The IRISH RUGBY thread

[weareros]

Entertaining for the errors on both sides. 7-7.

[JPGJOHNNYG]

It must never rain in Ireland the way seem not to cope with it

[Tony Baloney]

In those conditions I wouldn't be surprised to see someone get a bad knock. Could be an expensive run out.

[JPGJOHNNYG]

A bit like the Italy friendly the fringe players just not putting their hands up

[Rudi]

Good try.

[Rudi]

Set piece transformation.

[Hoof Hearted]

These friendlies are worse than pre season
NZ getting stuffed by SA and England getting beat by Fiji and us struggling here
Means f**k all,

[seafoid]

Ireland are bringing 3x cover for the 3 front rowers to the RWC. 2x for the rest of the scrum. It must be aligned with the highest concussion risk.

[galwayman]

Set piece transformation.

Ryan, Herring & O Mahoney have made a huge difference

[weareros]

Entertaining second half even if a warm up.

[seafoid]

I wonder how much Samoa get per match for warm up games.

[JPGJOHNNYG]

Herring came on and steadied the lineout and scrum
Yer man Stewart had a mare. Stockdale lovely chip through for the Murray try and then a few minutes later showed us all again that he can't tackle. The number of handling errors is a real worry  rain or not. A real lack of commitment, not chasing kicks which you understand in a friendly but the boys borderline for the squad should be busting a gut. The one positive is that Samoa look like trouble for England

[Champion The Wonder Horse]

That was muck. Herring motm.

[seafoid]

Healy might be injured for the RWC

[Capt Pat]

Healy looks to be badly hurt with very little time before the world cup starts. The squad is announced today.

Injuries happen though and there were always likely to be injuries in the buildup to the world cup. So if Healy is the only player we are missing. We are not doing too bad.