Rugby world cup post mortem

That could be true, but if it is he must even have less trust in Byrne, otherwise, he'd have had him on the bench in case Sexton got injured

I suppose we'll see, come the 6Ns which of the two he rates most.

Clearly didn’t rate him for that particular situation and went with the experienced player who had been there before.

Would not mean he didn’t rate him at all. Horses for courses etc

So you're now saying Byrne hadn't played for Ireland in over a year but he was out of the picture for yearS. Because you said years I assumed you meant this year too but Ross has been with Ireland since at least the Australia game last November.

As for relevance, Sexton has retired, I think Farrell will have to pick one of Byrne or Crowley to start our defence of the Grand Slam.

Nothing on the line? That Ulster game was a must win for Munster and a turning point in the season that went from us not qualifying for HCup, to bring top seeds and URC champions

You consider away.

You will never get an answer as to what might have happened.

The coach's made a decision.

It didn't cost us the game anymore than not taking Beirne off/ Ringrose not taking the right line/Conor Murray having a brainfart etc did.

You can waste your time fantasising about a result that makes your opinion correct, I am just going to accept we lost for a variety of reasons on the day and get on with it.

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I'd imagine good management is a constant learning process.

Now if only 'supporters' could accept that maybe their call is as likely to be fallible as it is to be be successful too. In fact given the paid professionals in possession of all the facts and info, didn't opt for it it is more likely to be the wrong option.

No, I just don’t think there is any evidence it was a wrong call. And none either that it was why we lost the game. We came close to winning it if you want a positive take on it. But I guess the negative has to be found.

I didn’t say anything about them being less of a supporter but I do think they are a type of supporter that is different to me.

So much focus on Sexton, when I'd put the larger factors contributing to our loss being poor play by our scrumhalves and the pack not performing. We let NZ dictate the physical battle in a way we didn't in the summer series. JGP really had a mare of a game unfortunately, some of the key moments of failure for us directly stemmed from him, which I hate to say.

Games like this are ones I wish we could hear from the team what the plan was going into the match. The cross kicks were an obvious tactic, that we were close to pulling off, but why have a forward looking to field them over a back? Why be so aggressive without an advantage and end up wasting field position?

We played poor. Park was poor. Doris wasn't very good. Imo and the back row failed to get on top. Factor in the line out pressure and the scrum problems and, there's the end result.