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I want to catch up on this but I'm a bit scared how bad the second half might be. Did Ireland improve that much or was it us?

Mikey Brown wrote:I want to catch up on this but I'm a bit scared how bad the second half might be. Did Ireland improve that much or was it us?

Bit of both. I feel very jammy that we won that.

I'd definitely watch it. Dunbar's lineout is just so jammy and shows how confident the team are when on the attack. Hogg carved them up on a few occasions as well.

Had a wee look on some of the Irish provincial forums and a lot of them are blaming Poite. I find that quite hilarious given they got away with their deliberate blocking all game long. If a ref were to correctly penalise them for that then they'd have no attack whatsoever!

hugh_woatmeigh wrote:Had a wee look on some of the Irish provincial forums and a lot of them are blaming Poite. I find that quite hilarious given they got away with their deliberate blocking all game long. If a ref were to correctly penalise them for that then they'd have no attack whatsoever!

Don't do that mate, it's like someone basing their opinion of us on what some of the mentalers on the embra forum write... ha, wait... Or in fact, some of the bollocks you write on here.

Mikey Brown wrote:I want to catch up on this but I'm a bit scared how bad the second half might be. Did Ireland improve that much or was it us?

It's worth a watch, we tightened up, and deffo got tired in defence, but equal to that the Irish got their shit together.

From a neutral perspective, it reminded me a bit of the Irish win against the ABs in November. Stormed ahead, the favourites came back strongly in the second half - and most expected them to then go on and win - and then the underdogs started playing excellent rugby again to close the game out. Kudos to Scotland for holding on; well deserved and great for the 6N as a whole.
(and of course major props to Ireland for the AB win! )

Edinburgh in Exile wrote:

Mikey Brown wrote:I want to catch up on this but I'm a bit scared how bad the second half might be. Did Ireland improve that much or was it us?

It's worth a watch, we tightened up, and deffo got tired in defence, but equal to that the Irish got their shit together.

I thought they ran out of steam quickly near the end. Considering 4 of our tight 5 basically played 80 mins (ok 70 odd in ford's case) I was surprised how well they came back into it.

HW, harsh to call that line out jammy imo. Well executed move that worked. It was a good bit of play. No doubt had one of their back row covered Dunbar we'd have caught and driven.

Edinburgh in Exile wrote:

hugh_woatmeigh wrote:Had a wee look on some of the Irish provincial forums and a lot of them are blaming Poite. I find that quite hilarious given they got away with their deliberate blocking all game long. If a ref were to correctly penalise them for that then they'd have no attack whatsoever!

Don't do that mate, it's like someone basing their opinion of us on what some of the mentalers on the embra forum write... ha, wait... Or in fact, some of the bollocks you write on here.

I don't think I tarred all the Irish with the same brush there, did I? I certainly didn't intend to. The bulk of the Munster forum match thread seem to think Poite is to blame to varying degrees, for example.

Big D wrote:

Edinburgh in Exile wrote:

Mikey Brown wrote:I want to catch up on this but I'm a bit scared how bad the second half might be. Did Ireland improve that much or was it us?

It's worth a watch, we tightened up, and deffo got tired in defence, but equal to that the Irish got their shit together.

I thought they ran out of steam quickly near the end. Considering 4 of our tight 5 basically played 80 mins (ok 70 odd in ford's case) I was surprised how well they came back into it.

HW, harsh to call that line out jammy imo. Well executed move that worked. It was a good bit of play. No doubt had one of their back row covered Dunbar we'd have caught and driven.

Fair call, it'd be a big ask for either team to play at that tempo for 80. Just rewatched it there now, you aren't wrong about the last 10 minutes or so, Scotland just looked a shade sharper, which I didn't expect.

hugh_woatmeigh wrote:

Edinburgh in Exile wrote:

hugh_woatmeigh wrote:Had a wee look on some of the Irish provincial forums and a lot of them are blaming Poite. I find that quite hilarious given they got away with their deliberate blocking all game long. If a ref were to correctly penalise them for that then they'd have no attack whatsoever!

Don't do that mate, it's like someone basing their opinion of us on what some of the mentalers on the embra forum write... ha, wait... Or in fact, some of the bollocks you write on here.

I don't think I tarred all the Irish with the same brush there, did I? I certainly didn't intend to. The bulk of the Munster forum match thread seem to think Poite is to blame to varying degrees, for example.

Ah now you didn't cat man, in order to take a swipe at you I needed to deliberately misread that.

You are always going to find shit like that if you go looking for it, it's going to come from every losing side, we should know, we lose all the fucking time.

Any of you hungover fuds watching the Italy v Wales game?

Looks like it's pissing down with rain

Edinburgh in Exile wrote:Any of you hungover fuds watching the Italy v Wales game?

Ref wearing a red thong with a dragon on it

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Edinburgh in Exile wrote:

hugh_woatmeigh wrote:

Edinburgh in Exile wrote:
Don't do that mate, it's like someone basing their opinion of us on what some of the mentalers on the embra forum write... ha, wait... Or in fact, some of the bollocks you write on here.

I don't think I tarred all the Irish with the same brush there, did I? I certainly didn't intend to. The bulk of the Munster forum match thread seem to think Poite is to blame to varying degrees, for example.

Ah now you didn't cat man, in order to take a swipe at you I needed to deliberately misread that.

You are always going to find shit like that if you go looking for it, it's going to come from every losing side, we should know, we lose all the fucking time.

I thought Poite was pretty balanced. No Yellow for Bowe, no TMO for Jackson's try, constant blocking & Furlong boring in all day long more than matched our cynical defence.

Watching Italy/Wales, yup. Italy competitive so far but still a lot of rugby left to play.

Ref:" Right Use it"... maul goes on... goes down...penalty wales

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Bonus point certainly seems to have affected Welsh attitude, helped by ref

How many bloody kicks back and forth?

Good crowd today

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Talk about choke tackle...

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Nicely done!!!
Great patience by the Italians.
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Italy should really start attacking the short blind side of the rucks, it seems relatively undefended for the most part.

Adder wrote:Good crowd today

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That's a massive stadium isn't it? Seem to remember it being about the same size as croke park isn't it?

Wikipedia says 72 000 seats

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hugh_woatmeigh wrote:

Edinburgh in Exile wrote:

hugh_woatmeigh wrote:
I don't think I tarred all the Irish with the same brush there, did I? I certainly didn't intend to. The bulk of the Munster forum match thread seem to think Poite is to blame to varying degrees, for example.

Ah now you didn't cat man, in order to take a swipe at you I needed to deliberately misread that.

You are always going to find shit like that if you go looking for it, it's going to come from every losing side, we should know, we lose all the fucking time.

I thought Poite was pretty balanced. No Yellow for Bowe, no TMO for Jackson's try, constant blocking & Furlong boring in all day long more than matched our cynical defence.

Watching Italy/Wales, yup. Italy competitive so far but still a lot of rugby left to play.

Yeah I did too, but I'm tempering that with the fact that we won and I don't need to look for reasons whilst basking in the reflective glory of our magnificence.

Italy kicking away far too much turn over ball.

Wales should have this. Second half team. Their defence has been pretty solid too.