56:00 Get the IRFU to take over London Irish and use it for an over flow for the 4 provances and ex-pats for a 5th Irish pro team. It would never happen tho
Sorry to hear that Max got stick from the South Africans. World rugby recognized Duane's try against England as the best in 2023 so Max was making a very fair point.
The masterminds behind Irelands success are the IRFU, they sat down some 20+ years ago and said right, if we are going to compete in the Pro era we are going to have to start from scratch with the game. Their first move was to get everyone singing from the same hymn sheet (Schools-Provinces-National Team) and followed that by appointing successful world-class high-performance directors. They knew it would take 15-20 years to achieve this and we are still building. One last mountain to climb.
Funny stuff but a win at Twickenham is never to be sniffed at and rarely easily won. England are of course capable of pulling out a big performance and complacency is always a danger but the players are hopefully professional enough to tune out a lot of the nonsense and focus on the task in hand.
When will they learn, you haven’t won it yet , and the two hardest games to come. As Foster said when they ran out of ideas and it was cut and paste it wasn’t that hard to defend.
Zebo has a reputation for being an idiot - spoilt, stupid, childish, arrogant,, - it just depends whether he's on your team as a fun loving idiot, in which case its all fun.. but if he's acting the big 'un to you as a stranger, then you will be able to see why he winds up more than a few people..
