Ireland v Fiji - Nov 12th 2022 - Match Thread

Match thread for today's game.

razorblunt

12:42 pm and Heaslip has made his first roast dinner joke about Furlong. "First man to the buffet" can't be far away.

Jack Conan has a heavily strapped ankle and is limping noticeably on it already.

Baloucoune hat-trick incoming.

Larbre34

Score predictions?

37-12.

I don't think I'd picked up before this that Levani Botia, the La Rochelle inside centre is playing openside this afternoon for Fiji.

Larbre34

Hansen has superb presence of mind in contact, never stops playing for an instant. Brilliant.

Sublime early take from Mack after a pretty poor kick from Joey.

Two poor kicks from JGP and Joey to start us off.

Timoney did really poorly there as well not to clear that jackalling player.

Jump_In_Jack

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119865065#Comment_119865065

Pretty sure he has always been able to play both positions

Clegg

Hansen did well to catch that. It wasn't a great kick and he didn't get much chance to run onto it.

Clegg

Farrell will be fuming with that. Far too much space left out wide.

Well well. Interesting. Let’s see the reaction

Clegg

Henshaw off after 4 minutes.

Disastrous

Larbre34

Henshaw needed a game. Thats a shame.

Timoney really fortunate to avoid a yellow there.

Sloppy start from Ireland.

Clegg

Timoney is very luck to not get carded for that.

Faugheen

Timoney very lucky to get away with just a penalty imo.

Brainless and quite dangerous from Timoney there

starkid

absolute rubbish from Ireland

Clegg

JOB did well to hold onto that tackle after Baloucone and Carbery fell off their hits.

accensi0n

Heaslip is awful.

Strumms

How many times must Raynal warn Fiji at the lineout ?

Faugheen

'MoVe RiNgRoSe To ThE wInG'

Some good carries in that sequence from Timoney, Furlong and Treadwell, but thought we were fortunate. Fijians probably should have had a penalty after Loughman's carry, he looked isolated.

Clegg

Some good play there. Forwards running onto the ball every time and making metres after contact.

lawrencesummers

Fiji doing fijian things.

Their lack of structure and accuracy around set piece is was and always will be their problem.

We should maul over them here if we win this clearly; maul has Fiji in huge trouble early.

joedamuss

Treadwell is playing well

Strumms

Maul get pulled down again but a very blatant tackle off the ball too..

cards needed

Multiple penalties from the Fijians now in their 22; yellow surely incoming.

Great finish from Treadwell, who has started really well here. EDIT: Spoke too soon, looks held up.

If no try, should be a Fiji yellow.

Clegg

Don't think it was grounded.

lawrencesummers

Threadwell held up

Phenomenal from Botia to hold that up.

Larbre34

Good defence by Fiji.

But their discipline is catastrophic and they have no clue unless they are moving forward.

Could be a long afternoon for the south sea islanders.

thebaz

poor refereeing again against Fiji , Tomoney should have been carded - very hard for them , everything seams to go against them.

lawrencesummers

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119865160#Comment_119865160

Im not sure, think the ref had blown the whistle and timoney pulled out from the tackle a bit

pickarooney

Why is that not a deliberate knock on from Hansen?

Really good try - Timoney & Doris with a monster hit on Botia to free the ball; really alert hands. Great carries then from Timoney again and Jimmy O'Brien, and good vision from JGP for the finish. Good try.

Clegg

Good try.

Furlong with great awareness to flip the ball wide after the turnover and players to straighten the line. Good hands from Treadwell and Timoney I think. Good carries by Ringrose and JOB.

Larbre34

TMOs need to stop interfering like this.

Especially when they obviously haven't a ****ing clue what they are talking about!

clsmooth

Fair play to Raynal to stand by his initial opinion there.

pickarooney

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119865178#Comment_119865178

It was a fair call to review it, it looked like a crawl in real time. Good clear discussion and the right decision to give the benefit of the doubt.

Sloppy on the restart again though from Ireland - off the last try we gave up a sloppy three points when Treadwell was in front, and now we bungle the catch between Beirne and Conan. Made similar errors off restarts last week too.

They need to tidy that up.

rodge123

What a completely unnecessary slowing up of the game by the TMO, you could even seen in real time that he never held him so wasn’t a tackle. He needs to go back to referee school!

Clegg

Beirne hasn't handled restarts well over this series.

Great steal on the deck to make up for his mistake.

Excellent from Beirne after a good tackle from Furlong. Beirne is just so so good over the ball.

I've been to funerals with better atmosphere than this.

pickarooney

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119865187#Comment_119865187

You're still not allowed play the ball on the ground if you're not held. You have to place it and/or get up immediately.

Really good scrum there on the Fijian 5m line. Loughman going well so far.

Reynal visibly losing patience with the Fijians and their poor discipline.

Ref is making this unwatchable

clsmooth

Thought that offside call was a bit harsh on the Fijians