Ireland to finish

[Mikey Brown]

That's a tough one. You can tell he's trying to back out once seeing it won't be a (typical) tackle situation, but that just wasn't the way to do it.

[Beasties]

Slow mo. If you keep on watching it you lose perspective.

[Banquo]

fck this.

[Banquo]

The commentary team clearly haven't been paying attention to Banquo's seminars about Itoje's role/form.

sorry to bore you. strike that, happy to be of service.

[Big D]

One of those situations that's a bit unfortunate.

Not sure why he's turning like that right enough.

[morepork]

He put a little nudge on to sit him down. Was a nudge in the heed unfortunately. Dangerous.

[stepsider]

Chance of causing surprise has just cratered.

[Oakboy]

All top referees make decisions on those scenarios with a view of full speed. Tge slow-mo 8s bound to look damning. Farcical decision.

[Banquo]

Putting all the red card imo nonsense to one side, 10 fckin penalties and 20 missed tackles- it’s aggressive defence, but not measured.

[SouthFalcon87]

If that was called a rugby incident, most people who aren’t Ireland fans would say “yeh, fair”. We need to stop red carding accidents.

(On a side note CHRIST Farrell’s communication with refs isn’t getting any better. Screaming RED CARD at Peyper- he’s lucky to not have found himself warned).

[Banquo]

One of those situations that's a bit unfortunate.

Not sure why he's turning like that right enough.

SLO mo is daft in those scenarios tbh

[Mush]

First half - defence better, still no compelling attack.

[Big D]

One of those situations that's a bit unfortunate.

Not sure why he's turning like that right enough.

SLO mo is daft in those scenarios tbh

It's is. But in this case it is unfortunate and the laws are what they are.

[morepork]

Get Smith on?

[Mikey Brown]

Get Smith on?

But then our pack will play like they did against France.

[Beasties]

JVP doing a mighty fine impression of Earl.

[jngf]

Willis proving he’s a step up from Tom Curry at openside!

[Mikey Brown]

JVP doing a mighty fine impression of Earl.

Itoje outdid him there though. Cringe-worthy stuff. He went a bit Leslie Nielson.

[morepork]

Get Smith on?

But then our pack will play like they did against France.

Bitch please....

[Which Tyler]

Steward's elbow gets head butted ?

Brings me back to my suggestion that it should be either head has to be below the other's armpit.
Tackler's head has to be below BC's armpit OR (as in this case) tackler's armpit has to be above BC's head.

The point is to take heads away from each other, because that's the most dangerous, and an acceptance that keeping hips, knees, or in this case, passive elbows, away from heads is impossible.

[Mikey Brown]

Well this Baird guy is pretty annoying isn't he?

[Mr Mwenda]

Felt Hansen on Watson to drive him over the line was perhaps high if we are being pedantic?

[Beasties]

Peyper gets the scrum call wrong but very efficient from Ire there.

[Mikey Brown]

I fucking hate that maul/tackle rule. It seems basically no different to a tackle where you refuse to roll away or release the carrier.

[Beasties]

Sheehan has prob nailed himself onto the MOM award.