Ireland v USA | Joe Schmidt 36 hour speculation thread

fitz

Some laziness in the pack that's not going to do some players any favours.

bilston

It looked to me as though Henderson fell over and the maul just fell over on top of him

Crowd gone very quiet!

razorblunt

Cooney's passing is unnecessarily flat, receivers are oftent taking man and the tackle.

fitz

razorblunt wrote: »

Cooney's passing is unnecessarily flat, receivers are oftent taking man and the tackle.

His kicking hasn't been great either.

BBDBB

vienne86 wrote: »

Joe will be fuming about this.

Joe? I’m feckin raging at the telly, the dog has got up and walked out:o

Hurrache

I always thought sin binners had to sit on the rugby equivalent of the naughty step, am I mistaken? Henderson is sitting with the team.

MattD

Got a bit of a smile from hearing the ref obviously stopping the US A team from trying to take a conversion for the penalty try...!

Cooney bit of a hospital pass there - Beirne at full stretch to catch it and then got cleaned out by the Italian prop.

ScissorPaperRock

Addison looking lively on the ball

ScrubsfanChris

Cooneys exit kicks are woefull

Clegg

Cooney's kicking is poor.

bilston

What happened to Sweetman?

kuang1

Dunno why this seems to be surprising some. USA will stick close enough to us for 50 minutes or so.
Ireland by 29.

PetKing

Cockford Ollie wrote:

Heaslip talks too much, and talks over the referee.

Clicked on to RTE and thought the end of Jackman. Loud and fast. Might flick over to channel 4.

bilston

kuang1 wrote: »

Dunno why this seems to be surprising some. USA will stick close enough to us for 50 minutes or so.
Ireland by 29.

At least 50 minutes. Remember they beat Scotland in June.

They are probably not a million miles of the likes of Japan and Samoa at the moment.

Clegg

Ringrose is the best player on this purchase by miles.

Somedaythefire

Jesus that looked an awful clash when Addison tried to jump over the tackle.

mangobob

Ah balls.

PhlegmyMoses

Clegg wrote: »

Ringrose is the best player on this purchase by miles.

Addison giving him a run for his money.

bilston

Good try.

Ireland need to be direct here. Do that they will score a few tries in the second half.

Mookie Blaylock

Great break by Conway to let Conan in

Clegg

At the stadium close to pitch side .

Ross Byrne called that move. Let our a roar to his outside backs right before Cooney passed to him.

mangobob

We won the sin bin period 10 nil. Not bad.

bilston

Clegg wrote: »

Ringrose is the best player on this purchase by miles.

Well yes he has been good, although he was a bit sloppy on the US line a minute ago.

Addison and Conway have been good too.

Some Yoke

This try has been personally approved by Cian Healy™

Squidgy Black

Conway replicating that Gilroy vs Italy performance

Somedaythefire

Such a sloppy restart, that

bilston

We don't want to concede here bearing in mind Ringrose and Henderson may go off at half time.

durthacht

Clegg wrote: »

At the stadium close to pitch side .

Ross Byrne called that move. Let our a roar to his outside backs right before Cooney passed to him.

Ross Byrne and Joey Carbery playing together again in blue. I'm getting all nostalgic!

Good bench selection from Joe - having a second play maker to come on is really paying off. Byrne playing terrific since he came on.

vienne86

Nice line by Ross Byrne there.

OldRio

Better defensive effort there.
I'm enjoying this to be honest.

vienne86

Yes, Heaslip maybe talks too much, but he's bang on the money with his comments.

Clegg

PhlegmyMoses wrote: »

Clegg wrote: »

Ringrose is the best player on this purchase by miles.

Addison giving him a run for his money.

In terms of runnin, yes. But Ringrose's passing has been exemplary. Perfectly weighted and always to a man running onto them. That's what's setting him apart I think. Threw a gammy offload but that's forgiveable by all he's done right.

bilston

That must have been the most ridiculous maul I've ever seen!

vienne86

That maul was comical!

Somedaythefire

Hahahaha that maul

flazio

PetKing wrote: »

Clicked on to RTE and thought the end of Jackman. Loud and fast. Might flick over to channel 4.

It's weird, it's like whenever the BBC let you watch a match on the red button with 5 live commentary. Both channels feel like RTÉ from a year ago but it's the Radio 1 commentary on RTÉ 2.

Franz Von Peppercorn

What was going on with that maul?

vienne86

Clegg wrote: »

In terms of runnin, yes. But Ringrose's passing has been exemplary. Perfectly weighted and always to a man running onto them. That's what's setting him apart I think. Threw a gammy offload but that's forgiveable by all he's done right.

He is head and shoulders above the rest. He is such an intelligent player.

Squidgy Black

Franz Von Peppercorn wrote: »

What was going on with that maul?

They tried to not engage, so that if the ball is transferred to the back the players in the front are ahead of the ball carrier. Similar to the truck and trailer.

budhabob

Any info on what happened sweetnam?

bilston

vienne86 wrote: »

Yes, Heaslip maybe talks too much, but he's bang on the money with his comments.

I think Heaslip is excellent. He really knows his stuff (as you'd expect)

Somedaythefire

Fun game. So sloppy though, especially in the line outs from what I've seen. Feels like we're going to lose all of them

shootermacg

Not seeing much from Conan.

Clegg

Whomever is calling the lineout is going to get a bollicking.

Seen nothing from either lock that will even.gwt Joe contemplating starting them ahead of Toner.

PhlegmyMoses

Clegg wrote: »

In terms of runnin, yes. But Ringrose's passing has been exemplary. Perfectly weighted and always to a man running onto them. That's what's setting him apart I think. Threw a gammy offload but that's forgiveable by all he's done right.

Oh for sure. Ringrose is probably the best out and out rugby player in Ireland tbh. Has the lot

At times this looks like a bunch of lads trying far too hard.

Somedaythefire

[Deleted User] wrote: »

At times this looks like a bunch of lads trying far too hard.

Yeah I'm not sure if it's been nerves, or everyone being on edge and trying too hard.