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

Mantis Toboggan

Russia are decent in fairness, certainly put it up to Samoa for large periods.

whatawaster

reg114 wrote: »

Funny everyone said that about ireland. Japan playing at home after trouncing us will be very heard to beat for a scotland team who have been poor all year

Ireland are a much better team than Japan. One game doesn't change that.

martingriff

Poor Kleyn is at a hiding to nothing when he plays. I say even if he scored loads people would still say should be Toner. It is not his fault he got picked. Should he have rejected it?

Niallof9

agreed. I think it was also a mistake announcing his successor already particularly when that coach has never been a head coach.

We'll pull away to a 38 -0 score and everybody will talk of learnings and focusing on samoa etc. But nobody will address the elephant in the room. The lack of attacking threat in our backline and our constant one out running multi phase, multi ruck game.

Kleyn shouldn't have been selected. He's very poor.

lawrencesummers

Mcgrath is a bug step down from Murray. Marmion must be watching pulling his hair out.

Riskymove

reg114 wrote: »

Funny everyone said that about ireland.

people said Ireland "would" win

in fairness he says Scotland "could" beat japan

which is true

MadYaker

Another poor performance by a ref imo

reg114

abff wrote: »

In fairness to Schmidt, waiting until after the World Cup would not have allowed any time for succession planning.

I wouldnt agree with that. The argument for appointing farrell was continuity , right now the last thing we need is continuity.

gally74

Mantis Toboggan wrote: »

Russia are decent in fairness, certainly put it up to Samoa for large periods.

Connacht put 40 on them

TheCitizen

Job done bonus point. Pity about the injuries. Always have relied too much on Sexton. He shouldn't have played in this game, he should have wrapped up in cotton wool for the quarter final.

Really don't like that commentator on RTE with Donal Lenihan, is it Hugh Cahill? comes across as a smarmy git, I'd like to see him have to run around in that ridiculous stadium in those ridiculous conditions. I said it before and I'll say it again it's an absolute disgrace that Japan was awarded this tournament.

Podge_irl

lord quackinton wrote: »

Schmidt should have not said he was going until after World Cup
Our form is gone to **** since

:rolleyes:

Should he have signed a pretend contract extension or something. I can't believe how often that utterly asinine point is brought up.

martingriff

whatawaster wrote: »

they are a much better team than Japan, so they could easily beat them!

Ireland are meant to be a better team then Japan but I do agree Scotland should win

Kristopherus

Woeful handling errors there.

Gidea

Shocking we cant finish from there

lord quackinton

abff wrote: »

In fairness to Schmidt, waiting until after the World Cup would not have allowed any time for succession planning.

Yes it could
Schmidt has no job lined up
Farrell could have been told you have job keep mouth shut
Very simple

A-Train

Again were was the Ireland advantage for the Russian knock on?

prawnsambo

lawrencesummers wrote: »

Mcgrath is a bug step down from Murray. Marmion must be watching pulling his hair out.

No actual bugs were harmed in the making of this post.

Stop ****ing Panicking!!!

clsmooth

A-Train wrote: »

Again were was the Ireland advantage for the Russian knock on?

Thought so too?

Shefwedfan

lawrencesummers wrote: »

Mcgrath is a bug step down from Murray. Marmion must be watching pulling his hair out.

I have yet to see you post anything positive about any player......so no surprise

Niallof9

Podge_irl wrote: »

:rolleyes:

Should he have signed a pretend contract extension or something. I can't believe how often that utterly asinine point is brought up.

:rolleyes:

its a valid point

martingriff

lord quackinton wrote: »

Schmidt should have not said he was going until after World Cup
Our form is gone to **** since

New Zealand knew there manager was going and there playing great. Knowing he is going is no excuse

prawnsambo

Andrew Porter with his patented death ray stare at the ref there again.

lawrencesummers

Shefwedfan wrote: »

I have yet to see you post anything positive about any player......so no surprise

I just said that Murray is way better than Mcgrath so, but hey your the easily offended type.

Abel Ruiz

Shefwedfan wrote: »

I have yet to see you post anything positive about any player......so no surprise

Aki is a babe

Shefwedfan

Ruddock has to be MOM

yerrahbah

great steal by POM

is_that_so

Game has degenerated into a complete mess.

Oh Rudduck you beaut

Podge_irl

Niallof9 wrote: »

:rolleyes:

its a valid point

It is an absolutely terrible point. His contract expires at the end of this world cup - if he hadn't signed an extension then he was obviously not staying on. How on earth could anyone think either a massive uncertainty over what was going on or a painfully stupid "conspriacy"-esque attempt to hide what was going on would have helped matters.

captbarnacles

So many mistakes

Garces: Leave it
Russia take it

Garces: You mad bro??

whatawaster

Quinlan is right, why kick that out.

Is there any other top team in World Rugby who don't counter attack in that situation.

It's an ideal one for Larmour . . .

lawrencesummers

prawnsambo wrote: »

No actual bugs were harmed in the making of this post.

In not so sure, if you watch the last scrum back on replay Luke stepped on the snail that has been following him around all day.

lleti

I didn't think this level of performance was in us....

sydthebeat

Garces cannot referee a breakdown, im convinced after seeing this

Clegg

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.

Mantis Toboggan

whatawaster wrote: »

Quinlan is right, why kick that out.

Is there any other top team in World Rugby who don't counter attack in that situation.

It's an ideal one for Larmour . . .

In Joeball we trust.

prawnsambo

Garces having been spanked for bad offside calls has apparently decided that he won't make any at all now.

fryup

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

GreeBo

MJohnston wrote: »

10 bud

were there not two yellows?

Soups123

We are just so poor. We save this for every World Cup

It’s hard to get in anyway positive about this team

Burkie1203

It's on here in work. Seeing bits only. Is it really as bad as it appears

Sinbad_NI

Very poor result... follows on from Japan unfortunately.

lawrencesummers

is_that_so wrote: »

Game has degenerated into a complete mess.

Your suggesting that it wasnt always a mess.

Holy Crap: Ireland are playing rugby!!
Only took 74 minutes

Niallof9

We have no backline attack. Has Joe given up coaching the backline? Or passed the reigns to Faz

Paleface

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.

MJohnston

whatawaster wrote: »

Quinlan is right, why kick that out.

Is there any other top team in World Rugby who don't counter attack in that situation.

It's an ideal one for Larmour . . .

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

Gidea

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.

Add Carty to the list, he just looks headless out there