Six Nations 2022 - France v Ireland, 12/02/22, KO 4.45pm - Virgin Media 1, ITV

ireland such a soft team, learning from today is we will get mullered in a quather final

Oh dear jaysus. We scuttered our only chance with keeping the ball in hand with just kicking it away within the last minute by handing the match & the GS over to the French. It feels very humiliating to lose out like that when Ireland were within one try & conversion to close out the overall result.

It wasn't our game to take hold of when France scored the 1st try. At that point on; Ireland felt like that it was a game to be tested when the pressure was heaped on when a lot of that intensity that was brewing from the very start.

We lost our last throw 5 metres out from the French line. It was the percentage call. In hindsight we should have made the line kick, but the last 15 of the game showed that we were getting the upper hand on France. We probably anticipated that we'd have one more chance to attack.

That 2 minutes span of aimless kicking right after the penalty score killed our momentum. Murray should have been roared at to play the ball.

So should Carbery start next game even if Sexton is fit? Good performance, France are beatable, can someone else do us a favour?

Kick to corner was the only sensible option. We were 6 behind. We needed a try (for the win) whatever way you looked at it.

Unless they were happy with the draw. Which is a possibility.

No, not at the Sextons level, unfortunately. We really need to sort his replacement out, Carthy needs a shot.

We put ourselves in a position to win it and didn’t take it, nobody said anything about hammering France.

They were very good in defense, but were massively helped by what Gardner was letting them away with.

A stinker, a couple of nice moments but a hell of a lot wrong. He did tackle his heart out but it was a very poor performance overall.

Him Conan and JGP had poor games.

A lot of errors all over the field.

Furlong, Beirne, VdF went well. Was reasonably happy with Joey to be honest, did well behind a beaten team.

If Sexton or POM were on the field that penalty would have been punted to the corner. Need to fine some new leadership before the next WC. Ryan had a good game but not sure about him as captain.

Box kicking is an integral core set piece of the modern game; not a hope of it being stopped.

As regards Gibson Park not being up to the level, a cursory 3 second look at the scrum half pool in Ireland that can't get near the squad these days shows how poorly considered this viewpoint is.

I'd like to see us use Coombes v Italy also. Even if Conan and Doris stay ahead of him in the pecking order we need to have that option of having a heavy carrying no.8 alà Stander for days like today.

France had more composure than us at key moments, that ultimately was the difference. Maybe with an eye to the RWC this isnt a bad thing, atleast we cant be accused of peaking 18 months out.

The french front row sure enjoyed their Irish carvery.

french were a different class , same old failings from us, bottled it at the start of game and took too much time to reel them in.

penalty with 7 to go was right call as ref was starting to ping the french for slowing down ruck ball (didn’t bother pinging them for 65 mins) Thought we would get back up the field after that and apply more pressure.

sobering thing was french were nothing special and made a lot of errors in 3rd quarter.

carberry went well , nothing spectacular but at the centre of everything positive, Sheehan was very impressive. Too many others failed to live up-to the media hype.

Personal abuse? I called you a wonder. Hardly personal abuse.

Sexton can't catch other guys fumbles. Errors cost us today not the lack of Sexo.