Women's World Cup 2014

Losty Dublin

Kicking off this Thursday, the Woman's World Cup finds home this year in France. With the complex draw system at play, Ireland has a great chance for a semi final berth after last years Grand Slam and some strong team performances this season from a small pool of amateur players.

The competition consists of three pools of 4 teams who play each other once. From here, teams are seeded according to their positions after the group stages with the three group winners and the best ranked second place team making the semi finals with the other teams playing off for overall ranking. All teams will play 5 games with the final scheduled for Sunday 17th August.

Ireland have been pooled with defending champions New Zealand, USA and Kazakstan so the chances of a semi final berth are good. First game is against the US on Friday at 4PM BST; I'll preview the games on the day if I get a chance.

TV wise, TG4 will show Ireland's 3 pool games live as well as both semi finals and the final; Sky Sports are also showing games live while www.IRB.com will provide streaming of selected games.

The Lost Sheep

The competition structure is the exact same as the under 20s world cup. 3 groups of 4 then ranking games to decide the final rankings of 1-12. Every team plays the same amount of games

The Lost Sheep

Team to play USA tomorrow named. Game is 4pm Irish time

15. Niamh Briggs (UL Bohemians/Munster)
14. Ashleigh Baxter (Belfast Harlequins/Ulster)
13. Lynne Cantwell (Richmond/Exile)
12. Grace Davitt (Cooke/Ulster)
11. Alison Miller (Portlaoise/Connacht)
10. Nora Stapleton (Old Belvedere/Leinster)
9. Tania Rosser (Blackrock/Leinster)
1. Fiona Coghlan (UL Bohemians/Leinster) (capt)
2. Gillian Bourke (UL Bohemians/Munster)
3. Ailis Egan (Old Belvedere/Leinster)
4. Sophie Spence (Old Belvedere/Leinster)
5. Marie Louise Reilly (Old Belvedere/Leinster)
6. Siobhan Fleming (Tralee/Munster)
7. Claire Molloy (Bristol/Connacht)
8. Heather O'Brien (Highfield/Munster)
Replacements:
16. Sharon Lynch (Old Belvedere/Leinster)
17. Fiona Hayes (UL Bohemians/Munster)
18. Laura Guest (Highfield/Munster)
19. Paula Fitzpatrick (St. Mary's College/Leinster)
20. Larissa Muldoon (Bristol/Exile)
21. Jenny Murphy (Old Belvedere/Leinster)
22. Jackie Shiels (Richmond/Exile)

adelcrowsmel

Best of luck to the girls!!

sullivlo

Will tg4 be streaming the games?

Losty Dublin

sullivlo wrote: »

Will tg4 be streaming the games?

Neither Sky or TG4 will be streaming the games. All games will be streamed live on www.irb.com so you can grab them there.

Absoluvely

NZ vs Kazakhstan streaming on the IRB site seems to be broken.
"This content is currently unavailable".

Here's the full tournament schedule. All kick-off times are Irish time.

Jeepers pool C looks tough if the men's rugby is anything to go by

Absoluvely

Losty Dublin wrote: »

All games will be streamed live on www.irb.com so you can grab them there.

Absoluvely wrote: »

NZ vs Kazakhstan streaming on the IRB site seems to be broken.
"This content is currently unavailable".

I think Ireland is geo-blocked from the IRB's live streaming.

Info about the geo-blocks here http://www.rwcwomens.com/wrwcontv.html and here http://www.irb.com/mm/document/tournament/home/02/07/23/38/wrwc14broadcastandstreamingschedule.pdf

Let us know if anyone finds a work-around.

New Zealand 38 - 0 Kazakhstan (Half-Time)

Teferi

Apparently tg4 will be showing our match live.

Absoluvely

Teferi wrote: »

Apparently tg4 will be showing our match live.

They'll be showing all three of our group matches, plus the semi-finals and the final.

Hopefully that means 5 Ireland matches.

A2LUE42

Are they allowed to squeeze the ball back through the legs when a ruck is formed, I thought that wasn't allowed. The Aussies used that method twice in the first few rucks.

A2LUE42

A2LUE42 wrote: »

Are they allowed to squeeze the ball back through the legs when a ruck is formed, I thought that wasn't allowed. The Aussies used that method twice in the first few rucks.

Just done it again there. Strange.. hadn't seen that in a while, due to the danger of damage to the neck.

lertsnim

Losty Dublin wrote: »

Neither Sky or TG4 will be streaming the games. All games will be streamed live on www.irb.com so you can grab them there.

TG4 surely will. Also Sky are streaming Australia v South Africa on Sky Go right now.

The streaming on www.irb.com is working for me too so not geo blocked here at least.

Theta

A2LUE42 wrote: »

Just done it again there. Strange.. hadn't seen that in a while, due to the danger of damage to the neck.

