Cankles-McJeggings because in the context of past and present Irish teams, they are the best group of players the country has had (and I mean country loosely as they aren’t all Irish of course).

Same way as Belgium footie team are their golden generation. It doesn’t mean they have won or will win trophies

    In Marseille for the England game. Many many sad Welsh and Irish faces around town last night. Had New Zealand legend, Kevin Mealamu buying us Jager shots during the Ireland / New Zealand game, which was nice - but which am regretting this morning…

    England game is 11am local time. Love an excuse for a morning beer. The Irish put up a phenomenal last stand yesterday. If they’d played like that 10 mins earlier they might have done it.

    Both sides looked knackered by the emd

      benson France and RSA to do similar later. Not inconceivable that England or Fiji end up in the final…

        benson We bottled it again. NZ were there for the beating and we froze. Too many errors made and against a side like NZ you’re asking for trouble.

          They need to seriously rethink on how the draw is made for the pools.

            SM001 Watching the quality of the England game now, I totally agree. As a neutral I thought last night’s game was superb.

                Wasily You had 3 of the top 5 teams in the world guaranteed to go out at the quarter finals before the tournament started. Crazy.

                  mono-stereo We saw this kicking off, as was just round the corner from our seats. A bunch of French fans supporting Fiji were chucking beer around. Twats.

                    6 days later

                    Cankles-McJeggings Big call but I’ve just taken 20s for us to win it. 20 on

                    Steady on Derm, gamble responsibly.

                    When the fun stops, stop.

                      England will get absolutely annihilated tonight. (I hope)

                        The big game is at Bramhall Lane chaps