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Women's World Cup 2014

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    #212
    The Lost Sheep
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    Excellent win. Now just wait for rest of the games to be played to see who we face

    Lots of work ahead of semi but theyre the first senior irish side to make a world cup semi final


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    #213
    ArmchairQB
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    Yeah well done to the girls in green 1st time ever in semi Final great achievement!! For their own good a few of them need to learn to dive when going over to score before they get battered by an opposing player diving in for an attempted tackle


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    #214
    Larbre34
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    You tell em Lynne Cantwell! Yes we can!

    Super fitness today, keep rockin and rollin ladies.


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    #215
    Borders no.2
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    Was a bit scrappy for a while but got the job done. Great achievement to reach the semi-finals. Opportunities like this don't come around too often so hopefully they can perform to their potential in the semi-final.

    Liked the fact that they didn't kick it out for the final play and went and got another try. Doesn't matter in the overall scheme of things but still good to see.


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    #216
    Micky Dolenz
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    Good job Ireland.

    What time is the US v NZ game on at?


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    #217
    sullivlo
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    Any link to the after match interview? Tg4 didn't have sound for it.


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    #218
    The Lost Sheep
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    Micky Dolenz wrote: »
    Good job Ireland.

    What time is the US v NZ game on at?
    5pm. England Canada in 40 minutes or so should be good. Both 2 wins from 2 and winner takes all for semi final spot


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    #219
    Piliger
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    I really hope that the women's team get even better promotion and venues and crowds next season. I think they are pretty awesome. A lot of guys interested in rugby don't realise how full on the game is now and would be even more interested if they realised it. I've been hugely impressed.


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    #220
    siobhan08
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    Going by twitter Jackie Shiels. Was the kicker today is that right? How many kicks did she take and how many did she score. Missed the game due to work


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    #221
    Larbre34
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    Micky Dolenz wrote: »
    Good job Ireland.

    What time is the US v NZ game on at?

    Red button at 4.50 I think


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    #222
    sullivlo
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    siobhan08 wrote: »
    Going by twitter Jackie Shiels. Was the kicker today is that right? How many kicks did she take and how many did she score. Missed the game due to work

    5 out of 6 and the direction was good on the 6th it just fell short.

    Or maybe 6 from 7. Missed one anyway.


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    #223
    wp_rathead
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    siobhan08 wrote: »
    Going by twitter Jackie Shiels. Was the kicker today is that right? How many kicks did she take and how many did she score. Missed the game due to work

    She missed one conversion out of six attempts. Some great place kicking- especially the last con..


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    #224
    Fieldsman
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    Great victory by the Irish girls today pity about the commentary as other than what the referee was saying I couldn't make out a word of it. TG4 seem to have an awful lot of sports coverage hijacked of late. And did they silence the interview with the Irish captain at the end. I'm one of a very big club who cant understand it I think


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    #225
    Piliger
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    Fieldsman wrote: »
    Great victory by the Irish girls today pity about the commentary as other than what the referee was saying I couldn't make out a word of it. TG4 seem to have an awful lot of sports coverage hijacked of late. And did they silence the interview with the Irish captain at the end. I'm one of a very big club who cant understand it I think

    It's a massive mistake by Irish rugby. At a time when they should be maximising the audience and spreading the game, they are selling off too many games to minority interest groups and alienating the majority of the pubic.


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    #226
    The Lost Sheep
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    Fieldsman wrote: »
    Great victory by the Irish girls today pity about the commentary as other than what the referee was saying I couldn't make out a word of it. TG4 seem to have an awful lot of sports coverage hijacked of late. And did they silence the interview with the Irish captain at the end. I'm one of a very big club who cant understand it I think
    No pity about the commentary. If tg4 didn't have coverage much more people wouldn't be able to watch the rugby. TG4 haven't hijacked any coverage of late.
    Some great wins that could be seen by more people as they were on tg4 than would have without their coverage
    Piliger wrote: »
    It's a massive mistake by Irish rugby. At a time when they should be maximising the audience and spreading the game, they are selling off too many games to minority interest groups and alienating the majority of the pubic.
    No it isn't a massive mistake. TG4 got the rights and did RTE even look for them??
    They are not selling off too many games to minority groups. TG4s coverage of the rugby has been excellent and is spreading the game. If TG4 didn't show the amount of rugby they do there would be much less rugby on our screens


