Wales v Ireland Feb 4 ‘23 6 Nation

lawrencesummers

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120187460#Comment_120187460

No and yes.

Musicrules

Garland has been a torn in our side for a long time but we should be beating that Welsh team. And beat them comfortably. 10+ point win. We have to get used to being hot favourites for matches. Show we can handle the expectation and pressure. Ireland 37 Wales 12 is my call.

stephen_n

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120188682#Comment_120188682

There’s a difference between handling a realistic expectation and handling a fantasy. Apart from Italy, it’s very rare for any team to lose at home by more than 10 points. Let alone by 25 points. The majority of 6N matches are close affairs.

Musicrules

Oh yeah, the expectation is we should win. Anything less will be an unexpected and poor result. I was just giving my prediction which is that I think we'll destroy them.

Cosmo Kramer

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120183378#Comment_120183378

Well called in fairness, other than that he didn't even make it to the warm up.

Because the originally picked team just wasn't Warrenball enough...

theVersatile

15. Hugo Keenan (Leinster/UCD) 25 caps

14. Mack Hansen (Connacht) 8 caps

13. Garry Ringrose (Leinster/UCD) 47 caps

12. Stuart McCloskey (Ulster/Bangor) 9 caps

11. James Lowe (Leinster) 15 caps

10. Johnny Sexton (Leinster/St Mary’s College) 109 caps (c)

9. Jamison Gibson Park (Leinster) 23 caps

1. Andrew Porter (Leinster/UCD) 48 caps

2. Dan Sheehan (Leinster/Lansdowne) 13 caps

3. Finlay Bealham (Connacht/Buccaneers) 27 caps

4. Tadhg Beirne (Munster/Lansdowne) 36 caps

5. James Ryan (Leinster/UCD) 48 caps

6. Peter O’Mahony (Munster/Cork Constitution) 89 caps

7. Josh van der Flier (Leinster/UCD) 45 caps

8. Caelan Doris (Leinster/St Mary’s College) 23 caps

Replacements:

16. Rob Herring (Ulster/Ballynahinch) 31 caps

17. Cian Healy (Leinster/Clontarf) 121 caps

18. Tom O’Toole (Ulster/Ballynahinch) 4 caps

19. Iain Henderson (Ulster/Academy) 68 caps

20. Jack Conan (Leinster/Old Belvedere) 33 caps

21. Conor Murray (Munster/Garryowen) 100 caps

22. Ross Byrne (Leinster/UCD) 4 caps

23. Bundee Aki (Connacht/Galwegians) 41 caps

Shehal

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120191663#Comment_120191663

Surprised he sprung it this early...to be fair I think we all expected it to be during the warm up so maybe now there's an element of surprise...

(Conveniently this changed name roughly around the time Ireland name their XV...)

Lil Fred

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120191706#Comment_120191706

Bench looks very odd. Who is full back cover? Why isn’t Larmour on bench?

Lost Ormond

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120191939#Comment_120191939

Hansen i assume is full back cover. I wouldnt call it very odd and there is plenty of versatility within the team that any change wouldnt require too many positional switches

Zzippy

Hansen has played fullback lately for Connacht, presumably at the request of Andy Farrell. No worries about him there if he has to fill in

Zzippy

Mod: Closing this thread so we don't have two duplicate match threads.