Ah don't get me started on Neil Francis! How that guy actually gets paid to offer his opinion via various media outlets just beggars belief, he is so pro Leinster in his opinions it's ridiculous, so much for objectivity!!!

Unfortunately we just have to accept that until we start getting results the "national" newspapers aren't going to give us any coverage.

The Irish Times, The Irish Independent and The Examiner all had full match reports (and even some photo's!) on Saturday. Wouldn't expect anything from the Sunday Independent except insults from everyone's favourite retired ruck inspector Neil Francis.

Mark McNally wrote: Jsut a quick note - not as much as a word in the Sunday Independant about the saracens match - overloaded with comment about the other 3 provinces (detail on Ulster from friday night for example)- annoying at the least as I was reading the match reviews for most of the other "non irish" matches in the same paper - I mightn't expect front page analysis but a mention at least!

Just watched the highlights of the match - how the ref didn't spot numerous offsides/ infringements in the last phase of play is beyond me

It was obvious that Parks and Clarke were directing all during the match which was great to see and v effective, especially tightening up our defence etc, shouldn't we be playing to our current strenghts now with a game plan built around Parks directing/ kicking with running the ball when its on and not constatntly as we have been doing?

Hardly any coverage in most of the papers (admittedly I only get the International versions and they tend to cut pages), very much an afterthought this weekend it would seem. We're a Red Button team..

Jsut a quick note - not as much as a word in the Sunday Independant about the saracens match - overloaded with comment about the other 3 provinces (detail on Ulster from friday night for example)- annoying at the least as I was reading the match reviews for most of the other "non irish" matches in the same paper - I mightn't expect front page analysis but a mention at least!

Just watched the highlights of the match - how the ref didn't spot numerous offsides/ infringements in the last phase of play is beyond me

It was obvious that Parks and Clarke were directing all during the match which was great to see and v effective, especially tightening up our defence etc, shouldn't we be playing to our current strenghts now with a game plan built around Parks directing/ kicking with running the ball when its on and not constatntly as we have been doing?