France 7 s'élimine tout seul du tournoi de Singapour

Some English and other commentators trying to make a big deal of the 6 Nations. Ireland won the Tripple Crown easily enough this year. The only Irish loss was to France, who are an outstanding team. Alas the French are not part of the Lions set up.

So…the team that won the tripple crown will dominate the selections. And if you look at what us happening in the Champions Cup, the Irish players are only coming into their peak right now.

England post-2023 have been pretty good on KR’s esp when they started to pick either Marcus or Furbank at FB.

Hopefully, Ioane is finally moved back to wing where he has played by far his best test rugby, then just one fast wing is needed. Not sure Narawa has the pace for an international wing. Caleb Tangitua is very fast and young with his best days ahead.

And of course, Leicester Fianga’anuka returns and will be available for selection. Razor will select him as he has power and size the backline desperately needs but the question is where as he has played exclusively at 13 in France the past two seasons,

However: if Ireland hadn’t played the series in NZ they might not have had the confidence to beast SA like they did, and/or might have lost to NZ anyway in the QF. Then you’d be sitting here saying that a failure to tour NZ was the reason Ireland didn’t make the semis.