Ireland Team Talk XII: Farrell's First Fifteen

Surely that's just a straight red?

Absolute terrible gutless performance.

Ireland narrow win with try bonus. Deserves losing bonus point for Italy. Pearce bottled two straight red cards.

Too close for comfort.

Relief to get the win there. Good call to kick it off the pitch. One intercept away from losing the game.

Terrible performance. We went backwards. Italy deserved to win it really. So poor. We need new coaches and players.

Hansen looked much better in attack, about the only positive.

The rest was utter garbage.

Embarrassing how close that was. Italy effed up so badly, it almost looked like match fixing. And yet, we couldn't pull away.

France put 73 on these clowns.

For sure, we'd no business chasing another try.

Doesn't work that way. The AR raised his flag to signal the ball or a player was in touch. It wasn't in the act of a player diving in the corner.

Our attack has become totally reliant on moments of individual brilliance from him and Lowe. That's why we couldn't score in the 1st 20mins v France.

Lucky to get out of there with a win, really only due to poor Italian dicipline. Some bad individual errors from Ryan,Beirne and alot of the pack. Crowley really struggled to manage the Ireland attack and placing kicking was awful.

linesman showing the negative power of assumptions there. It seemed impossible that Lowe wasn’t in touch and he went with his gut.

Forgettable 6N, Conan, Sheehan, Lowe and Keenan the only ones coming away without big question marks over them. We’ve been papering over cracks but squeezing by Italy who played with 14 men for most of that match is an absolute travesty.