RWC 2019 Ireland v Japan Match Thread: Group A - Sat 28th Sep 08:15 Shizuoka

BrianBoru00

Blaming Ireland for not being prepared / up for it / whinging / not just good enough is completely ignoring the fact the referee has been a disgrace.
from bests "knock on" that was cleary backwards to Carthy been taken out in the air.
Completely ignoring penalties from Japan - that last one was beyond a joke - Ireland attacking, murray trying to get the ball ? ? ??

Ireland were pinged at will. VDF being held and penalty given.
Its impossible to get any momentum when your are been cheated -plain and simple.

No checking of a swnging arm on Kearney? ? Why not?

I'll watch it back but sweet Jesus - they are all blatently obvious - ref couldn't have not seen it, VDF one aside.

BarryD2

Turning point was that lost line out on their line after about 50 mins. Went backwards from there.

KBurke85

KH25 wrote: »

Shocking. Absolutely shocking.

Selection and tactics all wrong. Carty was terrible. Bench offered nothing.

Carty was involved in the only goods bit of play we had. Carberry looked nice where near fit enough when he came on.

Mr.Crinklewood

Gbear wrote: »

A smart decision honestly. We were only going to lose a point. There was zero chance of us scoring a try.

This .

Jakey Rolling

razorblunt wrote: »

What was Carberry doing?

Making sure of the losing bonus point.

thelad95

Gidea wrote: »

Embarrassing to not try chase the game at the end. All blacks would push for the draw

Scotland could well beat Japan leaving us likely to top the group, definitely right to take the bonus point

Pudsy33

An absolute humbling. We can complain about Gardner but we were ****. Played right into the Japanese hands with our poor kicking and bad decision. I'd be so happy for Japan was I not absolutely ****ing gutted.

Henry Ford III

Hard to believe

castie

BBDBB wrote: »

Well done Japan

That kick out after the gong typified the game for Ireland, poor decision making, just not up to the usual standard

Take 1 point now or massively roll the dice to try get 2 points.

Take the 1 and hope Scotland play better against them...

josip

BBDBB wrote: »

Well done Japan

That kick out after the gong typified the game for Ireland, poor decision making, just not up to the usual standard

Kicking out after the gong for the BP was the best decision made in the 2nd half.

Vinnie222

IAMAMORON wrote: »

Useless chunts, a shambles.

Fair play to Japan and they better bow to the crowd.

Useless ****, they should be sent home.

What a tool

Poor_old_gill

Faugheen wrote: »

And Ireland have had no concept of the offside line or the practice of supporting your own body weight.

We’ve been getting away with dark arts for years and Gardner has caught us. We’ve had no answer to it and we can’t have any complaints. It was an awful performance

It was an awful performance and I will agree that he did ping us but he didnt ping them and thats the issue.

You can't possibly claim that he applied the rules accurately to both teams today

harr

Disgraceful... well done to Japan but out played by japan is ridiculous. The players taught all they had to do was show up.

Hoppy Jack

AbusesToilets wrote: »

Earls saving the LBP could be huge for getting out of the group

Not really. Would be better just to go out at group stage. NZ will embarrass us

statesaver

Well, that was rather disappointing

gally74

Clegg wrote: »

Sexton is going to be flogged now I think.

Zero control from Carbery or Carty on display. They're the future after Sexton goes, but right now they aren't going to bring us to a World Cup semi final.

Your nuts if you think a 10 could win that, game lost in the forwards

Mantis Toboggan

Good job Joe is leaving after the world Cup

pc7

That was a tough watch, fair play to Japan. Don’t know what else to say, gutted.

smelly sock

Does this mean Japan are world number 1 now?

touts

Poor performance by Ireland but serious questions have to be asked of Agnus Gardener. 80 minutes of absolutely baffling decisions. I suspect he just secured his place in the World Cup Final.

Fan of Netflix

RTE "this was not an under performance by the Irish team" fcking laughable comment. I guess Japan are New Zealand level now

STB.

Negatives: Too many

Positives: We didn't concede a bonus point.

Mokuba

Air of arrogance about this team dating back to the first game of the Six Nations against England - from the media to the fans to the players.

You'd think after that humbling Six Nations that some lessons could have been learned about that sort of thing, but a few friendly wins over a Wales side trying out things and a victory over Scotland and we were back!

Guess not.

D.Q

Cork Boy 53 wrote: »

Kindly **** off witb your Eire ****.

