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

just want to add my voice to the criticism of the director who kept the camera on the ref when Peter O’Mahoney was being replaced. Absolute disgrace. I rarely shout at the tv, but I did yesterday. The man was a warrior and deserved a lot, lot better.

Don't worry about O Mahonys send off. He'll get a proper send off when he plays for Munster where fans at the game actually know who's playing!! He'll be grand lol.

Jokes aside he got plenty tv coverage during the anthems, and am certain he understands that! Man is full of passion, humour and genuinity. Would die for his country, I guess it goes with being from Cork

He’s not though, and that’s why people are so annoyed about it.

It would be lovely to dismiss this as meeeeeja hype, Leinster bias, the influence of Sexton and whatever else has been thrown out on this board, but people are rattled because they know it’s more than that. That’s why there’s this edge to the discussion.

Like, that business two weeks ago about the Irish mgmt steering journos away from Crowley and towards Prendergast, that was so quickly and gleefully reposted here. It was absolute and very obvious bollocks but how quickly did people jump on it?

NZ went a man down in that game. France went a man down yesterday and still scored a try

Do you honestly believe, as an Irish rugby supporter that Sam Prendergast has failed and failed badly playing for the Irish team or are you one of the cohort of posters that @For Petes Sake mentioned that are hell bent on wanting Sam Prendergast to fail and fail badly?

Lol. Very odd post.

I'd explain to you but you're clearly not interested in having any discussion in good faith so you mind yourself.

Not just on paper, in practice. We are still up there, it's only now France have also joined the race.

I like how you snuck England in there like we wouldn't even notice. They are well behind the top 4 still, so much so that Ireland barely gets any points for beating them.

Doesn't hurt me at all. I think it will hurt a lot of careers in the long run though. I'll be honest replacing a very good 10 with an inferior 10 is not the type of rotation this team needs.

Rotating out some of the older players for younger players would make more sense. To do this you'd expect Andy to increase squad sizes and expose more players to international rugby, but yet again he only made changes when he's had no options.

Selection should and will be questioned, sticking Osborne out on the wing when they would have known about his lack of pace? Surely Keenan should have been the better option and Osborne would have done a job at FB?

Sticking in Joe McCarty, who seems to think lock work is optional, when James Ryan is just a much more effective player. Selecting Baird? Like what is Baird? He's not a six and he's not a lock, what is he? One thing he isn't is international quality.

Changing one of the best attacking teams in the world into whatever this mess is - that's down to Andy.

Literally sending Frawley to the scrap heap after 20 bad minutes?

The only question now, is who gets both barrels from Andy after letting him down so badly. Andy takes losing badly, but getting hammered at home, well, that is something else entirely. I would say given the amount of Leinster players on the team, the chances are that it'll be one or more Leinster players.

I've never seen a team go so bad so fast, it's almost like watching an accident happen.

Given that most of our players play for one club team it’s hardly surprising that we perform well between World Cups.

England have beaten us and France in the last 12 months.

It’s an aging group that hit its peak a couple of years ago, that’s been evident for sometime.

It’s been made worse by gambling on young players not ready and showing sentiment to older players that are clearly past it and should have been gone already.

The mgt got a few calls wrong.

You can be an irish rugby fan, and not be a fan of this version of the team and the coaches selection policies.

I want Ireland to win, i am seeing an awful lot of damage done to our long term prospects by Farrell stubborn ego driven selection policies. (I firmly believe Easterby is selecting who Farrell tells him to)

Picking Prendergast has likely cost the IRFU 5 million in prize money, failure to get a TBP against wales and losing so badly to france were both consequences of playing a 10 with so many obvious and glaring weaknesses.

This muck about Prendergast having a high ceiling is pure copium. He has shown nothing to say he will ever learn to defend, or become an attacking threat at test level, his kicking percentage from the tee is lower than Crowley's was when he was being crucified over it, he loses composure when under pressure and the rest of the team play worse when trying to compensate for his weaknesses.

He is completely reliant on Lowe having a superhuman ability to break tackles out wide, because he often passes the ball to players who have no space and are just about to be double teamed.

That he's being allowed to 'Redeem' himself against italy will only paper over the cracks.

Yeah, BUT did he deserve it? Here, I'll answer for you, no he did not.

Do you think he deserves the online bile you post about him? You’re 55 years old and you’re having a pop repeatedly at a 22 year old anonymously online. It’s weird.