Ancient Ireland schools Young England

The oldest team in world rugby just keeps rolling. The Poms couldn't be faulted for effort, but Ireland had their measure in every facet of the game. In fact the score could have been larger, but Ireland had several players who played with injuries or like Sexton had to be subbed.

Week after week we see the value of  experienced teams and players across the whole spectrum of sports.

When will the penny drop? We need a core team of experienced players with a few exceptional youngsters.....not a core team of youngsters with a few exceptional experienced players.

And by the way, defence wins big test matches.

Moz why not check the stats on the age of the side that played for Ireland on the weekend and come back to us.......egg, egg, egg.

For the record they played England yesterday, their age against France has stuff all to do with it

Yeah had to laugh at that knowing the ages of the new Irish side.

Average age of 27 thanks to old timers like O'Connell, Ross, Best and Reddan in the squad.

If 27 is ancient, we are in trouble

How many of these wins can I take, and remain the modest chap I am. OOM you forgot the decimal points. You have to include the decimal points if you are doing an average. The average age rounds up to 28, not 26 and the raw number is 27.83. Admittedly a bit lower than the ancient 28.9 that played France because of the injuries to firsrt choice players, but still a very mature team.

Kearney 28.9

Bowe 31.0

Payne 29.4

Henshaw 21.7

Zebo 25.0

Xexton 29.6

Murray 26.8

Murphy 23.8

O Brien 28.0

O Mahoney 25.3

O Connell 35.4

Toner 29.6

Ross 25.2

Best 32.5

McGrath 25.3

You can have your egg any way Mike and Dave, but given this disaster shall we say sunny side down?

It's not 27 Dave....if you can only deal with integers it's 28. Big difference. And no, it's not unusual for a winning international rugby team.....but it's not 25 or 26 as you would want it. And by the way the last Bok team against Wales, a team which was too old by far for you, averaged 27.16. 

Dave best leave the numbers alone hey? Stick to the rant as your weapon of choice.

Its that time again.....game, setta and match!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Nope you will find that 28 never comes into it, the match day 23 average 27.5......hardly ancient as you lied about and my call is that we don't need the washed up has beens in our side like Kirchner, Olivier, Fourie, Jean, Morne, du Preez, Pienaar, Steenkamp, Bakkies, Matfield, Juan Smith and Schalk in our side as we have vastly superior youngsters......a luxuary the poor Irish side does not have.

No matter which way you look at it, an average age of 27.5 is anything but ancient, its about par, so your whole thread falls flat on its face for being the bullshit that it is......exposed again   

It's over Dave....the numbers are posted for all to see.

It's over Dave....the numbers are posted for all to see.