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Tap+Go wrote: ↑Sat Nov 19, 2022 11:11 pm Dire stuff. O’Keefe kills matches.

Real danger that a rugby match might have broken out there, but for him. Well played sir.

At least we can relax knowing that if Janny had played, we'd have won that with 5 tries at least.

Andy seems pleased, after being underwhelmed last week.

It was Stu and Rob wot won it.

It is a sad fact but true the only joy watching Ireland is seeing Sexton and Carberry getting injured and the rest failing to ignite the back line . Because you know they are there by default and the best Irish Out Half will soon be qualified for England.

I wonder does that scare D4 --- ???????????????

Time to let Georgia in the 6n.

Is she fit?

They handed out some of that Guinness alcohol free stuff on the way in.

The mouth feel was decent tbf. Tasted slightly acidic perhaps but not bad.

And that was straight after I had downed two of the best pints in Dublin, according to the Guinness Guru.

StandUp wrote:Is she fit?

Barely

Crowley did OK. He's young and it was his first start. He's not even playing for munster as 1st choice 10. PJ took quite a few caps to get going. Good luck to the lad. Hope he does well as the hype machine is not his fault. Let's see who gets the 10 jersey at munster for the big games.

PJ would get the backline going for sure although his pressure goal kicking over the past 12 months has not been good enough.

Sexton would still be ahead of him but he would be head and shoulders above the alternatives right now

After such a poor autumn series, it looks all the way downhill from here for Ireland. Another quarter-final exit beckons.

Cap'n Grumpy wrote: ↑Sat Nov 19, 2022 10:20 pm Dunno why Ireland didn't opt to take the scrum instead of penalty when Aussies were yellow carded. Would have been playing against 13 for much longer.

Zackly this!

Was watching it in the pub, and hadn't seen why/when the aussie 2 went off, so I assumed they were exempt from losing the additional man for going uncontested, then with a couple of minutes left on the card, there's a scrum and they're down to 13.

These are professional rugby players, but even if they aren't that smart, why was the message not coming on from the sidelines?

Criminal game management!

If PJ had been available at the last World Cup Sexton would have retired two years ago .

The fact is Sexton is playing on memories

As I stated in the “ Are Ireland worthy Number 1”

The fact is they defend well but can’t attack because even the wings are picked because their defence is better than their attack .

One run by JoB across the pitch says everything about why Ireland struggled .

I would love to see PJ play for Ireland but that ship has sailed. The world is even more of a woke, feminist place than it was in 2018.
The Union is under constant attack over its apparent discrimination against women in rugby to the extent that, in order to avoid criticism, it has to divert €5.5 million next year to fund "professional " women's rugby which generates minimal income.