Ireland V Wales Pre Match

PowerHouseDan

With Paul o con out for Ireland
and G Thomas
and Shane Williams out for Wales should be an interesting match. Henson is on the Bench.Any Predictions?

Teg Veece

Post Match? Don't get too far ahead of yourself.

Should be the most evenly matched of all of Ireland's games this year so I'm hoping it'll be a cracker.
O'Callaghan will be well up for it and Wales are missing too many important players so I'd be happy if Ireland beat em by 15.

dinjo

Mae hen wlad fy nhadau yn anwyl i mi
Gwlad beirdd a chantorion, enwogion o fri
Ei gwrol rhyfelwyr, gwlad garwyr tra mad
Tros ryddid collasant eu gwaed.

Gwlad, gwlad, pleidiol wyf i'm gwlad
Tra mor yn fur
I'r bur hoff bau
O bydded i'r heniaith barhau.

Hen Gymru fynyddig, paradwys y bardd
Pob dyffryn, pob clogwyn, i'm golwg sydd hardd
Trwy deimlad gwladgarol, mor swynol yw si
Ei nentydd, afonydd, i mi.

Os treisiodd y gelyn fy ngwlad dan ei droed
Mae hen iaith y Cymry mor fyw ag erioed
Ni luddiwyd yr awen gan erchyll law brad
Na thelyn berseiniol fy ngwlad.

Gwlad, gwlad, pleidiol wyf i'm gwlad
Tra mor yn fur
I'r bur hoff bau
O bydded i'r heniaith barhau.

COME ON WALES........ OGGIE OGGIE OGGIE...... OI ! OI ! OI !

PowerHouseDan

Cant belive i am bringing that langer to the match

dinjo wrote:

Mae hen wlad fy nhadau yn anwyl i mi
Gwlad beirdd a chantorion, enwogion o fri
Ei gwrol rhyfelwyr, gwlad garwyr tra mad
Tros ryddid collasant eu gwaed.

Gwlad, gwlad, pleidiol wyf i'm gwlad
Tra mor yn fur
I'r bur hoff bau
O bydded i'r heniaith barhau.

Hen Gymru fynyddig, paradwys y bardd
Pob dyffryn, pob clogwyn, i'm golwg sydd hardd
Trwy deimlad gwladgarol, mor swynol yw si
Ei nentydd, afonydd, i mi.

Os treisiodd y gelyn fy ngwlad dan ei droed
Mae hen iaith y Cymry mor fyw ag erioed
Ni luddiwyd yr awen gan erchyll law brad
Na thelyn berseiniol fy ngwlad.

Gwlad, gwlad, pleidiol wyf i'm gwlad
Tra mor yn fur
I'r bur hoff bau
O bydded i'r heniaith barhau.

COME ON WALES........ OGGIE OGGIE OGGIE...... OI ! OI ! OI !

RuggieBear

PowerHouseDan wrote:

Cant belive i am bringing that langer to the match

That's good coz if he keeps posting gibberish and contributing no meaningful debate to the forum besides "c'mon Wales" i'm going to hunt him down and kill him

PowerHouseDan

Ya headin up to the Match Ruggie?

RuggieBear

PowerHouseDan wrote:

Ya headin up to the Match Ruggie?

I'll be stewarding in either the east upper or west upper...

PowerHouseDan

I'll be in the West upper.

RuggieBear wrote:

I'll be stewarding in either the east upper or west upper...

dinjo

RuggieBear wrote:

That's good coz if he keeps posting gibberish and contributing no meaningful debate to the forum besides "c'mon Wales" i'm going to hunt him down and kill him

Take it easy..... I Cant help it if im passionate about Welsh Rugby ! !

And its not gibberish, it's the native tongue! (you wouldn't understand)

daveirl

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besty

Come on Ireland. Crucial match. We need a huge performance from one of the second rows in my opinion. I predict Malcolm O'Kelly for Man of the Match. Marcus Horan to have a blinder too

zAbbo

sound_wave wrote:

Was Brian Kennedy reading the words of the National Anthem from a book? Or was it my imagination?

Yes, was reading the words from sheet/card.

besty

Ah FFS, Wales try

hullaballoo

Stephen Jones injured, Gavan Henson on in his place.

besty

Is it just me or does the new Wales coach look like the penguin from the Batman film that Danny De Vito played?

sound_wave

Jones off, Henson on

hullaballoo

Try Ireland

besty

Great move off the base of the scrum there. Try Wallace.

kc66

Looking at Henson- they must get some sunshine over there.
The state of him.

besty

kc66 wrote:

Looking at Henson- they must get some sunshine over there.
The state of him.

He is such a joke.

My god that would have been some try from Flannery. Great hands from BO'D and Horgan to create the chance

Snickers Man

What the Flock are we going to do about our out half situation?

I reckon I could have got that conversion myself.

O'Gara is toilet. Humphreys is retiring. THe other two provincial outhalves are foreigners.

