Ireland v France - The 6N decider

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With such a strong points advantage if Ireland can just win in Paris then the Championship is there's. Now it's never been a happy hunting ground for Ireland - can they do it?

I think it's there year and I'm going to say yes.

Well done Ireland

Notch wrote:

mystiroakey wrote:

Notch wrote:Does anyone know if there are any medical consequences for holding your breath for 10 minutes straight? Would be good if you got back to me on this. Cheeeeers.

you die

That explains why I'm in Heaven then!!!!   

good stuff. enjoy the tourny win.

You deserved it.

Congratulations Ireland - a close hard fought victory.

Well done ireland but Walsh has just shafted France. At the scrum it should of been a penalty and Walsh even moved his arm to start to signal for it. France had the ball but it should of been advantage.

Healy should be looking at a citing, it's that sort of stuff you guys moan at about Farrell.

On the otherhand, well done ireland - its a great ending for bod

Notch wrote:Does anyone know if there are any medical consequences for holding your breath for 10 minutes straight? Would be good if you got back to me on this. Cheeeeers.

Brain damage?

Well done Ireland, and France too for a very exciting end to the Six Nations. Right down to the last few seconds. Commiserations England. Close again, but at least you're building well to the World Cup.

Enjoy the celebrations Irish fans and St Patrick's Day.

BOD MOTM too.

Well done Ireland - should have won more comfortably if Sexton kicked better.

Slightly disappointed that BOD didn't get a try to finish it all. It would have been rather fitting.

Despite not being as good as England at HQ, Ireland stuck at it manfully and although they had a bit of luck are deserving champions doing what we couldn't and not letting France score their customary try in the last minute or two.

Great send off for BOD.

Can you get tanker loads of Guinness in Paris?

Should have been a slam

Amazing. That's the best, better than the 09 slam.

BOD - what a legend, there are no words   

WELL-PAST-IT wrote:That should have been a penalty France, stood up in the scrum and then all  off their feet at the ruck / maul on the France side.

No, it should have been a penalty to Ireland as France pushed early. So close yet so far away for England again, but a good tournament win for Ireland though .

Well done Ireland.

Yessssssssssssss, thank you Ireland!!!!!!!!

Well done Ireland.

Your physicality, aggression and game management was a cut above every team this 6N's. And Schmidt was such a profound difference to the side.

Still England are the best team as we beat you...   

WELL-PAST-IT wrote:Despite not being as good as England at HQ, Ireland stuck at it manfully and although they had a bit of luck are deserving champions doing what we couldn't and not letting France score their customary try in the last minute or two.

Great send off for BOD.

Can you get tanker loads of Guinness in Paris?

Glad England didn't win it as it wouldn't have been right.

Well played Ireland, probably just about deserved it and a fitting end for BOD.

If England couldn't win it then I'm more than happy to see Ireland take the title as they have been a credit to the game this six nations and so have the Irish fans.

Well done

Stop cutting them onions beside me

Sometimes fairy tales do come true!

They gave him man of the match, I thought the likes of O'Connell and Trimble would have been in line for that honour if it wasn't BODs last ever game but who the hell cares!!!

Brian O'Driscoll, I man love you, enjoy your retirement you legend!

It's great to see Sexton up as well, looked really bad

Congrats Ireland!

Shame France could quite finish that off and do England a favour but deserved winners.

Great game.

Side with the best defence won the championship. That's what it's all about in the 6Ns

Really happy for all the Irish posters here.

Congratulations guys. Well done.

Notch wrote:It's great to see Sexton up as well, looked really bad

Yeah, he looked pretty much down and out... glad he made it to the Winner's podium.

Hurling on now fellas....   

From what I saw you could argue that fat B should have been MoTM, which is something you wont hear very often.

Well done Ireland,

Some of those Frenchmenm were completely f....d for that last ten minutes.

For mine excellant games by Connor Murray and Jonathan Sexton and Steve Walsh.

I thought Basteraud was definitely MotM.

Great game by the chubby one. Best game I've seen him have in ages. Serious workrate too.

What a tournament, well done Ireland

England, commiserations on finished second. I thought you were amazing this tournament and your future is very bright.

Wow 6N champions, going to be drunk for a week

Moore coming in for Ross almost cost Ireland the win...

Still well done Ireland, by far the best team in the tournament and should have won or at least draw against England. Very happy for the likes of BOD, POC and Heaslip...

That said, i think McCarthy or Ryan should have been there instead of Toner.

These new scrum laws have really suited Ross! He has never scrummaged better.

Cyril wrote:I thought Basteraud was definitely MotM.

Great game by the chubby one. Best game I've seen him have in ages. Serious workrate too.

very much so, i think they gave it bod because it was his last game which i think personally is a little wrong - but hey, at the end of the day its a motm award.

Biltong, when do we play you next, I would like to see just how good our physicality is in the run up to the RWC. If we can match SA I will be very happy.

I think Ireland and England have upped their game to the extent that they can complete, but would like to see if it they can match SA. We know we can compete at that level with Aus and NZ

Well done Ireland. Great game!

nathan wrote:

Cyril wrote:I thought Basteraud was definitely MotM.

