Pre-RWC test matches
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That should have been a srum penalty to Wales.
Barnes has been shit all afternoon not calling that.
Ieland played a great second half.
Stuffed us.
Ireland 19-10 Wales
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All hail our new overlords - Ireland!
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@cgrant said in Pre-RWC test matches:
@mofitzy_ said in Pre-RWC test matches:
The kiwi 12 scores.
Wasn't there two Kiwi 12s on the paddock ?
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@ACT-Crusader said in Pre-RWC test matches:
These Irish commentators are painful.
There's these Sky UK commentators called Miles Harrison & Stuart Barnes...
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@Higgins said in Pre-RWC test matches:
Randwick have peen a bit below their previous standards for a cople of years now in the Shute Shield. Did they have a few ring ins to bolster their team (assuming they also had some players taking part in the Aussie NRC) or did they go with their regulars?
Two of the argie front rowers pulled on the myrtle green so the scrums weren't a total mess. Other than that, everyone was a Randwick player to my knowledge. Don't follow premier Rugby that closely
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@Billy-Tell said in Pre-RWC test matches:
All hail our new overlords - Ireland!
In 2 weeks ABs will either be top or fifth - rankings are going to be up and down like the Assyrian Empire
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@mariner4life said in Pre-RWC test matches:
Can someone explain to me, using small words because i am a bit dim, how Devin Toner escaped any sanction at all for something that looked very much like what Red Barrett did to get a red card and 3 weeks?
Three words, all single syllable. Rearrange as necessary.
Black. All. Not.
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**However head coach Warren Gatland wasn’t impressed with Ireland’s strategy, implying they didn’t want to play rugby in the second half.
“Ireland went back to what they’re really good at,” Gatland told Channel 4. “85 per cent of that second half was just off nine, off nine, off nine…and that difficult to stop that when they’re doing that.”
“I’m pleased with the first half, we tried to play some rugby.”**
Muppet, Ireland shouldn't play to win?
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@Machpants said in Pre-RWC test matches:
**However head coach Warren Gatland wasn’t impressed with Ireland’s strategy, implying they didn’t want to play rugby in the second half.
“Ireland went back to what they’re really good at,” Gatland told Channel 4. “85 per cent of that second half was just off nine, off nine, off nine…and that difficult to stop that when they’re doing that.”
“I’m pleased with the first half, we tried to play some rugby.”**
Muppet, Ireland shouldn't play to win?
He was trying to help out Townsend
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@Machpants said in Pre-RWC test matches:
**However head coach Warren Gatland wasn’t impressed with Ireland’s strategy, implying they didn’t want to play rugby in the second half.
“Ireland went back to what they’re really good at,” Gatland told Channel 4. “85 per cent of that second half was just off nine, off nine, off nine…and that difficult to stop that when they’re doing that.”
“I’m pleased with the first half, we tried to play some rugby.”**
Muppet, Ireland shouldn't play to win?
It's certainly not conducive to winning in Japan in October - November.
But I guess all the tards that abandoned the bandwagon after getting flogged by England are clambering back on.
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@Machpants said in Pre-RWC test matches:
**However head coach Warren Gatland wasn’t impressed with Ireland’s strategy, implying they didn’t want to play rugby in the second half.
“Ireland went back to what they’re really good at,” Gatland told Channel 4. “85 per cent of that second half was just off nine, off nine, off nine…and that difficult to stop that when they’re doing that.”
“I’m pleased with the first half, we tried to play some rugby.”**
Muppet, Ireland shouldn't play to win?
One of the worst things that's infested Rugby in recent years is whiny, soccer-style coaches/managers like Woodward, Comical Eddie and, increasingly, Gatland.
Give me the likes of Shag, Rassie Erasmus, Joe Schmidt or Stuart Lancaster any day
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Eddie Jones older and wiser than when he was Australia coach. Less whinny, more like those in the second paragraph.
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Canada led 12-10 at half time -
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Just because Canada are in our pool.
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@mofitzy_ said in Pre-RWC test matches:
Canada, Namibia and even Italy should be Tonga-esque scorelines.
Nope, same as last RWC the ABs will intentionally play with one hand behind the back to test certain aspects. Boks did it against Japan, purposfully played without the ball, and we will do it during the easy pool games. So 40 or 50 point scores, sure, but 90s? Nope.
There is nothing to be gotten out of going full throttle like vs Tonga - esp if we lose to Boks and hit Ireland in the QF
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@Machpants said in Pre-RWC test matches:
@mofitzy_ said in Pre-RWC test matches:
Canada, Namibia and even Italy should be Tonga-esque scorelines.
Nope, same as last RWC the ABs will intentionally play with one hand behind the back to test certain aspects. Boks did it against Japan, purposfully played without the ball, and we will do it during the easy pool games. So 40 or 50 point scores, sure, but 90s? Nope.
There is nothing to be gotten out of going full throttle like vs Tonga - esp if we lose to Boks and hit Ireland in the QF
I have no doubt you're correct but I do have the slightest concern that in the unlikely event a final is cancelled because of weather, part of the determination for selecting the winner is the points scored in group stage.
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@antipodean mebbe, but world Rugby said that knocks will get postponed, pool games won't
