The IRISH RUGBY thread

[tiempo]

Absolute destruction up front.

Meat feast

[Blowitupref]

Got to see where we stand against the best team in the World tonight.

[weareros]

11 point battering really. Heroic and desperate defending but the gap that has developed between these teams since last World Cup is staggering.

[Nanderson]

I have a feeling that if SA needed 2 points to win a world cup with a penalty under the posts they'd back themselves to get a penatly try from a scrum they are that confident in their scrum

[JPGJOHNNYG]

Look the big positive is that could easily have become 50-13 or something and Ireland really should have scored at the end to make it 20 -24 It would have been nice to see how they would have got on 15 v 15. If you get sent off for a bull shit head collision that you didn't even see coming is one thing but James Ryan really let the team down with that massive brain fart. England must be massive favourites for the 6 nations now.

[Fogarty]

Rassie is some wind up merchant. He has no respect for the Irish.

[Tony Baloney]

Look the big positive is that could easily have become 50-13 or something and Ireland really should have scored at the end to make it 20 -24 It would have been nice to see how they would have got on 15 v 15. If you get sent off for a bull shit head collision that you didn't even see coming is one thing but James Ryan really let the team down with that massive brain fart. England must be massive favourites for the 6 nations now.

Ryan was a tube but the most significant issue is the difficulty in establishing an attacking platform if you are demolished at every scrum.

[David McKeown]

Demolished at the scrum, demolished in the air, lacking the strength in depth  and on the wrong side of crucial decisions yet only lost by 11. Clearly a team in transition but I think there's a lot to build on.

[Wildweasel74]

Badly need a loose head. Plus 2 big heavy locks to give the push to the scrum. Making too many mistakes of the basics.

[Tony Baloney]

Badly need a loose head. Plus 2 big heavy looks to give the push to the scrum. Making too many mistakes of the basics.

Aye, it's alright boys like Porter shifting big tin in the gym, but it's clearly no match for some big ignorant 22 stone f**ker. Or in the case of SA, several of them.

[ranch]

Rassie is some wind up merchant. He has no respect for the Irish.

Should he have?

[johnnycool]

A strange game on the whole for me.


The scrum was always going to be an area of concern for Ireland so best avoided at all costs so knock ons etc need to be kept to the bare minimum so the restart knock ons were a disaster for Ireland.

Poor Porter was absolutely pulverised last night and will have slept like a baby, he was fucked long before it was over but it has to be noticed that Furlong had the better of his respective opponents.

I'm not sure how Ireland counteract such dominance going forward. 

SA didn't show a whole pile else other than the scrum and line out whilst Ireland did show a bit of a threat when they did get a bit of ball and territory and they maybe should have taken a penalty or two rather than kick for touch .

Other than not giving the SA lad a yellow card early on I don't think the referee was overly bad.  Ryan has only himself to blame, total mind fart and Porter could have got a second yellow late on with some of the other yellow cards were out of pure despair from Ireland.

Take the Rassie behaviour at the end as a compliment lads.

[Wildweasel74]

How Porter is not great stuff scrummaging is hard to work out, saying he used to do Tighthead which is harder. Game changed bck again to the heavies in the pack rather than mobility and Ireland need adjust accordingly and look at a heavier bigger pack over the nxt 2 yrs. Light weights may not apply.

[David McKeown]

A strange game on the whole for me.


The scrum was always going to be an area of concern for Ireland so best avoided at all costs so knock ons etc need to be kept to the bare minimum so the restart knock ons were a disaster for Ireland.

Poor Porter was absolutely pulverised last night and will have slept like a baby, he was fucked long before it was over but it has to be noticed that Furlong had the better of his respective opponents.

I'm not sure how Ireland counteract such dominance going forward. 

SA didn't show a whole pile else other than the scrum and line out whilst Ireland did show a bit of a threat when they did get a bit of ball and territory and they maybe should have taken a penalty or two rather than kick for touch .

Other than not giving the SA lad a yellow card early on I don't think the referee was overly bad.  Ryan has only himself to blame, total mind fart and Porter could have got a second yellow late on with some of the other yellow cards were out of pure despair from Ireland.

Take the Rassie behaviour at the end as a compliment lads.

I thought the ref was incredibly inconsistent. No issue with any of the Ireland cards but the worse infringement of the day was Sacha on O'Brien and no card.

Prendergast goes for multiple team fouls inside the 22 despite a score but then 2 minutes later ref awards 3 penalties against the boks inside the 22 (and misses a high tackle) and when asked by Doris why no (at least) warning replies you scored.

He misses a very obvious forward pass on first South African try. All of those things have big impacts on the game in terms of frustrating and ultimately tiring players. I think a better ref that could have been a very good game.

[Genocide Organ]

Yeah, I thought it was forward for that first try, as well. Why did Irish players not try and get a review?

SA should certainly have got the early yellow, but they reckon Ireland could've got a couple more yellows themselves. I suppose the ref. didn't want it becoming even more ridiculous so had to let a couple of things slide.