The IRISH RUGBY thread

[JPGJOHNNYG]

How many times will we do something dumb in the 22. England have been shite. We should have way more scores

[JPGJOHNNYG]

At least france did us a favour for once in terms of rankings points

[Syferus]

Twenty minutes into his first start of the championship and Henderson blasts through for a try. Please forget about fûckin Toner, Joe. Scrum and lineouts stellar with Henderson and POM in.

England look like lads who've turned up to a gun fight with a plastic Supermacs knife.

[Owen Brannigan]

Twenty minutes into his first start of the championship and Henderson blasts through for a try. Please forget about fûckin Toner, Joe. Scrum and lineouts stellar with Henderson and POM in.

England look like lads who've turned up to a gun fight with a plastic Supermacs knife.

And Heaslip.

[Owen Brannigan]

English forwards taking turns at Sexton, first Haskell late and then Itoje very late.

[Captain Obvious]

Always a good day when you beat those bloody English!

[Syferus]

POM was something else today. One of the all-time great performances by an Irish player.

[screenexile]

Enjoyed that we took the sting out of the game from 60 mins on and didn't allow their subs to make the desired impact. McGraths kick at the end was World Class!!

As I said last week the standard from all teams has lifted. Just because we got beat by wales and Scotland doesn't make us shite overnight. There are 5 teams in the 6 nations who can all beat each other now which will make the tournament much more competitive heading into the WC.

[seafoid]

Always a good day when you beat those bloody English!

And silence swing low....

[Owen Brannigan]

It took the 5th game before Schmidt got the selection almost right. O'Mahoney, Henderson & Stander at 8. Hopefully, he will accept it and move on.

Fair play to Sexton he took some punishment and kept going.

[The Stallion]

Always a good day when you beat those bloody English!

And silence swing low....

England won the Six Nations.

[Syferus]

Beating the Tans takes the shine off their title and likely their Lions contingent too.

[An Watcher]

Can't see England celebrating this championship much.  To be honest grand slams are the big achievements now. 

[Owen Brannigan]

Always a good day when you beat those bloody English!

And silence swing low....

England won the Six Nations.

And how subdued was their celebrations in an empty dark stadium?

[The Stallion]

Have to say it's a bit puzzling to me why so many Irish fans and players were giddily celebrating as England were being awarded the title.

Difficult to reconcile that with the equally perplexing notion that Ireland are an elite rugby force to be reckoned with.


Big time talk conflicting with small time actions some might say.