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Pretty terrible weekend for Irish rugby. Lost the series to SA, lost the under 20 world cup, women's 7s didn't qualify for Rio and one of our best players had to retire due to injury.

From the point of view of consistency, Schmidt should go with an Olding-Marshall partnership while keeping Payne at 15. But we were fairly weak defensively in our outside channel in the last 15-20 mins. Payne would definitely fill up that Henshaw filled gap in defense, despite how good...

You should focus on a novice strength training programme for the next few months (Something like SS would be perfect). Assuming your season starts in September, start doing HIT training once or twice a week max at the beginning of August to get a decent fitness level (while you continue on SS...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=92XrGlRYlPI watch from 5.15 - 5.25 and 13.05-13.15. (time is meant to be the time on the youtube video, not the time on the game clock) yeah fitz doesn't score much but that isn't his role with neither leinster nor ireland. fitzgerald has been one of the most...

As you can tell from my username, I'm a massive Fitzgerald fan. He's easily one of the best players to play in and for Ireland in the pro era. However, he is not, in any way, shape or form, a fullback. He was horrific for Ireland in 2011 in the 6N under Kidney at fullback. He was targeted every...

TOH got owned in the air whenever Sexton put up bombs on him. Imagine what SA would do to him during the summer. Moore is far better than Bealham. I don't know how Moore's form will be after he comes back after his injury but, up until he got injured, he was a nailed on starter for Ireland...

Cian Kelleher is gone to Connacht. Rumours that Billy Dardis is heading to Exeter and Harrison Brewer is going to play in NZ.

What I took from today's game: Ringrose is human after all. He had a fairly poor-to-average game. He has still played excellently throughout the season but was found wanting today. Don't really know what went wrong. Jackson is the second choice 10 for Ireland, by a country mile. He should have...

Whatever about the Italian teams going to France, it makes absolutely no sense for one Italian team to be guaranteed a spot in the CC. Treviso this year conceded the most points, conceded the most tries (every team that played against them scored a try bp against them) and had the worst points...

The only thing I want from a rugby game is set plays and a good defensive AI. That's it. I couldn't give a **** about career mode, 7s, be a pro, licences, supposed "next gen graphics" etc etc etc. RC3 in its current state would be unplayable if they implemented set plays. The defensive and...

In fairness, Leinster at times played a high offloading game this season under Cullen and Dempsey. It was impossible to get the Internationals playing this system to the same degree as the younger guys as they were off at the RWC and 6N which caused a lot of disruption. The younger players'...

+1000000 on this. I genuinely don't understand what Joe believes he's doing so wrong that Kilcoyne and Cronin can get in ahead of him. He is a beast at the breakdown (which is something Joe obsesses over), has great hands, very dynamic, great tackler (particularly at choke tackling) and has a...

I thought Holland actually played well enough all things considering. Definitely a better option than Keatley. Don't know how Foley will stay on for next season. He's just not up to it.

I want Connacht to win but without a doubt that was a knock on by Niyi. The last angle definitely showed it came off his hand. Munster have been poor but Whitehouse is raping them. The standard of refereeing worldwide is disgraceful but nothing is being done about it.

Madigan simply can't get a backline going. He is in love with the inside ball (one time he gave away an intercept), throws these vicious skip passes which hardly ever work (one went into touch which ****** off fitzy) and trucks it up far too often. This leads to slow ball, many one off runner...

Fairly poor defence from Leinster which is pretty unusual from them this season. Fitzgerald should have got MOTM as he was ridiculously good as usual but VdF, Ruddock and Mick Kearney both had very good games. Rob Kearney and Cian Healy both played very well also. Molony is also coming along...

It looks identical to RC2. Also, what is wrong with the Scottish Cannon guy? Why does he shout random incoherent statements like a mumbling infant? Fair play to him for actually putting in the work to get the content but why does he feel it is necessary to scream?

Definition of ungrateful. So he's achieved 2 Heineken Cups, 1 Amlin Challenge Cup, 1 Rabo and back to back 6Ns and you "wouldn't be too sorry" if he left? Did he decapitate your family dog? I agree that in 2014,2015 we played fairly cautious rugby but did it effectively to win. But this year...

Last 6 Grand slams: 2005 - Wales Score a penalty in the 77th minute to win against England, slaughter Italy, come back in the last 10 minutes to beat France, hammer Scotland and Ireland. 2008 - Wales Score a 70th minute try to put them 7 points ahead against England, handily beat Scotland...

Schmidt has to change some of his selections but our backline play has certainly improved drastically. We've been creating a lot of space and making a lot of line breaks this year but haven't been clinical enough. Today we finished these chances off and offloaded a lot more. Stander didnt...