Its looking like we are doomed on Saturday. The longer Darcy gets picked the further backwards we go. Hope Murray did enough to get on from the start because Reddan was dreadful when he came on.
Apart from our shambolic appearance, it was a decent weekend's games. Pity Scotland / Romania was on in the middle of the night. Scotland have thier work cut out Wednesday against Georgia, who are better than Romania.
Great shows from Japan and Namibia on Saturday as well.
If Wales made a bigger deal of that penalty in the first half they may have beaten the boks, who I must say look a bit jaded. Bit of karma for the welsh though, given the try they got in Cardiff against Ireland in the 6 nations.
Enjoyable weekend.
Well, you got our wish RaM, the Reddan-Sexton axis of evil has triumphed. I'm not normally a fan of either player, but together, and with BOD and Darcy, and Robbie Kearney, a Leinster filled backline will do well. I was both happy and disappointed with Tommy Bowe, he looked like he'd gotten new hands for Christmas or something. Rory Best did well at the weekend, and I had an odd comment from a friend watching it - "Doesn't Rory Best look like a member of a Loyalist paramilitary murder squad?"
Odd isn't the word for that!
Very harsh on Trimble that he doesn't get a chance. Harsh on Murphy too- but then the only reason he's ever in the team is so that he can be harshly dropped again.
D'arcy is very lucky indeed. Sexton probably very relieved after the kicking issues last week- he may have been saved by the fact that a lot of kickers had massive problems in the first games.
#NeverStopNotGivingUp
Not sure you read my post correctly there. With Reddan and Darcy - both of whom are not international standard anymore, barring a super-human perfomance from the Irish pack - we are going to get soundly beaten. 20 / 30 points. Never wished to be this wrong before!Originally Posted by Spudulika
Well... what can you say about that.
Wonderful second half.
Stephen Ferris, Mike Ross, Sean O'Brien were immense.
Come on Ireland!!!!
Sure, I've always 'loved' rugby...
Good result mind.
wow, just wow. What a lift for the weekend. Great battling performance though I'm sure RTE will find fault to keep viewers interested.
Fantastic win! I was saying all week they would do it. People were too hung up on '07. The games before the World Cup though in defeat and the US win were nothing like 4 years ago. Well done to the men in green! Hopefully they can kick on now and do the job to win the group. We don't want any slip-ups against the Italians in the last pool game.
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Some jumbo sized Australian player interviewed after the game claimed that Ireland were good at spoiling the ball.
What does that mean (aside from sour grapes)? negative tactics? conning the ref? or is spoiling the ball a legit thing, as in 'put them under pressure'.
Sour grapes. Not even worth commenting on.
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Ha. Spoiling the ball!!! A couple of offsides and off the feet in the first half maybe.
The problem is we held up the tackle so we were gonna have the put in. The aussies couldn't live with it.
NZ are the kings of ball spoiling.
So, what does 'spoiling the ball' mean in rugby?
Not playing it. Or Google may have a better answer.
slowing the ball down at the breakdown - the Australians wanted it to come out quickly before the Irish defence was organised, but the Irish made sure that didn't happen.
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They've just started broadcasting the game again on TG4 for those of you with a cupla focal.
Ireland were immense but still a lot of mistakes with the ball in hand. There's obviously a problem with the ball as both Sexton and O'Connor missed easy kicks. Overall I think the scoreline flattered Australia but all that matters is the win. I was off my seat the entire second half. Still, Italy is not a foregone conclusion and Wales/Somoa are both looking strong if we do top the pool. This World Cup has suddenly become very, very unpredictable.
To the home of stupid place names and the amber nectar, Russell Crowe, Nicole Kidman, questionable cuisine, Dame Edna, Alf Stewart, Michael Hutchence, Skippy, Ayer's Rock/Uluru, Kylie and Jason, Rupert Murdoch, Mel Gibson (sort of), Shane Warne and Rolf Harris...........your boys took one hell of a beating!!!
I think Ireland have a bigger match in them in this tournament. Hopefully fingers crossed it's a performance we get to see in the very latter stages.
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As the man himself might say: "Call that a pack? THIS is a pack."Don't forget Crocodile Dundee
Healy, O'Connell, Ferris and O'Brien were unreal. They couldn't live with our intensity upfront and I'm not surprised if they're feeling a little sour about it. Nothing's done yet, so don't want us getting carried away, but if we maintain that kind of application at the breakdown we're a match for anyone with the possible exception of the All Blacks.
Really does throw the expected knock out games out the window this result.
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must admt as a non rugby fan unbelieveable performance from ireland deserved to win by more my only little gripe is having no national anthem before game it has been replaced by irelands call personally i find it disrespectfull to us as a proud little nation.
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