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Six Nations

The reason why Ireland won't wear green shirts away to Wales

By PA

33 days ago

Wales' Justin Tipuric reacts when Ireland last visited Cardiff in 2023 (Photo by Michael Steele/Getty Images)

Ireland will wear white shirts during their Guinness Six Nations match away to Wales in order to help supporters impacted by colour blindness. The back-to-back champions, who began their latest title defence with victories over England and Scotland, face winless Wales in Cardiff on Saturday, February 22.

Ireland have traditionally worn their green home jerseys for previous trips to the Principality Stadium, including their last visit – a 34-10 win en route to the Grand Slam in 2023. But the combination of red, worn by Wales, and green is a particular problem for people with colour vision deficiency (CVD).

New World Rugby regulations require visiting teams to switch to an alternative option in order to avoid kit clashes which could negatively impact spectators and television viewers suffering from CVD. Around one in 12 men and one in 200 women are affected by the condition.

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The Welsh Rugby Union faced criticism during last year’s championship when they declined to switch to their alternative black jerseys for the reverse fixture in Dublin.

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Rob 32 days ago

This is wrong though, it’s traditionally the home team that wears the away jersey in these cases, not sure I like this footballification of rugby. The story behind that is a lovely advert for the sport ☹️

Larry Lehan 32 days ago

It really doesn’t matter. Ireland get to flog more white Jerseys. Cash strapped Wales and their fans don’t have buy a second colour. Free marketing.

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RedWarriors 19 minutes ago

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I am not into this wild swinging of outlooks from match to match. In Lions teams terms, Ireland and Scotland were better in those matches than England. England relied on luck to beat Scotland. Ireland have the triple crown.

Ireland were playing for the Grand Slam and Championships and both were de facto gone last week, so I wouldn’t look too deeply into that Italy performance.

Wales were a little tired and English physicality broke them. England, France and indeed Ireland and Scotland can put up big scores when a match is done with time to play.

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RedWarriors 29 minutes ago

France deny England and clinch Six Nations title in Paris

They don’t. Scotland have no luck and get the worst end of the stick on almost all occasions: from refereeing decisions to world cup draws and scheduling. This is not a coincidence in my opinion.

People give out about Townsends success. But he has done brilliantly given the amount of headwinds blowing.

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GP 31 minutes ago

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I agree. I really think the wingers are just so plentiful at the moment. Midfield is the critical selection in the mix. I really believe Braydon Ennor at 13 for the AB’s must be considered. Saturday showed after a huge lay off due to rehab, that he has the vision and a real speed factor.His display for the Crusaders was special. Quinn Tupeai , like wise for your guys is putting his hand up.

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RedWarriors 31 minutes ago

France deny England and clinch Six Nations title in Paris

I think we need to call out the red card non-decision here and acknowledge the damage that France, through Galthie, have done to confidence in the officaiting and citing process.

It started when Garry Ringrose had club matches included in his ban following similar precedents for (Atonio, Haouas, Danty) who were all carded/cited in match just before fallow week and club matches counted. Ntamacks citing was in week 1 and harder to demonstrate availability for club match with another International match between. Preceednt ~(O’Mahony 2021) was followed. Reading the written decision for Ntamack shows that Galthie understood this perfectly. Yet after the Ringrose ban included club matches, Galthie publicly goes berserk screaming ‘Injustice (against France”. Again, he knows the precedents for Ringrose are all French and indeed the only person preceding Ntamack to have club matches count in that situation was France’s Willemse.

The media swallowed this up wholesale and the story started circulating and being added to without a single journalist/pundit (except rush Mirror) actually reading the Ntamack decision. Sneaky Ireland had better briefs than honest naive France was one random addition by a pundit which becamse accpeted fact without checking etc and added to the circulation.

Angered by losing his star player Galthie again lashes out. He knows know he can de facto attack individual players, the media won’t intervene and as long as he doesnt directly attack an individual official he will stay out of trouble.

So he attacks players who then het threatened by some lunatic French supporters online. Ireland are ‘Butchers’ apparently. The passive head contact earning Nash a yellow now becomes a double head hit on Barrassi, requiring a double red.

France who have more dangerous tackle citings under Galthie than all other six nations combined. They get more favourable outcomes than all other teams. poor France are now the victims of great injustice. It is farce.

But it paid off.

Mauvaka struck the Scottish Scrum half with a diving head butt in Sundays match. Its a clear red. Scotlands back line attack looked superiors to France’s and Scotland were there or there abouts.

What I can only assume is the chilling affect on Galthie’s public attacks Carley send it to the bunker. A deliberate head butt is a clear red on more than one count. There is no doubt, bo grey area.

If thats a red card do France win the match? I would say that Scotland are likely winners, which would have meant England winning the title.

Spilled milk now, but World Rugby, the citing commisioners and officials cannot allow big Unions to publicly intimidate the officiating process and attack individual players from other teams.

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Tom 56 minutes ago

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Well lets hope so. England have developed a very strong kicking game and I'm all for them going to it on a regular basis to get into the right areas of the field but they need to find the right balance. They've been far too predictable and far too low risk. Tindall recently summed up my thoughts on this... “rugby is a pressure game, it's about building phases”. Against Scotland they almost never went over 2 phases, it was super weird. None of the top 4 sides are playing in this manner, I don't see where the precedent is for this staccato style of play. We've got an exceptional group of loose forwards developing, let's make use of that quick ball! Hopefully the Welsh game is a turning point and the coaches will trust the players to take a few more risks. It's not that I have anything against kicking in test matches, it's absolutely essential that we kick well but we do that already, it's the rest of the attack which has been missing. This relentless kicking isn't the way the best sides win test matches these days. Kick well, kick lots but we need to be setup to take advantage of quick ball and defensive misalignments around the halfway line and we need to build pressure by going multiphase in the 22 instead of grubber kicking it or crossfielding with such high regularity.

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