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

Anybody else see the Nash yellow as harsh. He was upright moving across the line as he didn't know where the ball was going to go. Next thing the French lad catches it and runs straight into his head. He looked like he tried to dip but it all happened so fast. That's how it seemed to me anyway be interested to hear a different take on it. The law is very odd, if you make contact to someone's head with your shoulder it's treated less severely than head to head contact even though your bound to be lower in the tackle if it's H2H rather than shoulder to head level.

Gardner was very poor yesterday, felt like he was trying to be too clever and stamp his mark on the match. The POM incident obviously but hurrying Dupont off the pitch as though he was time wasting when he'd suffered a serious injury was disgraceful IMO

The ref had a shocker but the Hash YC was as clear cut as they get.

NNo Province can replicate leinsters schools. It has to be a mix of clubs and schools elsewhere as there isnt the fee paying schools in other provinces to do anything like what leinster have

For anyone who might be interested ;

Law 9 : Foul Play

Law 9.14 : A player must not tackle an oponent who is not in possession of the ball. Sanction : Penalty

Law 9.15 : Except in a scrum, ruck or maul a player who is not in possession of the ball must not hold, push, charge or obstruct an opponent not in possession of the ball. Sanction : Penalty

Ref, correctly applied 9.15 to the incident involving McCarthy & Ramos.

At no point in the Laws is there any reference to a player moving backwards, sideways or forwards.

Any participant in sport will commit errors, and this applies equally to the on field officials. However, the Referee has a particular advantage in that he / she can alter their decision after the fact on foot of advice from other officials.

Players & most followers can (& should) accept a erroroneous decision that happens 'live' and continue to maintain respect for the officials. When a Ref, being able to halt play completely in order to review multiple angles provided by his TMO, chooses to ignore the Laws he is employed to administer in favour of some logic of his own choosing, then players & followers are less likely to maintain respect for all officials.

Nash didn't get a 'do over' for his misjudged tackle attempt. I suspect he'd have liked one.

Im not saying season ticket holders should get all the tickets, club staff, schools rugby should all be able to get tickets also. But in terms of of atmosphere the corporate culture of the national games hurts and would be better with fans who go to rugby week in week out, and the only real way to identify these are season ticket holders.

Even outside of the atmosphere debate it’s actually ludicrous that there’s no path for ordinary rugby fans to even attempt to buy tickets.

My Point is that people always say season ticket holders first. When there can be as many issues with provincial fans. And the only way to identify these people isnt with season ticket holders getting more tickets.

There wont be any tickets going on general sale as every sector of game gets allocation of tickets from all 200+ clubs, a hundred plus or more schools, then people involced in provincial committees etc running the game. Then provincial season ticket holders. Many of the so called corporates at irish games are at provincial games wvery week as well

There is more than a few ways to get tickets for "ordinary rugby fans"

Mirror of the call against Osborne in the HC final after Sheehan's break. That should have been a penalty all to Doris and borderline yellow card territory.

Of course, there was one blatant one where we played it on the ground and it popped out the side in the first half which he didn’t call. A shot to the corner at 8-3 down from that Penaud incident and we possibly go in 10-8 up at half time and 17-8 up early in the second with the Sheehan try. Small margins at the top level and a different game.

We’re not as bad as some on here would like you to believe after that loss in the same way France aren’t the best team in the world on the basis of that win. Wasn’t too long ago they somehow managed to lose to England.

What’s your opinion on the citing commissioners decision that no further action was required for that incident? You seemed to think it was at least reckless by Beirne in no intent yesterday.

It was quite reminiscent of the QF. A ton of possession in their 22 that we didn't convert into scores, then they get a couple of sucker punch tries and we're chasing the game. This time however, we had the added burden of being a man down for 20mins and never got back into the game.

This place is hardly a beacon of rationality at the best of times! Sometimes you lose to a better team on the day like yesterday. Sometimes you get the decisions, sometimes they go the other way. Some posters always want a scapegoat. Not sure what’s worse, blaming the ref or going for players on your own team. Neither reflect well.

No harm, but you're not going to persuade me unless you have another camera angle that looks less problematic.

I's a discussion forum, it should be ok to say player X had a bad game, or Player Y should be tried instead of Player X without other posters jumping on the hate or vitriol train.

If posters want group think maybe they should steer clear of internet forums or set something like a Twitter Group and only allow happy clappy posters into their group.

I think the problem is posters don't just want to see someone tried out.

There is a cohort of posters here who are hell bent on wanting Sam Prendergast to fail and fail badly. Irish rugby fans they most certainly are not.

Tbh, a lot of the excellent posters have left and those that caused them to leave re reg to avoid being banned

Or the excellent posters type a reply, re read and think, nah, not worth the hassle from the Karens and delete their post.