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What a free by Sheehan from the wrong side and into the wind!!!

That was a fantastic score.

Did you not see what preceded it? You're probably right he shouldn't have retaliated to someone trying to break his fingers.

Grabbing his arm = trying to break his fingers?

Yeah absolutely. Any defence for that carry on? Just because it's your county doesn't mean you just condone it.

Did you not see what preceded it? You're probably right he shouldn't have retaliated to someone trying to break his fingers.

Course I seen it, any man that lands 2 blatant punches on a mans face 5 yards from the umpire to bust open an opponent gets no sympathy from me, irrespective of what preceded it. However since you claim that McGee tried to break a mans fingers, please tell us more......Kerry....upholders of all that is pure in the game!!!!

Well??? Did you see that footage?

And 14 obviously totally deserved his red card too despite that provocation.

Pretty conclusive in that footage just shown in my opinion. 

Did you not see what preceded it? You're probably right he shouldn't have retaliated to someone trying to break his fingers.

McGee got what he deserved there.

Rory Scholes off to Edinburgh. Hope the Irish set up doesn't lose track of him like Tommy Seymour

I have actually been pretty impressed by him this season. Surprised by that move.

Dillane & McCloskey are keepers I think. Van Der Flier maybe.

Best might have to be relieved of the captaincy otherwise he could lose his place. Line outs inside their 22 were poor. Back up front row was well beaten which isn't much use. What happens when Mike Ross goes?

Interesting one with Best I thought his throwing was ok but with the ones we lost his throws seemed to be on the money but seemed to be with the jumpers where we were beaten. Crooked throws, overthrows is down to the hooker but a few appeared to be a lifting/jumping problem. I guess he inherited a poisoned chalice after POC. He is fantastic around the park too. (Ps this isn't Simon Best posting!!)

If we can blood a few from this 6 nations I think it will have been a partial success. Kearneys best days are behind him I'm afraid, Trimble is a shadow of himself from 2 years ago. The fact Nathan White is our 2nd choice prop at the minute speaks volumes. No point complaining about injuries because they are the norm these days and do any teams play with a first choice 15 these days?

Killyman       Kevin Hughes

Whose the Kevin Hughes with Killyman?

Ignore this WUM - he knows sweet F.A about gaelic football never mind rugby.

His distaste for rugby and the supposed 'silver spoon' upbringing of players is just a mask for being a bigot!

He's probably the same boy that set up a Support Tiernan McCann Faceboook page!

Now on the other hand having those Tyrone boys bulked up something tara over the winter. Must be on something those boys.

Euro rugby is going nowhere. Big men crashing into each other with concussion as standard. Hard to watch compared to southern hem. Sport is about space,  vision, teamwork. It is not about losing consciousness.

Agreed,
   Whilst this 15 man rugby league will win you a 6N's, that's about it. The Southern Hemisphere have moved on as the world cup showed, but alas we'll celebrate like billyo if we win the Div2 of rugby and talk about challenging the Southern Hemisphere teams, but come the summer tours we'll get our arses handed to us.

Agree with both of these.  I missed the France Italy game but as well as player welfare, also in terms of entertainment I found both the other weekend games wanting.  Few line breaks, 20 phases to move the ball 8 metres, all thud and thump.  Someone should tell Henshaw that you're allowed to pass the ball in rugby.  It's as if the World Cup never happened.  Oh, and ITV is shite too!

Yeah at one point Wales i think had 25 phases or more and the commentator was going on as if it some great achievement when all they were doing was going back across the 22 without getting anywhere. What was there 8 tries or something over the weekend? I am a big rugby fan but if i miss watching a match now I'm not really bothered as I'm not really missing much.

Just on ITV I thought D'Arcy was decent as co-commentator whilst Johnny Wilko would nearly send you to sleep with his voice!

Its classic Brolly though. His opinion is fact and that's it. He'll get a couple of newspaper columns out of it now in the next few weeks and he'll be happy enough.

I have watched the video numerous times and I think whilst clumsy McCann was going for the ball and for brolly to say it was premeditated is typical of the man.

I'm the same as most on here. Payne is the best FB in Irish Rugby at the minute and McCloskey the form centre... Why are we doing this?

Also Paddy Jackson not in the squad is scandalous!!

Agree on Payne and McCloskey. If Jackson isn't starting he's not gonna be on the bench. Whether he should be starting or not is another argument but I would like to see him given a couple of starts.

I think Wales by 7-10 points. Obviously I'm hoping not.

Just seen the Cavan team and it is a strong enough outfit and with conditions expected to get bad over next 24/36 hours then they will be a leveller and will suit the men in blue.

This maybe a lot tighter than people expect but I think we scrape him by 2 points - hopefully much more but a tight dogged affair wouldn't surprise me at all.

Get this man a column in the Irish news! Well called sir.