[2025 Six Nations] Ireland vs France - 8/3/25

[BrokenWing]

Someone's had a drink

 

[Leonormous Boozer]

Irish fans are holier than thou about the Dupont injury when I know for a fact that had the roles been reversed, they would have been screaming blue murder. I'm not changing my opinion - it was a horrible clear-out and Ireland have been doing that kind of thing for years. It's dangerous play. Galthie comes across as bitter a fair bit of the time but on this occasion I agree with him. It was a cheap shot.

PSDT injured Sheehan's acl with a clear out that ended up off his feet and beyond the ruck and that didn't happen because the initial attempt at rucking was fair, so there you go, confidently wrong again.

You're seeing what you want to see (clearly, you obviously don't know better than an international referee, TMO and the world rugby citing commission, but some hubris to be fair). Dupont is the most protected player in the game, if there was anything remotely wrong with the incident it would have been penalised and punished accordingly.

Jealousy is a bad look.

 

[munstermuffin]

If we rewatch the incident. There is alot of mitigating factors.
1. Dupont originally was actually off feet and had knee on Dan Sheehan.
2. Dan Sheehan was in way legally and Dupont miscalculated that and became unbalanced due to that.
3. This is the most important point. The French 5 actually backed out which meant Porter drove Beirne but the French 5 retreated so actually it was the French 5 failure to protect his 9.
4. If someone can say it was deliberate then easy say they never played the game. Look at it from Beirne POV. Porther driving him full pelt. He can't control that. And Porter POV. He seen French 5 and has to drive so could have done nothing else.