London Irish v Toulouse

P_1

Anybody heading over to Twickenham for this then? With Clerc out I actually fancy the Exiles for this one.

toomevara

pithater1 wrote: »

With Clerc out I actually fancy the Exiles for this one.

I wouldn't exactly use the term 'fancy' but I reckon LI will give them a run for their money. Hopefully Toulouse turn up in 'away game' mode...

Stev_o

Well according to news reports they wont have Clerc, Kunavore or Dusautoir and considering their awful away from lets hope miracles can happen

Also they have match the day before the match against Castres

remus808

Stev_o wrote: »

Well according to news reports they wont have Clerc, Kunavore or Dusautoir and considering their awful away from lets hope miracles can happen

With Clerc, Kunavore, Dusatoir, Poux, Maka, Courrent, duToit, Poitrenaud and Fritz ALL injured, you really have to fancy LI's chances of an upset at this stage. Toulouse are incredibly unfortunate to have such a ridiculous injury list, plus we all know about their dodgy away form. Come on the Exiles!!

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remus808

Listening to this on the ERC website.

Commentator goes NUTS as LI go 10-3 up after a 20th minute try from winger Ojo. Appartenly made a complete mug of Heymans!

Crash

The commentators are great actually

remus808

çrash_000 wrote: »

The commentators are great actually

Yeah pretty amusing so far! Did you hear them bollocking Elissalde just now for an awful kick? :pac:

Is that Paul Wallace btw? Damn college assignments, would love to be watching this

Amazotheamazing

Toulouse just butcher a certain try. Will be interesting to see if Toulouse snap.

Crash

London Irish try! 15-15

Sherifu

Penalty 15-18 Tou

Stev_o

Heartbreak for Irish man i was screaming when Geraghty made that break and look liked they were in for a try. They gave everything they had a really you have to admire them for putting in such a effort, they deserved to win but thats not how rugby works sadly.

Crash

Jesus the BBC sport commentators really know how to get the heart pumping - sounded like a good game.

Phaetonman

Stev_o wrote: »

Heartbreak for Irish man i was screaming when Geraghty made that break and look liked they were in for a try. They gave everything they had a really you have to admire them for putting in such a effort, they deserved to win but thats not how rugby works sadly.

They got the home draw and still came up 6 points short of Toulouse. Definitely not HCup finalist material.

Stev_o

Phaetonman wrote: »

They got the home draw and still came up 6 points short of Toulouse. Definitely not HCup finalist material.

Oh be quiet the best team in the Heineken Cup against a team thats never been this far ever and they managed to run Toulouse right to the end

Phaetonman

So what, ERC should just give them a final spot for making a good effort for a crap team? Rubbish. If they were good enough the would have won the match.

Teams like them are only got to this stage through the luck of a dreadful seeding system and biased home fixtures.

juvenal

Stev_o wrote: »

Heartbreak for Irish man i was screaming when Geraghty made that break and look liked they were in for a try. They gave everything they had a really you have to admire them for putting in such a effort, they deserved to win but thats not how rugby works sadly.

Exciting ending alright! I thought Ojo was outstanding, and I was pleased they gave him MOTM though he was on the losing team and that's not generally how it goes.

I felt for Irish, they gave everything they had, and came up short by a head. Both sides could've had another try apiece (see Pelous' break and inexplicable failure to offload ), but I felt Toulouse never hit top gear.

Overall, I felt Irish will be disappointed as they could have won, but Toulouse showed their experience and still won without actually playing that well. Overall I felt that Irish played as good as they could, but Toulouse weren't anywhere near their best, and still won, and deservedly so.

Tomorrow's game will be very interesting; I feel like either Munster will win well or Saracens will win by less than seven.

Sherifu

How many semi-final away wins have there been I wonder?
Did Munster manage any?

marco_polo

I thought the last play of the game should have been called a deliberate knock on.

Amazotheamazing

Sherifu wrote: »

How many semi-final away wins have there been I wonder?
Did Munster manage any?

Yep, beat Leinster in Dublin the year we won it, and beat Toulouse in Bordeaux in 2000 and Castres in France in 2002.

juvenal

Amazotheamazing wrote: »

Yep, beat Leinster in Dublin the year we won it, and beat Toulouse in Bordeaux in 2000 and Castres in France in 2002.

Slightly OT; While the Leinster-Munster game was technically a home draw in a neutral venue for Leinster under the rules of the tournament, I think it is pushing the bounds of common sense to call it an away game for Munster Amaz!

As we all know the 'home draw' entitles the host to a neutral venue within their country, hence LI in Twickenham and not the Majdeski, and Saracens in the Ricoh and not Vicarage. If anything, on that day, Lansdowne was a home crowd for the Red Army!

The two French games were outstanding results as well.

toomevara

Well done the Irish, really exciting game and the played some excellent rugby. The fact that they were in-it-to-win-it with five to go was a testament to their desire and grit.

Didn't look out of place at all against the so called aristocrats of europe and you could argue in the last 20 that only one team played any rugby...Hard luck on them, hopefully they can kick on in the premiership, secure a top 6 spot and give it a crack next year.

Pity the usually infallible line-out let them down a bit, and was more than a bit surprised that Alan Lewis (usually top-notch) chose to referee only one team in the scrum...a bit odd that...