Women's World Cup 2014

Minjor · 13-08-2014 5:37pm

Kanrith wrote: »

Yeah, looked pretty clear to me.

Yeah, definitely.

HeidiHeidi · 13-08-2014 5:37pm

Is there commentary anywhere in English? My Irish is good enough but wouldn't mind hearing it in English if available.... the time-lag on 2FM is appalling, not watchable at all.

Oh dear..... England ramping it up a bit here.....

awec · 13-08-2014 5:38pm

Ah jaysus that was too easy. England try.

eyeball kid · 13-08-2014 5:38pm

Balls.

Piliger · 13-08-2014 5:38pm

That was a clear and transparent hold up by Ireland before than try. Totally inconsistent refereeing

ssaye2 · 13-08-2014 5:39pm

Need a score quick

RuggieBear · 13-08-2014 5:39pm

****. Good try

Inspector Coptoor · 13-08-2014 5:40pm

Nice hand off by Merchant - good finish.
England looking good.
Great conversion

awec · 13-08-2014 5:40pm

Our restarts are bad. Too long every time.

Nerdlingr · 13-08-2014 5:40pm

Great conversion there.
Need just to keep the ball down their half for a while, need a good restart.

RuggieBear · 13-08-2014 5:40pm

What a ****ing steal

RuggieBear · 13-08-2014 5:40pm

Shocking kick. Ugh

crisco10 · 13-08-2014 5:41pm

Ah Jesus Niamh.

awec · 13-08-2014 5:41pm

What.... was that?

Pighead · 13-08-2014 5:41pm

Awful tackle from Irish defender for England's second try. What on earth was she doing? She seemed to try and slap the English try scorer on the face.

Inspector Coptoor · 13-08-2014 5:41pm

Cantwell is very good at talking to the ref

feargale · 13-08-2014 5:41pm

Are they tiring? Pressure!

Nerdlingr · 13-08-2014 5:41pm

Ah jaysus.

Inspector Coptoor · 13-08-2014 5:42pm

Pighead wrote: »

Awful tackle from Irish defender for England's second try. What on earth was she doing? She seemed to try and slap the English try scorer on the face.

She was handed off well by 14 - Merchant.
It happens

Micky Dolenz · 13-08-2014 5:44pm

Day light if this goes over.

awec · 13-08-2014 5:44pm

Was she the tackler?

13-08-2014 5:44pm

awec wrote: »

Was she the tackler?

She wasn't

Inspector Coptoor · 13-08-2014 5:44pm

BS penalty

crisco10 · 13-08-2014 5:44pm

Mistake after mistake in this 15 minute period. They will be disappointed given their discipline in tournament so far.

Micky Dolenz · 13-08-2014 5:45pm

England 18 - 7 Ireland. HT

crisco10 · 13-08-2014 5:46pm

awec wrote: »

Was she the tackler?

I thought she was assist tackler. Probably didn't need to involve herself in the tackle but she did by pushing the runner to ground. And then she needed to release and go again.

eyeball kid · 13-08-2014 5:46pm

Disappointing end to that half. Hopefully they can turn it around but its a big ask.

awec · 13-08-2014 5:47pm

crisco10 wrote: »

I thought she was assist tackler. Probably didn't need to involve herself in the tackle but she did by pushing the runner to ground. And then she needed to release and go again.

#4 was the tackler. She had no need to release.

Shouldn't have been a penalty.

vetinari · 13-08-2014 5:49pm

Briggs seems to be feeling the pressure. A couple of very bad kicks.
Our only hope is that England tire in the second half.
The amount of possession they have at the moment leaves no way back into the game for us.

crisco10 · 13-08-2014 5:50pm

awec wrote: »

#4 was the tackler. She had no need to release.

Shouldn't have been a penalty.

Think we could argue this all night but in my view briggs helped Spence (#4) bring the English woman to ground. Hence also needed to release.

Billy86 · 13-08-2014 5:54pm

English pundit in Sky (didn't get her name) has a bit of gall, questioning the Irish try and the ref motives but ignoring anything that went in England's favour.

Don't mean to go all Niamh Hogan here, but Megan Murrieta (Canadian pundit)... looking well!

awec · 13-08-2014 5:56pm

England are great going in to contact. Recycling the ball so fast.

molloyjh · 13-08-2014 5:56pm

Briggs obviously feeling the pressure with 2 high profile errors, both leading to scores. But the side as a whole haven't performed well enough. The pack has been second best by a distance and the defence hasn't been tight enough. Just look at the Irish line. It's really unstructured and England are making hay.

Hippo · 13-08-2014 6:00pm

Midfield defence has been so porous

molloyjh · 13-08-2014 6:01pm

Thinks that's it. An Irish 7 pointer would have made a game of it, but with 15 needed to go ahead now I don't see it happening.

awec · 13-08-2014 6:02pm

Hippo wrote: »

Midfield defence has been so porous

IMO they were shooting up so fast that a change of direction was going to totally wrong foot them.

molloyjh · 13-08-2014 6:02pm

Great body position but what were we doing trying to push her off. Corkscrew girls, corkscrew!

Nerdlingr · 13-08-2014 6:02pm

Why don't they try a short restart? keep on kicking it long giving England possession.

Davei141 · 13-08-2014 6:02pm

I think they were hoping Alphonsi was going to fall over instead of smashing her off that ball. It is not looking good at all.

ssaye2 · 13-08-2014 6:03pm

C'mon early score give everything.

vetinari · 13-08-2014 6:03pm

That last phase told it all.
We finally get the ball back at midfield from an English kick.
We lose it in the next contact phase.
Some pressure the English are putting us under.

Dave_The_Sheep · 13-08-2014 6:03pm

Breakdown from England is excellent. Two penalties there, one an Irish mistake (not releasing) and one just the English player just locked onto the ball like a limpet (holding on). Tough to play against that.

Larbre34 · 13-08-2014 6:03pm

Hmm. Will be hard to come back from this, all the momentum with England and they are lethal in midfield.

molloyjh · 13-08-2014 6:04pm

Not through the f-ing gate ref!

Dave_The_Sheep · 13-08-2014 6:04pm

In the side surely...

Davei141 · 13-08-2014 6:05pm

2 in a row awful efforts at clearing out, she wasn't even well balanced.

awec · 13-08-2014 6:05pm

Penalty the wrong way there.

molloyjh · 13-08-2014 6:10pm

They want to put a score on us. They may well....

ScissorPaperRock · 13-08-2014 6:10pm

Ireland looking rattled

Rightwing · 13-08-2014 6:10pm

That's a powerful English team, they've this semi in the bag.

Women's World Cup 2014

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