Irish Rugby Team working hard on their tans

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Michael

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Sorry, but here's my Rant...

After the first two performances in the World Cup the only thing I can surmise is that Irish Rugby Team have completely lost the hunger and are more interested in their tans. Both Namibia and Georgia were by far the hungrier in both matches and our lot looked like they had started months ago to believe their own hype.

I'll fall short of saying they have become a shower of Prima Donnas because they were never good enough for that title anyway. With all the time they spend on Advertsing Endorsements and "Personal Diary Newspaper Articles" the only time they seem to have left is spent working on their Tans. To be fair, it looks like they are working really hard in that area with some World Beaters to boot.

Donnacha O'Callaghan leads the way with a Deeper Tan than Lionel Blair. He is now roumored to be using Professional Tanning Oil,having discarded Factor 1, weeks ago. Ronan O'Gara is trying to match him but so far has only achieved a good Reddner. Feverish tanning is going on in the back row with Dennis Leamy only wearing his Scrum Cap indoors on practice days and only outdoors on Match Days. He forgot to wash the Tanning Oil off his hands last night and let everyhting slip through his hands. Are these men from Munster or Monte Carlo ? The pretty backline have got so used to being on their backs sunning themselves they can't take their eyes off the Sun during matches.

Even Eddie O'Sullivan is also getting too much sun. It seems to have penetrated his brain and distorted his tactical prowess as well as his post match assesments ("We stepped up a gear against Georgia"). The Lions job is looking precarious now, so get out of the Sun Eddie.

The only other suggestion I could have for the abysmal performances so far could be due to the "Curse of TV 3" and the lack of a good TV Rollicking from George Hook (but even that allegation would be too unfair to the TV3 amateurs).

No, the balme lays squarely with the players and the management. There is simply no passion and hunger. They are getting too much of the good life and assume that the Oxygen Tanks and Energy Enducing Rugby Jerseys would surely be enough to see them through. A good Ciaran Fitzgerald "Where's yer f***ing Pride" was required last night when things were going wrong but it seems the "Best spot Beside the Pool in the morning" was closer to their minds.

Unless they get off their backsides from tanning themselves and see the "real light" this whole thing will be over before the Argentina game.

Thats it.
 
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If tonights France -v Namibia game is anything to go by we are going to be thrashed next week.
 
It's the jerseys. The shade of green is too dark, and doesn't stir them like the traditional green does....
Well, as good a theory as any.
 
Ireland always play better when they're the underdog. Look at the 5/6 nations games of the past few years, they always just survive over Italy but seem to raise their game when it comes to the UK or France.

Give em a chance, they're only warming up (and getting nicely tanned in the process).

It's the munster influence, they've set themselves up to be underdogs for the next 2 games based on their performance.

Watch em raise their game.
 
ninsaga said:
Lets not forget one minor detail - they did actually manage to win both games!
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Barely and against two almost amateur no hopers. The one bit of light is France were still making mistakes galore last night. I wouldn't read too much into the scoreline. Namibia were down a man for most of the game.

As was mentioned if Stringer is named in the starting line up and Murphy is not, EOS should be fired.

In the end it's a moot point, South Africa and NZ (and possibly Australia) are all stronger and more deserving champions and will beat either France or Ireland.

The performance on Saturday was one of the most disappointing games I have ever seen.

Gordanus said:
who cares? it's only sport.
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Which begs the question, if you don't care why bother commenting on this thread?

Edit: The team was announced. Stringer out but Murphy dropped from the bench!
 
As professional rugby training friend mentioned on saturday night the whole Irish setup could be summed up with "Form is temporary, but selection is permanent".

Only now has Eddie The Spindoctor finally dropped a few players. Even then there are a couple more with big reputations that deserve a kick in the ass.
Then he also drops Murphy off the bench, what is that about ?

Now where can I get me hands on a few javelins to throw at Mr platinum card himself.
It's about time they started playing with a bit of effing pride.

And could they also start carrying the proper Irish flag, after all there was only one of our Northern friends on the team the other night. Anway I can't see our Northern friends being too bothered, they wouldn't want to be associated with the team anyway with the way they are playing these days.
 
jmayo said:
Now where can I get me hands on a few javelins to throw at Mr platinum card himself.
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Rog has been off form for a good while now, he is no where near the kicker he was a couple of years ago, but he' still our best option.
 
Purple said:
Rog has been off form for a good while now, he is no where near the kicker he was a couple of years ago, but he' still our best option.
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For all the hype about this team there are quiet a few areas that we do not have any proper player cover. One is front row of scrum and the other is outhalf.
We do not have an option for ROG since Humphreys retired.
That means no matter how bad he is playing there isn't much of an option.
Of course Eddie the spin uses that logic with all the other positions, even where there are options.

There are a few things down the years that have shown Eddie the Spin up as the wind bag he really is, the most noticable of these being the ommission of Trevor Brennan from Ireland squads,including so called development ones (that included players as old or older then him), while he was playing with French and European champions.
Of course the anti Brennan bunch loved it when TB did blow his top, they finally got evidence to back up the excuses for him being ommitted from Irish squads.

Obviously Murphy should now take it that his Irish career is over and might as well annouce his retirement from International rugby.
 
And could they also start carrying the proper Irish flag, after all there was only one of our Northern friends on the team the other night. Anway I can't see our Northern friends being too bothered, they wouldn't want to be associated with the team anyway with the way they are playing these days.[/quote]

I agree about our national flag and is it true that our national anthem is only played at rugby matches when our president is in attendance?

If so,

Can we ask our president to attend so that our players and supporters can sing our NATIONAL ANTHEM with pride and passion.

Every other nation sings theirs ...with gusto.
 
I thought Eddie's interview spoke volumes. His words were all "it was a big improvement on the Namibia game", but his body language was saying the total opposite. His jaw was fixed and his teeth girtted. He was FUMING and I couldn't believe he did so well to keep his composure. If you see that interview again you'll see what I mean.
 
I wonder would Eddie be betting so hard with his selections if he didnt have his new contract in his back pocket.

While I'm not a big rugby follower the demotion of Stringer & Murphy from the bench even seems very odd. Is he thinking - sure if we lose to France (which seems a bit inevitable at the moment) at least I wont be accused of shirking the hard decision.

Of course now that he's picked his squad he cant "unring that bell" !!
 
I wonder would a change of captain be for the good of the team because O'driscoll doesn't come across as leadership material. He is obviously a flair player, but from listening to him in interviews and watching the recent documentary i would suggest that he is not the person to lift the troups on the field or in the dressing room.
The obvious choice is Paul O'Connell who as it turns out has had a bad start to the WC but I would feel that more of the players would rally to his call than the current captain.

It is far too early to write this team off and it really says little about those who turn on them after a handful of poor games so soon after praising them to the rafters.

We are supporters so support them!
 
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