Second time in as many games where Henshaw gets the ball in the wide channel and it dies with him. He has zero pace and offers no threat in broken play.
This is as bad as we've played in 3 years. So so sloppy.
Beirne, Conan, Ringrose with dumb pens
RYAN can't catch the ball
Henshaw looks like my grandad out there
Something is amiss. Osborne really needs to be in at 12.
Farrell must be fuming at home watching this.
We have been absolutely shocking.
Shades of 2013 about this one (although at least that day we had a boatload of injuries which contributed)
Struggling against a side that's conceded 18 tries in their last 2 games. Our attack relies on rapid ruck speed, which we had at our peak but not anymore.
Italy attack looks very much more dangerous than ours at times
That's a harsh penalty for crossing. Italy have been doing that in nearly every attack.
This is awful stuff. Ireland look like an old team with no ideas.
It's been said by many recently, the lack of speed, not only on the wings, is a glaring issue.
Knock on after knock on. Can't hold the ball.
Ringrose missing a raft of tackles, he's been poor so far
Crowley making all the difference.
Probably our worst half of the tournament. Forwards are taking on far too much themselves and not allowing the ball to go past 9. Then when it actually goes wider we have very little shape in attack. It gets flung wide to one support player with nobody around
Hopefully we will be number 1 in the world in November, that is what it is all about!
Similar stuff by them for their first try, but a bit more clever about it. We just look narrow and on top of each other. Spacings are all off.
100% deliberate.
not many coming out if this tournament in credit but I’d say Easterby is the man whose prospects have been damaged most. The team looks sloppy, frankly. They’ve had 2 or 3 decent periods in the whole comp, failing to score early or put teams away, multiple cards and totally predictable. I’m not looking forward to the ABs in November, that could be a long day for us.
Blatant and idiotic from Lamaro.
And the try
Fair play Luke - knew instinctively that wasn’t right.
Now THATs a dumb penalty lmao
Gift of a try
As bad as Ringrose was earlier what was Lamarro thinking there and he's just on. It was so bad it deserved a try to be conceeded
Ireland do well to finish that try after being gifted that by a brain dead decision by the Italian to give away that penalty.
Thanks Lamaro
Jaysus.
We don't deserve the lead at all considering how bad we've been.
Now we need to press home the advantage in the second half when they're down to 14 and having already made early injury subs.
that’s a bad conversion miss
Terrible conversion attempt. Halftime lead all the same, and that is about the only positive.
Lineout mail or nothing from Ireland
This is a dreadful Italian team in defence
