Ireland vs Japan, Sat 3rd July 1pm

hawley

hawley wrote: »

Players from my province playing well.

Nonsense players from your province are terrible and overrated players from my province are world class and only don't get picked due to bias

lawrencesummers

hawley wrote: »

Players from my province playing well.

Mine are the reason we are doing so well.

UAEguy2020

That’s a penalty, thank god it was spotted in the end


And **** me that’s a bad injury to the leg for Matsushima.

eigrod

TomsOnTheRoof wrote: »

POM has done well today. Good in the lineout. Shored up the restarts. Try assist and a latch for Bealham's try.

He’s been Ireland’s best player

Beechwoodspark

Another injury

TRC10

You can find some decent individual performances. POM, Keenan, VDF etc.

That's not the issue. As a unit it's been an absolute shambles.

Brief_Lives

fitz wrote: »

Keenan, Doris and VDF about the only Irish players coming out of this with any real credit so far.

you haven´t a clue....:D

TomsOnTheRoof

eigrod wrote: »

He’s been Ireland’s best player

Yep agreed.

lawrencesummers

The jap subs last week made a massive difference agains the lions, not sure they are making all the changes they want here but they could do well here considering we have some players underperforming

Commentator mistakes Dillane for VDF

theVersatile

Efficient clinical stuff - very nice.

Clegg

Jaysus

Some venom in that carry from VDF.

razorblunt

VDF’s carries have been brilliant, great lines and great pace.

fitz

TRC10 wrote: »

You can find some decent individual performances. POM, Keenan, VDF etc.

That's not the issue. As a unit it's been an absolute shambles.

This is the crux of it.
Better stuff for that last try.

sydthebeat

Two excellent plays by JGP for the last two Irish trys

eigrod

Gibson Park has played well too

TomsOnTheRoof

How long are we going to have to wait for changes?

stephen_n

That was better, some really good direct carrying with quick recycle.

lawrencesummers

Good to see Stockdale coming on and making an impact straightaway

Ireland growing into the game in the 2nd half to be fair. Worth keeping in mind this is a largely new team also

sydthebeat

sydthebeat wrote: »

Two excellent plays by JGP for the last two Irish trys

He's much improved in the second half

KH25

TRC10 wrote: »

You can find some decent individual performances. POM, Keenan, VDF etc.

That's not the issue. As a unit it's been an absolute shambles.

This is it. We don’t look cohesive as a team and I don’t know what the game plan really is. Great to see players doing well but that can only count for so much when the team as a whole is misfiring.

Brief_Lives

well done Stockdale, first time i heard his name tho...

Time for Coombes now

UAEguy2020

Next score is key, if Ireland get it I think the game could get away from Japan but if Japan score we will be back where we started.

the line out move for that last try reminded me of this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-7HvT-OREoM

irishbucsfan

That was a stunning offload there!

fitz

sydthebeat wrote: »

Two excellent plays by JGP for the last two Irish trys

He looks like he's decided to stamp a bit more authority on the game. We look so much better at pace.

twinytwo

lawrencesummers wrote: »

Good to see Stockdale coming on and making an impact straightaway

He started....

accensi0n

Should the Japan catcher be penalised for the clearly dangerous and purposely lash out with his foot before landing?

fitz

What is Daly at out there?!

KH25

Once again our defending is awful. Ran by 3 of our players at the start.

eigrod

There’s an air of 7’s about this

razorblunt

I know there’s no bonus points but these Japanese tries deserve one each!

So so porous.

How did we have so few numbers out wide. Lads asleep or just really badly organised.

Clegg

Like, Japan have an excellent offloading game. But our defence really isn't up to snuff. It took one broken tackle to out us at a 4 on 1 disadvantage.

UAEguy2020

UAEguy2020 wrote: »

Next score is key, if Ireland get it I think the game could get away from Japan but if Japan score we will be back where we started.

And ofcourse no interest in doing g this the easy way…

theVersatile

Aimless enough from Joey

As always, and I mean as long as I can remember, we get destroyed by teams who play fast attacking with an in your face defense

irishbucsfan

Japan scoring some quality tries here. Tony Brown must be delighted with this

accensi0n

accensi0n wrote: »

Should the Japan catcher be penalised for the clearly dangerous and purposely lash out with his foot before landing?

Yes but it's never given

UAEguy2020

5 on 2 for Japan in the Irish 22…****ing hell.

munsterlegend

Shocking kick by Carbery. Kicking aimless balls to Japan
and this happens

fitz

McCloskey and Daly liabilities in defense.

AbusesToilets

Ryan is on lads, game in the bag

lawrencesummers

After Joey kicked an Irish back with orange boots turned and started sprinting to the opposite wing, taking No account of the numbers and the incoming Japan counter attack.

Must find out who it was because it left a massive gap. Think it was JGP

KH25

munsterlegend wrote: »

Shocking kick by Carbery. Kicking aimless balls to Japan
and this happens

There was no need for that kick and then he didn’t even find touch. It’s just headless.

TomsOnTheRoof

We'll be lucky to see Coombes on I'd say.

Clegg

Doris has the great ability of getting better as the game goes on. Keeps making big carries well into the second half of games.

blackcard

Carbery kicks ahead, Japanese player catches ball and runs into tackle, offloads to create a 3 on zero?