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    #227
    wp_rathead
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    Piliger wrote: »
    It's a massive mistake by Irish rugby. At a time when they should be maximising the audience and spreading the game, they are selling off too many games to minority interest groups and alienating the majority of the pubic.

    If RTE did bother their backside to buy rights they prob would have thrown it only online as a stream - which would have been a massive disservice to the Competition (and for those of us with ****E internet)

    Irish rugby owes alot to TG4 - who were showing Celtic League games when RTE News would often hardly even broadcast the scores..


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    #228
    OldRio
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    Piliger wrote: »
    It's a massive mistake by Irish rugby. At a time when they should be maximising the audience and spreading the game, they are selling off too many games to minority interest groups and alienating the majority of the pubic.

    So so much wrong with this statement. Never mind not reading the charter.


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    #229
    feargale
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    Fieldsman wrote: »
    Great victory by the Irish girls today pity about the commentary as other than what the referee was saying I couldn't make out a word of it. TG4 seem to have an awful lot of sports coverage hijacked of late. And did they silence the interview with the Irish captain at the end. I'm one of a very big club who cant understand it I think

    Without TG4 you wouldn't have the match today. Would you rather that? And they don't hijack anything. Rather they often take the crumbs that aren't good enough for the aristocrats of television, as they did today.
    " I couldn't make out a word of it." : I have the very same problem with the commentary on Spanish and Italian soccer channels. The damn fellows just won't speak English!


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    #230
    sullivlo
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    Jesus Canada are giving England a good run. This could be another major upset.


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    #231
    feargale
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    Piliger wrote: »
    It's a massive mistake by Irish rugby. At a time when they should be maximising the audience and spreading the game, they are selling off too many games to minority interest groups and alienating the majority of the pubic.

    Yeah. These pesky minorities! The Yazidis etc..

    Spreading the game like when they tried to liquidate Connacht a few years ago.


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    #232
    sydthebeat
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    sullivlo wrote: »
    Jesus Canada are giving England a good run. This could be another major upset.

    It wouldn't really be a major upset to be honest, Canada are very strong in women's rugby.

    I think the spread was only around 5 or 7 to be honest.


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    #233
    [Deleted User]
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    What was wrong with that try


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    #234
    sullivlo
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    sydthebeat wrote: »
    It wouldn't really be a major upset to be honest, Canada are very strong in women's rugby.

    I think the spread was only around 5 or 7 to be honest.
    It would be a major upset in terms that as it stands, New Zealand would not make the semis.

    I know Canada are a good side - they nearly beat NZ in the lead up to the tournament.


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    #235
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    What a weird song to play at the end of the match :confused:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fyu4g7E2F9c


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    #236
    thomond2006
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    So NZ are out.


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    #237
    sullivlo
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    Okay. I think that we want Australia to beat France - without a bonus point, but without France getting a BP. This would leave Ireland as top seeds and a semi final against (likely) Canada.

    If France win, Ireland would be second seeds and it would mean a semi final against England.


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    #238
    feargale
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    thomond2006 wrote: »
    So NZ are out.

    A mhàthair Îosa! ( sorry, Fieldsman and Piliger. )


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    #239
    feargale
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    [Deleted User] wrote: »
    What was wrong with that try

    I'd like to know that too.


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    #240
    sullivlo
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    Deleted User wrote: »
    What was wrong with that try
    Forward pass in the lead up.


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    #241
    thomond2006
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    feargale wrote: »
    A mhàthair Îosa! ( sorry, Fieldsman and Piliger. )

    Dochreidte Jeff


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