Ireland v Australia - 2nd test, how the expected starting XVs compare.

Billy86

Billy86 wrote: »

umop episdn wrote: »

A yellow to be given @ 78.46

Against us.

And lo and behold, looks like he's winding up now, eagerly trying to find out who it was...

fed_u

The inconsistency is so infuriating..

PhlegmyMoses

Dying to give that try.

Yeah_Right

Haha. Half the people here just lost their ****. Don't smash your TVs.

BrokenMan

Not going to check for a double movement there at all?

mangobob

You absolutely could not make this up. Dont anyone dare suggest again that we cant talk about this ref. I dont care if we win or lose this, this ref is an absolute disgrace.

umop episdn

He's not going upstairs This time is he?

Gidea

Off their feet on the clearout on sexton

LeinsterDub

fed_u wrote: »

The inconsistency is so infuriating..

Some one had their hands clear on during the build up to that try and he plays on m

Billy86

I'm sorry but this is the type of refereeing performance that needs to be independently looked at. I'm not a fan of calling biased reffing (as opposed to refs feeling the pressure of the home crowd etc) but that is exactly what this is.

Beechwoodspark

For fcuk sake. Ref ridin Ireland big time

razorblunt

Off their feet at so many rucks there. Specifically with Sexton looking to spoil.

vienne86

BrokenMan wrote: »

Not going to check for a double movement there at all?

Oh god no! :eek:

Gidea

And not even going upstairs lol, its crazy. I'm absoultley shocked at how one sided this ref is

vienne86

Cooney and Carbery on.

Diving clear out on Sexton.

If we lose it's on the ref. Hate saying that but utterly inconsistent and inept.

There is going to be a lot of frustration after this game either way.

umop episdn

Regardless of the result..I want Joe to come out and be truthful about this refereeing performance in his presser... otherwise we're wasting our time

Billy86

Going to be a tense last few minutes, 16 vs 14 is never easy.

vienne86

Justice!

PhlegmyMoses

Ireland by far the better team. Should have been a higher margin

Dave_The_Sheep

Thank ****.

Big **** you to that bull****.

umop episdn

We deserved that win...

thomond2006

Gwan. Great win.

Hurrache

Good game, but the inconsistency by the ref was madness.

Clegg

Fantastic win.

But one that never should've been as close as it was. We make too much work if scoring trys. Need to be much more clinical.

MayoForSam

Despite the ref.

vienne86

Who's MOTM?

Gidea

Even with the win, i cant get over how shocking the ref was. I'm still fuming over that yellow on McGrath.

Chex LeMeneux

Fantastic result. Gritty as ****. Must more of a beating than the 5 points represent

As a neutral, I have no problems with the reffing.

Looking forward to the decider.

fitz

That's an impressive win given the ridiculous inconsistency of the ref making it way more competitive than it should have been.

vienne86

Well deserved win.

kuang1

It's when you've a victory behind you that you should be complaining about bad refereeing like that.

Atrocious.

degsie

cracking showdown ahead...

umop episdn

Basil3 wrote: »

As a neutral, I have no problems with the reffing.

Looking forward to the decider.

Nobody considers you neutral

Billy86

Thank god for that.

Now let us never see that referee ever, ever again under any circumstances.

Squidgy Black

I'm delighted with that performance. I think we really stepped it up a gear.

Niall Scannell, really impressed. If he can stay fit for the next 15 months, I'd be more than comfortable with him starting. Solid at the lineout, and carried really well.

Garry Ringrose was superb, his defence is great and he's a really classy playmaker. His distribution is top quality, and Henshaw inside him really benefits from it and allows him to bring his game along too.

POM is a machine. One of the best performances from an Irish backrow I've seen in a long time.

Murray had a couple of blunders and some errant passes. He seemed a lot more comfortable with Sexton outside him, but still doesn't seem to be firing on all cylinders.

ScrubsfanChris

Basil3 wrote: »

As a neutral, I have no problems with the reffing.

Looking forward to the decider.

You serious? If Ireland weren’t involved in this game I’d still call,that an awful referring performance in the 2nd half.

padraig.od

Who did Cooney come on for?

touts

Ireland well deserved that win.

Reffing is increasingly a serious problem in Rugby. There are refs out there who clearly shouldn't be anywhere near the pitch and have a track record of suspect decisions but there seems to be no new refs coming through to replace them.

Hurrache

Basil3 wrote: »

As a neutral, I have no problems with the reffing.

Looking forward to the decider.

But why, taking into account the 3 deliberate knock ons alone. What made one a yellow card and the other 2 not?

yosser hughes

yosser hughes wrote: »

Ireland can't give this ref any excuse now, because he will reel that score in.

Squidgy Black wrote: »

Can we stop with this please. Yes the ref has made a couple of calls that didn't go our way. But stuff like this is just unneeded and poor taste.

No. People can voice their frustration at inconsistent refereeing as this most certainly was. If you want to backseat mod, go right ahead but I stand by my opinion.
Ireland needed to give themselves that 12 point cushion.

Faugheen

Right, Williams was absolutely atrocious in the second half after a good first half.

However, he was doing exactly what we called for last week, someone to ping Hooper and Pocock.

Where on Earth were our captains? POM was far, far too quiet and didn't put any pressure on him. There is no way Rory Best would have let the ref away with what POM did. Look what happened for McGrath's yellow, it came off the back of Hooper getting into his face after a number of Aussies protested. We were far too timid and too nice in this area.

mangobob

Clegg wrote: »

Fantastic win.

But one that never should've been as close as it was. We make too much work if scoring trys. Need to be much more clinical.

We won but I am absolutely disgusted at the reffing performance. One of the most biased reffing performances I have ever seen in my life. When I see comments like that I usually roll my eyes at the hyperbole, but its absolutely true in the case and I stand by it 100%.

However you are absolutely right. We are too laboured at times in attack. If we have one weakness its a lack of a rapier cutting edge. Nothing could more clearly illustrate the difference between us and New Zealand than our bluntness in attack.

kuang1

Delighted with that win.

But found myself shouting "FŮCK YOU REF. MUST BREAK YOUR ****ING HEART TO BLOW THAT FINAL FŮCKING WHISTLE"

Not my finest moment.

Gidea

Basil3 wrote: »

As a neutral, I have no problems with the reffing.

Looking forward to the decider.

Consistently penalising on their own 5 meters line, Deliberate knock on and no card and the reverse is a card for Ireland.

Ref had an absolute nightmare

Gonad

POM man of the match

degsie

Apart from 'mare reffing, this game is why I watch rugby

vienne86

Next week will be a cracker.

ScrubsfanChris

ScrubsfanChris wrote: »

You serious? If Ireland weren’t involved in this game I’d still call,that an awful referring performance in the 2nd half.

Like any match, there were bad decisions for both sides. I don't think the ref had any bearing on the outcome of the game, in any case.

Both teams were quite wasteful with opportunities they created.