The Tour From Hell Gets Hellish

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On the tour from hell it’s important that the Ireland players do well. They may have misinterpreted this rather too well and done the hell bit well.

It is acknowledged the rugby world over that playing the All Blacks is a generally tough assignment. Playing them in their own backyard even tougher and when you play them for all but the first 15 minutes with 14 players, hell just gets hotter. 

Add in a 10 minute spell with just 13 players on the pitch and you begin to wonder had the Irish players been practising sado masochism. Certainly if your thing is being whipped then those Irish boys took a hell of a whipping. 

I had messed up recording this game which inadvertently proved a godsend as I had only 60 minutes of play to fast forward when I got back from my outdoor activities on Saturday afternoon.

The French too were in victim mode being on the end of a bit of a whipping themselves though they had little in . . .

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3 responses to “The Tour From Hell Gets Hellish”

  1. ballpark

    Think you’ve covered all the bases there mote.
    Junty- there was me trying to convey a lifestyle so hectic and socially incandescent that it was difficult to remember who I was acquainted with, so many were my ‘friends!’ Instead I have given the impression of geriatric adolescence. Never mind…………..now where did I put me sneakers?

  2. the mote

    Re the validity of these tours

    There are several reasons for such tours firstly the SH sides like a warm up before the Tri Nations those on tour may want to attempt team building in the broadest sense of those words ie both on and off the field and assess how fringe players fit in the squad and while a player may hack it on the field if he doesn’t fit in socially either as loner or as a divisive influence then he could be a long term liability to the squad as a whole.

    Sometimes a tour can be the catalyst for older players helping them realise that they are not the players they once were and that in all probality if they want to play for another couple of seasons they should for go playing Internationals

    ie a tour can be a last hurrah for some or a thank you for your contribution thing for some players

    And then there is the money aspect if the NH didn’t go then in all probablity the SH would not appear for the AIs

    and the International Boards SRFU IRFU etc would never raise sufficent income from the 6Ns alone to expand the game.

    Unfortunately this year Ireland is an ageing team based on a group of players who for a number of seasons have been involved in serious competions ERC Internationals Lion ‘s Tour etc
    many do deserve a rest but a development team wouldn’t put the same number of bums on the seats ie the New Zealand public want to see the best not the second best

  3. junty

    BP – the memory loss is down to two things – age and cheep beer from the supermarkets.At the moment as far as I know there is no cure for age, there are however pills you can take to improve your memory………. however this in itself has a couple of inherent problems :- in that
    1. the problem is remembering to take the pills on a regular basis !! and
    2. when you do remember to take them …. where did I leave the fecking things !!

    I propose a vote of thanks to the supermarkets for realising the economic crisis and offering ‘loads of beer’ at 2 for £15 or 3 for £20 . Cheers !!!!!!!!!!!!! Hic…. Hic…..

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