AI: Ireland v South Africa; Aviva Stadium, Sat 10 Nov [MOD WARNING POST #1160]

Banbridgeman2

Murray needs to speed up, Zebo looks fantastic

SliM Dedalus

molloyjh wrote: »

And again. Very annoying.

Modern sports broadcasting needs its soap opera storyline. This one has been done to death.

irishbucsfan

Banbridgeman2 wrote: »

Murray needs to speed up, Zebo looks fantastic

Murray has been spot on

.ak

durkadurka wrote: »

The pitch is a disgrace.

What's the craic with it? Last season and the season before it was immaculate.

Someone's gonna roll an ankle....

Fireball07

Another good kick from Sexton. 9-3. Excellent start.

irishbucsfan

SliM Dedalus wrote: »

Modern sports broadcasting needs its soap opera storyline. This one has been done to death.

They're hoping they'll cut back to him next time and see horns sticking out if his head,

It wouldn't surprise me either!

Burgo

Ireland 9 - 3 SA.
21 mins gone.

Cpt_Blackbeard

Sexton could end up getting pinged for taking too long over his kicks. He's up around the 90sec mark for each kick so far. His kicking has been great though.

.ak

Murray's actually been allright speed wise.

gally74

McCarthy has started v well

irishbucsfan

Murrays box kicking so far has been excellent. 3 good ones now.

Burgo

.ak wrote: »

Murray's actually been allright speed wise.

His Box kicks have been great so far, 3 or 4 on the money.

leakyboots

MacCarthy having a great game, our backrow are going quite well actually

.ak

Now, George, that's an open side flanker...

Fireball07

Great work at the breakdown and in the tackle so far.

Kilkenny14

Great work by Keith Earls in that turnover.

ScissorPaperRock

Good to see O'Mahony stepping up

phog

.ak wrote: »

What's the craic with it? Last season and the season before it was immaculate.

Someone's gonna roll an ankle....

It was the same for Leinster v Munster, really cut up and there were a few injuries that night

goreyguy

O'mahony getting credit for henrys work.

durkadurka

Cpt_Blackbeard wrote: »

Sexton could end up getting pinged for taking too long over his kicks. He's up around the 90sec mark for each kick so far. His kicking has been great though.

Are you timing him?

goreyguy

what is healy doing with no tshirt

errlloyd

Healy not a fan of the black apparently.

flyswatter

Where was the backline? Going nowhere there.

leakyboots

flyswatter wrote: »

Where was the backline? Going nowhere there.

Bit of a brawl going on

irishbucsfan

Half backs can't allow us to get that deep into the phases. Should've put boot to ball.

d-gal

Paul O'Connell wears Mike McCarthy pyjamas

.ak

goreyguy wrote: »

what is healy doing with no tshirt

Bit of handbags.

duckysauce

lambies kicking stats are shiite

Cpt_Blackbeard

durkadurka wrote: »

Are you timing him?

Was looking at the clock for the second two because he took ages with the first.

leakyboots

Earlsy comes alive

Fireball07

Good from Earls but that was an excellent tackle from Louw

Burgo

Gwan Earls! more of that please.

Banbridgeman2

Heaslip leading by example

Burgo

Cpt_Blackbeard wrote: »

Was looking at the clock for the second two because he took ages with the first.

He always takes ages. Does push his luck sometimes !

Tomtom364

Thoughts on Ireland so far.

Good start.
Murray looks good, box kicks outta the 22 are very good.
POM needs to up it a bit.
Henry is having a good game.
Mccarthy is immense thus far.
Zebo solid and looks threatening.
Bowe has misplaced his hands somewhere.

Line out is terrible to poor
Scrummage is solid

Unrelated to the performance, good to see Strauss learned the anthem xD

goreyguy

jesus sexton, be okay

Fireball07

Excellent move there, pity we didn't go for the try.

py2006

Is it just my eyes or are the tops too similar in colour from a distance?

Banbridgeman2

SA keep targeting sexton

Kilkenny14

South Africa are in danger of losing discipline entirely - good work by the Irish backline for the penalty.

Hopefully Sexton is ok.

duckysauce

boks starting their usual dirty shiite:mad:

Dunno why they cut away from the replay, it's gonna be another 4 minutes til this bloody kick is taken.

CIARAN_BOYLE

Banbridgeman2 wrote: »

SA keep targeting sexton

Lenihan reading your words:D

leakyboots

Tomtom364 wrote: »

Thoughts on Ireland so far.

Good start.
Murray looks good, box kicks outta the 22 are very good.
POM needs to up it a bit.
Henry is having a good game.
Mccarthy is immense thus far.
Zebo solid and looks threatening.
Bowe has misplaced his hands somewhere.

Line out is terrible to poor
Scrummage is solid

Unrelated to the performance, good to see Strauss learned the anthem xD

Agree with everything bar your assessment of POM, he's been solid so far. Backrow as a unit are going great, we're the better team at the breakdown

Murray is having a great game so far too, snappy delivery

Max Power

12-3, 4 from 4 for Sexton.

Blackheath

Henry has been really impressive

Cpt_Blackbeard

Willem Alberts has replaced Botha as the Saffer enforcer. By enforcer I mean giant forward who cheap shots smaller backs.

leakyboots

Card here!!

Fireball07

Fcuks sake, disgraceful

durkadurka

Cheap shot on sexton.

I don't like these saffers