QuoteOriginally Posted by shakermaker1982
That is exactly how i would have it except bob casey on instead of o'kelly. Oh and frankie sheehan on the bench ahead of rory best!
How I'd start against France
Horan
Jackman
Hayes - Buckley on at 55 minutes.
O'Callaghan
O'Kelly - but only just
Leamy
Wallace
Heaslip
Reddan
O'Gara
Bowe
BOD
Trimble
Kearney
Dempsey
"If God had meant football to be played in the air, he'd have put grass in the sky." Brian Clough.
You'll NEVER beat the Irish.......you'll just draw with us instead!!!
That is exactly how i would have it except bob casey on instead of o'kelly. Oh and frankie sheehan on the bench ahead of rory best!
Rightly or wrongly Casey is nowhere near selection. O'Driscoll, Cullen and Caldwell are all ahead of him in the pecking order.
I'm not sure why you are so against Best. He didn't play fantastic but is coming back from a serious injury and needs game time. Part of our inability to move ball in the last 20 mins was directly due to Jackman needing to reduce numbers and throw to the front in order to hit his man at the lineout.
Sheahan's international days are done (and should've been done before they started after the London hotel incident).
I agree with the teams above although Trimble did better on the wing than at centre on Saturday oddly. Jackman's throwing was a bit dodgy but Best's was worse if anything and Jackman will do a lot more around the pitch given a full game. Best's performance may be down to not being fully fit but the 6 nations is hardly the place to play yourself back in.
We're not arrogant, we're just better.
O'Driscoll should move to inside centre alright as he just there for defence now.
In Trap we trust
Thats shockin, absolutely shockin.
Here they come! It’s the charge of the “Thanks” Brigade!
what does it say lads? Can't access it here...
"If God had meant football to be played in the air, he'd have put grass in the sky." Brian Clough.
You'll NEVER beat the Irish.......you'll just draw with us instead!!!
Oh i know there is no hope of casey starting cos he wouldn't know the line out calls or anything but its a joke that he isn't in the squad. Players playing in england always get overlooked for some strange reason.
I have never rated best as a player for some reason
The team against France is:
Dempsey; Murphy, O'Driscoll, Trimble, Kearney; O'Gara, Reddan; Horan, Jackman, Hayes; O'Callaghan, O'Kelly; Leamy, Wallace, Heaslip.
Horgan is on the bench.
All in all as expected. Trimble and O'Driscoll need to be reversed though.
did Bowe make the 22?
I thought O'Sullivan said a while back that Murphy was always poor against France hence he never selects him? He owes us a big performance.
"If God had meant football to be played in the air, he'd have put grass in the sky." Brian Clough.
You'll NEVER beat the Irish.......you'll just draw with us instead!!!
Dont think its being officially announced til lunchtime. I was talking to someone I know in Lansdowne Road who told me. With Horgan on the bench, I doubt Bowe is there.
Horgan looked off the pace against the Saxons. On his day he is a monster but he needs serious game time. Cheers for the heads up Joe.
"If God had meant football to be played in the air, he'd have put grass in the sky." Brian Clough.
You'll NEVER beat the Irish.......you'll just draw with us instead!!!
BOD wears 13 no matter what position he plays in. It's a habit he picked up from Tony Mac.
He played outside centre on Saturday (although he did line up inside when defending lineouts and Italian scrums).
I don't really care what jersey he wears, he hasn't got the pace to play outside centre anymore and good old steady Eddie is unlikely to tinker or go against what his captain thinks.
Here's hoping I'm wrong.
Also team is as joesoap predicted. RTE's headline says "sweeping changes".....
Significant changes and certainly in the right direction. Regardless of the many moaners I will be cheering them on in Paris.
Too little too late.You can moan at Eddie's coaching ineptitude and ridiculous conservatism of selection whilst still managing to cheer the team on. God knows I've been doing both since he was appointed....
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What you mean, one game one win, we need to look forward now. The WC is a sad history.
....[/QUOTE]You can moan at Eddie's coaching ineptitude and ridiculous conservatism of selection whilst still managing to cheer the team on. God knows I've been doing both since he was appointed
Agreed, but it is now starting to overflow to the players, for instance do people realise that Simon Easterby has been a legend for Ireland over the last 4 years, if there was a ball to be slowed down Simon was your man. I admit he is now seriously jaded and probably finished as an international player but he should be applauded for his fine service to the cause not jeered out the back door.
And thats precisely why we needed more changes to the team over the past few years. You can blood 2 or 3 new players per year fairly easily and the best sides do this. The players were there to do this in all but a few positions (prop and out-half). Ireland didn't, a large number of the team is now stale and thats Eddie's fault.
I don't understand your point. Either he gets picked or he doesn't? If anyone is to blame its, unsurprisingly, Eddie, for continuing to play him beyond his sell-by date.
BTW, the 6 position has moved on hugely and just stopping ballcarriers and catching a few at the tail of the line doesn't cut it anymore. I can count the number of breaks Easterby made with ball in hand in his whole international career and that, frankly, isn't enough for a backrower.
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