Scotland vs Ireland

BOHSBOHS

jaysus is that horgan injured already in the warm up ?:eek: how bad is it ?

bright

trimble?:rolleyes:

bright

that is soft defence, fringes were not working nearly hard enough, and they are now trailing 7-0. Ireland need to wake up.

Trotter

The ref is great.. He's class entertainment on his own.

Diamondmaker

happened Horgan?????:eek:

he was only on bench!

Diamondmaker

what a take Murphy!

Stev_o

After all the crap most Boards users gave him about defence just look what he did! If that was Girve one of the Lamounts would have scored FACT!

Trotter

Lads what happened to Horgan? Was it serious?

Diamondmaker

Stev_o wrote:

After all the crap most Boards users gave him about defence just look what he did! If that was Girve one of the Lamounts would have scored FACT!

Point is he is onconsistent, flashes of brillinace ut can ;et you down on the basics, and I do think Girve would have made a similar take.

Girve is afterall most renowned for his hi ball skills....Having said this Murphy has likely sealed his RWC sea if continues wih this form.

SOmeone tell me what happened to shaggy??!??!

ONly tuned in at 1 min on clock!

Inquitus

Pure solid gold shíte, at least the Dubs kick off soon and I can rid myself of this incoherent crap.

Nothing to be gained from this, playing combinations with no understanding............... a **** frontrow, of Ulster no-hoper props, with Poor Jerry stuck in the middle wandering WTF.

Mincer Wallace FFS

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Diamondmaker

Lucky 7 Ulster heads on pitch !!!:mad:

jdivision

Horgan went down in the warm ups. Knee problem. Flannery looks way off the pace, missing too many tackles. Same old problems in front row when Young and S Best are there. N Best not playing well either

tommycahir

somebody tell wallace he is meant to get more than 10 yards on a kick and that finding touch is a good thing. :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad:

jamieh

Hey all,

Does anyone know where I can watch the match online??

I'm in Canada at the mo and you have to be in Ireland to watch it live on rte.ie

Stev_o

Ah god pack is just terrible not one of them is playing well POC hasnt been making himself present O Kelly has only done one good thing and stupid Ferris ruined it. Boss is just forcing the backline in the corner. Wallace is just plain crap and hasnt managed to make one good decision. Kearney at least is trying to force his way through. Bowe aint doing much. O Driscoll for all his class just cant make something out of nothing so far. Lads we really are going to be in trouble come September

Inquitus

We'll be grand in September injuries permitting as there will only be 3 of these Muppets on the pitch, tops.

Edit: That being the only 3 who arent muppets....

heggie

we're gonna be in trouble if key players get injured, this isnt the 1st XV

Stev_o

You do know that you cant win a RWC with 15 players?

ColinJennings

Horgan went down before the match started. They still have no word on the seriousness of the injury, but he did walk off unaided, so that is some small sliver of hope.

tommycahir

Christ Murphy is the one that looks anyway decent today. Every time Scotland get within the 22 Ireland seem as if they are going to concede another try. POC and BOD just cant seem to get motoring today and to be honest they probably wont with the muppets that are around them.

theres try 4

heggie

Stev_o wrote:

You do know that you cant win a RWC with 15 players?

i do indeed we're not likely to be fielding such an understrength team in the wc as this no matter what injuries, thats all i'm saying

tommycahir

Finally a decent ball to the backs and we get a break.

ColinJennings

TRY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Go on Boss!

Stev_o

Wallace just depress this Irish team ahh another kick missing touch

Scrap Wallace and Boss and we might be able to get something out of this match.

Stev_o

Can EOS not just ring Humphreys and plead with him that he is desperately needed for the RWC *sigh*

heggie

lets hope so! jesus murphy's lookin good

Stev_o

Wahey nice score from the turnover, nice one Murphy deciding not to be selfish

ColinJennings

Try #2. Trimble finishes off a scrappy back row move.

tommycahir

24 - 21 ireland are back in it :rolleyes:

Stev_o

Wallace at center? Im guessing were just going to kick our way into the lead

Agent Smith

very nice kick by RoG, pity we did nothing with it...

