Match Thread: France v Ireland. 6 Nations 2026, 05th Feb. ITV and Virgin Media KO 8:10pm.

France have been excellent but I think questions have to be asked of Farrell now. His game plan for tonight has been terrible.

Box kick, box kick, change the **** record

it’s a shame really. This is some hammering. We have offered nothing.
But it’s best Irish rugby knows the harsh truth of where we are, we have had people denying that reality for 12 months.

Post 6 nations, The irfu now have to tell Farrell drop the alpha persona billsh1t, get new coaches in who know what they are doing and will stand up to him, no more jobs for the boys in his coaching ticket.

Time for Farrell himself to do better.

Has Ireland ever not scored in a six nations game?

Got very lucky that intercept wasn't another try but why are we still box kicking every possession away. Makes no sense

Open to correction, but I think Goodman only runs the attack off set piece. I believe Farrell runs the attack generally.

Either way, our attack is crap and the players look clueless when they have the ball.

If the A game goes we'll tomorrow, we may aswell call up a load of them, definitely both Wards, Kenny.

Shaggy Horgan and Rob Kearney cut their teeth on the round ball and were great fielders of the high ball

He was but looknat it again. Everyone was just standing still pretty much. The body language alone is awful. The whole set up looks stale as. And it's not like there is a heap of players waiting in the wings who would do better

Its the only way we can progress 10m, we have no running game whatsoever. They've been hanging their hat on box kicks for years now. We might make a break like France do once in a 6 nations. They do it 8 to 10 times a game.

Can't kick and chase, can't run, not much of a rugby team.

Option 1 boxkick , Option 2 crash ball, thats the extent of our attack.

Get jgp off.