It’s going to hurt for awhile - Ireland 2024

[BPM]

Frisch called up by France. Could be a missed opportunity for Ireland with McCloskey rumoured to be heading overseas.

 

[Leonormous Boozer]

Think McCloskey is locked in for next season (according to a couple of tweets I saw). Jamie Osbourne already ahead of Frisch, I reckon Frawley and Jimmy O'Brien are too. Connacht have a bit of a baller in Cathal Forde too who, whilst not at Frisch's level just yet, is 5 years younger and certainly not miles away.

He'd be a nice to have at most rather than need to have.

A lot of twitter having a go at Farrell and the IRFU but it's a French guy not good enough to get into recent Ireland squads going to, potentially, play for France. Let it develop and move on from there I think.

 

[munstermuffin]

To be fair at current time I think Frisch is a better 13 than all mentioned by a bit. Osborne has potential but needs to convert potential in to breaking in to squads. Jimmy O B and Frawley are ahead as centres but neither are 13s and I think the Frawley experiment may die soon.
Frisch is 27 and nice bridge too between young and old. Wheather we like it or not Aki, Henshaw and McCloskey will all be done in next 24 to 36 months.
On McCloskey he has another year but Ulster have offered an early release.

 

[Bada-Bing!]

Johnny Sexton: Former Ireland skipper Sexton could not be 'expected to ignore' Rieko Ioane jibe after RWC loss

Retired Ireland fly-half Johnny Sexton reveals what prompted his angry exchange with New Zealand's Rieko Ioane after his side's World Cup quarter-final defeat in Paris last year.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[TRF_Olyy]

Objectively hilarious, but the amount of Bok fans that have latched onto this online has actually got me considering siding with S*xton

 

[Leonormous Boozer]

Reiko making fun of Johnny on instagram, less impactful when Reiko has never sniffed at the level Johnny played at rather then getting one over in him in a game that his opposite number totally outplayed him.

I agree with most of what Johnny says, think the results since (and during) the WC show we're as good as SA and the run in before was better. Didn't win it though and I think it was a choke because of what was on the line. Saying what he did was always going to get a backlash.

Johnny spoke his mind though, always has, and don't think he cares one bit what people think about him. Comfortably a legend of the game.

 

[LeinsterMan (NotTigsMan)]

Ireland wasn't the best team at the tournament, it was the best team before and after but not during imo.