Match preview & thread: FRA vs IRE (Sat Feb 3, 1645)

MJohnston

This HIA stuff is a disgrace

stephen_n

95% tackle success rate for France, that’s unreal.

LuckyLloyd

And then they run us over in the scrum. Utterly dominant. A terrible Irish bottle job.

ongarite

HIA my hole.
He can't walk cos his knee is fecked

Jack Kanoff

Beechwoodspark wrote: »

If we lose this lots of awkward questions will have to be asked.

Yeah... like... who are you?

Losty Dublin

Now that's a strange call. A debate about HIA, a match changing call and TV3 missed it all :rolleyes:

nerd69

Guy:Incognito wrote: »

3 letters to let you do what you like " H.I.A"

What a time to be alive you don't even need blood bags any more

Squidgy Black

Two leg injuries that were deemed HIAs. This match doctor must be some man for prescriptions.

adox

Capitulating here.

tayto lover

LuckyLloyd wrote: »

And then they run us over in the scrum. Utterly dominant. A terrible Irish bottle job.

Yep they choked yet again.

gmurphy70

Poor management lads and nothing else- zero invention and forward favours the brave

Burkie1203

Official match doctor sanctioning a HIA is actually shameful for someone in his profession

Mantis Toboggan

Really really disappointing, run and bump tactics

FCIM

I reckon this is the problem with French rugby; they keep picking players with their head in their knees.

CurryFlavoured

Lifeline.

LuckyLloyd

Okay, one last chance

munsterlegend

We have been absolutely dire when the game was in the balance. France are physical but hopeless. That was a bad bad miss.

Losty Dublin

He kicked it where?

gmurphy70

Zero invention

Boscoirl

eagle eye wrote: »

We just haven't got the wingers or the full back that the rest of this team deserves.
Until we find those three players we are going to struggle against too level opposition.

We could have campese Cullen and lomu in the back 3 and it wouldn’t make a difference to this game

awec

Former Former wrote: »

Lads.

Can you all stop revelling in it when your team is losing.

It's pathetic.

You're no fans of Ireland.

Enough of this sort of rubbish.

People are allowed to criticise a poor performance.

fitz

blackwhite wrote: »

Owens having a serious homer the last 20 min

He's let the French away with murder at the ruck all game, and the Kearney decision was nonsense...

But that's two "HIA"s for knee injuries... Needs to be serious questions about that.

c.p.w.g.w

England are going murder us, if we are this blunt we will probably lose to wales too...

Beechwoodspark

Burkie1203 wrote: »

Official match doctor sanctioning a HIA is actually shameful for someone in his profession

Wouldn’t be the first time officials are getting nice brown envelopes in Paris

irishbucsfan

Squidgy Black wrote: »

Two leg injuries that were deemed HIAs. This match doctor must be some man for prescriptions.

First one absolutely definitely had a head impact as well. All this talk about knees is a complete red herring in that case.

irishbucsfan

fitz wrote: »

He's let the French away with murder at the ruck all game, and the Kearney decision was nonsense...

But that's two "HIA"s for knee injuries... Needs to be serious questions about that.

I didn't see the whole incident for the 2nd one. But to be clear on the first one as Aki went in his shoulder made direct contact with Jalibert's head.

bloodless_coup

Not getting anywhere

budhabob

Been disappointed with Henshaw and Aki, Henshaw in particular. Decent defensively but little invention

MJohnston

irishbucsfan wrote: »

I didn't see the whole incident for the 2nd one. But to be clear on the first one as Aki went in his shoulder made direct contact with Jalibert's head.

There was no head contact at all really in the second one.

Jack Kanoff

Another 4-10m a pen...and Murray can tap it over.