QuoteHe might have a glass jaw but if you're going to have a pop at it, then you better break it. That guy's an animal.
It might be kidology! I tell you what I wouldn't wanna mess with the mad ******, he looks like he can handle himselfOriginally Posted by pete
Listening to Newstalk interview of Neil Best last night. He was commenting on his own glass jaw suggesting he would "go down like the Belgrano..." if punched there.
If the Argentinians here that he'll probably have moire than his jaw broken next month.
"If God had meant football to be played in the air, he'd have put grass in the sky." Brian Clough.
You'll NEVER beat the Irish.......you'll just draw with us instead!!!
He might have a glass jaw but if you're going to have a pop at it, then you better break it. That guy's an animal.
Don't think Boss is quite as bad as made out by some above.
His delivery is too slow for international rugby, but he adds better box-kicking and more inventiveness than Stringer.
The effectiveness of Stringers lightning pass is reduced by the telegraphed nature of his play. He doesn't mix it up enough which makes the opposition back rows job easier.
From bits and bobs of what I've seen of Redden he combines Stringers quick pass with a bit more inventiveness.
If the Argentinians here that he'll probably have moire than his jaw broken next month.
well so long as they dont hear it, it doesnt matterbut they might....
I'm a bloke,I'm an ocker
And I really love your knockers,I'm a labourer by day,
I **** up all me pay,Watching footy on TV,
Just feed me more VB,Just pour my beer,And get my smokes, And go away
Shockingly bad first half.
Are we trying to delay peaking for the WC final?
Absolutely minced in the scrums. Can't remember such a one-sided forward contest.
No fluidity in the backline at all either.
im worried about the World Cup to be honest. We lost in the 6 Nations to the only team that could realistically challenge us. Italy are not great, all the other home nations are rebuilding and France are just about coming out of their phase of rebuilding. To be fair we should have walked that competition. I cant see us beating France and im worries that the Pumas will overpower us.
I really hope im wrong.
I like high energy football. A little bit rock and roll. Many finishes instead of waiting for the perfect one.
Abismal stuff. Ireland look like they have hangovers. I know they are rusty but what have they been doing for the last 4-6 weeks in fulltime training.
Italy were +18 so not looking good. Ireland to win the 2nd half by 21 points?
Handicappers will be underestimating Italy untill we are long in the ground, always worth a bet
2nd half has been even worse than the 1st. Ireland will be lucky to win. Pathetic.
Exactly Pete, pathetic sums it up.
The effort wasn't even there, never mind the application.
Looked like too many players feel they guaranteed to start the WC as first choice & do not want to get injured.
Italy just scored & they deserve it. Better for Ireland to lose than win narrowly.
4 defeats on the trot now.
Oh dear, that doesn't do anything to persuade smaller nations that the ref is not against them
I think the ball might have gone back and comre forward again of O' Gara's leg, then he touched it down. Too many variables though to give the try plus we deserved to lose
I wouldn't be too worried if this was your average preseason game but the WC is obviously completely different. Time to work on the ball skills and stop running them into the ground
What a powderpuff effort from the pack.
Here's my player ratings
Dempsey 5
Murphy 4
Trimble 5
D'Arcy 6
Hickie 4
O'Gara 5
Stringer 5
Horan 1
Best R. 5
Hayes 6
O'Callaghan 4
O'Connell 4
Easterby 2
Best N. 4
Leamy 1
TBH I could not watch most of it.
Unbelieveable decision to award try to O'Gara. Talk about a home town decision.
Ireland have a bad schedule as they won't be able to rest many players as will be using the first two games to get match fitness together.
tonights game just shows exactly how bad we can be. We simply do not have the front row to challenge top teams, Horan and Best looked totally out of their league, and I think Horan always has.
Argentians I would say cant wait to meet Ireland, there scrum is alot better then the italians, disappointing!
And the back row was non-existent, awful!
O'Sullivan has made a huge mistake in picking a squad with no open side flanker cover for the injury prone Wallace.
Wallace isn't an open-side so that argument is somewhat of a moot point.
Keith Gleeson was the only real seven around the squad (since Johnny O'Connor disappeared a few years back).
Well he certainly isn't a no.6 so he is the only one Ireland have. Gleeson should have been in the squad. Can't see why Ferris was chosen.
Wallace plays more like a Number 8. Ireland survive without a ground-hog 7 mostly because O'Driscoll and to a lesser extent D'Arcy are often first to the breakdown fighting for ball, and in BOD's case he performs that role as good as anyone in the world.
Friday's back-row was so unbalanced as, without O'Driscoll we had no ground ballwinner and with Wallace absent and Leamy completely off colour, we had no big ball carriers in the back row.
Best will hit guys all day long and generally be an excellent defensive 6, but he isn't a ball carrier and the same applies to Easterby. Both of them can't play in the same back row.
Ferris was brought for two reasons. Firstly, he is a dynamic ball carrier and an explosive force that can change a game. It came down to him or Heaslip and whilst Heaslip has more track record, Ferris can play across the back row.
Secondly, Eddie, in his wisdom, doesn't believe an open-side nowadays needs to be a groundhog, claiming the game has moved on from this.
We have won a lot of games with no real no7 playing, but the key missing link is BOD.
As for Gleeson, he went off the boil badly for well over a year (as well as being injured) and struggled to get his game for Leinster so I'm not sure why he is always seen as the saviour.
not a brilliant performance but I'm hoping we are getting this bad form out of our system before the real deal starts. Scotland are going to have major problems with the Italians next month, their pack is fierce and a match for most teams on their day.
Fingers crossed Wallace makes a speedy recovery. BOD before the game gave me the impression that he might be fit for Namibia (fingers crossed). We don't want him only having one warm up game before the French.
"If God had meant football to be played in the air, he'd have put grass in the sky." Brian Clough.
You'll NEVER beat the Irish.......you'll just draw with us instead!!!
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