posted Feb 24, 2008

Unfortunately STT you seem to have forgotten the small matter of Jerry Flannery whos ban is about to run out and will be available for the Wales game.

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posted Feb 24, 2008

STT - Yes but Ireland have the players who can kick the ball back deep which Italy didn't have and they will put the ball into touch and attack the Welsh lineout in the Welsh half...

With Flannery/POC likely to be back for the next match our lineout hsould improve

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posted Feb 24, 2008

That depends on whether O'Sullivan sees fit to restore Flannery to the starting XV. Before now, he always saw fit to select Dempsey at fullback over Murphy afterall, as he would have done for the Scotland game had Dempsey not been injured. If he starts with Jackman again then the lineout could be there for the taking, if the Scots managed it then we should be able to steal a good few throws too. AW Jones should be back and maybe taking over from Evans at lock.

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posted Feb 24, 2008

Whether Flannery is playing or not POC will be and that wills trengthen the lineout no end, this is the guy who was in the running for IRB player of the years not so long ago, any idea how difficult that is as a lock?

Big Paul is back for revenge.

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posted Feb 24, 2008

"Sorry but maybe you didnt see the magnificent running rugby we took apart Scotland with yesterday, hence scoring 5 tries.

You Welsh claim to have nothing but admiration for that kind of running rugby yet your saying its negative rugby? How you can possibly say we are playing negative rugby i dont know, we constantly tried to get the ball out wide against any team we have played so far.." - irishmicky.

Ok, you've played one good game since the Six Nations last year, against Scotland yesterday. One good game a great team does not make. I love how you bring tries into the equation, Wales had a rubbish first half against Italy, and still managed to score five tries while the Irish only scored two against the Italians.
I think it's you who is being bitter to my comments mate.

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posted Feb 24, 2008

If we win all our remaining games we could still come third!

how it stands:

*PD - Points Difference
*GR - Games Remaining

Wales - won 3 - PD* 61 - GR* Ireland France
Ireland - won 2 - PD 21 - GR Wales England
France - won 2 - PD 15 - GR Italy Wales
England - won 2 - PD 8 - GR Scots Ireland




If we beat Wales, France beat Italy, and England beat Scotland:

There would be Four teams seperated by points difference at that stage.wales would probably still be first unless Ireland france or england win by a huge margin.

what an exciting way to go into the last weekend that would be!

Four teams head to head, Ireland v England, Wales v france, all playing for the Championship!



If we lose to Wales:

Best we can hope for is 2nd, and would have to beat England, and wales would have to beat France. And even then it would prob come down to points difference assuming France beat Italy.


Hope you found that insightful!

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posted Feb 24, 2008

STT if you could read you would realise that my bringing up the tries was in response to a Welsh fan saying Ireland play negative rugby and so dont deserve anything - if you are unable to read i suggest you go back to the education system.

I pointed out to that fan that by playing what you Welsh call "negative Rugby" we scored more trys than Wales did playing "positive rugby" against Scotland.

If you are unable to fathom the above then what can i say, if you are trying to construe that anything i have said above is bitter, then i can say even less..

Your also saying we have only played one good game since last years 6N?

Just listen to yourself mate bitterness written all over, are you therefore saying we played badly against France but still only lost by 5 points?

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posted Feb 24, 2008

Above post was meant to be to sir speedy not STT.

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posted Feb 25, 2008

I am concerned about the points difference at the end of the championship.

I honestly thought that Irelkand should have put 50 points on Scotland and giving away that try could possibly prove expensive.

I also thought Ireland should have been more agressive and attacking in the second half the game was won, the Scots subs were coming on, going off and coming back on again! yet on a couple of occassions from thier own half ROG chose to kick for territory when I thought through the hands was the way to go.

Given the situation with a back line of O'Driscoll, Trimble, Bowe, Murphy and Kernan and latterly O'Driscoll replaced with Horgan thought attacking rugby would have maybe produced more points

Still good to see Ireland slowly getting back to pre world cup debacle standard

But Scotalnd were poor very poor the Welsh and then English will be a totally different scenario

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posted Feb 25, 2008

I agree with other comments made on this site, we need Flannery to start as hooker with R Best on the bench. O'Connell to start with M O'Driscoll on the bench. And Easterby to be romoved from selection consideration in favour of N Best. Paddy Wallace is just ok -maybe Niall O'Connor will come through eventually as the future O'Gara

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