The IRISH RUGBY thread

[Estimator]

No Furlong for Ireland, and Halfpenny is out for Wales with Liam Williams replacing him.
Massive impact on the Ireland team, not so much for the Welsh.

Ireland: Keenan; Hansen, Ringrose, McCloskey, Lowe; Sexton, Gibson-Park; Porter, Sheehan, Bealham; Beirne, Ryan; O'Mahony, Van der Flier, Doris.

Replacements: Herring, Healy, O'Toole, Henderson, Conan, Murray, Byrne, Aki.

Wales: L Williams; Adams, North, Hawkins, Dyer; Biggar, T Williams; G Thomas, Owens (capt), Francis, Beard, Alun Wyn Jones, Morgan, Tipuric, Faletau.

Replacements: Baldwin, Carre, Lewis, Jenkins, Reffell, Webb, O Williams, Cuthbert.

[dec]

Gibson Park out Murray in

[Gmac]

Gibson Park out Murray in

hopefully murray can keep the game moving fast like park does , lots of box kicks ?

[JoG2]

His box kicking would drive you up the wall!

[screenexile]

Fairly ruthless stuff here... great to see!!

[seafoid]

Doris is some operator. He could have been the x factor for the Mayo footballers.

[Estimator]

Excellent first half, been very poor since the restart.

[screenexile]

Very poor so far Williams lay down there too!!!

[Estimator]

Very poor so far Williams lay down there too!!!

Thought it was v silly from Henderson.
Shouldn't be at that. Poor discipline.
Really should have a BP at this stage

[screenexile]

Not a whole lot in that yellow but we need it Ireland have been well outplayed this half so far!!

[Estimator]

This is desperate stuff from Ireland in the second half.
Lucky Wales are down to 14 men at the minute.

[seafoid]

Ireland haven't scored since the 27th minute.
France will be noting.

[Nanderson]

All the hard work was done after 15 mins. Ireland had no need to keep that pressure up. Sat back and worked defensively. Wales with a massive amount of possession and territory in 2nd half with nothing to really show for it

[Captain Scarlet]

Martin Johnson saying on the BBC if you win it inside 25 minutes take that and move on. But, they were very flat in the second half.

[Gmac]

What's going on with stockdale ? If they had him in 2019 form and henshaw back in center find a better replacement for porter than Healy I think they could give World Cup a serious rattle