Women's World Cup 2014

Billy86

English pundit in Sky (didn't get her name) has a bit of gall, questioning the Irish try and the ref motives but ignoring anything that went in England's favour.

Don't mean to go all Niamh Hogan here, but Megan Murrieta (Canadian pundit)... looking well!

awec

England are great going in to contact. Recycling the ball so fast.

molloyjh

Briggs obviously feeling the pressure with 2 high profile errors, both leading to scores. But the side as a whole haven't performed well enough. The pack has been second best by a distance and the defence hasn't been tight enough. Just look at the Irish line. It's really unstructured and England are making hay.

Hippo

Midfield defence has been so porous

molloyjh

Thinks that's it. An Irish 7 pointer would have made a game of it, but with 15 needed to go ahead now I don't see it happening.

awec

Hippo wrote: »

Midfield defence has been so porous

IMO they were shooting up so fast that a change of direction was going to totally wrong foot them.

molloyjh

Great body position but what were we doing trying to push her off. Corkscrew girls, corkscrew!

Nerdlingr

Why don't they try a short restart? keep on kicking it long giving England possession.

Davei141

I think they were hoping Alphonsi was going to fall over instead of smashing her off that ball. It is not looking good at all.

ssaye2

C'mon early score give everything.

vetinari

That last phase told it all.
We finally get the ball back at midfield from an English kick.
We lose it in the next contact phase.
Some pressure the English are putting us under.

Dave_The_Sheep

Breakdown from England is excellent. Two penalties there, one an Irish mistake (not releasing) and one just the English player just locked onto the ball like a limpet (holding on). Tough to play against that.

Larbre34

Hmm. Will be hard to come back from this, all the momentum with England and they are lethal in midfield.

molloyjh

Not through the f-ing gate ref!

Dave_The_Sheep

In the side surely...

Davei141

2 in a row awful efforts at clearing out, she wasn't even well balanced.

awec

Penalty the wrong way there.

molloyjh

They want to put a score on us. They may well....

ScissorPaperRock

Ireland looking rattled

Rightwing

That's a powerful English team, they've this semi in the bag.

Dave_The_Sheep

Bugger. Good score, that should be that.

Stheno

26-7 now

siobhan08

Well thats it then ii reckon. I was at the NZ match and got chatting to an english guy who was involved with the u20s set up over there. he said it it would be an England v France Final... Looks like he will be right cause I don't see Canada beating France

vienne86

Good try, in fairness.

molloyjh

Horrible way to end what has been a great tournament for Ireland.

westernfrenzy

There's still the 3rd place match after this

donfers

England, a far more powerful team...Ireland are gutsy and that could be the one factor that stops this becoming embarrassing

Strazdas

Rightwing wrote: »

That's a powerful English team, they've this semi in the bag.

Have Ireland choked though? I don't think England would have expected to win a semi final by a 20 point margin (or more)

siobhan08

westernfrenzy wrote: »

There's still the 3rd place match after this

would i be right in say the 3rd place get a medal?
I nearly sure there was on in given in Brazil

Shiraz 4.99

England seem to be carrying far greater speed & strength into the tackle.
Every attack is bringing them a score/penalty.

Referee doesn't seem to want competition at the breakdown, always siding with the team with the ball.