th Mar 2:15 Farewell & Adieu to you POMs, Murrays & Healys

Oh sorry thought you meant to the Irish players by bad. That O'Donough crap

So a no then. Can't imagine why. 🙄

Ya that sums it up. Some will say it's sour grapes and always complaining about the ref but he was very poor overall I thought. France were definitely deserving winners though fair play to them I hope they finish it off next week. But for a terrible mess up against England they should be going for a slam

Has anyone heard from Ruadhrai O’Connor of the Indo? Hope he’s doing ok xx

he shouldn't have been there in the first place.

Stop with the child abuser angle. He is a player on the national team. Doesn't matter a fuk that he is 22.

He has had 1 good game all 6N and the warning signs for today were evident since the England game.

Was very lucky not to be in the bin today. His teammate who also obstructed saved him.

There was just absolutely no need to bring him from "zero" to starter like this. It was a gamble and deserves to be called out.

The kick at half time a very good kick, but lord i feel the commentator was gonna need to clean himself at half time over it

This board is a waste of time. Pile of pissed off Munster fans piling onto Prendergast.

Peak Sexton and or Rog would have done nothing today.

We got absolutely bullied off the park by a massive and brilliant pack and their 7:1 strategy worked. Reality is we had some fairly average and or old forwards in our 14 forwards. Bealham, Herring, Healy, Clarkson nothing personal but right now not at the level to compete with the 15 French monsters on the pitch today. Our pack hung in there first half largely due to great games from Doris, POM and Joe (bar the brain dead penalty) but in essence that is where France were totally and utterly dominate today. Prendergast made mistakes but did lots of good stuff too, Crowley would have made zero difference.

Completely agree we got badly exposed today, wings, out half, 2nd and 3rd rows bar Doris were all poor. Special mentions for McCarthy who seems to be believing his own hype rather than living up to it, SP who let's face it looked like a rabbit caught in headlights today, and Nash who is just not up to this level, several defensive errors before the YC which was a carbon copy of when he knocked himself out in a high tackle last year.

good to see them keep Prendergast on, maybe they are finally looking at the bigger picture and looking to the World Cup, six nations/ grand slams been there , done that.

I think the loss of Dupont galvanised the French. It can't be easy being part of a team that revolves completely around one player. They had to prove they aren't a one trick pony. Not converting any of the early pressure and territory and that absolutely ridiculous brainfart by McCarthy was key.

The lack of support by the so called rugby fans at the Aviva is a national embarrassment.

Maybe. Still won a triple crown even if maybe not in a wholly convincing manner.

prendergast was poor today but so were many others. We were well beaten.

our starting forwards were well outplayed and the bench made no difference.
But the biggest concern for me is that at positions 6 to 10 we were very very poor in both defence and attack, as bad as the 2019 WC QF.
when that happens you are on for a hammering.

prendergast should start against Italy , if he is considered the future by the management it would be wrong to drop him now.