Ireland v Wales

Granted Wales have injuries but Irelands price is a joke as usual.

If anything, it's the outright prices for Wales that are a joke given they are going to be 2/1+ for the opener.

* win the other 4

Do you think a Grand Slam will be won this season RM ?

Yeah you're right, team needs a bit of luck to get 5 from 5 and it usually is a settled side.

Doubt you'll catch Ireland cold this time when does Gatland name his team ?

How he didn't start Ryan is bizarre. He's playing great rugby, good lineout, great scrummager, carries better than DOC and his instinct is not to hit the deck on contact.

D'arcy lacks pace for 12 which won't help out Earls. You need to play the form players for form rugby, luckily the rest of some of the 'old reliables' are playing well !

Should win but it's no surprise we don't put away teams.

I think Les Kiss is a bit of a fan of Donncha defensively and might have had an input on selection.  I would imagine DOC is the better scrummager of the two, though one never truly knows.

Ryan has a huge impact in 2nd at scrumtime.

Also the fact DOC works rather than carries is a big plus for me.  Bad enough having POC masqeurading as a carrier without Ryan trying to get his mitts on the ball too.

Leave the ball carrying to SOB, Healy, Heaslip and Ferris. The rest of them should just be hitting rucks.

I might actually become a Munster fan going forward.  There is huge potential to play some decent entertaining rugby there going forward. (Sort of like Total Football coming to Stoke )

Quicksilver backrow with Coughlan, Ronan, POM. Out wide...Felix Jones, Zebo, Howlettt, Earls.

ROG is holding Muster back. Pension him off, and find a 10 who can play flat and whose first instinct isn't to kick!  If the Munster faithful get a taste of some proper rugby they wont know what hit them!

I too would like to know how your quantifying Ryan as the better scrummager.

I can't think of any game where the Irish/Munster scrum has improved solely becaus eof his introduction

Best scrummager ? Maybe you should try watching the Munster with Ryan and then with DOC, as has been numerous opportunities this season, it's not difficult to notice if you're looking for it

I wasn't calling calling for Cullen ahead of DOC this time last year, and we all saw how that turned out.

Tough time in the media, my ar$e!  All the Munster journalists big him up at every opportunity.  Sky Sports love him too.

Re Decco favouring Munster players..I think there might be something to it. Buckley ahead of Mike Ross, MOD ahead of Leinster Captain Cullen, etc etc.  Can you think of any Munster player that you think Kidney should have picked and didn't?

So you're best example of a Muster player being overlooked is Coughlan ahead of Jamie Heaslip!

I rest my case.

I think he over selected on Leinster players in the WC squad with players like Cullen, Jennings and Boss who were never realistically going to be able to compete for the starting jersey.

My opinion is you can never have enough Munster players in a team to win, you might understand it sometime.

Ah you can do better than that icbd ?

Icbd bang on the money here. ROG has an armchair ride and any criticism, when it appears, is brought on himself. You need three players in every position going to the World Cup so I don't accept the argument about Cullen and Jennings. Coughlan over Heaslip really is splitting hairs. I agree he looks a good player, but he needs to stop dropping the ball every time he makes a few yards.

I don't buy into the hype around Peter O'Mahony. It does seem as soon as someone shows any potential in a red shirt that they are fast-tracked into the Ireland set up. Chris Henry can consider himself very hard done by to be overlooked.