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<blockquote data-quote="psychic duck" data-source="post: 568046" data-attributes="member: 48703"><p>See Gwlad. I certainly not the only fella that dislikes the guy. In fact I used to like him more before, but on further inspection after reading the analysis of Feicarsinn on this forum and a few on Gwlad have articulately shown that he was overrated.</p><p></p><p>I won't go into the off field stuff around him but I assume you know the sort of stuff and interviews I mean.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>There's a difference here. In ROG's case, it hid some of his flaws and allowed him to kick and chip his way through his career and get points for it. Whilst he has had at least as many bad matches such as Heineken Cup final 2000, all Rugby World Cups, Heineken Cup semi final 2009 and of course Lions tours. In fact it was thanks to him bottling out of the 2000 Heineken Cup final that is the reason Munster were known as "the nearly men" for quite a while.</p><p></p><p>In Sexton's case, he was a far more rounded player. It wasn't the case of just getting points of the pack's back whilst also relying on them to cover up weaknesses (which were exposed wehen they weren't playing well like in RWC 07). He was creating an awful lot of points himself and got far more out of Leinster's backs than ROG did to Ireland's.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>I do watch Ireland actually, and to be honest I was astonished about how Kidney treated Sexton in 2009-2011. He shouldn't have just been backed as first choice from November 2009 onwards. The fact Sexton didn't do as well as he did with Leinster points a lot to the coaching of Kidney imo. Still was pointless bringing back ROG in that period all the time though.</p><p></p><p>ROG was good at kicking to the corners normally especially with Munster where I think he was more consistent and better than at international, but I'm arguing he was overrated and got a fortunate deck of cards in his career to help him.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="psychic duck, post: 568046, member: 48703"] See Gwlad. I certainly not the only fella that dislikes the guy. In fact I used to like him more before, but on further inspection after reading the analysis of Feicarsinn on this forum and a few on Gwlad have articulately shown that he was overrated. I won't go into the off field stuff around him but I assume you know the sort of stuff and interviews I mean. There's a difference here. In ROG's case, it hid some of his flaws and allowed him to kick and chip his way through his career and get points for it. Whilst he has had at least as many bad matches such as Heineken Cup final 2000, all Rugby World Cups, Heineken Cup semi final 2009 and of course Lions tours. In fact it was thanks to him bottling out of the 2000 Heineken Cup final that is the reason Munster were known as "the nearly men" for quite a while. In Sexton's case, he was a far more rounded player. It wasn't the case of just getting points of the pack's back whilst also relying on them to cover up weaknesses (which were exposed wehen they weren't playing well like in RWC 07). He was creating an awful lot of points himself and got far more out of Leinster's backs than ROG did to Ireland's. I do watch Ireland actually, and to be honest I was astonished about how Kidney treated Sexton in 2009-2011. He shouldn't have just been backed as first choice from November 2009 onwards. The fact Sexton didn't do as well as he did with Leinster points a lot to the coaching of Kidney imo. Still was pointless bringing back ROG in that period all the time though. ROG was good at kicking to the corners normally especially with Munster where I think he was more consistent and better than at international, but I'm arguing he was overrated and got a fortunate deck of cards in his career to help him. [/QUOTE]
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