Ireland Team Talk XII: Farrell's First Fifteen

pickarooney

Ox would surely start and any of the SA tightheads would most likely as well.

nerd69

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122327198#Comment_122327198

Props are hard. Porter and furlong are class like but its possibly a style thing

50HX

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122327104#Comment_122327104

Ditto, I think it will be a hum dinger of a match, brutally physical, hope we get out of these tests without any significant injury

All quiet in the irish camp, bodes well but home advantage might just swing it, roll on Saturday

techdiver

I'm thinking this could be a bad tour for Ireland. I worry that we will be handily brushed aside. The players look to be on the decline since the world cup and I can't see how a team mostly made up of players that had another failed year for Leinster can muster the performance required to play South Africa in their back yard.

I reckoned post World Cup that we'd have a bad year and if we look at the 6 nations objectively we were poor overall and France were a shambles in the first game which papered over the cracks in my mind. All performances post the France game were poor. I think the real regression will start to become evident this weekend.

I really hope I'm way off the mark but I haven't felt this negative since the end of the EOS and Kidney reins.

Clo-Clo

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122327085#Comment_122327085

The local charity asked him for money and he wouldn't donate to them, based on that he is average