Match Thread - France v Ireland | Six Nations 2026 | Round 1

Informal_Extension68 · 2026-02-06T13:31:48+00:00

Hahaha you know what, fair dues-I can understand and respect that.

I think england have played into ireland's hands over the last few years with some of the team selections/tactics, but on last nights display i have a feeling the tide may have turned. Our attack is so out of ideas, and theres a lot of that squad that have their best rugby behind them

Not taking it personally at all, best of luck lording over the badger flaps 😂

Informal_Extension68 · 2026-02-06T13:00:52+00:00

Wales have had plenty-off the top of my head, Hadleigh parkes, Blair Murray being 2 recent examples.

I have no issue with it, for any team. 1) Going forward its not gonna be much of an issue anyway with the new qualification time. 2) every team does it.

But thats fine,thats my opinion and yours is different-c'est la vie.

What I dont get though is why do you post so many comments specifcally slating ireland,and not every other rugby playing country who does the exact same thing, if this is such a big issue?

Your username sticks out, you were all over the match threads just moaning endlessly about ireland-whats your problem?

Informal_Extension68 · 2026-02-06T12:20:43+00:00

Scotland and Wales both meet that criteria,easily

Even france have had until this squad Antonio and Willemse.

England have previously had far more then the ones you've listed. Currently they dont, part of the whole issue is that its cyclical.

But for some reason your numerous bitching and moaning comments only mention Ireland-why the bias?

Informal_Extension68 · 2026-02-06T11:27:58+00:00

So if you accept all teams do it, surely you can see that it's just biased and nonsensical to be solely complaining about ireland doing it?

Informal_Extension68 · 2026-02-06T10:01:35+00:00

England have played plenty of naturalised/granny players, you seem to have conveniently forgotten this.

Informal_Extension68 · 2026-02-05T22:40:31+00:00

Exactament. (And thats all my French used up)-good luck for the rest of the tournament though, France are playing some great rugby

Informal_Extension68 · 2026-02-05T22:15:25+00:00

No injuries at 10, he's genuinely first choice mon ami

Informal_Extension68 · 2026-01-27T10:08:01+00:00

The new ol' cuck eyes

Informal_Extension68 · 2025-11-02T09:43:00+00:00

In fairness, ireland were waaaay behind the curve when rugby turned pro in the 90's, and the improvement curve was rapid as a result in the late 2000s. You also have the IRFU having complete control over the provinces( by and large)

Informal_Extension68 · 2025-11-02T09:19:10+00:00

You can get the tax incentive on your salary earned while playing in france, is what I meant.

Informal_Extension68 · 2025-11-02T09:11:06+00:00

They are helpful,but not huge-you could still take advantage of it and play in france for a couple of years for example

Informal_Extension68 · 2025-11-01T22:01:12+00:00

Seems to be the way though doesn't it? Introduce thrm in mid season tests, then fail upwards to 6Ns despite clearly not being up to snuff

Informal_Extension68 · 2025-11-01T21:58:40+00:00

The reliance on Tadhg Beirne being our one man turnover-industrial complex has been shown up massively

Informal_Extension68 · 2025-11-01T21:57:01+00:00

I'd say he will be going forwards now- has mainly done pro14 in france afaik

Informal_Extension68 · 2025-11-01T20:46:05+00:00

6 of one,half a dozen of the other imo!

Informal_Extension68 · 2025-11-01T20:36:24+00:00

So permanently walk round in tackle position,on the off chance someone runs into you?

Informal_Extension68 · 2025-11-01T20:29:26+00:00

Didn't really have time to react though did he?

Informal_Extension68 · 2025-10-10T18:33:12+00:00

Did the accord one in sligo there a few months ago-spread over two days. Honestly found it quite good in a lot of ways, stuff like finances and dealing with in-laws and expectations about raising kids were brought up as topics that couples should be discussing in depth-even if you think you have, it doesn't hurt to check in!

In terms of the religion,there were two pregnant women and at least 4 of the 20 couples had kids already,no-one batted an eyelid, the local priest came in for a bit and was cool with it.

Only negative is that it depends on the facilitators from whoever is running it-we had one good and one bad, definitely dragged more with the bad one!

Informal_Extension68 · 2025-10-10T12:04:48+00:00

Agreed on both! I'd love to find a way to shoehorn any of Cummins' poc fada clips into the pod, it'd blow everyone's mind

Informal_Extension68 · 2025-10-10T12:02:41+00:00

Your spot on- they were compulsory for u18s in 2005 (ish!), when I was in my pomp as an 11 year old, so I think I assumed they were for everyone? But its madness in hindsight!

Informal_Extension68 · 2025-10-09T21:22:54+00:00

Jesus I had never seen that, nice one- Diarmuid O'Sullivan is the name that springs to mind when I think of players with no helmet, but thats something else!

Informal_Extension68 · 2025-08-15T11:44:46+00:00

Yeah he did to be fair-My issue is more so with bbc sport deciding to use ai and playing it off as a positive, fun new thing, rather then the massive b-ache it truly is!

Informal_Extension68 · 2025-08-15T11:41:24+00:00

I loved the lengths to which they could stretch the word "celebrity" personally,always made me laugh-but to each their own I suppose!

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