Ireland V. Italy, Sat Feb 6th. Croke Park. 14:30.*Mod Warning Post no. 296*

jd007

FUCK IT!

jayteecorktemp

wtf bERGAMASCO!

rebel girl 15

What a dreadful line out, Italian line out had been exceptionally poor. Good try by O Leary

That move before the line out deserved a try, great hands!

Italian try :mad: Too slow claiming it and clearing the ball

wixfjord

Poor from kearney, could see that a mile off.

d-gal

joke by kearney, not taking the game seriously, far to lax

That_Guy

Strange miss tbh.

Sherifu

'A lapse in concentration'

Indeed.

bleg

23-8 HT. I'll take that. Have to keep them scoreless in the 2nd half.

outwest

evryone but kearny could see that getting blocked,

good first half

pappyodaniel

Ok, now to leave bbc and head to rte for Hooky and co's opinions, who's with me?

Squiggle

wixfjord wrote: »

Poor from kearney, could see that a mile off.

Yep kicked it straight at him - fooking stupid !

wixfjord

d-gal wrote: »

joke by kearney, not taking the game seriously, far to lax

bleg wrote: »

Brainfart by Kearney. Absolute clown!

Jaysus cool the jets lads. From the best fb in the world to a clown and not taking the game seriously from one mistake.

d-gal

Impressed so far with cullen, thought in the first few mins they were going to miss DOCs wokrate in the rucks but cullen has been exceptional.

First HT performance so far

Healy - 7
Fla - 7
Hayes - 7
Cullen - 9
POC - 9
Mclaughlin - 7
Wallace - 8
Heaslip - 8
O'Leary - 7
ROG - 8
Trimble - 9
Darcy - 6
BOD - 7
Bowe - 7
Kearney - 6

Teferi

Kearney got unlucky. Look at your mans face when he blocks it, he can't believe his luck.

wixfjord

McLaughlin carrying well, lineout going well, ROG doing well and looking confident. Should get forty if we can win the breakdown in the second half. Hook is right about the ref too.

Squiggle

RTE wánkers so desperate to take breaks it's hard to watch.

pickarooney

wixfjord wrote: »

Hook is right about the ref too.

What did he say about him? Stuck with clueless French commentators here.

wixfjord

Marshall on BBC ****en on about hes not impressed with Ireland. 23-8 up ffs in a very disjointed and slow game, taken our chances and doing what we need to do.

Squiggle

pickarooney wrote: »

What did he say about him? Stuck with clueless French commentators here.

Refs generally unfair to the Italians since they entered the six nations.

wixfjord

pickarooney wrote: »

What did he say about him? Stuck with clueless French commentators here.

Just that the yellow card was wrong, and that hes being harsh on Italy, and is too fussy.

Catmologen

Shocking by Kearney, joke of a decision by the ref for the sin bin, nothing wrong with that tackle. TOL is having a magnificent game.

That_Guy

wixfjord wrote: »

Marshall on BBC ****en on about hes not impressed with Ireland. 23-8 up ffs in a very disjointed and slow game, taken our chances and doing what we need to do.

It's cos we're not English.

the immortals

cullen haaving a great game, we should be looking for 50 points here

gcgirl

the sin bin was right the end bit was totally uncalled for, Dennis hickey is i think it's him anyway on bbc doing commentry

wixfjord

ROG my motm so far.

Squiggle

Cullen should have got the bin there !

Sherifu

Squiggle wrote: »

Cullen should have got the bin there !

He should have for sure.

toomevara

wixfjord wrote:

Marshall on BBC ****en on about hes not impressed with Ireland. 23-8 up ffs in a very disjointed and slow game, taken our chances and doing what we need to do.

That_Guy wrote: »

It's cos we're not English.

No disagree, he's absolutely right. This Italian team are, no disrespect, a clueless rabble. They've got nothing outside of 8. We, clearly, don't know what to do with them...The point Marshall was making was, if you listen to what he was saying, was that ireland are orders of magnitude better than Italy, thats bleedin' obvious and we should be looking to take them apart..it's what an AB team would do and its what we should do if we've any pretentions to really take a seat at the top table in rugby...We need to open this game up and back ourselves instead of giving away soft tries and daft penalties.

wixfjord

why was bergamasco taking that? Surely Mcclean?

Catmologen

Bergamasco is kicking nicely, went close in the 1st half as well.

gcgirl

thats it ROG

wixfjord

toomevara wrote: »

No disagree, he's absolutely right. This Italian team are, no disrespect, a clueless rabble. They've got nothing outside of 8. We, clearly, don't know what to do with them...The point Marshall was making was, if you listen to what he was saying, was that ireland are orders of magnitude better than Italy, thats bleedin' obvious and we should be looking to take them apart..it's what an AB team would do and its what we should do if we've any pretentions to really take a seat at the top table in rugby...We need to open this game up and back ourselves instead of giving away soft tries and daft penalties.

Weve done all we can ffs! Theyre shutting the game down every chance they get, and slowing everything. We had two tries and a big lead in the first half! I mean you dont have to be playing champagne rugby every game, and to criticise Ireland for that is imo crazy. They were never going to go out and throw the ball around and open up the game, international rugby does not work that way. Dont agree with that at all toome.

Catmologen

100% from ROG, that music they play after each score is god-awful. Hopefully they'll stop that in the new Landsdowne.

wixfjord

Definite forward pass. We should be looking to build phases more instead of kicking tbh.

bleg

Kearney not having his best game.

This kicking is so annoying.

wixfjord

Leo doing very well.

bleg

Deliberate knock on surely!

wixfjord

O Driscolls kicking is shocking! Always has been bad, one downfall in his game imo.

rebel girl 15

This ping pong kicking is ridiculous!

5 Italians line outs won, good work by Ireland.

gcgirl

bleg wrote: »

Kearney not having his best game.

This kicking is so annoying.

Kearney is making Dennis Hurley look good

wixfjord

wixfjord wrote: »

O Driscolls kicking is shocking! Always has been bad, one downfall in his game imo.

Haha must have heard me!

pappyodaniel

O'Connell would want to keep his hands(fingers) away from Botolami's face(eyes) :eek:

stackerman

wixfjord wrote: »

Weve done all we can ffs! Theyre shutting the game down every chance they get, and slowing everything. We had two tries and a big lead in the first half! I mean you dont have to be playing champagne rugby every game, and to criticise Ireland for that is imo crazy. They were never going to go out and throw the ball around and open up the game, international rugby does not work that way. Dont agree with that at all toome.

I think the point which is being made is that we should be stamping ourselves on this game more. By all means ease ourselves into it, but there is a gap in class and we should show it, not be draged down (esp in these perfect conditions).

bleg

Back 3 are ****ing shocking.

pappyodaniel

wixfjord wrote: »

O Driscolls kicking is shocking! Always has been bad, one downfall in his game imo.

Seriously?

wixfjord

Now is the time we should be running it, and the comments he made are very apt now, but for the first half it was always going to be tight. Very poor game.

Catmologen

gcgirl wrote: »

Kearney is making Dennis Hurley look good

Hurleys playing very well at the moment

bleg

Earls coming on. No harm.

stackerman

wixfjord wrote: »

Now is the time we should be running it, and the comments he made are very apt now, but for the first half it was always going to be tight. Very poor game.

Agree

d-gal

Earls should come on for Kearney, he looks completely disinterested

EDIT: why o why replace trimble? the best of the back 3 today!