501 : England v Ireland wrap

🏉 Whiskey, neat

🏉 Leaders in the pack

🏉 Brick wall D

🏉 Super Ulstermen

🏉 Chariots low

Wayne O’Brien

The type of performance that will put a lot of confidence gas back in the tank

Tom Clarke

Much better performance. Some of the bigger players really stepped up. Have to give Farrell credit. Thought McCloskey was incredible. Jaimo, Joe and Dorris were brilliant too. Don’t think there was a bad performance in fairness.

Greg Kelly

Irelands performance was beautifully summed up by McCloskey running Marcus Smith down like the terminator

Gerald Williamson

Well deserved win by a country mile. The hunger is back in the team and Andy Farrell has shut those “doubting Thomas “.

Richard Collumb

Would never have thought they could do that. Brilliant all round performance (scrum still needs work), but tactically got it spot on vs England and great execution

Christy O’Connor

That performance was long overdue, we can’t pretend there’s still a lot to work on but that’s a huge step in the right direction, hopefully we can build on this now

Gavin Hegarty

Were we that good or were England just that bad? I think we just dominated them into their mistakes. They were rattled from minute one and couldn’t react.

Pollock was nonexistent for them, perhaps he should check his pulse now?

It’d be typical of England now to fire borthwick if they finish fourth. It’d cost them a lot to get rid of him and get someone else in but who would be the contenders?

Chris McDonnell

The difference passing the ball makes.

That’s 2 years in a row we have battered England

Craig Grehan

In farrell we trust.

The things we’ve been working on clicked and went our way.

Oh, and McCloskey is an animal.

Craig Boyd

Great to prove the doubters wrong (including myself). Particularly delighted as an Ulsterman that the Ulster boys have backed up their recent performances #mccloskeyrollingbacktheyears

Bert McLoughlin

The lads were hungry for the win and England didn’t have any answers for it

Eamon Saunders

That complete performance that we have been looking for and what a place to deliver 🇮🇪🇮🇪

John O Halloran

Handy run out for the lads. 😉.

Jokes aside, I had Ireland by 3 to 7 max and I was being very optimistic.

I didn’t see that level of performance coming. A superb response and result.

Barbara Gaffey

Always that extra niggle versus England and proving the naysayers wrong! The pressure worked to our advantage this time and it all finally clicked. Absolute class! 🙌🔥💪

Hywel Davies

Not looking forward to the next match

Tony Doyle

Chariot on fire for the second week in a row

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