So the expected whitewash comes to pass, my goodness that's about as much of a shock as it was when New Zealand put a century on Portugal.
So who does the blame lie with, well certainly the coach must take the lions share, considering it was his devised gameplan that failed so miserably. Key players also must take the flak for their poor form, notably - Horan, O'Connell, O'Callaghan, Wallace, Leamy, O'Gara and Stringer yet only 1 of those players were dropped throughout the tournament, take another bow EOS. There is a lack of player depth but **** sake when it's obvious to a chimp that players should be dropped they should be feckin dropped.
As for the IRFU they shouldn't cop too much blame apart from giving EOS his contract extension which I don't care how much he protests to the contrary made EOS complacent.
Citing lack of match practice in the buildup is a cop out, key players were injured in the buildup so how could they play in these games. They must think we're gimps if we're expected to swallow this tripe.
That the players' form has improved drastically since the world cup, bar Horgan and Leamy, says it all for me and the IRFU want shooting for not sacking EOS straight away, the Welsh performance in France wasn't half as bad as ours yet Jenkins got the axe straight away. Take not Browne, the 2008 Six Nations is a lost cause but they've missed the boat in terms of recruiting a decent coach in the post world cup period and so we're left with the possibility of further embarassment in 2008 and more mediocrity coming in in the aftermath.
Happy days indeed to be an Irish rugby fan.
