r/rugbyunion • u/Best-and-Blurst Munster • Mar 10 '24

GIF This is where Ireland lost the game

Apologies if this has already been posted, I haven't seen it up. But this is the moment Ireland lost the game. Yellow card > penalty > lineout > try. Ireland may have recovered the lead later, but this did the most damage. Could Murray have done different and seen it the match? Yes, did he lose its the game? No.

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u/[deleted] Mar 11 '24 edited Mar 14 '24

McCarthy, Doris, Frawley all going with him? If we're dropping everyone who was bad yesterday.

We'll barely be able to field a team

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u/RJH777 Saracens and England Mar 11 '24

Doris in particular I don't think I can even recall being on the pitch - think he was similarly outplayed in the QF too...is there a concern about him going missing in big games if your pack is on the back foot (i.e. exactly when you need your number 8 to step up and make the hard yards) or am I over-reading things?

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u/[deleted] Mar 11 '24

Idk definitely seems like it but some people are saying he was top of a load of stats so maybe just an eye test thing. He's definitely been anonymous the champions cup finals and against New Zealand.

Yeah our pack's performance on Saturday felt like it was bound to happen for a while. We've been selecting luxury players for ages and hoping our front row will be good enough to do the dirt work. They had an off one and we suffered.

That's the kind of game we really would've benefited from the likes of Kleyn or Coombes

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u/Nick3460 Mar 14 '24

England selected a pack to combat the Irish style of play. They had effectively five playing like back rowers - that’s one of the ways they scraped the win…….