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Wales v Ireland Match Thread (thanks for nothing awec)

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  • #932
    SqueakyKneecap
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,385 ✭✭✭SqueakyKneecap


    Keenan and Beirne were excellent imo. Thought Gibson-Park was immensely better than Murray too.

    I never need to see POM or Murray starting again. I'd even argue whether they're test standard since 2018. Murray is fairness had a significant injury but O'Mahony is too often a passenger when he's needed most.

    I'd defend Farrell in so far as this was a side that peaked in a phenomenal year of 2018 and there was always going to be a drop off but we have arguably the 5th most in form SH in the country starting.


  • #933
    Arduach
    Closed Accounts Posts: 618 ✭✭✭Arduach


    AbusesToilets wrote: »
    Oh he beat himself up for deliberately making a dirty hit on a defenseless player? That's grand so, straight back in to the team then.

    He shouldn't line out again. Cost us the match, and frankly that's a disgusting, premeditated cheap shot that could've seriously injured the Welsh player

    You've obviously never played any sport at any level.

    He's not a dirty player.

    I don't want him in the team as I think he's lightweight against the top packs.

    Stick to abusing toilets.


  • #934
    nigeldaniel
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,449 ✭✭✭nigeldaniel


    I would not blame Billy Burns its a kick even Jonny got wrong a few times. A poor second half by half the green shirts is where we went wrong.

    Dan.



  • #935
    accensi0n
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,006 ✭✭✭accensi0n


    Neeson wrote: »
    They’d want to be if they are representing Ireland. The breed of player we have today is a lot poorer than 20 years ago.

    Lol, yes I also long for the glory days of the wooden spoon.. :D


  • #936
    Hurrache
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,404 ✭✭✭✭Hurrache


    flazio wrote: »
    Some of you are being way too harsh on Burns based on just one kick.
    It was his penalty kick that got us to within 5 to begin with.

    He had poor kicks, and very poor passes within a short window, one which lost all the space just made in a break.


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  • #937
    Beechwoodspark
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,168 ✭✭✭✭Beechwoodspark


    mun1 wrote: »
    That loss is all on POM.
    Shocking thing to do to another player and i hope he gets a deserved multiple match ban.

    Fair dues to everyone else for sticking with it right to the end.

    Keenan, henshaw, ringrose, stander, porter and Beirne were very good.
    Good to see furlong back

    Ringrose is just getting better and better.

    Would agree the die was cast with the red card

    Hoped against hope but once Wales regrouped at half time was always going to be uphill

    Burns kick is unforgivable at this level though.


  • #938
    Doctors room ghost
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,844 ✭✭✭Doctors room ghost


    accensi0n wrote: »
    Saw a lot of positives, think we could win all remaining games.





    One of the worst matches I’ve sat through.


  • #939
    Happy4all
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,089 ✭✭✭Happy4all


    ckeego wrote: »
    Fair play, lads.
    Hang it all on Burns...

    Stupid stupid decisions and poor execution from some of the “senior” squad members..

    We could actually have won that game with basic execution even in the last 9 mins with 3 penalties.

    Anyone with the slightest grasp of sports psychology will know that the 14 men/10 man team etc can and have pulled it off but it requires discipline, fronting up BUT basic completion of task is essential.

    POM being sent off was never going to make it an easy day at the office but really poor execution and some strange infield decisions will make it all the harder


    Don't you just love a "know it all"


  • #940
    Asus X540L
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,506 ✭✭✭Asus X540L


    thegreycity wrote: »
    I can’t remember a worse fly half playing for Ireland than Burns.

    Jeremy Staunton?

    Maybe he played full back for Ireland though


  • #941
    HansKroenke
    Closed Accounts Posts: 254 ✭✭HansKroenke


    mystic86 wrote: »
    Bad pass to lose 20 metres, then within a minute kicks the penalty over the endline.

    Get out of here ffs

    Awful crossfield kick too. Multiple shocking decisions when the pressure was on. It is beyond inept.


