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2024 Guinness Six Nations
[2022 Six Nations] Ireland vs Wales (05/02/22)
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<blockquote data-quote="Leonormous Boozer" data-source="post: 1072672" data-attributes="member: 45598"><p>I don't know what it was about the autumn but I'm not too excited by it in the sense that it's a platform to take us to a championship.</p><p></p><p>I think we're dead set for 3rd place in this tournament unless England are really bad. We're still very reliant on Sexton to be properly world class, now he's the best 10 in the comp bar none when fully fit but he hadn't got more than 120mins in the tank across consecutive weekends. As I said before, our left wing is a huge part of the gameplan and missing a big boot and powerful strike runner there will be difficult and this makes our centres more limited as a result.</p><p></p><p>I think it's telling that people are calling this championship wide open, the seemingly two best teams are France and Ireland who are definitely the two sides whose best and worst performances across a tournament tend to have the highest variance. (France just tend to be more spectacular)</p><p></p><p>Our pack is probably the tournament's strongest but for us to win a slam or championship they're going to have to totally dominate 4 or 5 games with the two likely to be the most difficult both away from home. It'll be very very tough.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Leonormous Boozer, post: 1072672, member: 45598"] I don't know what it was about the autumn but I'm not too excited by it in the sense that it's a platform to take us to a championship. I think we're dead set for 3rd place in this tournament unless England are really bad. We're still very reliant on Sexton to be properly world class, now he's the best 10 in the comp bar none when fully fit but he hadn't got more than 120mins in the tank across consecutive weekends. As I said before, our left wing is a huge part of the gameplan and missing a big boot and powerful strike runner there will be difficult and this makes our centres more limited as a result. I think it's telling that people are calling this championship wide open, the seemingly two best teams are France and Ireland who are definitely the two sides whose best and worst performances across a tournament tend to have the highest variance. (France just tend to be more spectacular) Our pack is probably the tournament's strongest but for us to win a slam or championship they're going to have to totally dominate 4 or 5 games with the two likely to be the most difficult both away from home. It'll be very very tough. [/QUOTE]
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