Ireland v Australia friendly

"They spend a lot of time training with each other", says Donal Lenihan about the Qantas Wallabies. 

Ireland have now beaten Australia and South Africa in the space of two weeks. They must surely be World Cup favourites now, as they were when they last beat Australia and South Africa in late 2006. 

ABFC wrote: What a friendly win

t_rAndy wrote: ABFC wrote: What a friendly win   Yes, great win on the back of the great win over South Africa. Proud Irishman this evening

2 great friendly wins. So proud

Its would mean something if 99% of the world either played or even knew about this poxy little game. Most pubs were showing united v arsenal anyway.

I like seeing Irish lads and ladies doing well in any sport

The irfu is not a proper irish team, they do not play under our flag or play our national anthemn. If the irfu were so successful why is the game hardly played outside of limerick or patches of south dublin. They will always have their support for their games but they will never ever catch the imagination or hearts of the irish people the way the football does no matter how much ryle nugent [xx(] or the indo pushes this small minority game.

nvidic wrote: moatehoop wrote: The irfu is not a proper irish team, they do not play under our flag or play our national anthemn. If the irfu were so successful why is the game hardly played outside of limerick or patches of south dublin. They will always have their support for their games but they will never ever catch the imagination or hearts of the irish people the way the football does no matter how much ryle nugent or the indo pushes this small minority game. The IRFU is an organisation, not a team hey do play under both our flag and play our anthem while in Ireland Sold out three friendlies, we can barely fill important qualifiers, need to looks at what they're doing right and what we can learn for them instead of constantly having a cut at them all the time

The irfu does not play under our flag or play our national anthem, they have the awful irelands call. They have great PR and friends in high media positions like ryle nugent pushing their interests. They have their loyal niche market but outside of this they have nothing. Much like their last world cup their will be little interest and a million miles from what occurs when the football lads qualify for a proper international sports finals.

Fierce amount of begrudgery with some lads when it comes to football v gaa or rugby. Open and broaden your minds lads you'd be surprised how better you'll feel about yourselves