The Hurt Locker: Ireland v South Africa. Saturday 23rd September. Stade DeFrance

fitz

Cut out the lineout mistakes and we'll be grand here.

leakyboots

Gonna be a long day if we can't get our setpiece right. The lineout looks like Kelleher **** the bed, he's overthrown a few, anyone care to explain what we're doing wrong in the scrum?

Cluedo Monopoly

Eben won that lineout so easy

Strazdas

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121147962#Comment_121147962

Yep, we look the better team by far but numerous errors are hampering us.

y0ssar1an22

frustrating start

SlickRic

Kelleher has been poor in every aspect possible so far.

Christ.

benjy1000

Dung

Ireland a bag of nerves.

SA aren't even that good.

Can't win a setpiece

TheRona

Ireland lucky there. Tackle called and they didn't release. Win the ball.....and then knock it on. Painful stuff so far.

leakyboots

They have us rattled, two knock ons in a row from Doris. I still think if we get a chance to calm down a bit we'll do damage. Lineout is a real worry, Kelleher looked very nervous before that last one he got - hopefully that'll settle him. 2 ball to POM for a while to secure it

PTH2009

keep calm keep calm

This is the real test

touts

We had two good attacking lineouts and Kelleher blew both of them. We could easily be 7-3 up if we had anyone able to throw the ball.

Cluedo Monopoly

I can see some yellow cards here. The ruck cleanouts are somewhat reckless by SA

facehugger99

Trying to force everything. Started with the stupid decision not to take the early 3 points on offer.

SA have done nothing and are leading.

TheRona

7 missed tackles inside 15 minutes, and god knows how many knock-ons. Not the usual Irish accuracy.

ctrl-alt-delete

That is better!

Clegg

Beirne and Lowe now.

South Africa's ruck protection has been targeted.

If lineout functions it would be 14-3 to us.

leakyboots

Good man Lowe, he owed us a moment big time

SlickRic

If we'd a line-out we'd be winning by 10 already.

fitz

Meet them on the gainline, and all they do is throw it wide. It's predictable and Lowe will eat that up. Just need to sort out the set piece.

Strazdas

The one good thing is that SA have only 3 points on the board - they haven't raced into a 10 or 12 point lead or anything

blackwhite

O’Keefe is waiting a long time to reward the jackal. There’s going to be an injury from a clear out because of him

ersatz

SA have nothing in open play, faf taking mad risks. Settle down.

BS. Didn't give a milisec to clean out.

ctrl-alt-delete

So so frustrating.

touts

SA have us totally rattled. They are loving this.

y0ssar1an22

FFS.

kellerher's head must be spinning

standardg60

Apart from the set plays we're destroying them, have faith lads

aloooof

Lineout in trouble, scrum possibly too, 7 missed tackles and we're only 3-0 down. We need to sort things and fast, but if we can be clearly have an avenue into the game. Is ferocious at the moment tho...