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<blockquote data-quote="An Tarbh" data-source="post: 251908">&lt;div class=&#039;quotetop&#039;&gt;QUOTE (Teh Mite @ Mar 18 2009, 07:37 PM) <a href="http://index.php?act=findpost&amp;pid=385240" target="_blank">&lt;{POST_SNAPBACK}&gt;</a>&lt;/div&gt;Apart from Maggs instead of D&#039;Arcy, how far off was that really?Regardless, they were still playing a hell of a lot better while winning a lot more convincingly.[/b]</blockquote>2005 was by far the worst year under Eddie O&#039;Sullivan in terms of year long performance, D&#039;Arcy was a huge loss given that he&#039;d been player of the tournament the previous year and had struck up a great partnership with O&#039;Driscoll who was only half fit after he picked up the hamstring injury in Rome, Horgan was also missing and Dempsey being played on the wing was another of O&#039;Sullivan&#039;s retarded ideas as was picking O&#039;Connor despite the fact that he was a penalty machine. Corrigan was past it by then and O&#039;Callaghan should have been in the team as well, so no not really the best selection from Eddie that day. Only finishing 3rd in the Six Nations and getting a hiding from NZ and Australia, admittedly while key players were injured, was a pathetic effort and the rugby we were playing was nowhere near as good as we&#039;ve played this season. Stuttering to a win in Italy, performing against a hopeless Scottish side and only getting a 6 point win against a hapless England side was all we managed in 2005, I wouldn&#039;t call that convincing.[/QUOTE]

[QUOTE="An Tarbh, post: 251908"] <div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Teh Mite @ Mar 18 2009, 07:37 PM) [url='index.php?act=findpost&pid=385240']<{POST_SNAPBACK}>[/url]</div> Apart from Maggs instead of D'Arcy, how far off was that really? Regardless, they were still playing a hell of a lot better while winning a lot more convincingly. [/b][/quote] 2005 was by far the worst year under Eddie O'Sullivan in terms of year long performance, D'Arcy was a huge loss given that he'd been player of the tournament the previous year and had struck up a great partnership with O'Driscoll who was only half fit after he picked up the hamstring injury in Rome, Horgan was also missing and Dempsey being played on the wing was another of O'Sullivan's retarded ideas as was picking O'Connor despite the fact that he was a penalty machine. Corrigan was past it by then and O'Callaghan should have been in the team as well, so no not really the best selection from Eddie that day. Only finishing 3rd in the Six Nations and getting a hiding from NZ and Australia, admittedly while key players were injured, was a pathetic effort and the rugby we were playing was nowhere near as good as we've played this season. Stuttering to a win in Italy, performing against a hopeless Scottish side and only getting a 6 point win against a hapless England side was all we managed in 2005, I wouldn't call that convincing. [/QUOTE]

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