6 Nations 2016

[Dave]

Henshaw has been very poor. Our forwards have shown up well, our backs are useless. Only Payne has looked up to it.

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You're being blinded by your McCloskey tinted glasses buddy, Henshaw had a good game. Zebo was also very good bar a couple of selfish bar steward and not passing the ball. Heaslip, Stander and O'Donnell were excellent as we're all of our pack in the loose. Our scrum lost us that game. I reckon we would have mullered them if Mike Ross was fit.

Who mentioned McCloskey?

Everyone apparently

Zebo was good though...

[scrum5]

McCarthy, someone remind me did he carry the ball at all today

[scrum5]

What were Zebo's passing stats?

0 attempted

Put there was fantastic presentation when he hit the deck and threw the ball back along the ground.

It's the Ireland 15's way....apparently

[Spiffsson]

Having had a short reflection, I feel Irish fans should consider that a win

We were 10 point handicapped by McCarthy, Zebo at 15, Henshaw and Payne out of position and a serious lack of depth on the bench

Well done Joe for getting a point out of that

I was not dying about his selection, but to be fair, if you assess McCarthy's game by actual performance, not reputation, I thought he played quite well.

i was surprised how well Ireland went with so many injuries. Wales didn't ask too many difficult questions but defensively Ireland were very solid. France have been total tom kite for years so could be a close one next week. If I were France, I'd be targeting the Irish scrum big style.

They will. But a change at TH prop may be all that's needed. Don't know the condition of Mike Ross at present, but would have Moore or Furlong ahead of White. Jack McGrath is in great form in tight and loose.

Interesting to see what happens in the backrow if SOB is fit. I assume he will start and probably TOD step down. All the backrowers - Heaslip, Stander,TOD and Ruddock, played well today after most pundits and fans expected their Wales counterparts to blow them away at the breakdown. Joe could still opt for the abrasive Ruddock at lock just to get him on the field.

[Russ]

McCarthy, someone remind me did he carry the ball at all today

Yes.

Negative 4m

He did however hold the welsh player off the ball to create the gap for Murray

[Cockatrice]

Zebo missed a couple of high balls and a glaring miss on Williams which could have costs us more than it did.

[fuzzylogic]

All in all, not the worst, to be honest when I seen the teams picked I thought Wales would trounce us but we really threw away a chance today.

Wales played that blitz defence against us very well and we spent all day crabbing across the field or losing 5m every phase, Ireland on the other hand using the drift allowed Wales big runners to straighten up and gain a few metres each play. I really do worry that in attack we look quite clueless and lack any real cutting edge. I think moving Robbie to 13, Payne to 15 and giving either McCloskey or potentially Sexton the 12 shirt could help this.

Watching the other two matches, everyone is there for the taking, England looked OK against a poor Scotland and another poor Italy side nearly took out a mediocre France.

There wont be any world beating performances in this championship, but with all teams being of similar quality we could get a few decent games and a bit of drama heading into the final day.

[Dublin4]

Most of you have a better view than me as I was up in the gods in the east stand and miss all the tv analysis and close ups.

Our back row was superb. Hard to know how SOB will get back in.
White not up to it. Toner had a superb day in the lineout.
Murray very good and physical.
Sexton surprised me - he kicked well, ran well, took penalties well, but he does take punishment.
Centres were excellent but would prefer Payne at full back rather than the clown Zebo, He really kicked some awful ball to the Welsh. Wingers fine. Defensive organisation superb. Do we need Andy Farrell?
Considering Wales were massive favourites it was a good day at the office for Joe.

[Jackie Brown]

No Jackson next week against Glasgow, hope Johnny is fine after that collision with North

Of course he will be, the IRFU don't give a crap about Sexton's well being.

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[Jackie Brown]

Most of you have a better view than me as I was up in the gods in the east stand and miss all the tv analysis and close ups.

Our back row was superb. Hard to know how SOB will get back in.
White not up to it. Toner had a superb day in the lineout.
Murray very good and physical.
Sexton surprised me - he kicked well, ran well, took penalties well, but he does take punishment.
Centres were excellent but would prefer Payne at full back rather than the clown Zebo, He really kicked some awful ball to the Welsh. Wingers fine. Defensive organisation superb. Do we need Andy Farrell?
Considering Wales were massive favourites it was a good day at the office for Joe.

Wales were not massive favourites and according to your analysis we were brill. Believe me that was a pile of turgid kack. That Welsh team are no great shakes and we scraped a draw against them at home.

Brill

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[GLENN CORNICK]

Most of you have a better view than me as I was up in the gods in the east stand and miss all the tv analysis and close ups.

Our back row was superb. Hard to know how SOB will get back in.
White not up to it. Toner had a superb day in the lineout.
Murray very good and physical.
Sexton surprised me - he kicked well, ran well, took penalties well, but he does take punishment.
Centres were excellent but would prefer Payne at full back rather than the clown Zebo, He really kicked some awful ball to the Welsh. Wingers fine. Defensive organisation superb. Do we need Andy Farrell?
Considering Wales were massive favourites it was a good day at the office for Joe.

Agreed, but "the clown Zebo"? Be careful D4, the Saint Simon Zebo Worldwide Fan Klub will kick yer door in.He's The Coming Man ye know and shows a lot of "intent", IHump style.

[Dublin4]

We weren't brill but we weren't as bad as the media were making out beforehand.
Our defence was brill and I will give you that.

[ColinM]

If José could delegate the team selection to someone decent, and carry in all other aspects of his role, I propose Ireland may be above average

[solidarity]

After three games none of the teams look up to much. Nothing much going forward from any of them. Defences look good so, if the weather doesn't pick up, this could be the most seriously turgid 6 Nations.

[big mervyn]

Thought Ratboy's blatant simulation after the "tip tackle" was an absolute disgrace. I believe a yellow card is the recommended sanction there.

Totally overlooked by BOD and the lads in the studio when they reviewed the incident.