England to pose a serious threat to Ireland....

Diamondmaker

......... from penalties conceded inside our half.

Jonnys boot is the only threat. Terrible looking England team, crowd so subdued and Scotland must have been REALLY bad!

zAbbo

France, Wales and Ireland will destroy this boring uninventive English side.

Wilkinson is always a threat from penalties.

iwincosimcool

Theyll probably up their game for Ireland no doubt, altough I think were capable pf putting a record victory on them after seeing this though, .............what a try by Italy by the way!

Diamondmaker

Ha ha they got worse!!:D

Any team with a half decent back line will rip them apart.

I can think of one or 2 teams out there that satsify that bill.;)

Touch wood Ire have a FULL stregth team for that game I would love them to exact a hiding of the sort we got used to in the 90s.:mad:

sioda

even with a mid strength side you cant see ireland losing to a team that have no option but the posts. I mean 1 try all and a better game played by Italy and to have the man of the match awarded to Italy.

Englands game and team would want to improve 10 fold to give ireland any real competition

Diamondmaker

sioda wrote:

I mean 1 try all and a better game played by Italy and to have the man of the match awarded to Italy.

Oh I must a missed the MOM, who got it? The game was so sh%te I was pottering about doing DIY only coming in for the odd cheer.

Thats the way should have been for San Marino, they should have got the MOM would have been like a European Cup to the guy!

sioda

You really have to give credit to Italy down to 14 men and you barely noticed. IMO subbing their number 10 could have turned the game.

smashey

Diamondmaker wrote:

Oh I must a missed the MOM, who got it? The game was so sh%te I was pottering about doing DIY only coming in for the odd cheer.

Troncon. No English player would have been in the running. Martin Corry seemed their best.

damnyanks

Corry is the only one on that team with any heart. Never forget during the time england consistently got walloped he was in tears during the interview. Feel bad for the guy.

Steyr

I dont think we havve anything to fear from a very boring English side, they played dreadfully.

PeadarofAodh

Boring, maybe. Still can't see them rolling over and taking a thrashing this 6 nations, don't think they'll beat Ireland though.

davyjose

Steyr wrote:

I dont think we havve anything to fear from a very boring English side, they played dreadfully.

Were they any worse than Wales, a team who only 6 days before gave me one of the most uncomortable 80mins in years? It's all relative - 4 teams had one good day and one bad day; I wouldn't expect England to be this poor every match.

crosstownk

IMHO, France are the worry, not England. England don't seem to be able to score enough tries. And I agree with other posters, if Wilkinson is given enough attempts at the posts then they could eek out a decent score. The trick is to not allow this to happen. However, it's quite possible that England could come out of the blocks with all guns blazing, but based on what I've seen so far, I don't see them as a serious threat.

In any case, while Ireland's performance against Wales stood them well, they will need to up the game to ensure victory against both France and England.

spanner

lets not fool ourselves we hardly destroyed england last year with just a late try, we havent beat france in 4 years, and we also struggled againist Italy last year.

listening to BBC yesterday as far as they are concerned its irelands to lose, I wouldnt look to much into englands preformance againist Italy. England do pose a serious thread to ireland

Hydroquinone

The Six Nations is a fantastic competition precisely because teams have good and bad days.
Look at last week - England battered Scotland and people said it was because Scotland was rubbish. So this week, Scotland come out and beat Wales. Last week Wales gave Ireland a good run for their money and if it hadn't been for some frankly dodgy refereeing, Wales could have won. Who gave Scotland a chance this week? No one. Yet Wales went from giving one of the favourites a fright last week, to being beaten by one of the Wooden Spoon contenders this week.

Results like these make the professional pundits look feeble and foolish, but add to the exctement and nail-bitery for the rest of us.

I want to see Ireland win today and hope they do it. But it seems to me that predicting who's going to win is a bit of a risky occupation, to say the very least.

So England do pose a threat to Ireland, course they do. England battered Scotland who beat Wales, the team Ireland struggled to beat. All teams have good days and bad days, you just have to hope that your team has a good day, because apart from that, yer average person who's not playing can do sweet feck all about it, either way.