Great game by the chubby one. Best game I've seen him have in ages. Serious workrate too.

very much so, i think they gave it bod because it was his last game which i think personally is a little wrong - but hey, at the end of the day its a motm award.

Man of the Series is the big one anyway.

That one's got Mike Brown written all over it

WELL-PAST-IT wrote:Biltong, when do we play you next, I would like to see just how good our physicality is in the run up to the RWC. If we can match SA I will be very happy.

I think Ireland and England have upped their game to the extent that they can complete, but would like to see if it they can match SA. We know we can compete at that level with Aus and NZ

In November mate, you guys don't like to play in SA.  

I thought Sexton was a pretty good bet for MOTM too. If France stick with that pack there's a chance they can improve upon their performances in the past 3 tournaments which have been urine poor.

LeinsterFan4life wrote:These new scrum laws have really suited Ross! He has never scrummaged better.

He is a strange one, pretty inconsistent but when he is on he really is on, ask Domingo...

aucklandlaurie wrote: Well done Ireland,

Some of those Frenchmenm were completely f....d for that last ten minutes.

For mine excellant games by Connor Murray and Jonathan Sexton  and Steve Walsh.

Laurie, you are joking I hope. He was his usual self, awful.

Yeah it would be a travesty if Brown didn't get it- Sexton was the real MOTM against Italy and Trimble was the real MOTM today but couldn't care less. We'll never see his like again.

Cyril wrote:

nathan wrote:

Cyril wrote:I thought Basteraud was definitely MotM.

Great game by the chubby one. Best game I've seen him have in ages. Serious workrate too.

very much so, i think they gave it bod because it was his last game which i think personally is a little wrong - but hey, at the end of the day its a motm award.

Man of the Series is the big one anyway.

That one's got Mike Brown written all over it

I am excited about Irelands win but I do have to say that Mike Brown has been the player of the tournament, closely followed by Danny Care.

Congratulations Ireland, when that scrum went I thought penalty but France got the ball so they rightly carried on. But when the French player went into contact it was clear he was too upright. What a way to end the game. Congratulations again.

Biltong wrote:

WELL-PAST-IT wrote:Biltong, when do we play you next, I would like to see just how good our physicality is in the run up to the RWC. If we can match SA I will be very happy.

I think Ireland and England have upped their game to the extent that they can complete, but would like to see if it they can match SA. We know we can compete at that level with Aus and NZ

In November mate, you guys don't like to play in SA.  

Too much sun, sea and sand for us, plus it gets above freezing every now and again.

Mind you we are going a bit further south this summer, some place full of Hobbits and mountains. How can Hobbits forma decent rugby team.

They called us Orks a few years ago, what should we call them now.

Biltong, Well-past-it is English and we're willing to come down and have our asses handed to ourselves (although it's the last game that's important..and that was a draw I think )

WELL-PAST-IT wrote:

Biltong wrote:

WELL-PAST-IT wrote:Biltong, when do we play you next, I would like to see just how good our physicality is in the run up to the RWC. If we can match SA I will be very happy.

I think Ireland and England have upped their game to the extent that they can complete, but would like to see if it they can match SA. We know we can compete at that level with Aus and NZ

In November mate, you guys don't like to play in SA.  

Too much sun, sea and sand for us, plus it gets above freezing every now and again.

Mind you we are going a bit further south this summer, some place full of Hobbits and mountains. How can Hobbits forma decent rugby team.

They called us Orks a few years ago, what should we call them now.

Trolls?

nooooo.....

Congratulations Ireland by the way.

Hammer, not literally I hope. Sounds very camp.

What are you going to do now you are BODless, D'Arcy also needs to hang up his int. boots. Have you got competent replacements? BOD is pretty irreplaceable.

Will we ever see such magnificence again? Has there been better in any era? Hopefully I'll continue to have the privilege of seeing him at Leinster for the rest of the season.

Hats off to Gordon D'arcy's beard.

The Big Question no one is asking is, will Darce shave his beard off now? I should think so. Charity job Id reckon.


Champions. Oh ja.

No, not literally. Although the last few times we played them they were so physically dominating they could have if they wanted too. Although I think (hope) England's pack has improved to the point they can compete with SA now. But we'll see how we get with the kiwi's first.

HammerofThunor wrote:Biltong, Well-past-it is English and we're willing to come down and have our asses handed to ourselves (although it's the last game that's important..and that was a draw I think )

Oh sorry, I thought he is Irish, we haven't seen those boys in SA for a decade. Our last game was a win at Twickenham mate.   

Usual Healy thuggerry - hope he gets a ban.

Biltong wrote:

HammerofThunor wrote:Biltong, Well-past-it is English and we're willing to come down and have our asses handed to ourselves (although it's the last game that's important..and that was a draw I think )

Oh sorry, I thought he is Irish, we haven't seen those boys in SA for a decade. Our last game was a win at Twickenham mate.   

  

Congratulations Ireland - a well deserved championship win and great send off for BOD.

HammerofThunor wrote:

Biltong wrote:

HammerofThunor wrote:Biltong, Well-past-it is English and we're willing to come down and have our asses handed to ourselves (although it's the last game that's important..and that was a draw I think )

Oh sorry, I thought he is Irish, we haven't seen those boys in SA for a decade. Our last game was a win at Twickenham mate.   

  

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