QuoteOriginally Posted by joeSoap
I was referring to kicking a ball in Italy, I thought that was fairly obvious
Bonus point in last minute for Argentina. Bugger
I was referring to kicking a ball in Italy, I thought that was fairly obvious
Not obvious to quite a few of us though...must be getting old.
Well, after tonight we now have the top three teams in the group having played a shocker. Argentina, in both games, have shown me absolutely nothing to be scared of. To me France are going to be the tough nut. I can't see us beating them, so ideally we lose to them by 7 or less without conceding 4 tries, and beat Argentina by more than 7 without conceding 4 tries. Assuming we all get max points against the minnows, that would leave it:
France 15pts.
Ireland 15pts
Argentina 14pts.
I'd settle for that.
I think Argentina will win the group. Irelands pack will need to go up about 10 levels to get any ball, the Pumas will push Ireland all over the pitch. I would be amazed if we get out of the group and if we do I think it will be at the expense of France and not Argentina.
I'm actually quite fearfull about getting a bonus from Georgia going on what I saw last night.
I think we will get the bonus point against Georgia.
They only have a few days to recover from last night's match and, hopefully, they'll tire more quickly against us than they did against Argentina.
My only worry for the game with Georgia is losing players to injury for the games against Argentina and France.
Did anyone else notice that although the feed is the same the Setanta picture was much sharper than the tv3 picture? (I'm on NTL Digital)BTW i noticed TV3 got massive TV viewing figures for Sundays which is a surprise until you realise anyone without Setanta only had the other option of UTV. Watching Sport on UTV makes TV3 appealing
yep, monutdfc. Funnily enough though, the first game I watched TV3 was far sharper than ITV and Setanta, but last couple of games the TV3 picture was noticeably worse than the others
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I reckon we will take a bonus point off of Georgia a lot more easy than Argentina did. Argentina will struggle to score buckets of tries against anyone simply because outside of 12 they have very little to offer. Get under Contepomi's skin early on and they offer nothing outside of 10. The flip side of that is that they won't concede too many tries either.
If we don't go buck ape in the first 20 mins against Georgia, then we'll probably put 50 + points on them I reckon. We will concentrate on winning the game first; ie taking kicks at goal instead of kicking for touch, keeping the ball alive as long as we can to tire them out (and they will tire) and hit them for tries in the second half. That guarantees our bonus points and keeps us 100% on track. You can rest assured that performances against France and the Argies will be upped immensely. My only concern is Best at hooker. Bad thrower, not as dynamic aroiund the field and only has the nod on Flannery in the scrummaging dept, where let's face it, we're probably going to get done anyway.
Ireland to qualify ....no problem!!
I agree. The schedule for Georgia is fairly unfair.
I think O'Sullivan is scared of the Argentina scrum & because of this I think he has persisted with Best at the expense of Flannery.
Listening to O'Sullivan on TV last night he was very good at explaining what was wrong in the last game but never suggested why his experienced players could not detect this on the pitch. Does anyone else think O'Driscoll a bad decision maker for captain?
On rte sport at 7.30 this morning O'Driscoll said the players were shocked by how physical the Namibians were.
Says it all about our preparation.
Fail to prepare, prepare to fail.
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On rte sport at 7.30 this morning O'Driscoll said the players were shocked by how physical the Namibians were.
Says it all about our preparation.
Fail to prepare, prepare to fail.
The Georgian Greco Wrestlers will plough through our Spice Boy backs unless they stop smelling themselves.
They a big strong team alright, but thats it, no skill
You don't need skill to knock people over and if they don't fancy it that's what'll happen. The Irish team have been noted for their defence in recent years apart from a few blips. Even Denis Hickie has improved. But when a Captain comes out and says they were surprised by the physicality of the opposition I get worried. I expect a big improvement on Saturday.
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Very true, it's basically admitting that they under rated them which in any professional sport is an accident waiting to happen. The minnows will always give it everything, especially in the first game which is essentially their World Cup Final. They should have expected the Namibians to give it everything and nothing less IMO.
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let's hope we impress tomorrow. Let us not forget that we are in effect still in pre season whereas the southern hemisphere sides have been playing competitive games for months now. I expect our lads to perform.
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I heard one Irish player being interviewed (Marcus Horan?) saying that many of the mistakes the team made in the Namibia game were of the type that the team can remedy in a few days training, dropped balls etc.
I think Hickie was still concussed after that massive hit hence all the dropped balls!
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Hickie was concussed, and the reason they didn't take him off was because of the three week rest after concussion rule which would have effectively ruled him out for the rest of the World Cup. This is both dangerous and stupid in my opinion.He was clearly in distress for quite a while after that knock.
You have to wonder if that concussion rule is counter-productive.
Georgia have made 11 changes to their team for Saturday, if we don't win this easily, we're in big trouble.
We're not arrogant, we're just better.
Expect to see a of subs if we get a big lead. With France up in a week there are a lot of lads who need game time, particularly if as I suspect we pick up a few injuries in this game.
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what would be an acceptable win margin? If we win. 30 points? 40 ?
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