Scotland V Ireland Thread

Heisenberg.

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RuggieBear

erm...you've left at the most important position on the team...;)

KevIRL

Just about to leave my mates place to head into Princess St for a few pints before heading up to Murrayfield for the game.

C'mon Ireland!

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zuutroy

Ah yes....the game for the trophy no one cares about, possibly invented by Ireland who see the silver medal as a great achievment.
People are calling it a Triple Crown decider, but strictly speaking its not unless both teams are going for it as far as I know.

danyosan

Where the hell is the link for watching the game through rte.ie? Does anyone know?

christophicus

Is actual kickoff 1.30?

christophicus

http://www.rte.ie/sport/rugby/int_six_index.html#


there should be a link on the right hand sideof that page when the games starts.

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radiospan

Yeah, there seems to be no link for the video on rte.ie/sport yet

EDIT: It's up now: http://www.rte.ie/sport/index.html (over at the right)

christophicus

yep up now. Ireland are on fire!!

christophicus

15 MIn's that was a good charge by scotland.

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christophicus

Fuack sake !!! agiann ireland are asleep after they score!!!!

Jesus Wept

christophicus wrote:

http://www.rte.ie/sport/rugby/int_six_index.html#


there should be a link on the right hand sideof that page when the games starts.

I'm watching now, on rte!? How long has this service been going, what else have they/will they show?

christophicus

its only the 6 nations that they show.

How long does half time last for?? im off to make myself a club sandwich

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zuutroy

Very poor really. Far from a world class performance. I'm justified in not getting caught up in the 'we're the greatest team ever' hype of a fortnight ago.

Jesus Wept

The Scientist wrote:

Ya its a new service, about time they did something right.
They've shown all Irelands 6 nations games...

Half time; 9 - 13

my old old tv died, was going to get a new one, but only thing I really watch on telly is Liverpool, and RTE will be showing them in the champions league on the website...

dunno if to bother gettin a telly now

Heisenberg.

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AbusesToilets

Jaysus,that was too close.Not a good day at the office at all.Great steal by O'Connell there at the end

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christophicus

We were VERY lucky to win that.

Pathetic performance.

Diamondmaker

Horgo had a shocker and ROGs missed touches and goals could have been/were costly.

Terrible game . Italy will really fancy us after that and Im worried that a few players after the dust settles on that game will be carrying critical injuries into the HEC games ahead!

ninebeanrows

Terrible Performace but to be honest, i think everything went against us and we didn't get even a slice of luck...

Brian Capture

Nice to see George Hook say 'I refuse to use the expression a win is a win is a win'.

It really is a mindless phrase.

One good thing about today was that it showed Ireland can win without Isaac Boss.
That irritating and hateful player is surplus to requirements - so back to New Zealand with you.

Chucky the tree

Shocking performance.

danyosan

Weathercheck wrote:

Terrible Performace but to be honest, i think everything went against us and we didn't get even a slice of luck...

You are kidding me on aren't you

christophicus

Weathercheck wrote:

Terrible Performace but to be honest, i think everything went against us and we didn't get even a slice of luck...

Are you kidding?? The ref gave some very dodgy calls our way.

Redundo

Why the hell did Ireland try to drive 70-80% of our attacking ball straight through the middle of the Scottish pack? D'Arcy kept making yards all right, but the only times we ever really seemed to cut into Scotlands defence was down the wings and yet more often then not we tried to drive the ball down the centre?

Again, we dominated in the line-out and yet we tried very few kicks in behind the Scottish backs. Where the hell did all the talk of Scotland having a great line-out come from anyway, didn't Italy destroy their line-out just 2 weeks back?

It seemed like Ireland had abandoned all the aspects of their game that make them a great team.

christophicus

^^ id have to completely agree with you Redundo.

Milktrolley

6 min: Italy 21 - 0 Scotland
80 min: Ireland 19 - 18 Scotland

OK, so that first one was a once off. But still, not good enough, too much indiscipline and way too many costly errors. Wasn't expecting to have a subdued sense of relief at the end of that one! Any clinging hope that points difference might swing the championship for us can be truly fecked out the window now. Anyhoo, it's a Triple Crown... I guess. On the balance of things, I'm happy.

mike65

The England game was two weeks ago was'nt it? So no excuses for having a Croker hang-over. Maybe they should have played for thier provinces and shaken the topor off.

