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<blockquote data-quote="Leinster Fan" data-source="post: 981243" data-attributes="member: 76349"><p>Agree with all of that except for your second point, it's not anyone at any level in Irish rugby who's responsible for that except himself. </p><p></p><p>Rest of that is spot on though, I'd add in not selecting on form during the actual world cup as well. It seems to me like Joe just tried to freeze the grand slam team and refused to deviate from that set of players regardless of their form, the form of others or what other teams were doing to counter us. There were actually shades of Eddie and his undroppables in the noughties. Persisting with Best is the biggest sin for me, it's not like there weren't other options, Scannell got a chance in Australia and seized it with both hands but ended up barely able to get a look in. We seemed to treat the England thrashing in Dublin at the start of the year as a one-off poor performance instead of trying to address the issues that arose from that. Was obvious we needed a bit of a shakeup and we just didn't.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Leinster Fan, post: 981243, member: 76349"] Agree with all of that except for your second point, it's not anyone at any level in Irish rugby who's responsible for that except himself. Rest of that is spot on though, I'd add in not selecting on form during the actual world cup as well. It seems to me like Joe just tried to freeze the grand slam team and refused to deviate from that set of players regardless of their form, the form of others or what other teams were doing to counter us. There were actually shades of Eddie and his undroppables in the noughties. Persisting with Best is the biggest sin for me, it's not like there weren't other options, Scannell got a chance in Australia and seized it with both hands but ended up barely able to get a look in. We seemed to treat the England thrashing in Dublin at the start of the year as a one-off poor performance instead of trying to address the issues that arose from that. Was obvious we needed a bit of a shakeup and we just didn't. [/QUOTE]
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