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2024 Guinness Six Nations
Conspiracy theory?... Irish fans chime in? (long-ish)
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<blockquote data-quote="Leonormous Boozer" data-source="post: 932505" data-attributes="member: 45598"><p>You've unknowingly came up with a theory that became a bit of a meme in 2015, all Irish fans were saying this when Schmidt was still in his early days as a coach and we were far from an attacking powerhouse in the build up. It did turn out to be a little bit true, there were some new things in the France (before Keith Earls forgot the importance of catching the ball) and Argentina games attack wise but nothing major.</p><p></p><p>At most there's a few strike moves in the pipeline that haven't been used yet although Schmidt said that Stockdale try was a new move so results here are 100% important, and I wouldn't be surprised if Schmidt is doing a lot of homework on SA and NZ right now at the expense of what he'd usually do for the big 6n games but the man is so meticulous that that should only have so much of an effect. </p><p></p><p>Ultimately the team is just a bit injured and/or rusty returning from injury, there was a howler of a selection at 15 against England that never allowed us a foothold in the game and after a beating like that you have to feel your way into the tournament. I'm pretty sure that if we were to win our three remaining games we'll retain our spot at number 2 in the rankings going into the competition regardless of what England do so that's worth protecting for confidence alone. </p><p></p><p>We had great 6 nations before both the 2007 and 2015 RWC's and they'd rank as our worst and third worst RWC's respectively in my opinion so a loss that will live long in the memory like Dublin will hopefully be good for us.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Leonormous Boozer, post: 932505, member: 45598"] You've unknowingly came up with a theory that became a bit of a meme in 2015, all Irish fans were saying this when Schmidt was still in his early days as a coach and we were far from an attacking powerhouse in the build up. It did turn out to be a little bit true, there were some new things in the France (before Keith Earls forgot the importance of catching the ball) and Argentina games attack wise but nothing major. At most there's a few strike moves in the pipeline that haven't been used yet although Schmidt said that Stockdale try was a new move so results here are 100% important, and I wouldn't be surprised if Schmidt is doing a lot of homework on SA and NZ right now at the expense of what he'd usually do for the big 6n games but the man is so meticulous that that should only have so much of an effect. Ultimately the team is just a bit injured and/or rusty returning from injury, there was a howler of a selection at 15 against England that never allowed us a foothold in the game and after a beating like that you have to feel your way into the tournament. I'm pretty sure that if we were to win our three remaining games we'll retain our spot at number 2 in the rankings going into the competition regardless of what England do so that's worth protecting for confidence alone. We had great 6 nations before both the 2007 and 2015 RWC's and they'd rank as our worst and third worst RWC's respectively in my opinion so a loss that will live long in the memory like Dublin will hopefully be good for us. [/QUOTE]
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