posted Feb 25, 2007

easy for ireland, England are pathetic, make the most out of your "world champions" tag cos in a few months Ireland will take it from you.

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posted Feb 25, 2007

we have a comedian here, thinking ireland are going to win the world cup. Good joke, it made me giggle for a while

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posted Feb 25, 2007

"In the past 4 years, Ireland has been for me not only the best Northern Hemisphere team, but also the most exciting one to watch playing."

have you seen some of France's matches in the last 2 years(and against far better opposition than England)???

if not then i advise you to watch the following matches: Ireland-France in 2005,the first summer test beetween France and SA in SA in 2005,France-Aus and France-SA in the AIs 2005 and SA-France in SA in 2006.
watch(or rewatch) this matches and then tell me frankly if you still think that Ireland have been the best and the most exciting NH team for the last 4 years.
Some people have a very short memory there: after the AIs 2005,i remember well that most of people in the NH were saying that France had by far the best NH backline....but now suddenly it's not the case anymore....very interesting.
a Elissalde-Michalak-Clerc-Jauzion-Baby(or Fritz)-Heymans-Poitrenaud backline is no joke,believe me.

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posted Feb 25, 2007

another thing: France would NEVER lost by 22 pts to Australia the way Ireland did in their last summer tour.

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posted Feb 25, 2007

Well. I reckon the games at the weekend showed up a few suprises.. especially the first three tries V Scotland well done Italy..

The Welsh nearly did the Irish a big favour but couldn't keep the heads up or the concetration...

And the Irish... Ah the Irish... Well we played pretty good, our forwards did a good job and gave the backs space to spread the ball wide... The English kept the score down and should have had another player sin binned... but hey they didn't and the game goes on...

A comment on the BBC... Well done on your coverage very comendable.. your preview.. probably was better than any history lesson any teacher could teach in class in the UK as to why there can be tensions from Irish People towards British people.

The history on Croke Park was very informitive and even I was suprised that the BBC told it as it was and how football supporters and players were killed and injured by the Black n Tans English troups back in a time gone by.

It is history...The question as to would any rugby or football be played in this great stadium Croke Park was debated long and hard in Ireland eventually it came to pass and we are better for it as a nation..

Finally.. Sport is a great thing no matter who wins or loses there is always something positive to take from a sporting game.. So lets enjoy it and not ruin it by slagging it off or the players...........

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posted Feb 25, 2007

Finally we have someone with common sense, thumbs up to itachi22

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posted Feb 25, 2007

Firstly I would like to applaud the Irish people as a whole for the respect they showed the English Anthem. The fact that the last time there was Englishmen on the pitch at croke park they was shooting innocent civilians and players alike.The atmosphere was immense there with bucket loads of passion to boot.This was easily the best I have seen Ireland play in many years and if it wasnt for some jittery moments which cost the game against France we would now be looking at the grand slam champions of 2007.
But being a realist Ireland have not got the ability to beat NZ , hell nobody has . But I for one would love to see an NZ v IRELAND World cup Final, which is a real possibility !!

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posted Feb 25, 2007

Hey Setanta1966 lets not forget that Ireland have to beat the French and the Argentinians before they get anywhere in the world cup......... lets not count the chickens yet !!!! And the six nations are not finished yet.... here is hoping........

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posted Feb 26, 2007

Thanks to all the Irish fans at Croke Park on Saturday. As an England supporter you showed us just how fans should be at sporting occasions. We had a great time except for that 80 minutes after 5.30 pm. With regards to that you were playing your World Cup Final and were magnificent. We were as bad as you were good. Slow pack, no ideas out wide and appeared unfit up front.BA should throw in the young pretenders before the RWC.

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posted Feb 26, 2007

"another thing: France would NEVER lost by 22 pts to Australia the way Ireland did in their last summer tour."

no instead they'd rather lose by 44 points to New Zealand on home soil

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