Ireland v Wales 07/09/2019

Clegg

Jordan Larmour just won a jackel on the ground.

Squidgy Black

That's some work from Larmour to chase, contest, make the tackle and then win the turnover.

kmart6

Wales closing the gap could be saving Best big time.

SlickRic

Much better today.

There are foundations here that weren't around for the last few weeks.

Lineout still making me shít myself.

razorblunt

Wales doing themselves no favours closing the gap but then again maybe that’s contributing to their steals too.

99problems1

Bridge93 wrote: »

This the same SOB who was a lions starter a decade after breaking onto the scene? Took a while to work him out it seems

He's been getting picked on reputation for years and years now. He'd be starting for us if he was fit despite offering little.

Rockbeast2

That was a great set-piece scrum

Bridge93

99problems1 wrote: »

He's been getting picked on reputation for years and years now. He'd be starting for us if he was fit despite offering little.

The tour was 2 years ago. Do you think gatland picked on reputations? He was fit last year and not picked for us. Stop showing yourself up continuously

fitz

Wales with so many hands while off feet.

kmart6

kmart6 wrote: »

Wales closing the gap could be saving Best big time.

Ball is too slow, we need to force Wales to think at the breakdown. Far too predictable.

razorblunt

Every ruck has Welsh hands hanging round long after the ref tells them away. Needs to stop coaching them and actually whistle them.

lawrencesummers

Kilcoyne has done more in 6 minutes than Healy did in 40.

Putting his hand up big time for the starting jersey.

dublinman1990

Let's hope Ireland get the ball over the line again.

CMcsporty

Take the irreplaceables ( Ryan and Furlong) off after this scrum.

Wales are hugely up for this. Do or die performance.

Dave_The_Sheep

dublinman1990 wrote: »

Let's hope Ireland get the ball over the line again.

That's an odd thing to hope for in a game of rugby.

Clegg

lawrencesummers wrote: »

Kilcoyne has done more in 6 minutes than Healy did in 40.

Putting his hand up big time for the starting jersey.

He's done well to get himself the replacement spot. Healy is cast iron starter for Scotland.

Faugheen

Some people really love to react based on a couple of games.

‘X player must be putting pressure on Y’ with absolutely zero basis other than a couple of games in preseason.

Rockbeast2

"Kilcoyne has done more in 6 minutes than Healy did in 40.

Putting his hand up big time for the starting jersey."

He has been very good. A man that wants a jersey is a great sight to behold.

Tikki Wang Wang

Sexton may as well retire at this stage. This ‘he’s rusty’ excuse is just a coverup. He’s no where near the player he once was and never will be. Time has run out. He’s a passenger now.

A-Train

Get over

lawrencesummers

Clegg wrote: »

He's done well to get himself the replacement spot. Healy is cast iron starter for Scotland.

He may be the starter, but he is being put under big pressure for it, and that’s a good thing.

Faugheen

Faugheen wrote: »

Some people really love to react based on a couple of games.

‘X player must be putting pressure on Y’ with absolutely zero basis other than a couple of games in preseason.

Wrong. They have a valid basis as key WC warm-up games in assessing strengths and weaknesses.

dublinman1990

Furlong has got the try.

ScrubsfanChris

Wales were offside AGAIN right before the try, that's about 4 penalties in 4 minutes.

pc7

Great play and pressure, so much improved, still two weeks to prep, things really looking up. Ryan is a beast! Delighted for Furlong.

Faugheen

Someone needs to get a gif of that roar from Tadhg.

CMcsporty

Take Tadhg off. Now

mfceiling

Farmer strength beats gym strength every day of the week.

Clegg

This is Henshaw's at his Leinster best. He looks sharper and is carrying with a physicality that I haven't seen in a while.

fitz

Again, urgency and intensity get results.
Very encouraged by this game, tbh. Starting to look a bit more cohesive.

Naggdefy

Tikki Wang Wang wrote: »

Sexton may as well retire at this stage. This ‘he’s rusty’ excuse is just a coverup. He’s no where near the player he once was and never will be. Time has run out. He’s a passenger now.

We get the point. Jesus you're obsessed. Analyse all the other players to the same extent.

Take a bow Rory. Great servant to the cause.

Clegg

Earls limping a bit there? Hopefully it's not serious.

lawrencesummers

Faugheen wrote: »

Some people really love to react based on a couple of games.

‘X player must be putting pressure on Y’ with absolutely zero basis other than a couple of games in preseason.

If your not going to base you opinion on a players playing performance in games, then what are you going to base it on? His haircut?

It’s a great thing for this team that a starting prop is under so much pressure, no need to get triggered by it.

Wouldn’t it be great if Furlong was being pushed as much and we had a second choice front row capable of starting, imagine the impact.

Rockbeast2

I thought Kleyn did well.

Hope Earls is okay.

Mantis Toboggan

Pisshead tank

dublinman1990

Rory is off for the final time at the Aviva. Great standing ovation by the crowd.

Keith Earls has gone off as well.

Jean Kleyn has also gone off to be replaced.

SlickRic

The line speed is on a different planet entirely to recent weeks.

thebaz

Tikki Wang Wang wrote: »

Sexton may as well retire at this stage. This ‘he’s rusty’ excuse is just a coverup. He’s no where near the player he once was and never will be. Time has run out. He’s a passenger now.

rubbish - first game back - hes been fine

mfceiling

Conan is a very tidy player.

Diabhal Beag

Anybody else wince at Murray's landing on that tackle there? Looked like he was folded in as the base at an awkward angle for his neck.

Rockbeast2

Kick to the corner

Franz Von Peppercorn II

Scrum is looking up.

adam240610

Diabhal Beag wrote: »

Anybody else wince at Murray's landing on that tackle there? Looked like he was folded in as the base at an awkward angle for his neck.

Hope he's been doing his yoga

Faugheen

lawrencesummers wrote: »

Faugheen wrote: »

Some people really love to react based on a couple of games.

‘X player must be putting pressure on Y’ with absolutely zero basis other than a couple of games in preseason.

If your not going to base you opinion on a players playing performance in games, then what are you going to base it on? His haircut?

It’s a great thing for this team that a starting prop is under so much pressure, no need to get triggered by it.

Wouldn’t it be great if Furlong was being pushed as much and we had a second choice front row capable of starting, imagine the impact.

Healy has been Ireland’s best prop, and after James Ryan Ireland’s best forward, for the last year.

Kilcoyne has had a great year and has looked like a man possessed in these last two games, but Healy is at the top level of front-rows and he’s shown plenty of that.

irishbucsfan

lawrencesummers wrote: »

If your not going to base you opinion on a players playing performance in games, then what are you going to base it on? His haircut?

You don't. No one knows. These are nothing games and we're still a month over from the first real test so current form is mostly irrelevant. No one here has the slightest clue.

CMcsporty

Just take him Tadhg off ffs

Clegg

Diabhal Beag wrote: »

Anybody else wince at Murray's landing on that tackle there? Looked like he was folded in as the base at an awkward angle for his neck.

Was a fine wrestling pin.

SlickRic

mfceiling wrote: »

Conan is a very tidy player.

He should be a nailed on starter. And that's been the case since at least the turn of the year.