Team for Ireland

[Numbers]

Gatlands record with Wales currently stands: played 67, Won 33, Lost 33, Drawn 1. Barely scraping 50% atm. Anyone care to breakdown pre and post 2013 results?


Prediction for tonight? Halftime it'll be close, 13-9 to the Irish, end will be 36-12 to the irish after 2 fourth quater tries and a piss poor second half from Wales. Wales won't score a try.

I have a sneaky feeling we might scrape this one.

[Ross. S]

I hope you're correct but the Irish love nothing more than humiliating us and Gatland.

[wayneha50]

I think Ireland by 2/3 scores to be honest - I just can't see us scoring enough tries to win the game or having the ability to close out a tight game.

[Son of Mathonwy]

It will take a legendary defiance of the possession stats for us to hold them off for 80 minutes. Far more likely we'll crack and they'll score 3/4 tries to our 0/1. Clear victory to the Irish I think.

[Sandydragon]

Two score win for the Irish. We will huff and puff but will struggle to convert opportunities.

[Sourdust]

I've got nothing to add, but I'll type it anyway.

Wales 19-33 Ireland

[wayneha50]

I've got nothing to add, but I'll type it anyway.

Wales 19-33 Ireland

I admire your optimism that we'll score that many!

[Sandydragon]

I've got nothing to add, but I'll type it anyway.

Wales 19-33 Ireland

Our scoreline isn't divisible by 3. That makes you an optimist.

[Sourdust]

This management team is so scared of change, I wish I was their taxi driver.

Best comment on here, wish I could rep...

Aw, shucks...

They have lost it, and I have lost my patience. Fuck it, I'll support Ireland on Friday, at least they play rugby that is nice to watch.

I don't think I'll ever be able to actively want my team to lose. But I do accept that no long-term good can come of a Welsh win tonight; it will just vindicate the craven attitude of the coaches and hold us back for another year.

Probably just as well it won't come to that, then.

[Sourdust]

I've got nothing to add, but I'll type it anyway.

Wales 19-33 Ireland

Our scoreline isn't divisible by 3. That makes you an optimist.

Liam gets another one. Leigh kicks 5/6. Pretty much par at home, I'd say.

[Nightynight]

Brown 10
Halfpenny 0 ... what Saint Halfpenny !



Says' volumes

[Spiffy]

I've got nothing to add, but I'll type it anyway.

Wales 19-33 Ireland

Our scoreline isn't divisible by 3. That makes you an optimist.

Liam gets another one. Leigh kicks 5/6. Pretty much par at home, I'd say.

Agree. I think too many are writing off Wales for this one. They are a physical side playing at home and will be hard to beat, even if they are not playing pretty rugby. They had the game won against England and threw it away and will be in a suitably pissed off frame of mind for this one.

[Graigwen]

Its ages since I posted here. I keep signing in, reading posts that I mainly agree with, but feeling there is nothing worthwhile I could say.

To select exactly the same team again! Unbelievable. Yes, we will have good players on the pitch, the same good players who lost to Scotland. The Scots played well. They were precise at key moments, something we could not manage.

Most likely we will lose tonight, to an Irish side that plays more attractive rugby. If we do win, what will we have learned? I despair.

Perhaps it is a cunning plan to get us into a group of death for the WC? Its more entertaining.....

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[Ross. S]

Dafuq is the TMO playing at?

[Ross. S]

TRY! Dafuq are Wales doing? Thats not on the script

[Buggaluggs]

Frankly I find it hard to be outraged when we score tries. Stop it. I was enjoying moaning.

[Ross. S]

Yellow for Sexton

[Sandydragon]

Well that is a lot better. Huge commitment and we seem to have players positioning themselves to support an attack rather than wait for the ruck. Interceptions a concern, so too our poor aerial ability.

We need to keep th intensity up, but I feel that we also need to play more heads up rugby, and I don't mean just throw the ball a round, sometimes a short kick would work better.

[Buggaluggs]

If Ireland are still within 2 when Sexton comes back on we might be in trouble.

[Sourdust]

Have to be fair and say that's a pretty decent 40 from Wales. But I do still still feel we're only just hanging on.

Biggar is not a flat 10. I understood the thinking in picking him but why make him play Sam Davies' game? It's bizarre.

Not sure what happened to our air game either. Getting mullered in the sky is a new annoyance.

But yes, we're trying things, and we're up for it. Let's see if we can get more than 3 this second half, eh, lads?

[wayneha50]

Do worry that Wales don't have much more to offer & that if Ireland up there game they will either edge or run away with it

[Ross. S]

Good pressure from Halfpenny there

[Nightynight]

Do worry that Wales don't have much more to offer & that if Ireland up there game they will either edge or run away with it

Ooooopsss

[Mikey Brown]

"Just went the wrong way one too many times."

How is it that Davies gets employed year after year to do this?

[WaspInWales]

"Just went the wrong way one too many times."

How is it that Davies gets employed year after year to do this?

Perhaps the Beeb have a numbers issue?