Mike.

bugler

Woeful game. Which isn't a surprise, the same happened to England and France last year when playing Scotland.

The only plus was POC putting in an immense performance today. He was everywhere in the loose - and he ripped that last ball out that denied Scotland their last attacking move.

ninebeanrows

christophicus wrote:

Are you kidding?? The ref gave some very dodgy calls our way.

Nope aint kidding, yea there were 2 or 3 flat at best passes..

But playwise, we didnt get any luck when we were attacking.

Redundo

We didn't get any luck because we were sloppy with our passing and because our runners weren't always aware of the support just on their shoulders.....

Diamondmaker

Brian Capture wrote:

Nice to see George Hook say 'I refuse to use the expression a win is a win is a win'.

It really is a mindless phrase.

One good thing about today was that it showed Ireland can win without Isaac Boss.
That irritating and hateful player is surplus to requirements - so back to New Zealand with you.

Baffling comment???

When has any one ever said Boss was essential for Ireland to win?
Irritating ? Hatreful ? not really relevant comments for a rugby forum are they?!

copacetic

wasn't a great display, none of the breaks turned into to anything good. looked like a lack of concetration. Dissapointed Hickie didn't finish his chance, getting your foot into the in goal area before the ball isn't great. It was a good tackle from Lamont but Hickie should have seen him coming and dived for the line. Did well in first half to tackle and compete with patterson though.

Ah well, another triple crown and hopefully a kick in the arse for them..

Chucky the tree

There goes the championship aswell. Whatever slim chance we had of winning it has just been lost.

christophicus

daveym wrote:

a kick in the arse for them..

Thats what we have been sayint about all of the poor preformances. And it hasnt really been a kick in the arse

Redundo

Daveym wrote:

wasn't a great display, none of the breaks turned into to anything good. looked like a lack of concetration. Dissapointed Hickie didn't finish his chance, getting your foot into the in goal area before the ball isn't great. It was a good tackle from Lamont but Hickie should have seen him coming and dived for the line. Did well in first half to tackle and compete with patterson though.

I think Hickie should have off-loaded to his right right, or behind him. He had plenty of support in better try-scoring positions and he knew a tackle would be coming in from Lamont.

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MisterAnarchy

Redundo wrote:

It seemed like Ireland had abandoned all the aspects of their game that make them a great team.

I can never recall Ireland being a great team.
Grossly overated and limited.

TarfHead

I had Scotland @ +14 as part of my weekend accumulator.
I never expected it to be THAT close

copacetic

Redundo wrote:

I think Hickie should have off-loaded to his right right, or behind him. He had plenty of support in better try-scoring positions and he knew a tackle would be coming in from Lamont.

He didn't have any support that I could see, Darcy inside him with 2 scots on his shoulder. As conor o'shea pointed out the scots covered the inside well forcing him to go on his own..

RuggieBear

seemingly ROG got choked in the final ruck:(

csk

^^^attempted murder according to Mc Gurk!!!!

O'Sullivan didn't mince his words either

copacetic

Chucky the tree wrote:

There goes the championship aswell. Whatever slim chance we had of winning it has just been lost.

how so?

1 France 3 +50 6
2 Ireland 4 +38 6
3 England 3 +5 4

We need england to beat france and then we will likely be within 10 points
of them going in to last game, don't fancy our chances but don't see how
they are much worse after today?

RuggieBear

daveym wrote:

how so?

1 France 3 +50 6
2 Ireland 4 +38 6
3 England 3 +5 4

We need england to beat france and then we will likely be within 10 points
of them going in to last game, don't fancy our chances but don't see how
they are much worse after today?

we were supposed to whip scotland today to give us an even beter points diference points

copacetic

RuggieBear wrote:

we were supposed to whip scotland today to give us an even beter points diference points

Oh I realise that, just don't think our chances are any more 'gone' than they were after beating England.