Ireland v Scotland -Aviva Stadium - Saturday 10th March 5pm

digzy

Fantastic performances from our players, delighted for ryan getting motm though felt been richie gray was outstanding for them! guy's lethal
fair play to our lads, they must have been dying after last sunday

dougieruggie

bossa_nova wrote: »

Kdney has a thing for trying sexton at 12 for whatever reason, bit strange alright, it happened in a pinch situation against France before the world cup but he really seems to be pushing it the last few games

I think we all know the answer.

Kidney knows he cant take off Sexton anymore because hes too good.

But he also knows that he can't bring on O'Gara unless he plays him at 10.

If he takes off Sexton then the team could lose. But if he doesn't play O'Gara then he can expect a massive whinge in the newspaper next week.

The simple solution?

Move Sexton to 12 and give O'Gara some game time

irishbucsfan

ongarite wrote: »

Jesus we killed the Scottish scrum when Court and Cronin came on.

George Hook will have to find someone else to invent idiotic criticisms about now, yet again.

cgpg5

Gee feel sorry for Macca. Doc contributed nothing throughout, and Kidney throws him on with about 4 minutes left? A joke. Also, Ryan contributed a whole lot more throughout this match than Doc did in all the games put together. How come everyone else can see that Ryan is the better player except Kidney..

Seph503

Think Sexton looks far more comfortable for Ireland now than he did at the start of the 6 Nations, run of games seems to have done his confidence a boost.

Ryan brilliant, hope the rumours of him to Leinster have some weight, would love to have him!

TOL to be fair played well. Good service. Who knows, maybe the break from Ireland has done him a bit of good??

Scrum=awesome and delighted for Best to get a try today.

My only gripe - the cross field kick try didn't come off:(

Fireball07

Healy, Ryan, POM, Sexton, Earls- All fantastic.

Good win.

mfceiling

Ryan was magnificent. Injuries have shown kidney that there are excellent players ready to take their chances if he would only take a chance on them.

dougieruggie

DOC has got to go. Honestly, McCarthy contributed more. When will Kidney let go of us his favourites?

I also think McFadden deserves a start. He looked hungry today. Put him at 12 or 11.

Reddan-Sexton combination MUST remain. Every time they've played together we've been good.

1.Healy
2.Best
3.Ross
4.Ryan
5.Touhy (it will be DOC though)
6.Ferris
7.O'Brien
8.Heaslip
9.Reddan
10.Sexton
11.Trimble
12.McFadden
13.Earls
14.Bowe
15.Kearney

bossa_nova

eyeball kid wrote: »

Ryan had a great game today. Very good result against a Scottish team who really fancied their chances today.

But again an injury had forced Kidneys's hand to pick an in form player when it was clear to everyone who should be starting.

Thats a bit harsh on SOB, he was savage against France last week and has been played well in the tournament, but no harm in rotation and that's where most off the criticism towards Kidney's selections comes from.

errlloyd

Surely Ferris was man of the match, nothing against Ryan he had a good game but I think the world has come to expect so much from Ferris we just casually ignore when he decides to be immense!

Great game, I thought TOLs cameo was quite weak, I am also worried that realistically we got quite lucky with Trimble and Reddan, those tries wouldn't have happened against better teams.

Was Bowe's double movement a double movement?

dougieruggie

bossa_nova wrote: »

Thats a bit harsh on SOB, he was savage against France last week and has been played well in the tournament, but no harm in rotation and that's where most off the criticism towards Kidney's selections comes from.

Hes referring to Ryan not POM......

yosser hughes

dougieruggie wrote: »

Reddan-Sexton combination MUST remain. Every time they've played together we've been good.

That is the biggest lesson from this game.

bossa_nova

dougieruggie wrote: »

Hes referring to Ryan not POM......

do'h :

justsomebloke

RuggieBear wrote: »

dougierugby, i don't want you to post in this thread again till after the final whistle

This worked well so we will extend it to don't post in this thread again.

cgpg5

Richie Gray was the best player out on the pitch today. Who actually gives the MOTM? Is it RTE? Was watching BBc you see...

irishbucsfan

yosser hughes wrote: »

dougieruggie wrote: »

Reddan-Sexton combination MUST remain. Every time they've played together we've been good.

That is the biggest lesson from this game.

How many times does it take for Kidney to learn it though?

