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

eigrod

That’s a worse result for Scotland than Ireland. We’re pretty much guaranteed to qualify now.

Christy42

Mercurytiger wrote: »

Easy to believe, Ireland have been **** for the last 12 months.

Can we have an automatic reminder that we have beaten New Zealand in the last 12 months

Ash.J.Williams

Hoppy Jack wrote: »

Get lost Best. You’ve disgraced us

Welcome to boards...

lord quackinton

What’s annoying about today is now we have to pick a strong team against Samoa and could end up with more injuries due to how we and they play.

testtech05

Portsalon wrote: »

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

Just fishing for someone to bite on this comment. If you can't support the team or make some objective criticism just don't comment instead of making personal attacks on them......

MadYaker

That was a totally different Japanese team to the one that played Russia

is_that_so

Christy42 wrote: »

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.

Not a great performance by the ref. Offside is something in fairy tales and the high tackle seems to be a movable feast.

Soups123

Mantis Toboggan wrote: »

Good job Joe is leaving after the world Cup

There’s no coach in the world that can get this country to not bottle a Rugby World Cup, we are serial bottlers.

We didn’t score for 60 minutes, that’s 60 minutes against Japan and tbf we didn’t come close. Tactics second half where a complete failure we just kicked the ball away with no compete.

Gardner is a shocking ref, after all the criticism last week you’d hope the eye on would improve, instead he was allowed ref today to a shocking standard

ScrubsfanChris

Hoppy Jack wrote: »

Get lost Best. You’ve disgraced us

If Best had retired last November, he would have gone out on top with everyone remembering him for the brilliant player and leader he was.

As it is, this poor end to his International career will leave a sour taste.

c.p.w.g.w

It's a massive difference in defence when the ref allows you to illegally slow down the play and line up offside at the breakdown. That gives a huge advantage to a defending team

BoJack Horseman

Flabbergasted that Ireland kicked it out to end the game!

That was nice of us.

gmisk

ScrubsfanChris wrote: »

Ireland weren't even no.1 :pac:

...they were....

Entirely undeserved but they were.

Huntergonzo

D'aaw our traditional world cup meltdown, I'm sucker for traditions me.

If a book is ever written about Ireland's exploits at the RWC it should simply be titled 'Calamity'.

eclipsechaser

Fan of Netflix wrote: »

****ing pathetic and embarrassing. If this was the Irish soccer team they'd be getting dogs abuse. But suddenly Japan are world beaters now.....:rolleyes:

Yeah, I heard so many people on this thread saying Japan was going to go on and win the tournament now.

is_that_so

eigrod wrote: »

That’s a worse result for Scotland than Ireland. We’re pretty much guaranteed to qualify now.

And more likely to face NZ. It is good for the tournament.

ricero

What an embarrassing sporting day for this nation.

The hype was vile after beating the Scots last week. The ego in this country and in that rugby squad is disgusting to see.

Outfought, outgunned and out muscled by ****ing Japan

gmisk

BoJack Horseman wrote: »

Flabbergasted that Ireland kicked it out to end the game!

That was nice of us.

It ensured the losing bonus point as a tonne of people have already pointed out....it was a good call

Christy42

ScrubsfanChris wrote: »

If Best had retired last November, he would have gone out on top with everyone remembering him for the brilliant player and leader he was.

As it is, this poor end to his International career will leave a sour taste.

He helped bring Ireland to no. 1 in the world...

pc7

BoJack Horseman wrote: »

Flabbergasted that Ireland kicked it out to end the game!

That was nice of us.

Why? They were keeping our LBP it was a good decision

westernfrenzy

The amount of "I told you so" ****e in relation to Ireland being bad and delight at Ireland playing ****e is honestly horrible to read through

mada999

Christy42 wrote: »

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.

quite strange as i've been switching between channels...no one has mentioned the ref at all...

Japan battered us - that is it..only for missed kicks they would have been way ahead..

Earleybird

lord quackinton wrote: »

What’s annoying about today is now we have to pick a strong team against Samoa and could end up with more injuries due to how we and they play.

This is the sort of arrogance that results in a loss like this. A bit of respect for oppositions would go a long way. It's hardly surprising to see the continuous underachievement in the WC.

Quint2010

The only good news is "Where Eagles Dare" is on after this..

NeonWolf

Joe blaming the ref

alswearengen

This Japanese guys English is terrible.

Abel Ruiz

Hoppy Jack wrote: »

Get lost Best. You’ve disgraced us

Haha. 6 days is a long time ago.

Exclamation Marc

MadYaker wrote: »

That was a totally different Japanese team to the one that played Russia

Definitely. Russia put 10points on them, we only scored two more.

Refereeing was shambolic but ultimately its Ireland's shortcomings that cost us the game and the last 10 or 15 minutes were chaotic with at least four players playing out of position. Japan deserved the win and despite the sickening disappointment, I'm happy for them, they were electric.

clsmooth

Fair play to Japan, we’ll deserved. Leitch changed the game when he came on. Gave them a huge lift and was everywhere.

Hoppy Jack

ScrubsfanChris wrote: »

If Best had retired last November, he would have gone out on top with everyone remembering him for the brilliant player and leader he was.

