Ireland v.South Africa

[Spiffy]

Handy little training run for Ireland against the Bokke.

[normanski]

Congratulations. I’m assuming because there is zero activity on the Irish board you’re all in France recovering with a horrendous hangover!

[Wallpaperman]

Saw the match, outstanding atmosphere, pulsating game.

Good luck for the rest of the tournament - surely you will get past the quarterfinals now ?

[Which Tyler]

[Stom]

meh until the dad joke at the end

[paddy no 11]

Disallowing lowest try was absolutely ridiculous, every try could be chalked off if that's a precedent. It's not even clear that kelleher plays the ball

Interested what anyone else thinks of snyman it's after the pass and takes a fella out imo but may be biased

[Spiffy]

Disallowing lowest try was absolutely ridiculous, every try could be chalked off if that's a precedent. It's not even clear that kelleher plays the ball

Interested what anyone else thinks of snyman it's after the pass and takes a fella out imo but may be biased

I felt that the ref took the ugly against Ireland early in the first half, for whatever reason, and many of his decisions after that showed bias, conscious or unconscious. SA got every call that was going. I certainly do not like Whitehouse as a TMO. He loves the sound of his own voice and to be the centre of attraction.
Snyman - not so clear. He was probably committed but did not have to clobber the smallest man on the pitch as he did. I did think it was a bit of a Colin Meades moment. I don't know if Casey is out of the tour now.

[Eugene Wrayburn]

Disallowing lowest try was absolutely ridiculous, every try could be chalked off if that's a precedent. It's not even clear that kelleher plays the ball

Interested what anyone else thinks of snyman it's after the pass and takes a fella out imo but may be biased

Scrubbing off that try for a debatable ruck entry when the south african on the ground replays it having lost it is just the height of being one eyed. If the try where Lowe appears to me to have been pretty clearly in touch before flicking the ball in was not "clear and obvious" then I do not see how that can have been in a million years.

Snyman is fine. It's maybe a touch late looking at it from our wider camera point, but that's not the view he had and he had every right to melt the scrum half whilst he had the ball.

[paddy no 11]

Disallowing lowest try was absolutely ridiculous, every try could be chalked off if that's a precedent. It's not even clear that kelleher plays the ball

Interested what anyone else thinks of snyman it's after the pass and takes a fella out imo but may be biased

Scrubbing off that try for a debatable ruck entry when the south african on the ground replays it having lost it is just the height of being one eyed. If the try where Lowe appears to me to have been pretty clearly in touch before flicking the ball in was not "clear and obvious" then I do not see how that can have been in a million years.

Snyman is fine. It's maybe a touch late looking at it from our wider camera point, but that's not the view he had and he had every right to melt the scrum half whilst he had the ball.

Melt is fine but walk back 2 metres and land on top is ott in my opinion. Anyway Sets snyman up nicely as a villian for next season