I was just talking about this yesterday, they seem to loom far too large in our psyche. We draw with them when we should be winning and never beat them comfortably. We dont seem to have a mental block about winning well against England (2007, 2018 for examples) but struggle against far less impressive French teamsneiliog93 wrote:Irish people and the Irish media have an incredible habit of overhyping France. They have some good individuals and are under-performing relative to their talent levels, fair enough. They could be coached better.
But examples of players who just aren't as good as people say they are include Poirot, Vahamaahina (duuurrr), Parra, Lopez, FIckou, Ntamack (yet) and others. How many would make an Irish team?...Guirado and Picamoles in the starting team and maybe Dupont and Penaud on the bench. Bastareaud would have a shout if we wanted to play a boshing game in the centres.
If they turn up here next month and play like they did yesterday we should absolutely fillet them, but we probably wont
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