Six Ireland stars make our Six Nations Team of the Week
is in the bag and only two teams are still on for a potential Grand Slam. France survived a late TMO call against Scotland, England had a comeback win over Wales and"Once they went 19-0 up," Italy coach Gonzalo Quesada observed,"it was like the All Blacks of old - they just went through the basics." For Andy Farrell, he felt his side left a couple of tries behind him but was, on the whole, satisfied.
Doubling down on that set-piece claim, and not taking anything away from the excellent James Lowe, Farrell said the Irish front row, which dominated at scrum-time, would be his choice foe Man of the Match. With that in mind, and looking across the weekend's three Six Nations games, we have an entire Ireland front row in our RugbyJOE Team of the Week., their writing team has agreed with us on Crowley, McCloskey, Sheehan and McCloskey.
That pair also made the cut in a weekly 'Best Of' selection made by former England and Lions legend Will Greenwood.In his weekly look back on the Six Nations action, 2003 World Cup winner, Will Greenwood has seven Ireland stars in his 'Best XV'. Greenwood has France loosehead Cyril Baille in his pack, and he is a solid selection having performed well in the win over Scotland. Greenwood has the same four players from Ireland that RugbyJOE and The Independent had. Porter also misses out but Greenwood has opted for Joe McCarthy and Ryan Baird in his selection., after those opening two rounds. Calvin Nash, Tadhg Beirne, Hugo Keenan, Caelan Doris and Jamison Gibson-Park all make the cut, as well as many of the players mentioned above.
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