Ireland Team Talk XII: Farrell's First Fifteen

Yet your opinion is fact?

You got me.

But to be perfectly honest, and in my defence once you tethered your argument to two 9 word headlines I stopped paying complete attention.

You saw a headline you liked, you posted it, well done you .

Let's just ignore the quality of opposition and circumstance.

Surely you’re taking the piss?

Munster scraped a win at home to Cardiff while also allowing them to get 2 bonus points, the same Cardiff who finished in the bottom half of the table last year, didn’t win any game that wasn’t on Welsh soil last season, haven’t won a game on Irish soil since they beat Connacht in 2017 and have have never won a game in Thomond Park whereas Leinster played Bulls, runners up in the URC last season and in 3 of the last 4 seasons, away in South Africa, at altitude and with only about 5 players that you could call first team starters.

What happened in any position on them 2 pitches, let alone at 10, can in no way be used as a direct measure between the capability’s of any of the players involved.

Why? That’s not what the OP I was replying to originally posted about or alluded to.

It’s also been done to death here a thousand times and the reality is, no matter how much it pains Munster supporters to hear it, that aside from his defensive problems, Prendergast is the better all round player to Jack Crowley, and confirmation of that can be seen from the English and Munster men (so obviously no blue tinted glasses involved) coaching Ireland that have consistently selected him over Crowley.

There’s nothing to say that can’t or won’t change at any stage of the season and if it does change then from an Irish perspective I hope it’s because Crowley improves and overtakes Prendergast and not because Prendergast starts regressing at any of the other parts of his game but at the minute it’s the position we’re in.

Why? Because you don't want to compare who plays who in the league so I thought comparing the one competition that Ireland played in with the two out halves featuring might be more relevant.

I compared them over one tournament not one game. Look this seems to be causing you some grief so I'm willing to let it die.

You didn’t compare them, you asked me too.

It’s causing me no grief, I just showed you how the comparison being used from this weekend is not a fair comparison and I would have said the same also if it was Munster had lost a tough game and Leinster had won a handy game and people were trying to put down Crowley, and how far more knowledgeable and qualified people, ie the current Irish coaches, than you or I could ever dream of being have compared them and have obviously saw more in Prendergast than they have in Crowley.

I know from reading your posts here for years that you’re never going to admit to being wrong, I’m sure it would cause you a serious amount of grief to do that, so yep we can let it die there if you like.

And that trust in Sam might well have cost them a 6Ns.