Sir, – May I strongly suggest that your Rugby Correspondent, Gerry Thornley, retitles his advance selection of the Irish XV from “Possible” to “Probable” or indeed to “Actual”. I say this as his predicted Irish teams for the French and Italian matches were totally in agreement with Andy Farrell’s final selections – including replacements.
However, in his advance selection (Sport, February 19th) for the English match he omitted Tommy O’Brien from the replacement bench so perhaps “Probable” for future predictions? – Yours etc
CLIFF FORSYTH,
Foxrock,
RM Block
Dublin 18.
Sir, – Whilst scanning Gerry Thornley’s almost always accurate Ireland team prediction (February 19th) I was struck by the number of players who’s first name begin with the letter J, eight out of 15.
Is this a record? – Yours etc.
PAUL FARRELL,
Clonakilty,
Co Cork.
