Ireland v France (Match Thread)

zAbbo

For those of you who don't know, it's on today

Beforehand, RTE2 are repeating the 'Croke Park - the Opening Hour' at 1.25pm

"A documentary celebrating the historical decision to allow the Irish rugby union and association football teams to play internationals at Croke Park"

After that 2pm - 5.30 - build and analysis live - RTE2 / BBC

Lineups
Ireland: Dempsey; Murphy, Horgan, D'Arcy, Hickie; O'Gara, Boss; Horan, R Best, Hayes, O'Callaghan, O'Connell, S Easterby, D Wallace, Leamy.
Replacements: Flannery, S Best, N Best, M O'Driscoll, Reddan, P Wallace, Trimble.

France: Poitrenaud; Clerc, Marty, Jauzion, Dominici; Skrela, Mignoni; Marconnet, Ibanez (capt), de Villiers, Nallet, Pape, Betsen, Harinordoquy, Chabal.
Replacements: Bruno, Milloud, Thion, Bonnaire, Yachvili, Beauxis, Heymans.

Referee: Steve Walsh (New Zealand)

Everythings already been said across various forums on this game.

Good luck boys, for those with a few minutes to spare, have a read from Geordan Murphys Q&A

Dub13

What time is KO....?

mick.fr

We are going to wipe your ass out lol !
No seriously I do not know, we'll see.
Good luck :-)

cast_iron

Dub13 wrote:

What time is KO....?

3pm

Kinetic^

Allez les verts!!!!!! I was shouting that at all the frenchies last night on my way home!!!!

Dub13

Thats grand,I have a christening on at one so I will be well in the pub by 3.

a bientot

We know that the Irish team are in Killiney but anyone know where the French team are (staying)?

davyjose

Reverend Lovejoy: Well, I'm glad some people could resist the lure of the big game.
Guy: Oh my god, I forgot the game!!

I'm using humour as a way of suppressing my nerves. I about 90 mins, humour will be replaced by alcohol.

mike65

France to win if they have 'travelled' well.

Mike.

zAbbo

It's well worth watching that Croker Park thing beforehand, just to get you going

Kick off 3pm

nacho libre

France to win. I'm only saying that because i want to be wrong. If i say Ireland will win they'll probably lose:P

shoutman

I'm walking down to the match but would love to see that documentry on the opening of croke park, would it be available to download later on does anyone know?

zAbbo

It's a repeat, and I'd say it will be shown again at some stage.

dathiultaigh

Am stuck in work today .

Any one know where this can be viewed on line?

christophicus

yeah it can, go to teh RTE website, there is a live stream there. IT says you can use windows media player , I tried that last week and it didnt work, Get the real player and that should work.

zuutroy

Genius!.....there's something that feels right about Croker being the home of Irish sport. Doesnt the pitch look TINY!

BlitzKrieg

the weather at the match is a tad....snowing?

christophicus

REally? Its nice and warm down here in waterford.

BlitzKrieg

just saw them interviewing some GAA officials (I think) at croke park on the tv and it was snowing.


but I guess that could have beeen earlier in the day.

christophicus

could taht have been that program that poepel were talkimg about thats on bfore the build up?

LundiMardi

Should be a goodun... Looking forward to hearing the croker crowd.

Funkstard

Haha Mary McAleese thinks they're playing football at Croke Park today

spank_inferno

Hey guys,
apart from RTE are there any other live streams of todays game available?

thanks

fade2black

Hook wearing a nice French tie there.

BlitzKrieg

christophicus wrote:

could taht have been that program that poepel were talkimg about thats on bfore the build up?

naa it was during the match build up...

mike65

Agh! How much protocol can a rugger match stand????????!

Mike.

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

Words of Ireland's Call on the big board.... never did that with Arann na bhFiannn*....

*yeah, yeah, i know, the spelling's burtal...

fade2black

France dominating.

3greenrizla's

I am also stuck in work with no access to any sports sites, could some one kindly post scores / updates on how the game is going on here for me please.

also what time are the highlights on?

Fwaggle

Try for France.

Ireland 3 France 13

fullstop

13-3 france. ireland aren't in the game at all

pp_me129

Ire 6 Fra 13

Collie D

O'Gara try, missed conversion, tough angle. 11-13

Fwaggle

Try for O'Gara - no conversion.

Ireland 11 France 13

gernon

go ya good thing ,try o gara

pickarooney

Lovely bit of play by O'Gara, pity about the woejus kick.

pickarooney

let-off there with an equally poor penalty from Skrela, still 13-11

Collie D

Thought the angle was tight enough to be fair although he did miss by a mile so fair point. Dependingon an Irish win here to pay for my soccer tickets, got the bill the other night while watching the San Marino game, nearly binned it

Collie D

Hung in there by skin of teeth

Collie D

Another poor kick by Skrela. Half time Ireland trail 11-13, could be a lot worse

pickarooney

Very entertaining first half. It took Ireland up until the French try to get going, but they showed good movement when they did get forward. There seems to be a bit of wind, so perhaps the kicking (last three missed) is excusable. We need to improve our line-outs for the second-half as France are on every mistake like an ex-army geography teacher.

zuutroy

Hopefully Eddie will earn his money at half time and sort them out.

Endurance Man

Crisis Ireland got away with murder there :eek: , i havent watched france in a while but they really seemed to have raised there game. They're not giving Ireland any time on the ball.

So Glad

True, France were not letting Ireland have any of it but now Ireland are kicking back, some great defence going on, I've got high hope for them yet.

m_s_nixon

We're very lucky to be just 2 points behind, no aspect of out play has been as good as we have come to expect, hopefully we'll get it together at half-time and come back out and hammer them

Collie D

Have always thought the French were a goo side, although they are in transtition so wasn't expecting a fisrt half like that. Hopefully the occasion got to the lads in green and they can sort it out in second half, look very sloppy.

Anyone else notice Geoge Hook's tie?

Dara Robinson

I have to agree, very entertaining first half. But I can see us just winning or failing horribly.

Some of those mistakes have not cost us by pure miracle

Got to say that I'd love nothing else than see us win, in Croke Park!!!

christophicus

what time is second half KO?

Dara Robinson

COME ON BOYS IN GREEN!!!!

Collie D

O'Gara penalty sails over. 14-13, come on Ireland!!

Dara Robinson

Collie D wrote:

O'Gara penalty sails over. 14-13, come on Ireland!!

Oh man its looking good