Six Nations 2022 - England v Ireland, 12/03/22, KO 4.45pm - RTÉ2, RTÉ Player, ITV1, ITV Hub

When did wheeling a scrum stop being an offence?

Whatever happened to the excellence that used to be Jack McGrath?

I honestly dont know how to quote a specific section, I just wanted to address this bit:

"That is what makes England so powerful when you go up against them in the 6 Nations. They produce the power & score loads of tries."

that's not been England at all this six nations, they have the 3rd lowest number of tries in the tournament, with only Italy and Wales behind them and lets be honest, Wales is behind them only because they are the only team not to play against Italy yet.

They are though the team with the most penalty goals of the tournament (15 with France being the only other nation in double digits with 10), this feels a little like the England of 2003 (who relied heavily on kicking but went on to win the world cup) right down to them having a star player the media is all fawning over. Its a bit different because the nature of the game has changed, but I don't think its for the better.

No it’s not just of Henderson

beleive me I was going mad at Healy!!

are you really trying to defend Henderson by using poor old Healy as a measuring stick?

come on now. We expect impressive and dominant performances from Hendo. Ireland needed him today and he did not deliver on his basics.

now the stats you quoted: that’s his job! To be the third most m, 2nd most carries in pack. that’s a minimum.

Ireland don’t ask Beirne to do that or POM

certainly not Healy

what was killer was his basic errors,

in his defence he wasn’t match sharp.

We need Henderson but what to do about Healy? and POM?

A lot of his generation of Irish rugby players are horrendous bores

Seriously it's a game thread and Ireland scored a bonus point try in the last 3mins when they looked like they could have even lost the match......

I had to watch the second half on +1, as had a communion mass, and even though frustrated throughout the game, still punch the air with they last try, here at home......

This post, when I finally caught up on the tread, perfectly summed up that emotion and was a perfect post...

He also said exactly what Burkie posted.

1 of Sextons penalties was absolutely brain dead. Don’t know what the second one against him was don’t remember it. I remember one against Lowe which was a turnover penalty when the support failed to protect him. Henderson’s penalties, jumping across in the lineout, stupid penalty to give away. Totally on him and totally unnecessary. Then playing the ball on the ground right in front of the posts and the ref. That’s one of those instances when stats can show what you want. They don’t reflect the full story at all though.

Lowe's metres carried stat is monstrous. He made more than twice as many as our second highest carrier. Had a very big game this evening.

oh. ok. That puts a different slant on your post.

imo Furlong was unable to lock the scrum out because of what was happening to Healy and the pressure (legal or otherwise) from Genge.

it will be very interesting to see the technique of the second rows behind. Because it was also off kilter v France. Bad angles.

I think it’s fair to give Furlong a pass. We know he can be dominant in scrum and around park.

he had 2 important and dominant carries that I am recall and a few nice switch passes. One did go to deck.

Strange that Sheehan came off early because he was having a good game. Maybe they spotted something in the scrum with him?

We conceded 6 scrum penalties with an 80kg winger on the flank. Given we held our own against the French scrum (arguably the best in the world atm), what does this mean?

Porter (and Kelleher) indispensable?

Healy no longer up to it at this level?

Furlong just had a bad day?

Genge boring in and wheeling all day given as penalties?

My gut says the latter and Raynal interpretation.

We tried to win the game in the first 20 mins when they lost a man. We forced so many passes in the red zone that weren't on when composure was needed.

Really disappointing display from O'Mahony. Healy, Henderson & Beirne poor too.

Keenan, Lowe & Conway phenomenal.

Another image from Twitter of Genge driving across