I’m sorry but doesn’t anybody realise Scotland are rubbish. They couldn’t believe their luck when this Ireland team decided to play worse in the 2nd half. 1. Kidney hasn’t moved this team on since the grand slam even tho rugby has changed. 2 his treatment of O’Driscoll over the captaincy has been nothing short of disgraceful. His selection policy over the last couple of years has been too conservative. He has to go

Kidney should go after this tournament, I have great respect for him as a rugby professional and would hate to see him be remembered as a man who outstaid his welcome. On the captaincy matter , I believe the time was right to relieve BOD but for me Rory Best or Sexton should be captain. I’m a Leinster supporter and firmly believe Heaslip should be warming the bench for a few games to reignite his passion for the game.

I’d rather shit in me hands & clap than look at the back pages or sports news websites today. I feel a bit like George Lee, predicting doom & gloom in Irish rugby since late 2010 early 2011.

Kidney’s regime has failed. It’s great he managed to push us over in 2009 and bring home a grand slam but what have we got to show for it since then? The provinces flourish while the national set up meanders along with one big win every 4 matches.

I fear France in two weeks time. PSA is also a man who has is head in the block with the guillotine primed and ready. The difference being the French have a resilience we don’t. Much like the RWC, it won’t be the coach leading that team it’ll be Dussatoir, Picamoles, Pape, Parra… We’ll be clutching at straws with senior players not performing. Rory Best’s line outs are awful. Heaslip looks out of his depth, even the infallible BOD has failed to be talismanic. Injury crisis only gets a certain amount of excuses. If Kidney tried to blood new talent or mixed it up outside of an injury crisis we may be slightly better off in the test experience world. If Keith Earls starts against France I’ll cry.

I hope I’m wrong but Ireland face a serious probability of finishing rock bottom.

The man has no honour, he should have resigned..he needs to go he has lost the confidence of the players and the public..Ireland on course for the wooden spoon is a disgrace

P45 Declan.

At this stage, all that can be said on this topic has been said.

Ireland need some fresh new ideas! Agreed they should of won yesterday but didnt and that’s the issue! Also on one final note with Jackson! For all that he could be good at, if he can’t kick he can’t play! It’s as simple as that

Have to agree with an earlier comment – Deckie was a great coach but game has moved on and he has moved too slowly to move with it. I don’t blame him for trying Jackson but when he’s not kicking for Ulster how did he expect him to react to taking kicking duties in the biggest match of his career. Given that he hadnt foresight to start McFadden as back up kicker, he left it too late to bring in O’Gara. Bringing in O’Gara when Scots had gone ahead & gained momentum was too late!!! If O’G had come on when we were ahead instead of chasing he cud have done what he does best – control the game & protect the lead. All in all Jackson looked rudderless & Heaslip wasn’t far behind. Personally I’d have gone for Madigan over Jackson as he has more maturity!!

Even my Granny would have been able to pop a pass on the inside in the knowledge that BOD was coming through for a certain score, Say no more.

Lets face it Heaslip shouldn’t feature on the field let alone as captain. We have better bak row options.

I think O’Shea only just signed a new contract with Quins. Cud cost a lot of cash just to buy him out of it alone. Same with Joe Schmidt.

Kidney is responsible for selection and tactics, there has been a paradigm shift in the game since Ireland won the GS. Kidney only knows how to play conservatively which is and has always been highlighted in his selections. The turnover has predominantly been enforced, we played with ROG on the bench in all the Ai’s last year when both Jackson and the form outhalf in the country Madigan could have experienced game time rather than flogging the life out of a dead horse, the hallmark of Kidney’s reign. Hayes/Buckley being other examples, DOC a great servant to Irish rugby should have been left out of the Ai’s and tours. BOD should not have been played in every game and nor should Darcy. We play running rugby with a scrumhalf who is told to slow the ball down as not to risk being too expansive. Kidneys tactics have been an unmitigated disaster bar the odd game here and there, if it’s not the tactics how can you explain the difference in playing styles between players, playing provincial rugby and how they perform in green. If you think that Leinster would be a weaker team without Nacewa and wouldn’t have won the HC’s then clearly you don’t understand the nature of rugby and the fact it’s a team game.