Are you talking about "squeeze ball"? Its not allowed at underage or junior level but it is allowed at senior level.

19543261

Why is that? Injury concerns?

Theta

19543261 wrote: »

Why is that? Injury concerns?

Pretty much, the base of your skull and back of your neck are exposed to knees and feet. Also if the ruck is poorly set up the weight of all the players above you is on your head.

The Lost Sheep

A2LUE42 wrote: »

Are they allowed to squeeze the ball back through the legs when a ruck is formed, I thought that wasn't allowed. The Aussies used that method twice in the first few rucks.

Squeeze all is allowed at all adult grades and at under 20/21 grade.

19543261 wrote: »

Why is that? Injury concerns?

By putting ball between your legs like that you leave your neck and top of your back as well as your head exposed and potential of serious injury is much higher

Absoluvely

USA 7 - 3 Ireland after 7 minutes.

They've been taking water breaks half way through each half in the other matches.

'Mon Ireland!

ANy link? Having trouble finding it

Neil3030

I met the American tighthead / captain at a wedding in Mayo last year. A lady with which one would not mess!

Absoluvely

Deleted User wrote: »

ANy link? Having trouble finding it

If you're in Ireland you can watch it on TV on TG4 but not on tg4.ie.

If you want to watch it online you can try http://www.irb.com/live/video.html but it's not working for me.

dave13

It's available on TG4 player. Just need to click "BEO" in the top left on it in the schedule that appears on left hand side and then click on the video above that.
Not the easiest to find, but its currently working fine on my ipad

Absoluvely

dave13 wrote: »

It's available on TG4 player. Just need to click "BEO" in the top left on it in the schedule that appears on left hand side and then click on the video above that.
Not the easiest to find, but its currently working fine on my ipad

It's not working for me on Windows. It says it's not available in my region.

Try for Ireland!!

This link works for me http://www.tg4.ie/en/player/tg4-player.html?gclid=CPz84ZWw8r8CFSps2wodl0EAaQ

Absoluvely

Another converted try there just before half-time.
Half-way to the bonus point, which will be really important to reach the semi's as the best runner-up if NZ win the group.

Absoluvely

Deleted User wrote: »

This link works for me http://www.tg4.ie/en/player/tg4-player.html?gclid=CPz84ZWw8r8CFSps2wodl0EAaQ

Oooh. That link works for me as well. Nice one.

20 - 10 half-time.

crisco10

Some pretty poor reffing going on here!!

23-17 to Ireland with 67 mins gone.

Buer

Reffing is appalling.

budhabob

Reffing has been poor, some poor passing from us too. This should see it out now though.

Buer

Irish lock has glue on her hands. Some wonderful takes in the set piece.

Good start.

crisco10

Decent win. our tactics were fairly basic, strong pick'n'drive, maul and a shotgun boot.

I genuinely laughed when American 11 fly hacked the ball into her teammate 5 yards in front, and the ref didn't even give accidental offside.
It was made more obvious by the offside player catching the ball.

The Lost Sheep

Ok win. Very unlikely to make semi finals now without having got a bonus point but you never know and even if we don't make semi finals the women can still get a best ever finish for Ireland in world cup

Morf

After Ireland's 2nd pen the US restarted with 15 just kicking the ball in the air and Ireland knocked on.

Ball didn't get within a foot of the ground. A drop it was not. Ref staring right at her kicking it too.

The Lost Sheep

Team named for NZ game
1 change to team that started US game
Paula Fitzpatrick replaces Siobhan Fleming at blindside

ScissorPaperRock

Ireland playing well here

Stream link?

Found it

http://www.tg4.ie/en/player/tg4-player.html?gclid=CPz84ZWw8r8CFSps2wodl0EAaQ

macslash

Great scrum there

ScissorPaperRock

Should've been a penalty try

DellyBelly

Penaltly try every day of the week there. Assistant bottled it

The Lost Sheep

Great start by Ireland. Could do with getting a score as they've been putting NZ under serious pressure and need to get something from that pressure

Ectoplasm

NZ definitely getting the luck but the Irish women have been going great!

Hopefully they can keep the head up after that one blip. They've been playing brilliantly so far

DellyBelly

That's the difference between the 2 teams. NZ get a sniff of a chance they take it. Ireland just don't have the killer instinct

DDC1990

8-0 down.

2 attacks 2 scores for NZ.

EDIT: TG4 not one bit happy with the referee and i'd agree.

Schmidt in the crowd there

DellyBelly

Schmidt at the game...I suppose supporting the kiwi's

duckysauce

ref is a disgrace

DDC1990

"Eh next time can you bring a small bottle, those ones have Gatorade".

Just referee the match and worry about Gatorade afterwards.

ScissorPaperRock

NZ defence is very good.

ScissorPaperRock

Good stuff! Try Ireland.