Honestly would not be surprised at all to see TOL start in Twickenham.

cgpg5

If Poc was fit next week would be so interesting, I would not in the slighest be surprised if he still started Doc in that instance, laughable...

Lapin

Good news there about Jones.

Seems like nothing worse than concussion.

eyeball kid

bossa_nova wrote: »

Thats a bit harsh on SOB, he was savage against France last week and has been played well in the tournament, but no harm in rotation and that's where most off the criticism towards Kidney's selections comes from.

No, this was in reference to the DOC - Ryan selection really.

yimrsg

Liking the way Ferris has taken up BOD's shooter role full time, watching him mangle players is an awesome sight. POM looked very good throughout, I still think he's not an natural open side (yet) but he's definitely not out of his depth for Ireland.

Flincher

bossa_nova wrote: »

LOL " i didnt even touch him, i just pushed him":pac:

I think Evans argued that it was self-defence.

bossa_nova

eyeball kid wrote: »

No, this was in reference to the DOC - Ryan selection really.

Completley mixed that up, to many beers:P

phog

Great result and a load of tries in the bag. I doubt many had that a scoreline in their predictions.

Ryan ws MOTM but POM showed a lot of promise too, both had a great day in the lineouts which was supposed to be our weakness.

In this year's 6Ns so far we've outscored two teams by double their score, drawn one and lost by 2 points in the other.

twinytwo

phog wrote: »

Great result and a load of tries in the bag. I doubt many had that a scoreline in their predictions.

Ryan ws MOTM but POM showed a lot of promise too, both had a great day in the lineouts which was supposed to be our weakness.

In this year's 6Ns so far we've outscored two teams by double their score, drawn one and lost by 2 points in the other.

both of which we should have won:mad:....

LostinBlanch

irishbucsfan wrote: »

How many times does it take for Kidney to learn it though?

Unfortunately I have to agree with you. Kidney's determination to keep on trying to put square pegs in round holes is the problem here. Especially after he's been shown that round pegs fit the round holes perfectly!

I don't understand whether it's down to stubborness and sheer pig headedness.

irishbucsfan wrote: »

Honestly would not be surprised at all to see TOL start in Twickenham.

Please God no! But I wouldn't be surprised to see that either. He's determined to "rehabilitate" him no matter what the cost to us.

cgpg5

twinytwo wrote: »

both of which we should have won:mad:....

France maybe but saying we should have won against Wales is just wrong, could have won maybe, but they were better than us that day

PerrinV2

What music is that on now on rte 2?

shuffol

phog wrote: »

Great result and a load of tries in the bag. I doubt many had that a scoreline in their predictions.

Ryan ws MOTM but POM showed a lot of promise too, both had a great day in the lineouts which was supposed to be our weakness.

In this year's 6Ns so far we've outscored two teams by double their score, drawn one and lost by 2 points in the other.

We could really be going for a GS next week, makes you wonder how well we might have done if we picked our best players

DDC1990

Ok, so We scored a bag load of tries.

We dominated at scrum time.

O'Leary and McFadden came off the bench and the world didn't end! They actually played well.

ROG and Sexton played on the pitch together and played well.

We went up against a formidable lineout without our talisman POC, yet Donnacha Ryan and Donnacha O'Callaghan actually played well.

Earls showed us the reason why he was selected at 13 for this 6 Nations, with great handling, exceptional defence and finally some attacking flair, leading to a try (eventually)

We found ourselves a potential 7 for the future in POM, and confirmed that D.Ryan is the real deal.

Healy is playing like a man posessed.

Kearney had another great game.

Sexton was great from the tee, and apart form 2-3 bad decision, lead the line very well.

Yet, people are still complaining about Kidney, D'Arcy, DOC (completly ignoring the work he did a ruck time, and the power he brings at scrumtime).
Its no wonder the atmosphere in the Aviva is shíte. Instead of watching and supporting the team, our fans are waiting for an opportunity for their most hated player to make a mistake so they can call him Crap on an internet forum after the game!

The reaction when TOL came on said it all. People before he touched the ball were calling him shíte, and saying he didn't deserve to be in the Jersey again.

Benny Cake

Considering the injuries, Irelands strength in depth has been impressive.. Great to see Sexton play so well today, he's the best ten in europe on this form. Healy, Ryan, Ferris, POM, Earls all superb. Enjoyable enough game to boot. Roll on Paddys day in Twickenham!!