Wales v Ireland 31/8/19

ionadnapokot

ScrubsfanChris wrote: »

Ireland have to be one of the worst International sides when it comes to using a penalty advantage.....

Brutal and against 14 men

NeonWolf

Poite loves the whistle.

vienne86

Ah Conway - that was poor.

troyzer

Who got carded for the penalty try?

Faugheen

We’ll take the penalty try but again, we haven’t shown any kind of attacking prowess when we get into the 22.

Bridge93

Stupid

ScrubsfanChris

ScrubsfanChris wrote: »

Ireland have to be one of the worst International sides when it comes to using a penalty advantage.....

Ireland are the no.1 International Rugby side in the world as it stands

vienne86

Decent clearance by Marmion. Very tight for him.

kuang1

vienne86 wrote: »

Ah Conway - that was poor.

I still don't get the hype with Conway... And I'm a munster fan.
He's just not international standard in my view.

Mind you I think the same of Addison.

Sephiral

Burkie1203 wrote: »

We are trying to force things too much. Toner latched onto Henderson there and we made yards. Earlier POM missed a latch on Conan just befire the Farrell knock on


Healy Kilcoyne Porter Furlong Ryan
Best Scannell Cronin
Ryan Toner Henderson Kleyn/Beirne
POM Stander VDF Jordi Conan
Murray Marmion
Sexton Carbery Carty
Henshaw Aki Ringrose Farrell
Stockdale Earls Kearney Conway Addison/Larmour

This is the squad. I think it will be Kleyn)Addison. Back row is a concern. Would kill for a fit SOB or Leavy. Ruddock incredibly unfortunate over the years. Best a concern at Hooker if he doesn't recapture his form.

Faugheen

That’s a phenomenal stop by Conan from that maul.

errlloyd

None of our backs today were good, bar Stockdale.

reg114

Faugheen wrote: »

We’ll take the penalty try but again, we haven’t shown any kind of attacking prowess when we get into the 22.

Its a dreadful game. I still believe we will struggle to get out of the group with two tough games against scotland and what will be a very plucky japan side

shootermacg

kuang1 wrote: »

I still don't get the hype with Conway... And I'm a munster fan.
He's just not international standard in my view.

Mind you I think the same of Addison.

to be honest, why would you give the FB to a winger there? That was for a forward to truck up or a box kick.

The difference between Conway and Larmour is Conway will step you at pace, larmour's stepping takes the pace out of his runs.

LuckyGent88

Big difference in the way the welsh backs run at pace into the ball in attack and in the way we are static when receiving the ball.

LuckyLloyd

errlloyd wrote: »

None of our backs today were good, bar Stockdale.

Conway was great imo

Hobosan

kuang1 wrote: »

I still don't get the hype with Conway... And I'm a munster fan.
He's just not international standard in my view.

Mind you I think the same of Addison.

He's one of the few players that can predict and support a sudden line break. We just don't get too many of them for him to shine in my opinion, and that goes doubly for Munster.

uptherebels

errlloyd wrote: »

None of our backs today were good, bar Stockdale.

Just curious as to what your threshold is for what is playing well for a back?

Faugheen

Best is doing a bit of poaching here. Won a turnover already and only didn’t get that one because we had given away an offside penalty

kuang1

shootermacg wrote: »

to be honest, why would you give the FB to a winger there? That was for a forward to truck up or a box kick.

The difference between Conway and Larmour is Conway will step you at pace, larmour's stepping takes the pace out of his runs.

So he shouldn't have been given the ball you mean?
Strange defence of the situation.
He elected to try the step and failed.

ScrubsfanChris

Christ, two missed tackles in a row

Bridge93

Carty and Luke McGrath really should’ve hit him

shootermacg

Looked forward to me.

Akrasia

The last pass looked more forward than the pass for conways try

kuang1

Mcgrath did his cause no favours there!

fitz

If Carty's pass was forward, that last pass was too.

Utopia Parkway

Ringrose not great again since he came on. Some missed tackles.

Squidgy Black

Carty's had a rough second half considering he was going so well in the first half.

ionadnapokot

LuckyGent88 wrote: »

Big difference in the way the welsh backs run at pace into the ball in attack and in the way we are static when receiving the ball.

And Completely brainless in unstructured phase play

Bridge93

This has been a really poor ten minutes

Whereisgalway

Dave Kearney is an accident waiting to happen

Faugheen

Akrasia wrote: »

The last pass looked more forward than the pass for conways try

I was going to say the same.

Don’t think we can pin too much on Carty and McGrath there. Carty got stepped and McGrath slipped when putting the brakes on.

laugh

Bridge93 wrote: »

This has been a really poor ten minutes

Can we unmake those 4 changes ...

Faugheen

Whereisgalway wrote: »

Dave Kearney is an accident waiting to happen

How on Earth do you pin that one on Dave Kearney?

PinaKolada

Ireland should be well ahead. For all the early praise Ireland **** the bed again when they should have been putting Wales to the sword.

We were terrible with the penalty advantages and allowed Wales to eat up the sin bin time with scrums conceding only one score which kept them in sight of Ireland.

If they lose this to what's been an awful second string Welsh team it'll be worse than last weeks defeat.

Faugheen

Faugheen wrote: »

I was going to say the same.

Don’t think we can pin too much on Carty and McGrath there. Carty got stepped and McGrath slipped when putting the brakes on.

McGrath slipped because he overran it. Should have taken the inside shoulder with carthy already there but I guess that easy to say when it's not in the moment

pc7

Bloody hell this is hard watch

KaneToad

Faugheen wrote: »

How on Earth do you pin that one on Dave Kearney?

Kearney held the line and got his man. Did everything right.

reg114

we are on the ropes here

vienne86

Luke McGrath was great there - for a small guy he seems very strong.

kuang1

Redemption for Mcgrath. Fair play.

razorblunt

Faugheen wrote: »

How on Earth do you pin that one on Dave Kearney?

Shot out and took neither man nor ball.

If Heaslip could stop hollering and guffawing that would be great. Go sit in the stands if you’re going to fan boy.

NIMAN

Tikki Wang Wang wrote: »

Wales +2 at 10/11 is free money.

Squidgy Black

McGrath saving the day there.

Jesus this is brutal to watch.

Strazdas

PinaKolada wrote: »

Ireland should be well ahead. For all the early praise Ireland **** the bed again when they should have been putting Wales to the sword.

We were terrible with the penalty advantages and allowed Wales to eat up the sin bin time with scrums conceding only one score which kept them in sight of Ireland.

If they lose this to what's been an awful second string Welsh team it'll be worse than last weeks defeat.

It would be a fiasco if they lost after having a 19 point lead.....terrible for morale

Faugheen

What a save by Luke McGrath

Bridge93

That was brilliant from Ringrose and McGrath

PinaKolada

Should have been a penalty there anyway. Second movement to crawl to the line after Ringrose tackle.

Faugheen

razorblunt wrote: »

Faugheen wrote: »

How on Earth do you pin that one on Dave Kearney?

Shot out and took neither man nor ball.

If Heaslip could stop hollering and guffawing that would be great. Go sit in the stands if you’re going to fan boy.

What else was he supposed to do? Wales had an overlap.

Seriously, what was he supposed to do?

Sephiral

Been poor since James Ryan went off. He's captain after World Cup IMO