6N - France v Ireland

[mariner4life]

@Machpants said in 6N - France v Ireland:

@akan004 said in 6N - France v Ireland:

Very average looking Irish backline.

Harsh
15 Hugo Keenan, 14 Calvin Nash, 13 Robbie Henshaw, 12 Bundee Aki, 11 James Lowe, 10 Jack Crowley, 9 Jamison Gibson-Park

Keenan is really good fullback and IMO their most dangerous back. Calling it average is really strange.

[mariner4life]

this is a pretty decent introduction to rugby for 2024 for M4L

[akan004]

@Machpants said in 6N - France v Ireland:

@akan004 said in 6N - France v Ireland:

Very average looking Irish backline.

Harsh
15 Hugo Keenan, 14 Calvin Nash, 13 Robbie Henshaw, 12 Bundee Aki, 11 James Lowe, 10 Jack Crowley, 9 Jamison Gibson-Park

Henshaw hasn't been good in a long time, Crowley is a huge step down from Sexton and Nash is unproven. Keenan, Aki and Gibson-Park are class of course. Perhaps not average but definitely weaker than what they have been fielding over the last few years.

[booboo]

No Mack Hansen?

[Catogrande]

@booboo

Injured

[booboo]

@Catogrande ta

[sparky]

Pumped for this. France to win by a single score.

[sparky]

Ireland with a lively start. Penalty right in front. 3-0 after 7 minutes.

[sparky]

Yellow card for Willemse and it's going to the bunker. That could easily be upgraded to a Red.

[sparky]

Game over after 8 minutes. Marseille crowd left silent.

[akan004]

Rugby sucks these days. Another yellow/red for an innocuous rugby incident.

[stodders]

@sparky Cane got a red for less. In a World Cup final.

[sparky]

@sparky said in 6N - France v Ireland:

Game over after 8 minutes. Marseilles crowd left silent.

@akan004 said in 6N - France v Ireland:

Rugby sucks these days. Another yellow/red for an innocuous rugby incident.

There needs to be something in between a Red and a Yellow Card. Otherwise no one will watch this game in ten years time.

[stodders]

@sparky there is. Red card, 20 mins without the player, then allow a new player to come on.

[Billy Tell]

A whole 10 minutes to get the bunker and a card. Plus ça change…

[sparky]

@stodders said in 6N - France v Ireland:

@sparky there is. Red card, 20 mins without the player, then allow a new player to come on.

But not in the Six Nations, other northern Hemisphere Rugby or the World Cup.

[stodders]

@sparky I’m sure the wailing will get louder the more red cards there are. They either move to a higher threshold for red cards, or they allow replacements for the dismissed players.

Outright thuggery can be dealt with via a very long ban.

Rugby needs to be 15 vs 15.

[sparky]

It remains a Yellow Card. Good news but it makes me wonder why Sam Cane got a Red Card in the World Cup Final?

[stodders]

Hahahahahahaha

[akan004]

It remains a yellow luckily but it's a fucking lottery. A different ref and it's a red.