Unlucky 13 again for Scotland going down to France on the rebound from their Irish Shillelagh bashing. France don't look good this year.
The Irish will no doubt use the Shillelagh again against the Italians.
It's looking like Ireland and Wales to top the competition. Ireland are tough and powerful but a Shillelagh is a blunt instrument which won;t penetrate the Dragons armour.
To me Wales look the force to beat... they are a unit with sharp attacking skills. It looks very like NZ rugby with guys running at the shoulder on attack and solid defensive patterns.... good to see.
Martin Johnson is clueless and shouldn't be serving as coach at this level.. a few seasons at an amateur club maybe. If you were boss of Northampton or Bath etc would you want him as coach.. - nope!
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Originally posted by Tirau Danpretty much summed it up well, ireland didn't play well today. a very flattering score in the end. saying that i'm very happy at how the table is looking as far as the points difference goes at the moment. i believe as good wales are that france will beat them in 2 weeks time and the final table will see france, wales and ireland on 8 points each.
Unlucky 13 again for Scotland going down to France on the rebound from their Irish Shillelagh bashing. France don't look good this year.
The Irish will no doubt use the Shillelagh again against the Italians.
It's looking like Ireland and Wales to top the competition. Ireland are tough and powerful but a Shillelagh is a blunt instrument which won;t pene ...[text shortened]... club maybe. If you were boss of Northampton or Bath etc would you want him as coach.. - nope!
i refuse to rule out france but with an away game to england after the wales match it will be tough for them to pile on the point. saying that they never fail to surprise me and with italy in the last game anything can happen. i'm glad all 3 of the challengers have to play italy away.
Originally posted by trev33lol - must be that old NZ France jinx .. nothing shocks but I still think Wales will get through.
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I didn't see the game. Any good? report makes it sound as if Wales were lucky not to go down by more thanks to poor decisions against France from ref Lawrence.
England Ireland should be a toughy.. if Johnson can't get some continuity towards some sort of game plan they've had it. (what would he know as a retired lock come wooden-top policeman. (thats my ex prop ex policeman view coming through)
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Originally posted by Tirau Danjenkins should've been given a yellow card early on and france scored a perfectly good try imo but wasn't given it by the irish video ref. so the 3-13 lead was a false scoreline, france played really well but the welsh tactics of kicking it long and letting the best counterattacking team in europe if not the world charge at them time after time was a huge mistake.
lol - must be that old NZ France jinx .. nothing shocks but I still think Wales will get through.
I didn't see the game. Any good? report makes it sound as if Wales were lucky not to go down by more thanks to poor decisions against France from ref Lawrence.
wales weren't really in the game tbh and if a few more kicks had of went over the score would've been much higher, saying that wales should have stole it in the last couple of mins, they failed to convert a 3 vs 2 under the posts.
all and all a very watchable and entertaining game, a rugby fans game i think.
other than those 2 decisions the ref did ok. a lot better than the ref in the ireland france match, i still say france would've won the game with a different ref. france are the best team in europe for me they just don't have the best coach. at least tonight he wised up to his bad decision making and took baby off after about 30 mins, they controlled the game after that.
edit: i'm very happy with that result, it's in ireland hands now i just hope they don't messed it up like they usually do.
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somehow i'm not as happy as i should be after ireland beat england.
poor game, awful kicking by o'gara and a shocker by the ref.
are you playing a different game in south africa or what?
edit: whoever is writing for the bbc sport page should be sacked.
"The second half was a more enterprising affair, although it started with another penalty failure by O'Gara as his effort struck a post.
However, the Munster man lifted the Dublin crowd with a fine drop-goal soon afterwards."
er no, it was O'Driscoll who scored the drop goal.
The funniest thing in the highlights was was watching Martin Johnson lose his rag punching the air when his player lost discipline... a fine example.
England do have the talent but a coach has to put it together and bring it out. It's not happening in England.
Good to see Scotland turn show some moves.
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Originally posted by Tirau Dani suspect it was the touch judge who was trying to even out the bad calls by the ref a little more so than he actually thought it was a yellow card offence, a penalty maybe but it wasn't worth a yellow card. the o'driscoll body check however is a different story. obviously tried to take ireland's best player on the night out of the game after seeing him already suffering after a high hit that went unpunished.
The funniest thing in the highlights was was watching Martin Johnson lose his rag punching the air when his player lost discipline... a fine example.
England do have the talent but a coach has to put it together and bring it out. It's not happening in England.
Good to see Scotland turn show some moves.
i think england lack a captain. they have no leaders on the field imo. i do hope they can turn over france in a couple of weeks but i really can't see it. a better ref will see them playing the whole game on an offside position and punish them for it.
but you're right about johnson, he should be their coach.
i didn't watch the scotland game but i heard they didn't play that well it was more on the italy were terrible side?
Originally posted by trev33um..he is 😉 but shouldn't be.
i suspect it was the touch judge who was trying to even out the bad calls by the ref a little more so than he actually thought it was a yellow card offence, a penalty maybe but it wasn't worth a yellow card. the o'driscoll body check however is a different story. obviously tried to take ireland's best player on the night out of the game after seeing him alrea ...[text shortened]... game but i heard they didn't play that well it was more on the italy were terrible side?
Originally posted by trev33tough game, england played dirty and deserved to lose 😛
somehow i'm not as happy as i should be after ireland beat england.
poor game, awful kicking by o'gara and a shocker by the ref.
are you playing a different game in south africa or what?
edit: whoever is writing for the bbc sport page should be sacked.
"The second half was a more enterprising affair, although it started with another penalty fail ...[text shortened]... h a fine drop-goal soon afterwards."
er no, it was O'Driscoll who scored the drop goal.
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Originally posted by eamon olol that's my favorite tv show. that series was excellent.
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anyway, likewise back to ya sonny.
and, did i watch the game?
thats a good one.
you must be a pro comedian or what?
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i think the ireland performance against england has proven my point re the france game. we had a lot of luck in that game from bad ref calls, saying that england had it against us a couple of weeks ago so i guess it evens itself out.
nice to see the chances in the center for the scotland game tomorrow. wallace just isn't good enough.