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  • #942
    thecomedian
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,582 ✭✭✭thecomedian


    flazio wrote: »
    Some of you are being way too harsh on Burns based on just one kick.
    It was his penalty kick that got us to within 5 to begin with.

    They’re the ones who aren’t actually rugby supporters.


  • #943
    almostover
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,501 ✭✭✭almostover


    mun1 wrote: »
    That loss is all on POM.
    Shocking thing to do to another player and i hope he gets a deserved multiple match ban.

    Fair dues to everyone else for sticking with it right to the end.

    Keenan, henshaw, ringrose, stander, porter and Beirne were very good.
    Good to see furlong back

    Ringrose is just getting better and better.

    Ringrose played well but made a bad mistake which lead to Wales' first try. We let Wales into this game when we shouldn't have


  • #944
    AbusesToilets
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 12,441 ✭✭✭✭AbusesToilets


    Arduach wrote: »
    You've obviously never played any sport at any level.

    He's not a dirty player.

    I don't want him in the team as I think he's lightweight against the top packs.

    Stick to abusing toilets.

    He's not a dirty player, gets 2 red cards this season for the same dirty hit.....

    Ok buddy


  • #945
    lalababa
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,763 ✭✭✭lalababa


    Lost Ormond wrote: »
    Unless someone calls it at this level you generally wont stop for players going down immediately.


    They dont. To allege bias or anything else is rather pathetic.

    When I see Barnes is reffing an Irish game I think....yep... we're screwed.


  • #946
    is_that_so
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,132 ✭✭✭✭is_that_so


    Happy4all wrote: »
    I really felt we were about to experience another moment like Sexton in Paris.

    So deflated
    Look at the things that did work. It was definitely more attacking, lineout was ok, scrum too and we tackled well enough. On the downside kicking was very so-so, and a good few made stupid mistakes.


  • #947
    eagle eye
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 41,397 ✭✭✭✭eagle eye


    mun1 wrote:
    That loss is all on POM. Shocking thing to do to another player and i hope he gets a deserved multiple match ban.
    You think he meant it? Did you ever play rugby or any type of contact sport?

    Also we lead after he went off.

    That loss is on Billy Burns more than anybody. Senseless cross field kick after 75 minutes and then missing touch at the end.
    He should never play for Ireland again, can't trust an out-half who makes awful decisions like that.


  • #948
    My name is URL
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,568 ✭✭✭✭My name is URL


    Doctors room ghost wrote: »
    One of the worst matches I’ve sat through.

    Ah ffs :pac:


  • #949
    Akrasia
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 23,557 ✭✭✭✭Akrasia


    Gotta love all the Sh1tstirrers that come onto the rugby forum every February to talk about how terrible Ireland are and how we shouldn’t bother even turning up

    If you don’t like rugby, gogglebox or dancing on Ice or the voice or hundreds of other shows are all there, waiting for you to watch

    Chomsky(2017) on the Republican party

    "Has there ever been an organisation in human history that is dedicated, with such commitment, to the destruction of organised human life on Earth?"



  • #950
    MaddChris
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 631 ✭✭✭MaddChris


    Doctors room ghost wrote: »
    One of the worst matches I’ve sat through.
    You haven't seen alot of Ireland matches then.....


  • #951
    breezy1985
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 31,160 ✭✭✭✭breezy1985


    SqueakyKneecap wrote: »
    Keenan and Beirne were excellent imo. Thought Gibson-Park was immensely better than Murray too.

    I never need to see POM or Murray starting again. I'd even argue whether they're test standard since 2018. Murray is fairness had a significant injury but O'Mahony is too often a passenger when he's needed most.

    I'd defend Farrell in so far as this was a side that peaked in a phenomenal year of 2018 and there was always going to be a drop off but we have arguably the 5th most in form SH in the country starting.

