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<blockquote data-quote="Peat" data-source="post: 476206" data-attributes="member: 42330">From the outside looking in, as someone who&#039;s followed Irish rugby quite closely for the last couple of years - he has earned that trust, and he&#039;s spent the last couple of years using it up. 2009 was a fantastic year for Irish rugby; since then, the international game has floundered. Kidney&#039;s gameplan has not got the best out of the players, his selection choices have put far too much emphasis on who he&#039;s worked with and trusts over who&#039;s in form, and there have been poor results.There&#039;s not a lot of excuses if things go badly here. The Irish provinces are stronger than they have ever been as a collective, there are relatively few injuries, a lot of the other 6N teams are in a bad way... it&#039;s all set up for Ireland. Kidney hasn&#039;t really nailed himself to doing anything due to effectively picking a squad of 54, so we&#039;ll see where that goes, and how the results go - as really that&#039;s all he&#039;ll be judged on. But, to repeat myself, there are no excuses if they don&#039;t.Finally -&nbsp; if you think Irish fans here aren&#039;t fond of Kidney, wait until you see the rest of the net...</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Peat, post: 476206, member: 42330"] From the outside looking in, as someone who's followed Irish rugby quite closely for the last couple of years - he has earned that trust, and he's spent the last couple of years using it up. 2009 was a fantastic year for Irish rugby; since then, the international game has floundered. Kidney's gameplan has not got the best out of the players, his selection choices have put far too much emphasis on who he's worked with and trusts over who's in form, and there have been poor results. There's not a lot of excuses if things go badly here. The Irish provinces are stronger than they have ever been as a collective, there are relatively few injuries, a lot of the other 6N teams are in a bad way... it's all set up for Ireland. Kidney hasn't really nailed himself to doing anything due to effectively picking a squad of 54, so we'll see where that goes, and how the results go - as really that's all he'll be judged on. But, to repeat myself, there are no excuses if they don't. Finally - if you think Irish fans here aren't fond of Kidney, wait until you see the rest of the net... [/QUOTE]

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