Ireland V Australia

Sundy

Lookin to be a great match with both teams under selection pressure. Although ireland look weak in the front row and in the backs especially the wings, but hopefully we can put it up to the aussies again!

Only problem is its not on free TV only on Sky Sports 2 as far as i know. if somebody knows otherwise please let me know!

KO 10am Irish Time

Australia.
15 Chris Latham
14 Wendell Sailor
13 Morgan Turinui
12 Steve Kefu,
11 Joe Roff
10 Elton Flatley
9 George Gregan captain
8 Toutai Kefu
7 George Smith
6 David Lyons
5 David Giffin
4 Nathan Sharpe
3 Patricio Noriega
2 Jeremy Paul
1 Bill Young.

Replacements. 16 Brendan Cannon, 17 Ben Darwin, 18 Daniel Vickerman, 19 Phil Waugh, 20 Chris Whitaker, 21 Nathan Grey, 22 Lote Tuqiri.

Ireland.
15 Girvan Dempsey
14 James Topping
13 Geordan Murphy
12 Kevin Maggs
11 John Kelly
10 David Humphreys captain
9 Peter Stringer
8 Victor Costello
7 Keith Gleeson
6 Alan Quinlan
5 Malcolm O'Kelly
4 Gary Longwell
3 Reggie Corrigan
2 Shane Byrne
1 Marcus Horan.

Replacements. 16 Paul Shields, 17 Emmet Byrne, 18 Paul O'Connell, 19 Eric Miller, 20 Guy Easterby, 21 Ronan O'Gara, 22 Tyrone Howe.

Referee: Nigel Williams (Wales).

Touch Judges: Mark Lawrence (South Africa), Gary Wise (New Zealand).

celticfc

Promising start from the men in green.

Pity their behind though,



Austrailia 14-13 Ireland (half time)

GreenHell

There is text commentry on www.planetrugby.com its the best match I've ever read, 17 - 13

suppafly

Yeahit was a pretty good start, but some of the tackling was horrible!! Humphreys missed a good few first up tackles, some of which lead to a try, such as the one straight after Ireland scored and he only had a couple of good positional kicks. The line-out was fairly bad to, a lot of lost ball there. Costello play brilliant imo. IN the seconf half when ireland were cmaped out inside there 22 at one point, they seemed to have no ideas at all, very static and predictable. Also dempsey should have really gotten over the line, i though he had a shocking game. He wasn't good under the high ball, and he was the cause for one or two of the trys. He not patch on Geordan Murphy. When drisco is back hes gone!! Also i dunno what the ref was thinking giving that penalty try! Both of them fell down of their own accord, and also i dunno how he left yur man kefu(i think it was him) on the pitch after his high tackel, cuz it clearly wasn't accidental, as u could see that u made no attempt to withdraw has arm. I mean he even thought he was going off as he'd started taking of his scrum cap!