If you look at the players who missed out Kearney (over a number of years) and Leavy (the last few months) have missed matches by dropping out at the last minute maybe it is naive of me to think that they are actually injured sometimes. Henshaw was supposedly going to be out for three months it is amazing that he is in contention at all. Sexton they called early in the week as being out and the indications are that he won't be back for this week either. Toner never misses games through injury but he is allowed to be injured he said he would be back this week. SOB is injured. Jack McGrath was available for selection but was not picked. Lowe is an NIQ who was suspended.deco wrote:You'd have to be very naive not to understand that Joe Schmidt & co have a direct hand in selections with both eyes on the six nations and the world cup - including for European games.OTT wrote:curates_egg wrote:
I really hope that, for a must-win game in Europe, we are not selecting players based on the precise minutes Joe Schmidt wants them to get and/or (for the second week in a row) not playing front line players we need.
Where is your source that we didn’t play frontline players that we needed last week? Who was fit that they rested for Ireland? Don’t quote Lancaster either because he did not say we were resting fit players.
Maybe I am naive and everything is a conspiracy.