Irish Rugby and Sevens

Roche kicking conversions may as well not bother taking them unless under the posts. His efforts were absolutely awful. No idea why you can't check what was a clear knock on before a try.

Bizarre, the TMO has been super quick too all tournament.

That's the last we'll see of Irish 15s players switching across to sevens anyway.

Another quarter final bed wetting

Ah lads, like in the 15's rugby, people won't admit it but that's 2 chokes today from the 7's!

They absolutely aren't badly coached - if anything they're probably one of the best coached teams on the circuit. We simply do not have the athletic profile of the likes of Fiji or NZ. We have either quick guys (Kennedy, Conroy) or big guys (McNulty, Kelly) but we don't have big and quick guys really - Fiji have probably 50 guys like that.

We play a highly scripted possession based game that maximises the skillset we have, but realistically we probably punch above our weight relative to our talent base here.

Ridiculous post. Going out to side whos won every 7s tournament in olympucs since introduced isn't poor. Or anything g like you suggest

sad, but going into these matches without a kicker is insane, and making ten metres from penalties is criminall. These is very basic coaching decisions, you can’t control the ref, you can control territory from opposition indiscipline.

Hyperbole at 100% I see. Sure you were you the poster saying they were already knocked out as they had to play Fiji after the NZ game. Now they’re ‘chokers’.

You'd think some of those big guys would be able to take a restart then.

I suppose sevens is all about the entertainment but did you hear the Irish lads asking about the knock on and the ref saying "I cant look at it now" like this is before the conversion about 5 seconds after the "try". Like it's just crazy, at least some of the refs would have known it was a knock on but protocol dictates they cannot look.

Sometimes I wish I could just filter out the word "bottle" or "choke" from this place. Typical carry on from some posters tbh.

Agree with FTD, I don't know if people were expecting Keenan to be some kind of 7s superstar but he was far from our biggest problem.

we were unlucky not to win today but just not good enough in certain select areas— goal kicking, tackling and tackle evasion. The pace of Jordan was definitey missed for the game.

The exact same people who'd be whooping and hollering if we won this literally couldn't wait to get in here and start piling on the team and slating players.

It's utterly pathetic.

We lost by a score (a ludicrously contentious score with what looked to be a blatant knock that wasn't reviewed) to the team who have been by far the most impressive side in this tournament, but who are also the dominant force in 7s Olympic history.

Yeah, absolutely players made mistakes (like they literally always will) and things didn't go our favour, but there is still something utterly ridiculous about reading the posts here from people who probably watched their first 7s games in their lives yesterday speaking like experts about it today and Ireland's failings.

Jesus Christ. There's some bitter people in here