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The long wait for a team announcement, living in fear of a Sexton injury.
especially considering how he has tormented Leinster when playing for La Rochelle and saracensNot starting Skelton is a headscratcher.
I forgot HJH, BPA, naisaraini.Only one (Hooper) of our five best players are available (Kerevi, Cooper, Koroibete and Arnold unavailable).
Outside those there are so many squad players that would be filling in right now that arent available. Whether injured like HJH, Bell, Perese, Rodda, Leota, Swinton, etc or lost to us like BPA, Naisarani etc
Then all the guys who spent the vast majority of their lives in Aus but are representing other nations like Lomax, Dempsey (14 Wallaby caps ffs), Hanson, Cornelson etc.
There are basically two full teams of players that, in an ideal world, would be available. We have no fucken chance of ever being competitive.
Edit: forgot Philip our best lock all year has done his ACL.
We've played more players at 10 in this world cup cycle than any other position. The guy on the bench was 4th choice going into this series and probably about 7th choice at the start of the year.I see Sexton is playing again. Ireland really need to give another fly half some game time against the top teams otherwise when Sexton gets injured in the world cup it will be same old for Ireland come the knockout stages.
Lets revisit this conversation in a years time when Sexton gets a head injury in the pool game against South Africa and has to miss the quarter final. No other fly half has starter in any big games for Ireland over the last few years. Its madness repeating the same mistake again.We've played more players at 10 in this world cup cycle than any other position. The guy on the bench was 4th choice going into this series and probably about 7th choice at the start of the year.
We beat Argentina by 45 points and competed well against France in Paris in the 6n without Sexton.
There's decent 10s there but replacing the best player we've ever produced prematurely makes no sense.
Sexton has only missed one World Cup knockout game in his career due to injury. Carbery and Harry Byrne were the guys marked out to replace him and are both far more injury prone.
Lets revisit this conversation in a years time when Sexton gets a head injury in the pool game against South Africa and has to miss the quarter final. No other fly half has starter in any big games for Ireland over the last few years. Its madness repeating the same mistake again.
Lets revisit this conversation in a years time when Sexton gets a head injury in the pool game against South Africa and has to miss the quarter final. No other fly half has starter in any big games for Ireland over the last few years. Its madness repeating the same mistake again.