The IRISH RUGBY thread

screenexile · October 04, 2019, 12:00:51 PM

Italy very close to getting a try then the prop does a spear tackle?? I'd say O'Shea is going mental!! They started the half well too!

Tony Baloney · October 04, 2019, 12:02:43 PM

Quote from: screenexile on October 04, 2019, 11:02:17 AM
Quote from: Tony Baloney on October 04, 2019, 10:45:20 AM
The Italian anthem, and the player reaction, always a reminder that Ireland's Call doesn't really cut it.

What a load of nonsense... they're professional athletes representing their country do they need a song to make them play better??

They're not all playing for their country

JPGJOHNNYG · October 04, 2019, 12:51:50 PM

Quote from: screenexile on October 04, 2019, 12:00:51 PM
Italy very close to getting a try then the prop does a spear tackle?? I'd say O'Shea is going mental!! They started the half well too!

What an idiot. Ruined the game

Tony Baloney · October 04, 2019, 01:14:54 PM

Quote from: JPGJOHNNYG on October 04, 2019, 12:51:50 PM
Quote from: screenexile on October 04, 2019, 12:00:51 PM
Italy very close to getting a try then the prop does a spear tackle?? I'd say O'Shea is going mental!! They started the half well too!
What an idiot. Ruined the game

2 idiots. 1 and 17 both should have got the line.

grounded · October 05, 2019, 09:02:01 AM

Argentina look up for this one. Ref will have a massive say in this one. Particularly how he refs the breakdown.

Estimator · October 05, 2019, 09:20:59 AM

Plenty of handling errors already in this one.

Estimator · October 05, 2019, 09:25:18 AM

Game over.

grounded · October 05, 2019, 09:28:31 AM

Lots of handling errors both sides. Red card. Clumsy more than malicious. Farrell dipping down and there is a clear height difference, but thats the rules

JPGJOHNNYG · October 05, 2019, 09:30:13 AM

Ffs was looking forward to this game

Wildweasel74 · October 05, 2019, 09:30:53 AM

These tackles were barely a yellow last Yr, you got a 6ft 8in giant tacking a man barely 6ft was started to bend down as your man hit him. If the man a bck rower 6ft 4in tackle was fine. Does ever player judge the size of the player before tacking.

Capt Pat · October 05, 2019, 10:08:35 AM

I thought the red card was harsh. Farrell wasn't hurt at all in the tackle. If the argentine was being malicious Farrell would have been knocked out. Farrell was very low when being tackled as well.

thewobbler · October 05, 2019, 10:09:06 AM

Quote from: Wildweasel74 on October 05, 2019, 09:30:53 AM
These tackles were barely a yellow last Yr, you got a 6ft 8in giant tacking a man barely 6ft was started to bend down as your man hit him. If the man a bck rower 6ft 4in tackle was fine. Does ever player judge the size of the player before tacking.

That's really my issue here too. This law is genuinely discriminatory against lock forwards.

Walter Cronc · October 05, 2019, 10:09:54 AM

My initial thought was harsh but on second glance it's technically a red. Unfortunately we have to go through these changes/decisions or lawyers will have it turning into tag rugby.

Wildweasel74 · October 05, 2019, 11:21:36 AM

The rule will see big men send off for coming of their line at speed and smaller men crouching down to take the hit,

Hound · October 05, 2019, 11:22:44 AM

Quote from: Walter Cronc on October 05, 2019, 10:09:54 AM
My initial thought was harsh but on second glance it's technically a red. Unfortunately we have to go through these changes/decisions or lawyers will have it turning into tag rugby.

It was definitely technically a red. Farrell had dipped a fraction, but not enough.

However, if Farrell had committed the exact same tackle on, say, the Argie scrum half, it would have been yellow as they would have said the very slight dip was enough mitigation to reduce it from red.
England had two blatant yellow cards (Sinckler and Tuilagi) that weren't given. Eng, NZ and the Aussies are reffed differently to everyone else.