@Con Cussed: I agree that penalty should have been kicked but that’s the captain’s call.

@Con Cussed: At one stage in the 2nd half there was a stat which had Argentina with over 70% possession. For 10 of the 20 minutes Crowley played in the 2nd half Ireland were down to 14 players. Ireland with Crowley showing leadership managed to wrestle control back from the Argentinians and pin them back inside their own 22. Crowley forced a mark next to the sideline, found touch inside the 22, where possible playing for territory, and running down the clock. Showing leadership and game management not struggling. As for the penalty Dorris was captain, it was his call.

@Den: it’s very disappointing to see a young player who’s done really well for Ireland be treated like this.

In his first season he won a six nations. It took o Gara nearly Ten years. It took sexton 5 years.

He’s done really well so far taking over from sexton in a team who’s pack is really struggling.

@Ross Watson: the irish attack is definitely in decline compared to the last three years. We have a new 10 still establishing himself at international level, we have a new attack coach, our forward pack is not getting enough gainline success to create the space and momentum that our attack thrives on, our line which leads to over 60% of our scores is malfunctioning and teams know our attack structure as its been the same for the last 4 years. Re revitalising the squad, it’s a very hard balancing act in bring in new players whilst also trying to win every game. In the next 18 months I expect, izzy, jack boyle, michael milne, Tom ahern, cathal forde and Mathew devine all to be capped and pushing for squad positions whilst ur poms, Henderson, Murray, healy and aki will be phased out

@Den: That drop won the game for Ireland too! Leinster supporter ;0)

@Tommy Kennedy: agrée 100%. Crowley has taken to intl rugby like a duck to water. In fact his first season was so good, he’s getting criticized now for setting the bar high and perceived to be not living up to it. O’Gara, Sexton both had tough periods more than once in their careers. I can remember Sexton stinking Cardiff out in 2019 when Wales beat us for GS – honestly thought he was finished after that game he was so bad. He came back though even stronger. I’m excited by Prendergast’s potential but he needs to displace far less talented (than Crowley) Byrne brothers in Leinster b4 he can be considered a threat to Crowley

@Tommy Kennedy: it’s bad that Virgin have 3 ex Leinster men on the panel. Should ideally have 1 other province represented. It’s leading to fairly biased punditry.

@Scott: this is a critical season in that world ranking do matter. In fact it will also carry over until Nov intls next season. We need to be in top 6 seeds. After NZ, we dropped from 1st to 3rd, if we’d lost to Argentina, we’d have further dropped to 5th. If Oz or Fiji beat us or we had a mediocre 6n’s we could have quickly found ourselves battling to remain a top seed for RWC draw. Once the draw is made, they should have much more room for ‘experimentation’. I agree though, team needs a couple of fresh faces at least

@Michael Corkery: I 100% agree with u regarding the need to try to win every game and that’s what farrell is trying to do whilst bringing in one to two players per squad. I think some people look at all blacks, south africa or france and see them having way more new faces in their squads and think why are we not doing the same thing to quicken up our transitional period. We just don’t have the quality coming through to do that. We need to make small incremental changes to our squad which is frustrating but the right thing to do. Look at wales, they have had to bring in multiple new players without having the depth or old heads to guide them and they are grim to watch

@Scott: hard to disagree with anything you say there and I felt very sorry for Baird last night and also for Casey who I think is criminally underused. I understand why we go full tilt at the 6N but I just wonder are Ireland in a position now where the guys that have been our best performers over the last 2 years now are something of a burden and whether that’s down to form alone or Father Time.

@Michael Corkery: Arguably four Leinster as Joe Molloy is as pro Leinster (and anti Munster) as they come!

@Thesaltyurchin: Yeah he still needs to pile on some mass to the frame and still can’t really tackle. But there is definitely some amazing raw ingredients there.

@Con Cussed: Could be, I wish and early dominant pack to whomever runs out, I still think Frawley will feature tho. Would love to see Hodnett run out, I dunno tho, back row is a hugely crowded field, maybe an argument around out and out 7s, C.Prendergast probably next up, be pretty cool if the brothers got to play together over this test.

@Carmine Lorenzo: He still has that young lad head, no question he looks good so far, a commenter mentioned him being isolated for the scoring op late in the game, imo that is nearly always the fault of supporting players and is maybe a little look at how he reads the game. Even watching SA tonight, the support for offloads and rumbling forwards is excellent.