Ireland u20 6 nations and world championship 2021

ClanofLams

One score game

theVersatile

Yellow fair IMO.

Great maul out of nowhere - let's go!

UAEguy2020

Okay that was a pretty incredible maul, amazingly Ireland are one converted try from drawing level.

KaneToad

dregin wrote: »

He wasn't dropping when contact was made and the tackler had ample time to back out of the shoulder to the head.

My thoughts exactly.

Well done...

FrancieBrady

Gwan lads!

Lost Ormond

Good score and hopefully get to level before England get back to 15..

FrancieBrady

Making a mess of key plays

molloyjh

Thats that. We've been sabotaging ourselves again and again in this game. You cant do that and expect to win.

UAEguy2020

Just as creative and England try as the previous ones.

UAEguy2020

It’s little mistakes like that McKee that you just don’t see England making…

Utopia Parkway

molloyjh wrote: »

Thats that. We've been sabotaging ourselves again and again in this game. You cant do that and expect to win.

Made some very basic errors to gift scores in this game. Especially since half time.

molloyjh

Utopia Parkway wrote: »

Made some very basic errors to gift scores in this game. Especially since half time.

Yeah we never fired a shot after the try when we should have been looking to be all over them. Their kick on the full should have been a momentum swing and we should have capitalised. Instead we hand them the momentum right back.

bluedex

Genuine question, what was the scrum penalty for? Is it not allowed go backwards as long as everyone stays bound and legal?

molloyjh

bluedex wrote: »

Genuine question, what was the scrum penalty for? Is it not allowed go backwards as long as everyone stays bound and legal?

I was wondering the same myself. Did one of the back row break their bind maybe?

molloyjh

Has there been a gap in any of today's line outs?

UAEguy2020

I would just tap n go here, I don’t trust us in the lineout today, it’s a complete crap shoot the lineout.

bluedex

molloyjh wrote: »

Has there been a gap in any of today's line outs?

No, it's been a terrible, messy game, inconsistent officiating. England definitely not more skillful than Ireland, they are bigger and Ireland made too many errors.

pickarooney

Commentator talking about a sub's pristine white shirt on a plastic pitch

shootermacg

They didn't lack for effort. Great bunch of lads!

Akrasia

pickarooney wrote: »

Commentator talking about a sub's pristine white shirt on a plastic pitch

Think he was noticing the lack of blood

FrancieBrady

Lots of regrets there for the lads. Too many mistakes at key moments. Lots to look forward to with them though.

UAEguy2020

Congrats England you won you’re cup final, you can go back to being **** again next week as usual.

Hope England don’t think this is good rugby for their players long term development…

Mimon

In terms of overall championship the sensible thing would have been to kick the penalty at the end to get a BP?

theVersatile

UAEguy2020 wrote: »

Congrats England you won you’re cup final, you can go back to being **** again next week as usual.

Hope England don’t think this is good rugby for their players long term development…

Christ you're bitter. Better team won, kids will take their learnings into their (hopefully) long careers.

FrancieBrady

theVersatile wrote: »

Christ you're bitter. Better team won, kids will take their learnings into their (hopefully) long careers.

The mess up at the end showed just how young they are. Should be remembered. This is their learning curve and all seems god to me anyway.

Neil3030

Shame the backs couldn't really get into the game but that's what the English MO is all about. Also, shame they didn't see red, shame we gifted them two tries, shame Kendellen and McCormack went off, shame about the miscommunication at the end... one of those games!

But a good few positives from that. Most impressed by how we matched their power until the second half. We stopped 3 5-yard mauls at the end of the first half, while down to 14, which is insane.

Dubinusa

Well beaten. It's a great experience for them though! They played a huge outfit and gave a good effort. I wonder if the 6 day turnaround will affect the team going forward. We had quite a few injuries and head Knocks.
When the camera zoomed in for the set pieces, the size difference was noticeable. 10 in a row, mind you. Not a bad stretch. Plenty of positive things learned from this. Not least of all, is the importance of discipline. Murphy will have his work cut out fixing that!

Juventu4

Overall not bad considering were missing Joe McCarthy, Tom Stewart and Darragh Murray who would have gave us bit more grunt/power to the pack. Ireland had to make do with 2 blindsides in the second row.

PS England are huge, thought it was just the white jerseys but when you get a close up of the scrum or lineout you see a difference, I take the English are in a professional set up younger and that's why they are more bulked up?

UAEguy2020

An important question that needs to be asked is why do England only do this to us? Because even Scotland last week who have a u19 squad didn’t get demolished this badly last week and it’s the same with our senior team. It’s like other countries look for ways to counter this power game yet for us it’s just like we say “ah sure” and don’t even bother to find ways to counter the power, I watch Ireland against England in 2019 (x2) 2020 (x2) and even today they are all carbon copies of each other.