I don't want to hear another word about Crowley V Prendergast on this forum.
Not. Another. Word.
Jack didn't catch that conversion attempt right at all complete shank
Ah jaysus I can kick better than that.
JC crowley
I think we are missing Mike Catt for attack… we look rudderless out there.. Even in the November series you could see the signs…
Prendergast with an awful kick there ffs
That was a big break for us, Italy picking up a yellow card for a cynical deliberate knock on
And we capitalize immediately by getting a try that just about has us ahead at half-time, 12-10.
But, we've been stink rotten.
Our attack seems to have regressed back to Gatlands days of piling everyone in the lineout…
Goodman not impressing.
You could see he wasn't ready as the shot clock hit 10. The rushed it
Out attack is woeful. We look so 1 dimensional
yep. That was terrible. But glad to see we can back after a very poor start. Glass half full, we are halfway to a bonus point and leading.
Not a single player to be positive about in that 40 min. Utter rubbish.
Aki needs to be in at 12, he's our best centre. I actually prefer Henshaw at 13.
Ah it happens to everyone at some point. Not like his radar is off, just completely mishit it.
what is going on with the Irish players
Porter Ryan Doris van der flier Gibson park ringrose Lowe and henshaw are playing some of the worst rugby you will see
Totally incompetent stuff.
Yeah, it looked more clumsy than deliberate. I think the ref has been very fair though to both team.
That wasn't Prendergast.
Aki is 33/34???
We need to start looking to the future.
I think he just rushed it a bit as the clock was getting low. Pity.
We are lucky to be ahead overall tbh
Henshaw, Ringrose, VDF, Hansen, Bealham all playing themselves out of a lions jersey
Crowley mixed. Lovely pass for the try and made another nice break but tough for a 10 when all around making such mistakes, like last week. Could have made more ground on his last touch pen also. Every 10 is entitled to an occasional shank but can imagine this place had a certain other 10 else taken that last conversion
We need a new attack coach with some more ideas than 1 off runners.
Quite…
He doesn't have the legs for it anymore. He cut back inside against Mauvaka last week instead of taking him on the outside. And his passing is gone to pot.
I prefer him out of the 23 at this point.
Oooops
Aki was in the picture for world player of the year in 2023 and was voted as Ireland's players player of the year a couple of months ago.
When he starts to slow down you can drop him but not until then.
Ireland remind me of how Leinster looked after MOC took over. Lacking precision and accuracy, playing flat. Henshaw should be done at this level, he's been washed up this whole tournament. Goodman is stealing a living, be really disappointed if he sticks around after this
It's 2025, not 2023. We cannot be aiming for RWC 2027 with Aki at 12 and not develop any other option there.
It will be a sad day when he decides to retire.
Wrt Goodman he looked after the Leinster set piece attack whilst Lancaster coached phase play.
We saw the good stuff he brings through that Keenan try. That was straight out of his playbook.
Phase play is a mess and I don't know what we'll do to fix it.