    Gibson-Pwrk was all over the place. Himself and Lowe run round looking all action but are in the wrong places too often. Murray does frustrate me too though so I wouldn't say one is better than the other


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  • #952
    UAEguy2020
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,119 ✭✭✭UAEguy2020


    I think this comment section just sums up the situation at 10 in this country, when Sexton lets the team down with a miss touch we just move on yet when Burns does the same thing we never hear the end of it.


  • #953
    thebaz
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,952 ✭✭✭✭thebaz


    Piehead wrote: »
    Billy Burns shouldn’t be let near the squad again

    Thats ridiculous , a young inexperienced player has a nightmare , anyone whos played sport know it happens sometimes, the sign of a true player is he how he comes back. So definitly desreves a second chance.

    POM on the other hand, doing that in 2021 , that is inexcusable.


  • #954
    sydthebeat
    Subscribers, Paid Member Posts: 43,716 ✭✭✭✭sydthebeat


    One positive from today is that Henshaw should have one foot on the lions plane.

    Best center of the weekend for me


  • #955
    hold my beer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 2,762 ✭✭✭hold my beer


    My god I'm raging. What a frustrating match. Burns, what the ****. The cross field kick was bad enough....he's simply not a test quality player. And now we know he brain farts like his brother.

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  • #956
    Arduach
    Closed Accounts Posts: 618 ✭✭✭Arduach


    AbusesToilets wrote: »
    He's not a dirty player, gets 2 red cards this season for the same dirty hit.....

    Ok buddy

    Don't buddy me.

    Two in a long career. When you're physically fired up these incidents happen. Were you equally as appalled with CJ Stander in SA in 2016 or is this provincial crap. Take your head out of the toilet.


  • #957
    breezy1985
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 31,160 ✭✭✭✭breezy1985


    UAEguy2020 wrote: »
    I think this comment section just sums up the situation at 10 in this country, when Sexton lets the team down with a miss touch we just move on yet when Burns does the same thing we never hear the end of it.

    Sexton took a risk with 20 mins to go. Burns done it after time was up which is a hugely different situation.

    Sexton gets his stick too so I don't know what you are on about


  • #958
    MaddChris
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 631 ✭✭✭MaddChris


    Akrasia wrote: »
    Gotta love all the Sh1tstirrers that come onto the rugby forum every February to talk about how terrible Ireland are and how we shouldn’t bother even turning up

    If you don’t like rugby, gogglebox or dancing on Ice or the voice or hundreds of other shows are all there, waiting for you to watch
    Its funny how they disappeared for a while when Ireland went 6-13 up :rolleyes:


  • #959
    is_that_so
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,132 ✭✭✭✭is_that_so


    UAEguy2020 wrote: »
    I think this comment section just sums up the situation at 10 in this country, when Sexton lets the team down with a miss touch we just move on yet when Burns does the same thing we never hear the end of it.
    The Burns was one of those "everything depends on this" kicks. He won't be the last person to do it but that was not why Wales won.


  • #960
    Scratchly
    Closed Accounts Posts: 294 ✭✭Scratchly


    sydthebeat wrote: »
    One positive from today is that Henshaw should have one foot on the lions plane.

    Best center of the weekend for me

    Ringrose too. Thought he was fantastic. Both of them and Keenan were a class apart from everyone else on the pitch.


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  • #961
    clsmooth
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,041 ✭✭✭clsmooth


    almostover wrote: »
    Afraid you're giving us a little too much credit there. This is a poor Wales side. Scotland will fancy beating both Wales and Ireland on that showing.

    Maybe so but not so poor that we can let them have an extra man for 65 minutes and be upset if we don’t win. Huge credit for being even in with a chance to win at the end should be given to the team.

    The disappointment on here is because if we had made a few less errors and a few things went our way (take your pick from POM red, Earls tackle/kick straight into touch, Beirne penalty where the ball seemed to be out for me/Williams getting away without a card for his high tackle/Sexton and Burn’s line kicks) we could have won.

    Some perspective is needed. The Welsh media will be having a right go at their team for squeaking past a 14 man Ireland who aren’t the force they were in 2018.


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