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Graham Henry is the complete opposite of EOS. Built a big squad of players but that didnt help the team when the team mattered. Maybe if we had someone halfway between the two, who could also get the players thinking for themselves on the pitch

Good piece. We had a similar conversation in the pub about BOD's try, it was probably the first time since Rome St Paddy's day that anyone in an Ireland shirt ran onto a flat pass with a bit of pace.

My solution invovled 2 tiers of 5, not one tier of 10.

Right, the 3 of the 6N are packing up and the other 3 will ALL be home in their own beds after next weekend. None of them have done anything at all to suggest that they are anything better than average over the last three weeks. I have floated my vision a few times over the last few weeks and to dat...

Anybody see this? Anything worth noting on the Irish training camp visit? There seems to be a lot in the press about how rubbish the hotel is etc... I was actually looking forward to watching this but i came home to find out the plasterer had disconnected the sky dish so he could plaster the chimney...

Hope its not as bad as it sounds. Get well soon Simon

Nothing against the guy but why was Carney selected if he was never going to feature. This would have been the perfect opportunity to see what he can do. He will be Eddie's Theo Walcott when the post world cup backlash really begins. To my mind we have more than one Theo Walcott. Paddy Ferris Qunla...

Its shocking to think about the long debates that were had about which back row players should travel, which ones should play, how it was our strength and the strength in depth was greater there than anywhere else in the squad. Then the 3 underachievers play all four matches. And the lack of an Ulst...

Team announced. Same old Sh**e

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/rugby_u ... 012164.stm

Murphy in for the injured Dempsey.

Trimble the fall guy.

Hooker TBA later as Best/Flan still not decided upon.

No other changes.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/rugby_u ... 012164.stm

I'm inclined not to be too focussed on Chabal. I was a season ticket holder at Sale for two seasons and he infuriatingly wasted overlap after overlap by his insistence on taking it into contact. And its only once in a blue moon he does something like what he did against namibia the other night. As l...

A couple of us were walking dejected through the streets of Bordeaux on Sunday morning and one of the local tramps sat up on his park bench as we approached, he held his arm in the air and shouted in eloquent English: "THE IRISH SPIRIT WILL NEVER DIE....YOU WILL FIGHT EVERY GAME, ALL THE WAY TO...

Ahh is that all. 200Euro and you might end up behind the Bull in the queue for the buffet!

I'm down on the beach near Bayonne / Biarritz for the week in between anyway so I just wondered if it was anything worth making a daytrip back to Bordeaux for...cheers for the reply

Hi all I was wondering if anyone could make out any of the announcement that was made before the game on friday about some sort of happening in Bordeaux on I think it was Tuesday 11 September. Was it an open training session or a screening of the Argies game? I'm making a week and a bit of the first...