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<blockquote data-quote="stringer9" data-source="post: 109432"><p>Talk about the pool of death like. Everyone thinks that France will top and it'll be a battle between Argentina and Ireland. Ya it'll be hard like but I just odn't think Argentina have enough fitness or experience together as a team to keep up with the other 2. The home crowd mightn't work for France, the pressure and the whole occasion got to us against France in Croker. And France are in line for some hell of a beating. I get the impression that they think that they're untouchable and Ireland are carrying their pain and anger into the WC after having hte 6 Nations ripped out of their hands. They're just waiting for France because they are going to be so wound up going into that match and the pressure on France and we would enjoy nothing more then thrashing (well you know beating them anyway) France at home in the WC just like they ruined our "fairytale." France have been riding this wave of luck for too long and it's about time we brought them crashing down to earth. </p><p></p><p>The only problem with Ireland is the depth of the squad, ya fine if anything..*TOUCH WOOD*..happens to BoD then there's always someone like Trimble to put on the wing with Horgan moving in and if ROG, again *TOUCH WOOD* gets injured then Wallace, who like Boss for Stringer is a decent enough replacement but I don't think either of them are as good our have enough matvh experience as the other partnership. There's ways to work around it like..crisis injuries like but we wont be anywhere near as good if anything does happen. </p><p></p><p>But Ireland, on form have an amazing team, an amazing pack, 2 outstanding half backs and a class class backline. We can win a match for only like 30/40% of the ball and Argentina have a good pack but they might struggle with the Irish backs. And they really want to bring it to France and beat them in front of their home crowd.</p><p></p><p>I think that Ireland play better rugby then France, I don't really know about Argentina. But past games asside it's all about who preforms on the day.."Sport has no memory" it's all about the 80 odd mins of rugby and the 15 out there. It's really unpredictable, to unpredictable. I hope, that Ireland finish in the top 2 but like I said anything can happen.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="stringer9, post: 109432"] Talk about the pool of death like. Everyone thinks that France will top and it'll be a battle between Argentina and Ireland. Ya it'll be hard like but I just odn't think Argentina have enough fitness or experience together as a team to keep up with the other 2. The home crowd mightn't work for France, the pressure and the whole occasion got to us against France in Croker. And France are in line for some hell of a beating. I get the impression that they think that they're untouchable and Ireland are carrying their pain and anger into the WC after having hte 6 Nations ripped out of their hands. They're just waiting for France because they are going to be so wound up going into that match and the pressure on France and we would enjoy nothing more then thrashing (well you know beating them anyway) France at home in the WC just like they ruined our "fairytale." France have been riding this wave of luck for too long and it's about time we brought them crashing down to earth. The only problem with Ireland is the depth of the squad, ya fine if anything..*TOUCH WOOD*..happens to BoD then there's always someone like Trimble to put on the wing with Horgan moving in and if ROG, again *TOUCH WOOD* gets injured then Wallace, who like Boss for Stringer is a decent enough replacement but I don't think either of them are as good our have enough matvh experience as the other partnership. There's ways to work around it like..crisis injuries like but we wont be anywhere near as good if anything does happen. But Ireland, on form have an amazing team, an amazing pack, 2 outstanding half backs and a class class backline. We can win a match for only like 30/40% of the ball and Argentina have a good pack but they might struggle with the Irish backs. And they really want to bring it to France and beat them in front of their home crowd. I think that Ireland play better rugby then France, I don't really know about Argentina. But past games asside it's all about who preforms on the day.."Sport has no memory" it's all about the 80 odd mins of rugby and the 15 out there. It's really unpredictable, to unpredictable. I hope, that Ireland finish in the top 2 but like I said anything can happen. [/QUOTE]
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