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England have 'some of the best individuals in the world'

Ireland's Peter O'Mahony is out of contract at the end of the season.

Ireland’s players are “hurting” after their Six Nations defeat to England, but Peter O’Mahony says they must not overreact to Saturday’s setback. 

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Joe Schmidt’s men, Grand Slam winners in 2018 and victors against New Zealand in November, suffered a first home Six Nations loss in six years as they were beaten 32-20 by England at the Aviva Stadium. 

Addressing reporters on Monday, O’Mahony made it clear Ireland’s pride had been dented, while outlining the team’s desire to bounce back when they face Scotland at Murrayfield this weekend. 

“We’re hurting,” said the experienced flanker. “The Aviva is obviously a place where we haven’t lost in a while. 

“You never like losing, whether you’re playing for Ireland or your club, but particularly at the Aviva. It’s somewhere we’ve made a fortress and certainly that hurts, but the beauty of our job is luckily you can get back out … and have an opportunity to put that right. 

“We can’t be hanging around feeling sorry for ourselves. We’ve got to take our review on the chin, dust ourselves off and get stuck into the week, because there’s a lot of rugby to be played between now and the end of the campaign.” 

O’Mahony gave credit to England, adding: “You know you’re coming up against some of the best individuals in the world and when they fire they’re difficult to stop.”

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Having achieved so much success in recent years, Ireland will not be making drastic changes to their approach.

“We’ve got to get back to the things that we do well,” explained O’Mahony. We’re certainly not going to throw all the game plan out of the window and start fresh. We’ve built a squad and a game plan for a long, long time now and we certainly won’t be going away from it. We just need to realise how important the stuff that we do well is for our game.

“I don’t know why we would be panicking. We’ve been sitting here for a long time now and it’s been all positive, this and that.

“It’s one loss. We were up against one of the best teams in the world. We’re certainly not going to shy away from it, it hurts, but we’re going to go back to what we do well and we’re going to do that excellently, hopefully, this week.”

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JW 1 hour ago
'Passionate reunion of France and New Zealand shows Fabien Galthie is wrong to rest his stars'

Where? I remember saying "unders"? The LNR was formed by the FFR, if I said that in a way that meant the 'pro' side of the game didn't have an equal representation/say as the 'amateur' side (FFR remit) that was not my intent.


But also, as it is the governing body, it also has more responsibility. As long as WR looks at FFR as the running body for rugby in France, that 'power' will remain. If the LNR refuses to govern their clubs use of players to enable a request by FFR (from WR) to ensure it's players are able to compete in International rugby takes place they will simply remove their participation. If the players complain to the France's body, either of their health and safety concerns (through playing too many 'minutes' etc) or that they are not allowed to be part in matches of national interest, my understanding is action can be taken against the LNR like it could be any other body/business. I see where you're coming from now re EPCR and the shake up they gave it, yes, that wasn't meant to be a separate statement to say that FFR can threaten them with EPCR expulsion by itself, simply that it would be a strong repercussion for those teams to be removed (no one would want them after the above).


You keep bringing up these other things I cannot understand why. Again, do you think if the LNR were not acting responsibly they would be able to get away with whatever they want (the attitude of these posters saying "they pay the players")? You may deem what theyre doing currently as being irresponsible but most do not. Countries like New Zealand have not even complained about it because they've never had it different, never got things like windfall TV contracts from France, so they can't complain because theyre not missing out on anything. Sure, if the French kept doing things like withholding million dollar game payments, or causing millions of dollars of devaluation in rights, they these things I'm outlining would be taking place. That's not the case currently however, no one here really cares what the French do. It's upto them to sort themselves out if they're not happy. Now, that said, if they did make it obvious to World Rugby that they were never going to send the French side away (like they possibly did stating their intent to exclude 20 targeted players) in July, well then they would simply be given XV fixtures against tier 2 sides during that window and the FFR would need to do things like the 50/50 revenue split to get big teams visiting in Nov.

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