Busy weekend and such a lot to catch up on. First up the review of Ireland’s second tour match against Argentina in Tucuman on Saturday evening.
Yet again I’d expected better from, a more or less first string, Ireland against a second string Pumas side but they were made to work hard for this one even with the return of most of the Leinster ruling class!
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In came Jamie Heaslip, Devin Toner and Rhys Ruddock up front and Eoin Reddan, Fergus McFadden and Rob Kearney in the backs but to tell the truth they didn’t make much of an improvement – in fact in my opinion the replacement of Iain Henderson by Toner and Robbie Diack by Ruddock severely depleted the work rate in the pack, where, as we all know, is where all games are won and lost.
Sure Ruddock had a glamorous enough game with ball in hand running 25 meters and beating six defenders but he only completed three tackles . . .
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