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

[Ragey Erasmus]

HAHAHAHA x99
From you, this is f***n' hilarious. Open the other eye. You might see that this Ireland team aren't even halfway as good as they think they are.
Scraped past a misfiring England. Beat Scotland who didn't fire a shot. Taken to the wire by the woodenspooners and taken to the cleaners by France.
Ireland were poor. And that is their level.

Where is this coming from? Ireland have come down from their peak but they are still a very good side. Few teams maintain that level of performance and consistency for that long. They are having a bit of a bad patch but their bad patch is still good enough to have put them in contention for the ***le...

 

[Lé Ddanno]

HAHAHAHA x99
From you, this is f***n' hilarious. Open the other eye. You might see that this Ireland team aren't even halfway as good as they think they are.
Scraped past a misfiring England. Beat Scotland who didn't fire a shot. Taken to the wire by the woodenspooners and taken to the cleaners by France.
Ireland were poor. And that is their level.

There's some weird **** floating around here lately

 

[pagliaccio_euforico]

It's less Ireland is being favored and more that the top teams know refs don't want to blow their whistle so they take the **** with slowing the ball down.

 

[TW27BA]

Undoubtably the game of the weekend, every real rugby fan should just admire the way France went about this game. They were superb. Didn't falter after losing talisman Dupont, who incidentally was very unlucky. I highly doubt Beirne meant to cause that injury.
Ireland really missed Lowe and Hansen out wide. The two wingers in their place were both pretty poor. Prendergast will have better days, but he's young and will will remember that match. How he responds will be interesting. Looks like he needs to spend summer in the gym bulking up.
Rare for the Irish to be bullied in the pack but they were.
I still can't believe England beat this French side just a few weeks ago.

 

[saulan]

Edit: Forgot that we're all arrogant and unlikeable fans now which is a shame because we were just the best craic when we were ****.

 

[OllyM97]

Undoubtably the game of the weekend, every real rugby fan should just admire the way France went about this game. They were superb. Didn't falter after losing talisman Dupont, who incidentally was very unlucky. I highly doubt Beirne meant to cause that injury.
Ireland really missed Lowe and Hansen out wide. The two wingers in their place were both pretty poor. Prendergast will have better days, but he's young and will will remember that match. How he responds will be interesting. Looks like he needs to spend summer in the gym bulking up.
Rare for the Irish to be bullied in the pack but they were.
I still can't believe England beat this French side just a few weeks ago.

I'm sure a lot of my fellow English posters will disagree with this but, if we get 5 points against Wales, I'll be cheering for France against Scotland - I don't want us to scabbily sneak a Championship. We'd be one of the least deserving Champions of the 6N era. It would cover over so many cracks in this team and English rugby as a whole. Worst of all, it would validate Borthwick's style of play.

 

[g6mcg]

It's less Ireland is being favored and more that the top teams know refs don't want to blow their whistle so they take the **** with slowing the ball down.

Terrible coaching from the non-top teams if that were the case! Pushing the rules as far as you can is one of the key skills in rugby.

 

[Lé Ddanno]

Terrible coaching from the non-top teams if that were the case! Pushing the rules as far as you can is one of the key skills in rugby.

Why does everyone mispell "cheating like absolute ********"

 

[O’Doyle Rules]

Got humbled today when someone told me Ntamack is 25. Sam P isn't that young…pretty sure Ntamack was the business at 22.

 

[Ragey Erasmus]

I'm sure a lot of my fellow English posters will disagree with this but, if we get 5 points against Wales, I'll be cheering for France against Scotland - I don't want us to scabbily sneak a Championship. We'd be one of the least deserving Champions of the 6N era. It would cover over so many cracks in this team and English rugby as a whole. Worst of all, it would validate Borthwick's style of play.

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