Its a shocker - but no damage done.... yet Ireland 32 Namibia 17

What a truly awful start for Ireland. We played had a reasonable 20 minutes but went downhill from there. Namibia are a group of mainly amateurs – just 6 professional rugby players in their squad. The best Namibian born rugby playing today is Percy Montgomery, who unfortunately for Namibia plays rugby for South Africa. They are the lowest ranked team in the group and one of the lowest ranked teams in the World Cup. We made 18 handling errors – most of which were unforced. There was a point in the second half when it looked like we might even lose – 27 to 17 ahead having conceded 2 tries in 4 minutes. Our more respectable tally of 32 points came courtesy of a questionable try by Gerry Flannery – if the referee went up to the TMO I’m sure it would have been disallowed! So next week-end I am off to with Senan to see us play against Georgia. I am confident that we can put in a much better performance and I’m predicting we hit 50 points and win easily. I saw a very average performance against Wales(win) and France (loss) before we hammered England, followed by and awful performance against Scotland (win) and a sparkling performance against Italy. So this team is not consistent - but still has great capability. Whether we can improve enough to topple France and then Argentina only time will tell. Here’s what Eddie had to say this morning.