France v Ireland (6 Nations)

[Soko]

Take your points when in Paris. Pretty simple stuff really, 5-3 is better than 5-0. It was just indicitave of the tripe that was to follow for the next 40 minutes.

[Macy]

Poor individual decision making rather than tatics in my view. Second half shows that imo. I mean, you can say France took the foot off the pedal, but they hardly looked great when they were totting up 41 points imo.

Murphy was the worst player on the pitch, and how anyone could give him a 6 is beyond me. His 2 gifts of try's and then the awful handling that cost us a try too and the game was ours. Dempsey by far the best option.

If the IRFU want to give me a contract, I'll come out of retirement to sort out the front row - even at this stage reckon I'd be a better scrumager. Don't want to be too harsh, as the problem with Corrigan and Hayes (or O'Sullivan on this point) is there's no one coming through to replace them.

[CollegeTillIDie]

Take your points when in Paris. Pretty simple stuff really, 5-3 is better than 5-0. It was just indicitave of the tripe that was to follow for the next 40 minutes.

Agreed. I am no expert on rugby I readily admit. But in all my 30 plus years of watching it on TV the conventional wisdom on penalties has been. Early on kick for goal and take your 3 points... near the end if you need more than 3 points at the time then run it and try for 7!

[Wiseguy]

The most annoying thing about it all was the fact that France done sweet fcuk all and were out of site at half time.It was the worst 1st half performance by an Irish side in a long long time.In the second half they played some good rugby but you have to put that in to context.The game was over and this French side is no where near as good as people make out.The fact the we rallied in the second half took the focus away from the real problem.Eddie 'O Sullivan's time is up.It's clear that he is not getting the best from his player's and when that happens it's time for a change.