Agent Smith

scottish try after a balls up of an irish scrum

Agent Smith

and converted

Stev_o

Jesus what a catch by murphy there too bad the support wasnt there. Games out of reach now

Agent Smith

31-21 final score.

decent game time, little else. irish man if the match, jordan by far.

tommycahir

jesus let's just hope that the first 15 dont get an injury after that performance!

Stev_o

Now lets see what happens at Ravenhill

EdgarAllenPoo

With one simple routine kick ROG showed what a 10 is supposed to do and what Wallace never does. It was a simple kick which Wallace should have utilised throughout the match.

Boss steps way too much for my liking and I noticed an immediate improvement when Hayes and Best came on.

Murphy had a blinder.

bugler

POC and BOD just cant seem to get motoring today and to be honest they probably...

Err POC was immense today. If he hadn't been there the pasting the forwards took first half would have been twice as bad. BOD was quiet, as no ball = no play. Missed tackle for the try will hurt him though.

tommycahir

I personally thought that POC took a while to get into the match. Think that he was a bit rusty at the start and I cant deny that he was starting to get going by the middle of the second half.

nacho libre

Stev_o wrote:

You do know that you cant win a RWC with 15 players?

England did it four years ago.

nedward

For lads who are meant to be the biggest, most physical, heftiest team we have ever seen, the Scots were hardly bullied around the pitch. Simon Best in particular still looks like he has a Dunlop radial under his jersey. The question of form is the more depressing point after the match, for me.

BTW, does Neil Best look a little like Tyrone Howe?

quagmire69

BOHSBOHS wrote:

jaysus is that horgan injured already in the warm up ?:eek: how bad is it ?

Taken from bbc:

Ireland coach Eddie O'Sullivan has said he is "very worried" about the fitness of Shane Horgan who injured a knee in a World Cup warm-up defeat by Scotland.

"Shane was a replacement but twisted his knee in the warm-up and Andrew Trimble came in," said O'Sullivan.

"Shane will have a scan in the morning to assess the extent of the damage.

"Brian O'Driscoll came off with a tight hamstring and a sore wrist and other players took knocks. I have some tough decisions before naming my squad."


My words:
f***

nedward

If Horgan is out, Geordan will surely get a run in the team. I can't see Trimble playing wing again after France in Croke Park. Please God he isn't out!

Junior

Did I read in the stats during the match that the scottish pack was 2kg heavier on average than the Irish Pack ?

Hippo

Yeah the scots were huge-their pre season conditioning seemed to work pretty well....

Jackz

Do you think it was good enough to get game time for some of these players or would it have been better for the entire camp to have played more first string players and beat the scots? A victory is always good for morale but I suppose after beating the scots the previous seven times we know we can beat them with better players.

Nukem

That was pretty much all in all a crap game.
Scotland had their first 15 on the pitch and they couldnt put a scrappy Irish team away,they fannied about for too long.Ireland were poor.

EOS must look at Pillar A&B that is the bread and butter of a forwards defence. This was very similar to what England did to Wales last week. We looked so so soft in the tackling all over the place. Henderson pi$$ed through the defence on countless occasions. Flannery's throwing was sheer rubbish and did anyone notice that we barely challenged in any of their lineouts?????

Oh its gonna be a short WC if we repeat that episode:mad:

thebaz

Stev_o wrote:

Can EOS not just ring Humphreys and plead with him that he is desperately needed for the RWC *sigh*

Humphreys must go !!!!

Wallace is a liability waiting to happen , if something happens to O'Gara in France , we are on the first plane home -- not fair on the quality players like O'Driscoll, Darcy, O'Connell, Leamy etc etc , that there chance of glory could be ruined ....
Please eddie plead

Junior

Wallace needs to move and get game time somewhere, Humphreys going would be a step backwards for this team.