If you can’t get giddy about this bunch, you’re tragically giddy-averse
This couch is usually reluctant to share its rugby expertise, largely because it doesn’t possess any, but we’re going to go out on a limb here: this Irish team is rather good.It was later in the day that Andrew Trimble, on Virgin Media duty, admitted that France had scared him witless for a significant chunk of the game. “I felt like until they were dead they were not dead at all,” he said, speaking for the entire nation.
If you looked out your kitchen window and saw Antoine Dupont having the craic in your back garden, you’d summon the neighbours and charge them €200 in.It’s not often that we cite Donald Rumsfeld around these parts, but how Dupont prevented Mack Hansen from scoring that try will forever be an unknown unknown.
And so overwhelmed by all things Irish was our ITV host Jill Douglas, she introduced Gabriel Clarke as “Gabriel Byrne” when she lined up his post-match chat with Hugo Keenan. “Well, hehave movie star looks,” she said, apologising for her error. If she had added, “but Clarkie never starred with Batty and Benny in The Riordans,” she would, quite literally, have blown our minds.
Mercifully, for Bernard, things calmed down a touch in the second half, the game reverting to - technical-term-alert - a catty-mousey affair, France having the craic before Ringrose ensured there’d be no rosiness for them in Ireland’s back garden.
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