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Irish Rugby - The Party Years
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<blockquote data-quote="Tooting Carmen" data-source="post: 983838" data-attributes="member: 78546"><p>I would not despair that much were I an Irish fan. Ireland's younger and second/third-string players are certainly more formidable than most of what Wales and Scotland have to offer. Moreover, given Wales' injuries, the incredibly poor form of the Ospreys and Scotland's poor form at the World Cup, I expect Ireland to be above both countries in the forthcoming 6N, even if they don't win it as such.</p><p></p><p>More generally, why is it that Ireland - at least at club/provincial level, if not so much at Test level - does rather better than Wales nowadays? If you look at the two countries' age-grade teams, there's not a lot of difference between them, with both being generally mid-range in terms of JWC and U20 6N performances and results. (As opposed to England, who are frequent JWC finalists and U20 6N winners, or Scotland, who are mostly quite poor and have just been relegated from the JWC to the Junior World Trophy).</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Tooting Carmen, post: 983838, member: 78546"] I would not despair that much were I an Irish fan. Ireland's younger and second/third-string players are certainly more formidable than most of what Wales and Scotland have to offer. Moreover, given Wales' injuries, the incredibly poor form of the Ospreys and Scotland's poor form at the World Cup, I expect Ireland to be above both countries in the forthcoming 6N, even if they don't win it as such. More generally, why is it that Ireland - at least at club/provincial level, if not so much at Test level - does rather better than Wales nowadays? If you look at the two countries' age-grade teams, there's not a lot of difference between them, with both being generally mid-range in terms of JWC and U20 6N performances and results. (As opposed to England, who are frequent JWC finalists and U20 6N winners, or Scotland, who are mostly quite poor and have just been relegated from the JWC to the Junior World Trophy). [/QUOTE]
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