Ireland Team Talk XII: Farrell's First Fifteen

keeping certain players on central contracts , when does players are not performing that much better then does not on central contracts, will damage the game a lot more then picking foreign based players.
Irish rugby is on the verge of going back to the bad old days - I know you and others might not believe this and that’s fine.
But we are much closer to wales then France or England , and if that does not worry the IRFU then they will pay the price for that eventually

Farrell rightly has a huge amount of goodwill stored up. He won't be going anywhere based on this 6N.

In the last 10 years in the All Ireland football we have had winners from Ulster, Leinster and Munster. During that time both mayo and Galways got to the final

Go back over the last 20 years and its a similar story

Ireland has talent young players all over and has nothing to do with Private schools. Its the job of the provinces to identify that talent and attract them to rugby. The chance of a professional contracts with all the bells and whistles that go with that should be getting more players from GAA which is not professional.

A person in any county in ireland can reach the top of the rugby World professional game while living at home or close to home in all of the provinces. Which other sport in Ireland can offer the same?

But IMO the easy option is to make excuses and wait for players to come from leinster. Devine in Connacht is an example of a very talented rugby player from Connacht who has had to leave and go to another province because they went and signed a Leinster player to replace him. That is not a system working for the young player from Connacht is it?

Yes the production has increased in the provinces but the new IRFU model of moving more and more players out of leinster is going to help them how? how many are going to have to leave their home province or leave rugby altogether because the spot they are fighting all of their life to get to is filled by a young player from Leinster

For Ireland to grow as a rugby nation, all of the four provinces need to have a production pipeline and not spend the entire time talking about the Leinster system which has absolutely nothing to do with them

Goodman has serious questions to answer, more than a defence coach.

Why would they not be doing skills training?

It’s one poster to be fair.

I was certainly in the camp of wanting more experimentation, but I’m definitely not calling for Farrell’s head, and don’t expect any change this side of the RWC.

No-one is getting crucified. Ireland got schooled by France in a game where the set piece performed pretty well. Skills, execution, game plan and ability to adjust dynamically are absent. So leadership and coaching problems get discussed.

That's a fair comment. Henderson was terrific in his pomp and unfortunately disappeared, or so it seemed, with little fanfare.

Unfortunately for him he was still being picked at international level when he was well past his standards. Kind of what Farrell can do, past form = trust. Like Ringrose, Aki and Henshaw.

Mind you, we're goosed for a natural 13 and on recent evidence he was right to continue with Johnny Sexton as long as he did.