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It's points, then tries, then just a tie*.

* = I'm pretty sure it is, anyway.

Nice wee touch by the FIR's marketing team for their team's presentation.

Are they that desperate to shoe horn McLeans boot into the team? He is not a good 12.

Big D wrote:Are they that desperate to shoe horn McLeans boot into the team? He is not a good 12.

I guess so if they play Canna at ten.

Unofficial reports suggest 6N will be cut to 6 weeks

while for years i was a fan of 5 week tournament, all this will do is give England and France an advantage and make it almost impossible for italy, Scotland to win and bloody hard for ireland and Wales .

The rest weeks are key to prevent guys getting seriously hurt,

whatisthejava wrote:Unofficial reports suggest 6N will be cut to 6 weeks

while for years i was a fan of 5 week tournament, all this will do is give England and France an advantage and make it almost impossible for italy, Scotland to win and bloody hard for ireland and Wales .

The rest weeks are key to prevent guys getting seriously hurt,

I assume this will mean one "rest" week?

Our non Scottish based guys play on the off weeks already. I am not sure this will be a major change. It might mean in the block of 3 games they take it a bit lighter during what would normally be their heavy days training (the Tue/Wed).

Cutting it to 5 weeks would be bonkers.

Post Match Awards, Wales v. Ireland..

Categories..

Most authentic feigned injury after high ball collision.
Highest number of gestures to touch judge re. where ball crosses touch.
Most appeals for yellow card after penalty award.
Most time wasted on own scrum put in.
Most time wasted on opposition scrum put in. (Silver Trophy)
Highest number of players beyond offside line at ruck.
Longest time spent lying unpenalised in offside position at ruck.(Irish RFU award)
Highest number of undetected forward passes. (Welsh RFU award)
Highest number of opposition players blocked or tackled without ball.(Gold award)

Finally, the Public phone vote. Which player would YOU most like to see throttled at the bottom of a ruck..?
Nominees.. C. Murray, D.Biggar, L.Willams, K.Earls, R.Webb.

Hosted by the nation`s favourite comic.. Eddie Jones.

There's clearly been some directive to just not bother with forward passes anymore, I guess to catch up with the SH.

I'm not sure a ruck could be big enough to choke Earls, bigger and Sexton.

Hoping for a Wales win .. 8 points clear maybe... so the Irish can destroy the English in the last game...

Ireland for me, the bulk of my family are Irish, it'd be rude not to.

Want to see Wales sort themselves out though.

Think this will be a good game.

Edinburgh in Exile wrote:Ireland for me, the bulk of my family are Irish, it'd be rude not to.

Want to see Wales sort themselves out though.

Think this will be a good game.

If we win tomorrow... big if... an Ireland win does nothing good for us.

BTW... state of the pitch despite the roof being closed lol. Intentional? It looks pretty damn slippery.

How does anyone still let Sexton get away with that wrap-around move?

It's practically Ireland's only move.

If you nominated a man to get in behind that pivot every time I feel like you'd have done half the job.

F*ck me. I'd rather take Hogg as the last line of defence over Kearney now... He's just been bounced off a tackle by North and then Williams no more than 30 seconds apart.

Mikey Brown wrote:How does anyone still let Sexton get away with that wrap-around move?

It's practically Ireland's only move.

If you nominated a man to get in behind that pivot every time I feel like you'd have done half the job.

They're incredibly predictable & boring to watch on the attack but it works and they score tries. Job done.

CJ stander... holy f*ck... Surely nailed on for the Lions test team.

Yeah Stander is a beast.

And well done Barnes.

hugh_woatmeigh wrote:CJ stander... holy f*ck... Surely nailed on for the Lions test team.

He's superb.

Yeah, that wrap around for Sexton is indeed heavley telegraphed these days, but if you attack from deep enough, there isn't a defence in the world that is quick enough to get near enough to mess with it. As you say, it works.

That was a cracking pass from Webb.

Why does Kearney look like he's running in treacle? He is that slow?

hugh_woatmeigh wrote:Why does Kearney look like he's running in treacle? He is that slow?

He's never been lighting, that and that pitch is looking very heavy for some reason.

North "back with a vengeance" because of 1 decent finish? Sigh.

This is brilliant. Ireland will surely stomp England next week... all we have to do is win tomorrow...

hugh_woatmeigh wrote:This is brilliant. Ireland will surely stomp England next week... all we have to do is win tomorrow...

Not sure about that if Murray is buggered. What a player.