The IRISH RUGBY thread

[Captain Obvious]

Deserved win for the English and few thought they would win that easy. Kick up the ass that the Irish needed after losing the run of themselves after a few autumn international wins.

[seafoid]

Beat New Zealand and Irish press put us out at no. 1 forgetting that's at the end of their long season. We been poor the day

Jesus!!

The same way we didn't win the WC beating NZ we haven't lost it today. As I've said no injuries is the main aim of the 6N.

In fairness the English have been better... there's not much between the top teams and England are up there. It's not the end of the world!

England needed the win more !
Nice cool build up to the World Cup now

[marty34]

Beat New Zealand and Irish press put us out at no. 1 forgetting that's at the end of their long season. We been poor the day

Jesus!!

The same way we didn't win the WC beating NZ we haven't lost it today. As I've said no injuries is the main aim of the 6N.

In fairness the English have been better... there's not much between the top teams and England are up there. It's not the end of the world!

Will do no harm.  Save the pain for later in year. 6N should be used to give lads game time and work on things.

WC is main thing this year.  Keep fresh for it and have a full squad. Remember Ireland's teams will have knock out games in Europen Cup etc.

Great chance for this highly talented squad in WC - it should be the priority in 2019.

[GetOverTheBar]

England team looks shaky enough in the back row compared to Ireland. Could be the winning of the game. Interesting to see how Manu Tuilagi gets on, Elliot Daly too. Ireland should have too much you would think.

That went well. England by far superior. Ireland now face a nightmare in Edinburgh.

[Capt Pat]

We played poorly giving England a 14 point platform to start the game. Slade was offside for that contentious try as well. That is what cost us the game in the end.

Henshaw wasn't great, we should have played Larmour if we wanted to win the game. Henshaw might benefit from more playing time at full back but where will he get it?

[screenexile]

We played poorly giving England a 14 point platform to start the game. Slade was offside for that contentious try as well. That is what cost us the game in the end.

Henshaw wasn't great, we should have played Larmour if we wanted to win the game. Henshaw might benefit from more playing time at full back but where will he get it?

It wasn't!

[From the Bunker]

We played poorly giving England a 14 point platform to start the game. Slade was offside for that contentious try as well. That is what cost us the game in the end.

Henshaw wasn't great, we should have played Larmour if we wanted to win the game. Henshaw might benefit from more playing time at full back but where will he get it?

It wasn't!

You can not blame anyone or anything outside of ourselves that cost us the game.

[Walter Cronc]

Poor day. Key men under cooked. Not often a Schmidt team tactically outplayed.

To the haters posting on here. Get a life you cretins.

[Solo_run]

After taking some time to calm down... Ireland can either learn from this loss or wither away. I hate saying it but Ireland always seem to mess up before a world cup. I would be lying if I said I wasn't annoyed but the loss isn't a bad thing, alleviates the pressure on Ireland a little. I would rather teams target England rather than Ireland come September.

Anyhow back to the game, it was ridiculous to play Henshaw at the back against England of all teams and Larmour should have started in that position from the start. England were very fortunate with two of their tries, had we a more experienced full back it would have been a lot closer. Hopefully this puts an end to Schmidt experimenting with Henshaw as a fullback option.

It was a complete reversal from last year only this time England were way more aggressive than Ireland and that's what set the teams apart. In addition to the lack of intensity there seems to have been a lot of passes going astray and luckily van der flier was there to clean up.

[Capt Pat]

We played poorly giving England a 14 point platform to start the game. Slade was offside for that contentious try as well. That is what cost us the game in the end.

Henshaw wasn't great, we should have played Larmour if we wanted to win the game. Henshaw might benefit from more playing time at full back but where will he get it?

It wasn't!

You can not blame anyone or anything outside of ourselves that cost us the game.

According to the panel on tv 3 it was offside. The first 2 tries conceded were badly defended if Stockdale was a bit unlucky with the bounce of the ball. The fourth try conceded was the result of desperation play from Ireland. England were the better side no doubt but Ireland let themselves down.

Did anyone else think the English players were offside/obstructing Irish players from contesting the high ball from Murrays box kicks.

[laoislad]

That miss for England could prove costly.

Did it?

[screenexile]

We played poorly giving England a 14 point platform to start the game. Slade was offside for that contentious try as well. That is what cost us the game in the end.

Henshaw wasn't great, we should have played Larmour if we wanted to win the game. Henshaw might benefit from more playing time at full back but where will he get it?

It wasn't!

You can not blame anyone or anything outside of ourselves that cost us the game.

According to the panel on tv 3 it was offside. The first 2 tries conceded were badly defended if Stockdale was a bit unlucky with the bounce of the ball. The fourth try conceded was the result of desperation play from Ireland. England were the better side no doubt but Ireland let themselves down.

Did anyone else think the English players were offside/obstructing Irish players from contesting the high ball from Murrays box kicks.

Was in the bar watching UTV coverage and the line they had across the pitch shows him onside!!

[Tony Baloney]

No point making excuses about Garces. England were much better and Jones had his homework well done. Physical upfront and they obviously fancied Henshaw as vulnerable. Big Dev nearly decapitated somebody and wasn't pulled for it so you give and you take. Ireland aren't a bad team overnight and it's only Game 1 so nobody has won anything yet. Scotland will be no pushovers either so hope for plenty of improvement over the next matches and finish the tournament with everyone healthy.

[manfromdelmonte]

Murray kept kicking the ball away.
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Murray kept kicking the ball away.
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Yeah. But when he did give it to the other backs they just ran into tackles and never once looked like breaking the line.