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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Hans Moleman Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 02 Nov 2019 at 2:46pm
Originally posted by Claret Murph Claret Murph wrote:

Originally posted by deise316 deise316 wrote:

Can't be too long before we'll claim partial responsibility for this victory, with Rassie being an ex-Munster coach and Felix Jones working with SA as a coach. 

There's still far too many mismatches in the tournament as a whole in the group stages, maybe they should look at something like a 16 team tournament with the top 12 on a certain date (say 2 years out) qualifying automatically and have the rest engage in some class of 2 year qualifying campaign (format shouldn't really matter, there's loads to pick from) to get the last 4 spots. Wouldn't solve the huge disparity between teams in itself, but would make the tournament shorter and most of the games a little more meaningful. 






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It would be a far better tournament with 16 teams. You wouldn't have the nonsense 4 or 5 day turnarounds. You wouldn't have 5/6 teams of absolute fluff standard as you do in a 20 team tournament. 

The way the group stage is currently set up, you basically have 30 plus matches out of 40 that are absolutely meaningless. That is ridiculous stuff.

On this year's tournament, the one thing about South Africa winning it is that at least they fulfilled all of their fixtures in the tournament. Still an asterisk over the whole thing but at least NZ or England who managed to get a nice rest before the knockout stages didn't win it.
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congrats to SA, winners of the four nations trophy.
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South Africa are worthy winners.
Played their best match in the final and played all their fixtures.
I feel it was unfair England didnt have to play France. 

England have lost 3 finals now. Same as France.
The southern Hemisphere have now won 8 of the 9 world cups. 
The gap may be closing but they still win when it matters most.



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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote whitesideOnside Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 02 Nov 2019 at 8:38pm
Originally posted by deise316 deise316 wrote:

Can't be too long before we'll claim partial responsibility for this victory, with Rassie being an ex-Munster coach and Felix Jones working with SA as a coach. 

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So Wales South Africa was the real final after all 😀
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Originally posted by whitesideOnside whitesideOnside wrote:

Originally posted by deise316 deise316 wrote:

Can't be too long before we'll claim partial responsibility for this victory, with Rassie being an ex-Munster coach and Felix Jones working with SA as a coach. 


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Originally posted by whitesideOnside whitesideOnside wrote:

Originally posted by deise316 deise316 wrote:

Can't be too long before we'll claim partial responsibility for this victory, with Rassie being an ex-Munster coach and Felix Jones working with SA as a coach. 



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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote deise316 Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 03 Nov 2019 at 5:45am
Originally posted by whitesideOnside whitesideOnside wrote:

Originally posted by deise316 deise316 wrote:

Can't be too long before we'll claim partial responsibility for this victory, with Rassie being an ex-Munster coach and Felix Jones working with SA as a coach. 

Genuinely thought that d'Irish egg meeeja would leave at least a respectable 24 hours before attempting to shamelessly climb on the Sith Ifrican victory bandwagon, but I can only stand back and admire this example of journalistic line speed from Franno. Truly one of us. 


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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote irishmufc Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 03 Nov 2019 at 9:24am
Originally posted by deise316 deise316 wrote:

Originally posted by whitesideOnside whitesideOnside wrote:

Originally posted by deise316 deise316 wrote:

Can't be too long before we'll claim partial responsibility for this victory, with Rassie being an ex-Munster coach and Felix Jones working with SA as a coach. 

Genuinely thought that d'Irish egg meeeja would leave at least a respectable 24 hours before attempting to shamelessly climb on the Sith Ifrican victory bandwagon, but I can only stand back and admire this example of journalistic line speed from Franno. Truly one of us. 



His "Gold Standard" description of Irish Rugby in January didn't age well LOL

Of course he couldn't resist having a pop at football. 



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That’s brilliant! It is good to see some decent comedians coming through the ranks in Ireland, it has been a while.
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Drumcondra 69er Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 03 Nov 2019 at 9:54am
Originally posted by irishmufc irishmufc wrote:

Originally posted by deise316 deise316 wrote:

Originally posted by whitesideOnside whitesideOnside wrote:

Originally posted by deise316 deise316 wrote:

Can't be too long before we'll claim partial responsibility for this victory, with Rassie being an ex-Munster coach and Felix Jones working with SA as a coach. 

Genuinely thought that d'Irish egg meeeja would leave at least a respectable 24 hours before attempting to shamelessly climb on the Sith Ifrican victory bandwagon, but I can only stand back and admire this example of journalistic line speed from Franno. Truly one of us. 



His "Gold Standard" description of Irish Rugby in January didn't age well LOL

Of course he couldn't resist having a pop at football. 



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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote deise316 Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 09 Nov 2019 at 12:36am
One of the more interesting post-mortem theories here from retired Irish rugby pro Darren Cave. 

To summarise it, he believes Ireland's player welfare management (lads only playing in a certain amount of games before being rested) gives them an advantage in the 6N, which we generally do well in for the past decade. Come the RWC, 2 things happen, first, the rest of the teams have the same preparation/time together, catch up with Ireland preparation wise, so that advantage is neutralised,  and secondly, our players haven't enough experience of playing consecutive games in a row in a short period of time as players from other teams. 

Dunno if he is right or wrong, but he makes a reasonable argument anyway. 



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Originally posted by deise316 deise316 wrote:

One of the more interesting post-mortem theories here from retired Irish rugby pro Darren Cave. 

To summarise it, he believes Ireland's player welfare management (lads only playing in a certain amount of games before being rested) gives them an advantage in the 6N, which we generally do well in for the past decade. Come the RWC, 2 things happen, first, the rest of the teams have the same preparation/time together, catch up with Ireland preparation wise, so that advantage is neutralised,  and secondly, our players haven't enough experience of playing consecutive games in a row in a short period of time as players from other teams. 

Dunno if he is right or wrong, but he makes a reasonable argument anyway. 




Agree with that 100%
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