Ireland vs Russia, RWC pool A, Kobe, 11.15am Irish time

lawrencesummers

sydthebeat wrote: »

Garces cannot referee a breakdown, im convinced after seeing this

Garces has always allowed the breakdown to be lawless.

prawnsambo

Well that was nice.

is_that_so

Another try!

FrancieBrady

Beautiful. Look out SA!

reg114

15 handling errors by Ireland so far , appalling stat against such lowly opposition

clsmooth

Great try. Lovely by Larmour

Wegians89

we Have the players to play lovely rugby but unfortunately that’s not the game plan

MJohnston

GreeBo wrote: »

were there not two yellows?

No. Are you even watching this game?

MadYaker

Clegg wrote: »

This was a chance for players on the fringe and guys out if form to make an impression. But other than Ruddock, nobody has made a positive impression. Kleyn is an empty shirt, Aki has dropped everything and PoM is half the player he was 18 months ago.

Sexton was good until they took him off.

GreeBo

Ireland's T-Rex offense fails to work again, turns out even if the receiver doesn't move he can still be seen and indeed tackled!

LuckyGent88

Yeah!!!

fitz

Lovely from Larmour

lawrencesummers

MJohnston wrote: »

Why counter attack? What possible benefit would another score bring at this stage?

Points difference?

sydthebeat

thats like an u14s kick off... nice

GreeBo

take note Rob Kearney, when you have an overlap, pass the fricken ball!

whatawaster

MJohnston wrote: »

Why counter attack? What possible benefit would another score bring at this stage?

Confidence? Momentum?

Didn't that Ringrose try make you feel a little better?

A-Train

Great try

Dcully

Schoolboy errors all over the place.

Cosmo Kramer

A little bit of gloss.

This has been pathetic from Ireland though. Made Russia look ten times better than they actually are. The selections of Kleyn and McGrath have been proven to be as wrong as they looked when the squad was announced.

Needed to see a positive bounce back performance after Japan. This feels like 2007 all over again.

Podge_irl

reg114 wrote: »

15 handling errors by Ireland so far , appalling stat against such lowly opposition

New Zealand had 20 yesterday against Canada.

MJohnston wrote: »

No. Are you even watching this game?

Russia have had two yellow cards.

prawnsambo

reg114 wrote: »

15 handling errors by Ireland so far , appalling stat against such lowly opposition

There were similar when England played there. Russians are dropping the ball too.

reg114

GreeBo wrote: »

take note Rob Kearney, when you have an overlap, pass the fricken ball!

Like Joey doesnt share food, Kearney doesnt pass ball

Salary Negotiator

MJohnston wrote: »

No. Are you even watching this game?

There were, 1 before half time at about 32 minutes and the second for the high tackle in the second half.

Larmour, you take a bow for starting that

Ireland are playing rugby! Why, why, why have we not been even attempting this before now, and do not give me "Waiting for Russia to lose energy"

Gidea

LOL the header

is_that_so

OK that's a mad one! Pity it wasn't a try!

godtabh

nice header

Bobblehats

fryup wrote: »

is that Freddie Mercury??? thought he died years back?

Omnipresent bastard. They just won’t let him lie

reg114

prawnsambo wrote: »

There were similar when England played there. Russians are dropping the ball too.

Remind me of the England score against Russia ...

endabob1

Jaysuz Samoa will be pooping in their pants over this, never mind the Boks & the all blacks

MJohnston

whatawaster wrote: »

Confidence? Momentum?

Didn't that Ringrose try make you feel a little better?

Who cares what it makes me feel? I'm not a member of the squad who is actually playing. What they care about is saving their energy and bodies for that quarter final. Secure the bonus points and the win, and then take your foot off the gas. To do otherwise is a terrible tactic in a knockout game.

Niallof9

whatawaster wrote: »

Confidence? Momentum?

Didn't that Ringrose try make you feel a little better?

exactly....the idea that form, confidence, results, numbers, minutes whatever have no bearing on a seven game World Cup is mind boggling.

The idea that we can just turn up to a quarters o nthe back of poor performances is so arrogant.

Also Joeball creates so many phases that the numbers have a huge bearing on later games. The amount of carries, rucks that this system has you carry out has a massive effect. Why do this versus such a poor side like Russia

The only thing i can cling to is that this is a ruse. started after the 2018 november games.

prawnsambo

reg114 wrote: »

Remind me of the England score against Russia ...

Russia?

Clegg

If Conan were fit I'd be tempted to go Ruddock, VdF and Conan for the QF. Pom and Stander haven't done the business at all.

Wegians89

Ruddock MOTM, should start with vdf and stander in quarter

is_that_so

Ruddock MOM

Podge_irl

Podge_irl wrote: »

New Zealand had 20 yesterday against Canada.

Ireland trying their best to overtake them in the last few minutes

clsmooth

reg114 wrote: »

Remind me of the England score against Russia ...

England USA? 45-7 win for England. 38 point win margin.

reg114

prawnsambo wrote: »

Russia?

ah i got excited u know what i mean

whatawaster

MJohnston wrote: »

Who cares what it makes me feel? I'm not a member of the squad who is actually playing. What they care about is saving their energy and bodies for that quarter final. Secure the bonus points and the win, and then take your foot off the gas. To do otherwise is a terrible tactic in a knockout game.

Pretty sure a few sexy tries would make the players feel better and be more confident too, which can only be a good thing after the low of last week and the first 60 minutes today

LuckyGent88

Job done I suppose. Bonus point victory.

However, that’s about the only positive after that. Once again we started well and got two good quality quick tries and then our levels just dropped off completely.

Aki has basically played himself off the team, Kleyn non existent, another injury, awful handling errors, failing to first create any chances and then when we did we panicked and lost complete control.

crisco10

So.many.knock.ons

Mantis Toboggan

Wins a win..

Sanjuro

35-0! What a scoreline!

is_that_so

And we're guaranteed a QF. Not much else to say.

lawrencesummers

The only positive I can take is Mcgrath got 80 minutes which will stand to him and Murray was rested, but Mcgrath was slow and got in trouble a bit
Ruddock was sharp and aggressive, as he should be.
POM should have been able to dominate and didn't, his 6 jersey must be under big pressure now
Kleyn wasnt there.
Henderson had a cameo to forget
Aki had a poor game and we didnt look to get Ringrose & the back 3 into attack enough.
Earls & conway are reliable and make the right decision with the scraps they get.


Unimpressive

PTH2009

Job done but nothing spectacular

Lot of work needs to be done, Samoa will trouble us

Lucy8080

T.B.P., no points conceded and a nice bit of play for the last try. On to Samoa.

Paleface

Paleface wrote: »

They all looked wrecked again. 6 day turn around followed by a 5 day turn around. Hopefully the break now until the Samoa game will give them the time to recover.

I'd say it's more the conditions that they are not used to at all.

in another 2 weeks due to be closer to what they are used to.

thoroughly unconvincing stuff tho - a victory over SA and NZ would be unlikely at best most would have to admit. unreal turnaround required.

SteelyDanJalapeno

Sanjuro wrote: »

35-0! What a scoreline!

We scored as many as the mighty Jersey Vs Russia