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Looks even worse this morning. Filthy cheap shot.

Pape's 'accidental' knee looks like it has broken Heaslip's vertebrae. Just out of interest, what do you think Pape was trying to do? He should be banned for eight weeks longer than Heaslip is out injured. Barnes bottles another red card decision against Ireland, he should be stood down from...

I wouldn't hold your breathe, he has got the dreaded Osteitis pubis which can go on for months if not years.

Lancaster is outside of that loop although there has been plenty of chat about the Farrells. If the wheels start coming off for Schmidt, which I hope they don't, there will be a big interprovincial bust up. Munster supporters are very unhappy about TOD and Keatley's omission from the bench...

Samson Lee out now for 'the fish in the sea with the biggest dick'. Adam Jones might have a point to prove against Munster in Cork on Saturday night now which is a bollix.

It isn't remotely relevant but it provides for a bit of whimsical distraction from this increasingly prosaic game.

1798.

Apart from against Ireland

I bet Hartley and Ghiraldini get on like a house on fire.

It was a much better performance out of Ireland, and Keatley, than many commentators have given them credit. Ireland might not have run every back move in their repertoire but they had complete control of the game and, I suspect, it took considerably less out of them than many games they have...

He was far from awful once he got over some early nerves, which are to be expected for a fella making his six nations debut, and he certainly kicked a lot more reliably than Madigan has of late. The team played exactly as Schmidt wished them to, keep it narrow and simple, giving nothing away as...

Don't understand Madigan ahead of Keatley. Sexton hasn't played for 12 weeks so you pick your next best 10 and kicker who is Keatley. He also regularly plays 12 so has the variety. If you pick Fitzgerald or Earls at 23, probably Luke as he has more game time, you have a rake of options.

Ireland team if Best is unfit, from a reliable source, McGrath, Strauss, Ross, POC, Toner, POM, SOB, Heaslip, Murray, Sexton, Zebo, Henshaw, Payne, Bowe, Kearney. Reps, Cronin, Healy, Moore, Hendo, Jordi, Boss, Madigan, Fitzgerald. Would be very disappointed for Keatley were he not to get...

Maitland will be gone now he has signed for a wealthy PRL club, if only.....

If he is Welsh he will come from somewhere in Wales and the accusation of bias will be bandied about if he selects someone from there. EDIT much the same as in Ireland I should add.

I think the day is coming when the players will just come off and that will be it. Tragically I think it will take a fatality for that to happen. As someone said about North, if that was a world championship boxing bout the fight would have been stopped there and then. Have to say, the claims...

Schmidt has made Ireland the priority this year, with inter pros being played without first team players. I think that is fair enough in a rwc year but such control was not afforded Kidney and he consequently had to deal with nightmarish injury lists. He also had to go to NZ, in June 2012, with...

The injury list was biblical. POM ended up playing on the wing in that Italy game. And it didn't help that BOD and Healy both got banned for dirty play. Ireland were 30 points up at halftime in Cardiff in the first game of DK's last six nations in 2013. The players just downed tools, nothing DK...

The fall out when Gatland goes will be spectacular. I thought his criticism of Webb and Hibbard straight after the game was terrible man management. He is so pig headed I could see him continuing to leave out Bandy legs and Scott Williams. That was as thick a Welsh performance as I think I have...

Is that Declan Kidney who coached Ireland to a Grand Slam and a group win at a rwc? When Schmidt wins a Grand Slam he will be on a par with Ireland's greatest ever coach. Schmidt is a hell of a coach but DK was far from being the shambolic figure that many of the D4 media would have people...