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[2019 Six Nations] Ireland vs France (10/03/2019)
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<blockquote data-quote="Leinster Fan" data-source="post: 936128" data-attributes="member: 76349"><p>I was just thinking about our centres and I think there's an argument that Ringrose is our most important player. If you look at the games over the last year or so there's a clear trend of is being far better with him in the team. For example going back to the start of last year's 6N, we've had </p><p>•France: No Ringrose, utter muck for 79 minutes, rescued by one ridiculous moment of brilliance</p><p>•Italy: Decent win if not completely convincing, no Ringrose</p><p>•Wales: No Ringrose, good in attack, wide defence was terrible though</p><p>•Scotland: Ringrose back, he was probably our best player in that game, which was a fairly convincing win</p><p>•England: Ringrose in, excellent performance, never looked like losing</p><p></p><p>Then he's a central figure in Leinster winning a historic double, followed by the Australia Tour, where he doesn't play the first Test and Henshaw and Aki both have mares, he's back in for the second Test which was our best performance of the series and a vastly improved display in the midfield (probably helped by Sexton being in for Carbery as well though), followed by him missing the third Test, where we edged a close game. </p><p></p><p>The there's November where he played against Italy in Chicago and was excellent, and then didn't play against Argentina, where we were dull and uninspired, then he did start against the All Blacks, which obviously we won, and then he played with the squad players against the USA where he was obviously the best player on the pitch by a laughable margin, and was making breaks for fun by the end. </p><p></p><p>Then he's our best player against England, before missing the Scotland and Italy games, neither of which we were particularly good in. </p><p></p><p>The other slightly depressing reality you get from this is how often he's injured, but it's obvious how much of a difference he makes when he plays.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Leinster Fan, post: 936128, member: 76349"] I was just thinking about our centres and I think there's an argument that Ringrose is our most important player. If you look at the games over the last year or so there's a clear trend of is being far better with him in the team. For example going back to the start of last year's 6N, we've had •France: No Ringrose, utter muck for 79 minutes, rescued by one ridiculous moment of brilliance •Italy: Decent win if not completely convincing, no Ringrose •Wales: No Ringrose, good in attack, wide defence was terrible though •Scotland: Ringrose back, he was probably our best player in that game, which was a fairly convincing win •England: Ringrose in, excellent performance, never looked like losing Then he's a central figure in Leinster winning a historic double, followed by the Australia Tour, where he doesn't play the first Test and Henshaw and Aki both have mares, he's back in for the second Test which was our best performance of the series and a vastly improved display in the midfield (probably helped by Sexton being in for Carbery as well though), followed by him missing the third Test, where we edged a close game. The there's November where he played against Italy in Chicago and was excellent, and then didn't play against Argentina, where we were dull and uninspired, then he did start against the All Blacks, which obviously we won, and then he played with the squad players against the USA where he was obviously the best player on the pitch by a laughable margin, and was making breaks for fun by the end. Then he's our best player against England, before missing the Scotland and Italy games, neither of which we were particularly good in. The other slightly depressing reality you get from this is how often he's injured, but it's obvious how much of a difference he makes when he plays. [/QUOTE]
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