We need a number 10 so badly it hurts.

besty

I could do it. Seriously though, we are fairly fooked at 10. Are there any naturalised out halves around that could even plug the hole for a year. Jeremy Staunton is the other option.

Pigman II

besty wrote:

Is it just me or does the new Wales coach look like the penguin from the Batman film that Danny De Vito played?

He seems to have himself a big old pda too? Presumably for sending secret messages to Gavin Hensons haircut?

Teg Veece

Very stop start all together. Whenever Ireland string some passes together they seem to make acres of ground but such phases are too few. Interesting to see what role the wind will play in the second half.

Funkstard

Ireland throwing together some nice passes finally, Henson is getting awful abude and playing worse, Stephen Jones was a huge loss to Wales.

hullaballoo

21-5 to Ireland

besty

Marcus Horan gone off on a stretcher. Hopefully he is OK. Ireland looking quite comfortable. Henson is having a shocker

hullaballoo

Handy enough win. Goes down well in context of that defeat for England yesterday.

Teg Veece

Ireland ran away with it in the end but if Jones hadn't gone off it would have been a completely different match.

Thank God Henson was busy applying his hair gel when the Welsh team were talking tactics.

Funkstard

What a disaster for the spice boy, his teammates didn't seem to be very warm towards him either

YeatsCounty

Correct me if I'm wrong, but if Ireland win their last two games and England beat France, then Ireland will be the Six Nations Champions, correct? That's the conclusion I've come to after studying the table.

I'm not holding out too much hope that it will pan out like that, but who knows? Of course, we have to play England in Twickenham and they have to travel to Paris to play France. Not easy for either team.

Peter B

Snickers Man wrote:

We need a number 10 so badly it hurts.

To be honest, I reckon the worst player in a green gersey was D'Arcy. He is still yet to show anything close to his player of the 6 nations championship years ago.

Maybe he should be moved to full back, Trimble to center, and Murphy to wing.

CCOVICH

Peter B wrote:

To be honest, I reckon the worst player in a green gersey was D'Arcy. He is still yet to show anything close to his player of the 6 nations championship years ago.

Maybe he should be moved to full back, Trimble to center, and Murphy to wing.

Worth a try IMHO.

Separately, I think teams have identified the number 10 channel and our midfield defence as weak links.

Sangre

Number 10 is definetely a weak channel but BOD and Darcy are both very solid tacklers and often force the player to hold onto the ball.

Great confidence by Trimble for someone so young.
Stringer is starting to play much better lately.

Murphy is becoming a joker of an attacker

I thought Murphy did well today..

His Kicking was fantastic, and his decision making superb..

he cant make 60 yard breaks every week..

Funkstard

Any news on Marcus Horan? Didn't like seeing him stretchered off at all..

Sangre

Yes Murphy plays a great positional game and is a solid kicker but for the last 2 seasons probably he has never really been that much of an attacking threat.

Either he is forced to play a game plan he doesn't like or just loses the confidence when he puts an irish jersey on.

he's a shadow of his leicster twin yes, but i think he had a good performance today.

Funny how Girve plays his best rugby when he get's dropped from the irish set up too...

must be a full back thing

Sangre

I think Murphy should be dropped for Girv even just to give him a kick up the arse. Players need to know they don't have a guaranteed spot.

Funkstard

Swervin' Girvan is shocking imo. No way he is better than Geordan Murphy. Murphy today played fine, positioned himself perfectly for nearly every kick and sent back perfect ones in response. Just because he didn't make many breaks doesn't mean he had a bad game, give him a break.

The tackling today was outstanding too. The only miss I can remember is O'Gara (surprise surprise)

Funkstard

Swervin' Girvan is shocking imo. No way he is better than Geordan Murphy. Murphy today played fine, positioned himself perfectly for nearly every kick and sent back perfect ones in response. Just because he didn't make many breaks doesn't mean he had a bad game, give him a break.

The tackling today was outstanding too. The only miss I can remember is O'Gara (surprise surprise)

Sangre

I didn't say he a bad game I said his attacking game for the last while isn't up to scratch

Girvan plays some great rugby for Leinster in the HC.
Although the same is said for Murphs at Leicster.

Great game by Leamy I must say, same for Wallace. Great to see him back in the line up.

Geoff was lucky his hands on the deck with stringer didn't get him a yellow.

Leamy needs to be more disciplined though

absolutely stupid to be binned for the last 5 mins..

not on in top flight rugby

Jim10000

Because of the dodgy TV coverage where I am (they switched channels) I missed the Leamy (stamping?) incident at the end of the match ... what happened exactly?

I see Horan is ok.

Teg Veece

Basically some Welsh player, think it was Owen, dove in from the side of the ruck after the Irish maul crossed the white wash in an attempt to block the ref from seeing the ball being grounded. Leamy took exception to this and drove his boot up Owen's ass.

No one was hurt but Leamy was stupid for being so unprofessional.