Kidney should go now. Conor o Shea should get the job so he can blood his team and BOD should be reinstated as captain immediately..
Declan has taken this team as far as he can.

On the field, a complete shambles. Unable to kick their field goals, lack of someone in authority and Earls deserved the bollicking he got from O’Driscoll. Stop focusing on past glories. We had players out there who were capable of winning yesterday but unfortunately from the top down there is nobody who seems to be able to show them the way. As for being unlucky, do me a favour.

Jackson is in danger of having his confidence seriously undermined because coaches are putting him into situation he cannot yet handle. He completely bottled it in Twickenham for the Heineken Cup final and he did the same yesterday. He needs to go away, like Madigan did a few years ago, and learn to kick.

If Earles had half a rugby brain he’d be a world class player.

Should be a cracking atmosphere at the Aviva for the French game

Oh and best coaches Ireland have had, his results with one of the best squads we have ever had would tell a far different story, a few good results here and there do not make a good coach. We won a GS but have been in a steady decline ever since, the game moved on and Deccie couldn’t move with it!

I would blame the players more than Declan Kidney for this loss, for all their possession they can have only themselves to blame no matter what the game plan was

Sometimes the one eyed monsters talk some dung. Yes Jackson had a poor day but as was said BEFORE the match it was other parts of his game he was brought in for and he performed them admirably. Rory Best was throwing balls, under instruction, to a group of lads MOST of whom didnt even bother their over paid arses to jump for the damn thing. So with a useless line-out squad and a poor kicker we were doomed regardless. The image of Ryan standing at the back of a line-out just before half time with complete bewilderment on his face as he wasnt being lifted spoke more than a 1000 words. We were clueless in attack. BUT for God’s sake Earls was ruthlessly selfish and BOD bloody well told him so. If he’d passed to BOD, a try was an absolute definite and the game was over. The kids in the team performed well under the circumstances and some fine breaks were made. We were slow to back up and sooooooooo slow at the breakdown at times Scotland put the damn kettle on.

The suits on Lansdowne Road to remain consistent with their current provincial policy and appoint a foreign coach…… If…… they ask Declan to step down…..

Jesus it was a super day today

Elwood is stepping down to spend more time with family so i doubt it and I also doubt he’d be in the running. It’s likely to be a SH coach the only NH coach that would probably be considered is O’Shea.

It’s typical , we lose and it’s kidneys fault. There were some dreadful decisions made by the players in the pitch and that’s why we were defeated . Kidney is lashed for not making changes and when he does and it some key players perform badly he’s lashed again . Eddie OSullivan all over again . If we have a bad run like we have it can only get better but not by replacing one of the best coaches ireland an Munster ever had .

Give it a break. Ireland is still playing our best rugby ever. We have a very small pool to pick from and when injury hits, some people believe a new man at the helm would somehow help the lads cross the line. We are unlucky this six nations… That’s all.

Who would be a coach – all the screaming on threads like this about having Jackson or Madigan instead of O’Gara before the match and now all the screaming about why he didn’t pick someone else… Jayz its exhausting. Kidney was not on the pitch. The game plan was fine – that is why Ireland had 80% of the territory and possession.
After missing that try in the first ten minutes “the goys” on the pitch, including St. Brian,went to pieces. Heaslip has proved at this stage he is no captain – I’m not even sure he should be on the pitch – and went AWOL in the last quarter. O’Mahony might have it for the future but I’m not sure. Darcy’s replacement has arrived though, in the form of Marshall and that should be that. Easy for BOD to scream at Earls but he could equally scream at himself… maybe that is what he was doing.