At what point does selecting this lad become cruel? He is so far off the standard required that it must be impacting the guys confidence/well being.
This has been going on for a couple of years ago and it’s not fair on his teammates or him, himself.
Treatment is genuinely a joke.
Sharks collapse and just get given a penalty. Evans literally warns Clarkson by starting with "Sharks hit early and you have to accept it"
Literally a penalty against them and he's lecturing Clarkson about it with a threat of a card.
And this isn't an Evans thing, it's a shit referee thing that is ruining the sport because World Rugby are terrified to make referees officiate set piece on anything but reputation
Obviously it would be nicer to start the season with two wins rather than two losses. However, I think there’s a lot of positives we can take from these matches. How do you think we look so far?
The main positive for me is seeing the young lads step up and play so well. Especially Ericsson, COT, Gabriel and Lawlor. Gunne too although he has much more experience than them, he seems to have upped his game from last season.
Two losses but with so many changes and young players I think they have really passed the eye test. 3 points from a South Africa tour at the start of the season isn’t the worst return.
What are your thoughts on how the team looks? And what do you think will be our biggest challenges this year?
First test of it for Cullen with his post match interviews now.
If he doesn't call out Craig Evans it's going to be the same old story this season.
Jack Deegan starting at 13 for Blackrock v UCC.
Ben Blaney starting at 7 and JJ Kenny starting at 11 for Terenure vs Young Munster.
Alex Mullan at 3 for Old Belvo vs Ballynahinch.
Max Doyle starting at 1 for UCD and Charlie Molony starting at 15 vs Lansdowne.
Alex Soroka starting for Clontarf at 6 vs St Marys.
Arthur Smykovskiy starting a 5 for Trinity.
Andrew Sparrow is on the bench for St. Marys.