Alec,
You are right we did play shit yesterday, but it was not the total fault of the management, players have to stand up and be counted too, as they get the praise in victory they must also take the bad days as well. Poor Sexton had a shocker and his lack of confidence spread like wire fire, in years to come Sexton will be a great player but at the moment he is young and playing like a 7's player, that is no good in international rugby and yesterday was a day for the basics initially, kick to the corners set up field position and racket up the scores, then when well ahead bring on sexton to play the open 7's rugby. Our lineout was shockng, best, o'connell, ferris have to put there hands up here, what were they at,
I think we have a world class management structure, top class forward coach, and a top class dfensive coachI I know losing is terrible but we cannot be blaming managers the whole time. Introducing new laws during a competition shows you how much the southern hemsphere are controlling world rugby. One more thing the atmosphere in croke has been terrible all season, maybe it time we went back to the old ground