Six Nations 2025

WWe would never have sacrificed the tournament for player development. We had the opportunity to win 3 in a row and do something never before achieved. Next year's 6N could be safiriced however.

No deliberate headbutt that makes contact is "minor". Ludicrous that it wasn't given as a straight red or upgraded.

No 6N will ever be sacrificed. Finishing 3rd instead of 2nd yesterday will cost the IRFU £1m. We’re not exactly in a position to be loose with finances. Bear in mind we can sell 50k tickets to our home games when the likes of Wales, England and Scotland are selling 70-80k per home game.

thats clearly the end of an era for irish rugby…urgent to renew the team, even our best team failed in smashing Italy yesterday…players seem to be older, slower on the ground, well,just a feeling

Only just watched the France game this evening and have come to the conclusion that if we can't add power to our game we're going to have maybe a couple of years dominance over us by France and England. We succeeded in the last 5 years because we were able to sometimes match them or even if we could'nt we got close enough that out structured game was able to counter the power game. Both England and France have added significant power to their teams.

You're reading a bit too much into my posts I think.i do remember your posts in January and commenting on your location being prone to heavy snowfalls on occasion. The rattling on bit escapes me atm. Your delight in winning a trophy that 2 of the teams are precluded from is curious, that's all I'm saying. Over and out.

We have a very powerful backrow in Munster who is very adept at powering over from close range but he has been overlooked for selection for sometime now....….

It's rare we have players of that power but if we don't pick them then we can't complain too much.

Joe McCarthy fits the power criteria also and is picked solely for that reason. His form has been way off though.

McNabney at Ulster fits that mould too and needs to be brought in ASAP. I agree that our backrow could do with 1 brute. But we have an obsession of picking gangly locks at no.6 even though it has never really worked for us.

We need a tank at 6 going forward who makes yard hards in the tight. Not a lock come winger hanging out in the tramlines.

One of my favourite backrow combinations of modern times was Stander, O'Brien and Heaslip.