What is the story with this?

um7y1h83ge06nx

The fact that I believe that Carvery did the right thing by playing safe and kicking the ball out really says it all.

is_that_so

Fully deserved win. Poor decision making and poor attempts to score versus a brilliant Japan game plan. Two incidents stand out, the Best overthrow and the turnover off the base of a ruck sums it up for me. NZ or bust now?

Kermit.de.frog

Horrible. Nothing more to be said.

shamrock55

Ireland were ****e, japan were dogged, ireland havent been playing well for quite a while now, world nó 1 how are ya

walshb

Ah the usual boo boys on now slaying the lads...

Just not our day today...

Notorious

Hilarious people here calling for heads on the Irish squad. The ref hardly let a call go our way. The Japanese must've been born offside and the ref never called it.

Bob Harris

The usual ecstasy after beating an ordinary Scottish side.
We were well beaten today by a team we were going to steam roll.

To top it off we kick the ball into touch after the 80 minutes are up.
Not that it would have made a difference.

twinytwo

Pudsy33 wrote: »

An absolute humbling. We can complain about Gardner but we were ****. Played right into the Japanese hands with our poor kicking and bad decision. I'd be so happy for Japan was I not absolutely ****ing gutted.

Japan played the exact way we knew they would. Joe can shove it up his ass at this stage

jammiedodgers

Poor display from the ref but we should be capable of beating Japan even with all decisions going their way.
Fairly messed up team at the end to be fair, where did McGrath end up playing?

Also there should be some sort of IQ test required to be able to post in these threads, some amount of bellends posting that ruin these threads everytime.

Rockbeast2

* Insert image of me with egg all over face here.

Carty's disrespectful kick early on set the tone.

Chuffed for Japan. Will go for a sushi brunch on Capel Street to cheer myself up.

Rossi IRL

Referee was very poor at awarding us penalties but at the end of the day you don't give away stupid penalties. We made so many errors.

smelly sock

Typlical Ireland. Always someone else to blame. Just not as good as the hype and bluster suggests.

TheValeyard

Well, that will do great things to promote rugby in Japan

sonic85

Well done Japan. Really absorbing game to watch.

They were so good with the ball in hand - lightning quick. Ireland in comparison were so slow and ponderous. Are we even capable of putting the ball through hands like that?

Christy42

The elephant in the room just grows bigger when the panel completely ignore the refs performance. Whether they thought it was good, bad or indifferent it had to be addressed.

Portsalon

Urgent message to Joe Schmuck and Andy Farrell:- lads, we urgently need to import more SH mercenaries and give them Irish jerseys.

fullstop

IAMAMORON wrote: »

Useless chunts, a shambles.

Fair play to Japan and they better bow to the crowd.

Useless ****, they should be sent home.

Apt username.

Larbre34

IAMAMORON wrote: »

Useless chunts, a shambles.

Fair play to Japan and they better bow to the crowd.

Useless ****, they should be sent home.

You are, indeed, a moron.

ScrubsfanChris

Ireland once again playing down to "lower" opposition.

From what i saw there didn't seem to to be any game plan whatsoever?

Hoppy Jack

Get lost Best. You’ve disgraced us

AndyBoBandy

Positive to take from this.

A monumental kick up the ar$e for the team/squad to take for the remainder of the tournament

is_that_so

Quint2010 wrote: »

Absolute shower Ireland. No fitness no shape no leadership. Same old story. I'd honestly pack up now. New Zealand will murder us (if we qualify). Haven't scored since the 20th minute.

They were fit but very humid and Japanese plan is to run teams to death. It's the lack of scores from the 20th minute that was the huge problem.

ScrubsfanChris

smelly sock wrote: »

Does this mean Japan are world number 1 now?

Ireland weren't even no.1 :pac:

smelly sock

walshb wrote: »

Ah the usual boo boys on now slaying the lads...

Just not our day today...

JAPAN.

World number 1. Laughable.

PhlegmyMoses

ClanofLams wrote: »

Fair play to ya taking great joy in your countrymen losing, off and support Liverpool there in the English league.

People will troll and whatever, but I will never understand an Irish person actively enjoying watching a team of Irish lads lose. That mindset is honestly baffling to me

Weepsie

We were poor but the moment Gardner stood there and looked at their 7 being offside, told him as much and didn't award an advantage you knew he was reffing the teams differently. That would've set it up a penalty and Ireland to get possession back.

Instead they got 2 penalties when Gardner was nowhere near the play, no warnings just penalties.

It was a garbage performance. They got away with a clear red last week and then there was no citing, and now that display.

Maybe they're not aware of it, but they're being reffed differently and being held to a lesser standard