Wales vs Ireland Match Thread, Sat 12 March 5pm. **ALL RF POSTERS PLEASE READ OP**

Derfil

ironingbored wrote: »

That's why ROG is playing Amlin and Jonny's playing HC.

Take your Leinster hat off and look at what's just happened. Think I'll tweet him later:pac:

irishbucsfan

What exactly did Sexton do wrong? Put a cross-field kick out on the full?

O'Gara did the exact same thing in the first 5 minutes, dont see how Sexton is getting blamed here.

fullstop

Losty Dublin wrote: »

The Welsh line out was fine. The line had not been taken quickly, it had been formed by Irish players albeit so as such it's legit. The speed of a line out being taken after it's formation is not an issue as both teams had committed into it.

WTF are you talking about? Nonsense.

ShamoBuc

brian1976 wrote: »

in fairness the **** kick didn;t lead to the try, a crap defense did - let's not exaggerate

an illegally taken lineout is not the defences fault!
The kick Aided the creation of the try maybe.

LFC5Times

LFC5Times wrote: »

In fairness the Welsh back three have positioned themselves well for the kicks in this match, while some of the kicks have been poor some credit must go to the Welsh back three.

So the correct response is to not kick the ball, because if you do, they deal with it, and if you don't, they've left gaps by having to be in positions to defend kicks.

Its basic strategy and we're not adapting whatsoever.

twinytwo

drico/SOB whole country looking at you... little bit of magic if you please...

Diabhal Beag

twinytwo wrote: »

drico/SOB whole country looking at you... little bit of magic if you please...

What about Heaslip?

ShamoBuc

irishbucsfan wrote: »

What exactly did Sexton do wrong? Put a cross-field kick out on the full?

O'Gara did the exact same thing in the first 5 minutes, dont see how Sexton is getting blamed here.

I suppose Wales dod not score a converted try from Ogaras mistake - bad pen missed afterwards probably did not help sextons case.
Plenty of time for sexton to win the match - not too hopeful though TBH

Hersheys

First bit of decent rugby I've seen from Earls this 6N.

Take off D'arcy - he's anonymous. Anybody would be better.

manster

brian1976 wrote: »

stop talking crap would you and watch the rest of the game...

If my opinion bothers you so much ignore it. Sexton's confidence is gone after the try and penalty. We need a place kicker 3 points down - who do you suggest?

TheRevolution

ShamoBuc wrote: »

I suppose Wales dod not score a converted try from Ogaras mistake - bad pen missed afterwards probably did not help sextons case.
Plenty of time for sexton to win the match - not too hopeful though TBH

So its Sextons fault the officials got it wrong?

Love the logic.

This is ridiculous. When BOD decides to kick a grubber on the Wales 10m line instead of keeping the ball in hand you know there's something wrong.

Confidence is low, the gameplan is awful, this is nightmare stuff.

As a Leinster fan, I hope Schmidt can turn these guys back into superstars when they come back from camp, because they've all gone backwards.

ShamoBuc

twinytwo wrote: »

drico/SOB whole country looking at you... little bit of magic if you please...

I'll take a bit of magic from anyone to be fair!

LuckyGent88

Thats more like it Jonny

ambid

Whatever about the officials bad lineout mistake and Sexton's mistakes and some over the top comments on the thread, the main point is the one made by Emmet a few minutes ago - that this is a very poor quality match.

Ireland look average at best in their fourth match having been in camp for weeks. We are still underperforming for the players we have. The "rustiness" from the Italy game is still there.

TheRevolution

Great kick from Sexton....

Am I allowed to say that around here?

andyman

manster wrote: »

The man they took off

It's not like he was stealing the show either...

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manster wrote: »

If my opinion bothers you so much ignore it. Sexton's confidence is gone after the try and penalty. We need a place kicker 3 points down - who do you suggest?

Maybe if you knewe what you were talking about people would listen to your opinion, but you clearly don't.

twinytwo

would people ****ing relax... last time i checked it was a team effort

keps

If we are good enough - we can win

ShamoBuc

TheRevolution wrote: »

so its Sextons fault the officials got it wrong!(;))

Love the logic.

if you say so;)

LuckyGent88

some poor attacking play here.

Lord Trollington

How were Wales not off side there??

Aidric

Earls has been super.

Prowetod

There was a gap in the line for sexton there:mad:

Earls is playing well

LFC5Times

Earls making good yards when he gets the ball.

Would be great to have Ferris on the bench to bring on to make some hard yards.

Don't bring Cronin on, we can't take a risk of not winning our lineouts.

Diabhal Beag

Great chance wasted there after some good play.

Diabhal Beag

Aidric wrote: »

Earls has been super.

He really has been Irish MOM.

TheRevolution

The ref is outrageous.

Losty Dublin

fullstop wrote: »

WTF are you talking about? Nonsense.

Three Irish players were in place at the line out when it was throw in so that's the formed line out by the defensive team. Once the line is formed it's formed and the Welsh were entitled to take it as speedily as they did today as it was "formed".

Kaplan with a saddle on Ireland today.

Some bizarre stuff.

Jemmy

Something needs to change here pretty quickly

Burgo

Leamy on for Heaslip? jesus christ.

nice_guy80

why doesn't Fitzgerald run the ball back instead of kicking it away???

Aidric

Looks like a converted try needed to get out of jail. Step up Keith Earls.

TheRevolution

Why didnt Kidney take off Wallace? Wallace has been a ghost.

Leamy 6 SOB 8 I hope...

twinytwo

lol love the way the linesman sees that but cant see a big red ball flying into the crowd

nice_guy80

Burgo wrote: »

Leamy on for Heaslip? jesus christ.

penalty time!!!

Lord Trollington

Touch judge had no problem spotting that

Can't wait to see our kicking stats.

ShamoBuc

yet another crap kick - fitzgeald this time

Horse_box

Holy **** we have no direction or plan here, dreadful stuff

Diabhal Beag

Now we're just handing Wales marks.

ShamoBuc

wallace for luke

LuckyGent88

Fitzgerald has been brutal.

Scratch That.....IRELAND have been brutal.
Throwing away another game

irishbucsfan

Losty Dublin wrote: »

Three Irish players were in place at the line out when it was throw in so that's the formed line out by the defensive team. Once the line is formed it's formed and the Welsh were entitled to take it as speedily as they did today as it was "formed".

Incorrect.

Anyway, even if this was an alternate universe where you were somehow correct, it would have been "not straight" and therefore a scrum to Ireland.


Elsewhere, Keith Earls is having his first good game in a while. Hopefully this is a sign of things to come from him.

Lord Trollington

Kidney has lost the plot....

Hammer Archer

Losty Dublin wrote: »

Three Irish players were in place at the line out when it was throw in so that's the formed line out by the defensive team. Once the line is formed it's formed and the Welsh were entitled to take it as speedily as they did today as it was "formed".

Nothing about the forming of the lineout. You can only take a quick one if the ball hasn't been interfered with by a third party. The ball they took it with wasn't even the same ball that Sexton kicked out FFS.

Edit: I see what you're trying to say. You're still wrong though.

Diabhal Beag

Wallace can only be an improvement after Luke's performance today