Wales v Ireland match thread

awec

Bad start.

ricero

Pathetic

eigrod

The importance of a good kick off. That was a cracking ko by Wales

Faugheen

ricero wrote: »

Pathetic

Calm down, it was a good play from Wales.

vienne86

That's woeful.

OldRio

Horrid.

Zzippy

Ah sh1te

walshb

ricero wrote: »

Pathetic

Relax the cacks..

nice_guy80

Nice of the Wales lads to hold onto a few lads there in thge ruck

mangobob

Big test of character now. Horrendous start and 7 points down after 2 minutes. Lets see what this team is made of.

Wheres Me Jumper?

now we'll see what this Welsh defence is really made of.

razorblunt

Kearney presented with a gap and he steps out of it and into two men.

DellyBelly

Heals with a bad knock on there

Dave_The_Sheep

Thats what you want to do. Give Wales a confidence boost at the start of the game.

DellyBelly

Feck sake Ringer. Hold onto the ball

Ishmael

Dixon playing soccer!!

vienne86

Scrum was great, which is promising.

Happy4all

Good effort Stockdale

Dave_The_Sheep

Weepsie wrote: »

Can I ask is there a set time for advantage, or is it done on how many phases they go through, ground taken up or where on the pitch it is, or the offence?

Wales had a long advantage there before the try. Ireland had one a minute later that seemed to only last a few seconds. These happens in most games. Is it at the referee's discretion or is there a point when it is definitely over?

One was a penalty. One was a knock on.

Would have never backed Parkes to get Stockdale there

Wheres Me Jumper?

cudda been the try of the tournie.

dublinman1990

Oh. Hard luck Stockdale. You would have got a try there.

Dubinusa

Ugh Ringrose.. ah feck Stockdale

gooch2k9

Weepsie wrote: »

Can I ask is there a set time for advantage, or is it done on how many phases they go through, ground taken up or where on the pitch it is, or the offence?

Wales had a long advantage there before the try. Ireland had one a minute later that seemed to only last a few seconds. These happens in most games. Is it at the referee's discretion or is there a point when it is definitely over?

Wales was penalty advantage as Ryan entered maul fromt he side in the ref's view. Penalty advantage generally allows teams to have a go at something then come back if unsuccessful.

Ireland's was for knock on. Generally only lasts for a phase or two.

PhlegmyMoses

That was deliberate from Adams

vienne86

Good reaction after that start.

Clegg

Basil3 wrote: »

Would have never backed Parkes to get Stockdale there

Welsh scrum half scragged Stockdale and threw him off his stride a bit.

Duggie2012

Ref playing poor advantage rule on 2 occasions there. Gave no real advantage to ireland.

razorblunt

Mr Reliable with a great tackle. Doubt he’d have the has to catch him later in the game but he did there and that’s all that matters.

munsterlegend

Knocking on everything unfortunately.

PhlegmyMoses

Basil3 wrote: »

Would have never backed Parkes to get Stockdale there

Stockdale was slightly held up by Beard. Had he got 3 or 4 more yards without that Parkes would have been burnes.

dublinman1990

George North is off after 8 minutes.

vienne86

North off, so back line will have to re-organise.

Dubinusa

North hurt!!

Clegg

Wales with the double playmaking option now that have Biggar and Anscombe on.

Ireland getting penalised a lot early on. Healy not even subtle there.

razorblunt

Healy has started poorly.

Dubinusa

Jesus Healy, in at the side again.

Wheres Me Jumper?

dublinman1990 wrote: »

George North is off after 8 minutes.

big blow for Wales

munsterlegend

That scrum is where you get the hometown decisions. In the side twice already.

DellyBelly

Heals started poorly. Hopefully these injuries catches up on Wales

Zzippy

Healy needs to calm down. Discipline!

gooch2k9

Dubinusa wrote: »

Jesus Healy, in at the side again.

Was he the one at the first maul? Thought it was Ryan.

Sound like Best is talking to the ref to suss out the issue.

Amprodude

We will see now if Ireland are actually up to it.

razorblunt

Williams led with a forearm twice there.

The Lost Sheep

Weepsie wrote: »

Can I ask is there a set time for advantage, or is it done on how many phases they go through, ground taken up or where on the pitch it is, or the offence?

Wales had a long advantage there before the try. Ireland had one a minute later that seemed to only last a few seconds. These happens in most games. Is it at the referee's discretion or is there a point when it is definitely over?


Ignore*

Over to the questions thread with this one.

Advantage can be territorial or tactical. There is no set time or number of phases. Its open to ref discretion. Length of advantage will vary depending on where on pitch the penalty would be awarded.

lillielad

We are ****ed

leakyboots

Beirne!

walshb

lillielad wrote: »

We are ****ed

We should just head home, shouldn’t we?

C__MC

Starting o brien and Kearney, risky me thinks for this type of game after a long lay off

Clegg

Excellent defending and turnover.