As it is, this poor end to his International career will leave a sour taste.

Just desserts. He’s a glory hunter long past it

is_that_so

BoJack Horseman wrote: »

Flabbergasted that Ireland kicked it out to end the game!

That was nice of us.

Keep what you have, a bonus losing point. No way they had the energy to get up the other end and get a converted try.

flazio

Just goes to show, take no team and I mean NO TEAM, as a granted walkover. Japan were the better disciplined, better adapted, better planned, just the better team.

Podge_irl

Fair play Japan.

Our breakdown work was poor and we could have done with some chips over the top. Their defence was right in our face. Japan are some team to watch.

twinytwo

Christy42 wrote: »

He helped bring Ireland to no. 1 in the world...

He should not be cap of the team though.... he never ever ever says anything to the ref

Portsalon

smelly sock wrote: »

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

That's it in a nutshell.

Presumably we can expect Joe Schmuck to whinge about Angus's reffing; not today, but when he briefs the embedded Irish rugby journo-fans in private over the next couple of days. Not that they - or the one-eyed part-time rugby fans - will need much of an incentive to blame anyone except the sterile coaching staff or over-coached players.

Mokuba

Christy42 wrote: »

Can we have an automatic reminder that we have beaten New Zealand in the last 12 months

I'm sure they would those 2 friendly victories for a successful world cup.

People will be falling over themselves to say how competitive those matches are but these are the competitive matches and Ireland fail every time.

There is a clearly a massive difference between glorified friendlies and even Six Nations rugby vs World Cup rugby, which Ireland fans either can't or won't see and admit.

Nerdlingr

That Earls tackle at the end could be absolutelymassive. Who knows what way this group is gonna go.

Hurrache

BoJack Horseman wrote: »

Flabbergasted that Ireland kicked it out to end the game!

That was nice of us.

What was the alternative?

SharpshooterTom

Japan might win the whole thing. I mean why not?

bilston

Hoppy Jack wrote: »

Get lost Best. You’ve disgraced us

Constantly referring to the Ireland team as Eire

Scapegoating Best

Not hard to work out your agenda pal

FrancieBrady

Soon as I seen the team Joe put out, it was evident he held Japan in high esteem.

They turned us over after getting gifted by the ref.
Not the end of the world and it is Japan's day.

No-one said (except a few here ) that it was going to be so easy, we could afford to drop the guard.

gooch2k9

Weepsie wrote: »

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

That is probably the best example of it from the game. Throughout though he was much quicker to penalise us, giving warnings and blowing up straight away after.

Japan's tempo killed us in that game and they deserved the win but saying Gardner's performance had nothing to do with it is wrong.

Important thing is to react to this, beat Russia and Samoa well but still recognise that a higher standard is needed against better teams.

Sanjuro

westernfrenzy wrote: »

The amount of "I told you so" ****e in relation to Ireland being bad and delight at Ireland playing ****e is honestly horrible to read through

Yeah, but it's typical that sad little people take same weird joy in trampling on disappointed people. It's pathetic. Just add em to the ignore list and don't feed into it.

dodderangler

Ireland again letting their ego get into their head.
Disgraceful. Absolutely embarrassing. So ashamed today.

Kermit.de.frog

westernfrenzy wrote: »

The amount of "I told you so" ****e in relation to Ireland being bad and delight at Ireland playing ****e is honestly horrible to read through

What do you expect?

If it was SA losing to Japan we would be laughing our asses off as well.

walshb

ricero wrote: »

What an embarrassing sporting day for this nation.

The hype was vile after beating the Scots last week. The ego in this country and in that rugby squad is disgusting to see.

Outfought, outgunned and out muscled by ****ing Japan

Similar to the disdain and hostility in your post..

Get over yourself..we lost a rugby match.

Exclamation Marc

Portsalon wrote: »

That's it in a nutshell.

Presumably we can expect Joe Schmuck to whinge about Angus's reffing; not today, but when he briefs the embedded Irish rugby journo-fans in private over the next couple of days. Not that they - or the one-eyed part-time rugby fans - will need much of an incentive to blame anyone except the sterile coaching staff or over-coached players.

Joe Schmuck?

Oh man that is edgy.

Clegg

gally74 wrote: »

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

Yes, but you also need a calm head at 10 when things aren't going well. Carty and Carbery both panicked. Not t saying Sexton is immune to feeling pressure, but I do think he would have performed better.

All_in_Flynn

First and foremost, fair play to Japan. They were incredible.

Ireland played into their hands and I thought the ref let them away with murder. They were clearing out from the side constantly. They were constantly lying on wrong side of the ruck slowing us down.

Even saying that though, Japan deserved their victory.

What does that mean for the group now. If we win both our next matches with bonus points are we still automatically through?

MadYaker

ricero wrote: »

What an embarrassing sporting day for this nation.

The hype was vile after beating the Scots last week. The ego in this country and in that rugby squad is disgusting to see.

Outfought, outgunned and out muscled by ****ing Japan

These posts just make me laugh. Disgusting ego ffs. I’ll never understand all the misery junkies in this country, it must be a sad way to live your life.

NeonWolf

High tackle by Rob Kearney in last pass before Japan try . He caught him on the jaw