Italy vs Ireland match thread

degsie

Offload, offload...they have finally figured it out!

StevenToast

Glorified training session....bring back the 5 nations

fitz

We are a totally different team when we play at pace.

leakyboots

Great latch for Kelleher in that try

Clegg

Another good try.

Offloads everywhere.

prawnsambo

That's another nice try. Very pretty

Morathi

Our offloads in this half already feel more than the whole of 2020. XD

Larbre34

Larmour fully justifying his promotion to the starting team today, he's been very good.

awec

Two good tries but the Italian defence may as well not be there.

Shelby Foote

If converted the bookies handicap beaten already.

We're way better than England v Italy 2 weeks ago.

Buer

Italy must hate Connors and Keenan already. 5 tries and a MOTM between them in 1.5 games.

UAEguy2020

Another beauty! This is what happens when you offload!

Burkie1203

leakyboots wrote: »

Not sure I agree on Kelleher to be honest so far

Set piece functioning and he offers a lot around the park


What exactly has he done wrong today?

better play here from Ireland but there are qualifications in relation to the quality on show from the opposition.

fitz

Larbre34 wrote: »

Larmour fully justifying his promotion to the starting team today, he's been very good.

Backline as a whole looks dangerous.
Connors having a great game too.

Macdarack

Commentary is annoying, Italy are atrocious, too much praise for Ireland.

bilston

awec wrote: »

Two good tries but the Italian defence may as well not be there.

I was going to say...its great to see Ireland playing well, but its too easy.

almostover

I'll have to eat my humble pie and say that Gibson Park has been excellent so far. Wasn't a fan in the 1st 2 games but he's been really zippy in this game

bilston

UAEguy2020 wrote: »

Another beauty! This is what happens when you offload!

Also what happens when you play Italy

UnknownSpecies

Right on cue. As soon as Ireland play some good stuff, it's time to point out how bad Italy are

tritriagain

UAEguy2020 wrote: »

Another beauty! This is what happens when you offload!

This is what happens when you play italy. We can't do this against teams with a decent defense.

Macdarack

fitz wrote: »

We are a totally different team when we play at pace.

And play a team that hasn't won in this competition in 50 games ffs.

Dave_The_Sheep

Ringrose, Connors, Larmour, Stander, Keenan all motoring nicely.

theVersatile

Macdarack wrote: »

Commentary is annoying, Italy are atrocious, too much praise for Ireland.

Yes not enough of some good old fashioned boards.ie cynacism...

Squidgy Black

Italy can be exciting sometimes in attack because of their complete lack of structure, but the shame is that they're the exact same in terms of no structure in defense so they just concede absolutely everything.

Buer

Ryan thrown across the gap there. We did the game with Beirne earlier. We've conceded multiple penalties this year for lineout shenanigans and another referee would penalise us today too.

dublinman1990

Lazio v Bayern Munich on Tuesday night was the reason for the blue markings on the pitch today.

aloooof

Dave_The_Sheep wrote: »

Ringrose, Connors, Larmour, Stander, Keenan all motoring nicely.

Could add JGP to that too. CJ in particular for me has been a machine in that half defensively. 3 turnovers I think, and constantly hitting them behind the gain line. Larmour going forward a stand out.

UAEguy2020

bilston wrote: »

Also what happens when you play Italy

Funny how there was none of this “it’s Italy” stuff when France did this to them, narrative setting 😊

bilston

UnknownSpecies wrote: »

Right on cue. As soon as Ireland play some good stuff, it's time to point out how bad Italy are

Ireland are playing well, but they just wouldn't get that space against anyone else in the 6Ns

realhorrorshow

Buer wrote: »

Ryan thrown across the gap there. We did the game with Beirne earlier. We've conceded multiple penalties this year for lineout shenanigans and another referee would penalise us today too.

As someone pointed out to me on here recently, jumping across the gap isn't an infringement.

Shelby Foote

Great try in fairness

degsie

Decent try Italy

fitz

Macdarack wrote: »

And play a team that hasn't won in this competition in 50 games ffs.

Not getting carried away, but our movement off the ball to take advantage of getting the ball away quickly has nothing to do with Italy's poor defense.

dublinman1990

Great finish from Italy there.

Macdarack

theVersatile wrote: »

Yes not enough of some good old fashioned boards.ie cynacism...

You can't tell if Ireland are improved over the last too weeks by playing this shower who shouldn't be in this comp. Not being a cynic,

blackwhite

JGB caught jumping out of the line again

Scratchly

Sexton grumpy again after his 10 minutes of happiness.

Burkie1203

Hard to know what to make of that but Connors and Ringrose been our best performers in first half

theVersatile

Larmour with a pretty feeble tackle attempt

almostover

Larmour didn't look too hot in defence that time. If he can remedy that he's a shoe in to start. But until he does Keith Earls will tend to be the caiches pick just for safety's sake

leakyboots

Some sloppy tackling at the end there.

Plenty to be positive about though. Italy targeting Larmours side and making their best ground there.

He's been great going forward though to be fair to him

aloooof

Meyer has been very good for Italy the last few games, in fairness to him.

Vodafone will be happy with that half time scoreline.

TomsOnTheRoof

JGP doing well. Ringrose with a much better showing in attack. Stander the pick of the pack.

StevenToast

Italy celebrating a try like theyve won the world cup....tells you all you need to know

Shelby Foote

leakyboots wrote: »

Some sloppy tackling at the end there.

Plenty to be positive about though. Italy targeting Larmours side and making their best ground there.

He's been great going forward though to be fair to him

You'd imagine Lowe's side wouldn't be great either!

bilston

UAEguy2020 wrote: »

Funny how there was none of this “it’s Italy” stuff when France did this to them, narrative setting ��

Look Ireland have had a good half (up to the last 2 minutes) and it is good to see good attacking shape and excellent depth in the backs. Sexton makes the team tick, especially in partnership with Ringrose at 13.

At the same time I don't think it's wrong to point out that Italy's defence is very soft.

mfceiling

UAEguy2020 wrote: »

Funny how there was none of this “it’s Italy” stuff when France did this to them, narrative setting 😊

There was.

Clegg

Not gonna be too hard on Larmour for the Italy try. The real fault occurred when our two forwards, I think it was Furlong and one of Beirne/Connor, failed to stop the Italian carrier offloading. It was a two on one tackle, but both went around the midfriff and let the carrier get hands free to offload. By then the receiver is running at pace to a backpedalling Larmour.