RWC warmup - Ireland v Samoa
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Own worst enemy, kinda reminds me of another match..
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Samoa doing their level best to throw this away.
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Good to see time wasting is still allowed.
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@sparky said in RWC warmup - Ireland v Samoa:
Ireland running the clock down. Time over. Ball out.
Not one of those Irish players were on their feet at that last ruck.
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Ireland lucky. If Samoa had a line out, they win that game. Having said that, McFarland was clearly played at in the air in that last line out. Should have been a penalty.
Samoa defence was immense and they exposed the Irish in a few areas tonight, defended against them in general play better than the ABs last year.
Ireland not as good as they and the public in general think they are.
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Ireland got very lucky there
Barnes the latest hometown
Great to see & hear the French crowd giving Ireland the bird
Based on this past month, England will do very well to get out of the pool
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@Steve said in RWC warmup - Ireland v Samoa:
@sparky said in RWC warmup - Ireland v Samoa:
Barnes’ interpretations in that second half will raise a few eye brows.
Refereeing is so inconsistent across the board. It’s not ok.
I think that has been the big lesson from this weekend. We’ve had remarkably different interpretations and styles of refereeing from game to game to game. This close to the Rugby World Cup that seems unforgivable.
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@sparky said in RWC warmup - Ireland v Samoa:
@Steve said in RWC warmup - Ireland v Samoa:
@sparky said in RWC warmup - Ireland v Samoa:
Barnes’ interpretations in that second half will raise a few eye brows.
Refereeing is so inconsistent across the board. It’s not ok.
I think that has been the big lesson from this weekend. We’ve remarkably different interpretations and styles of refereeing from game to game to game. This close to the Rugby World Cup that seems unforgivable.
And I hate this contention of "we had an issue with our discipline today".
Load of nonsense. What really transpired was the ref had an issue with a load of stuff that wasn't an issue the week before and probably won't be an issue the week after, because the opposition captain or coach have brought it up in the pre match meeting. Either that or some IRB diktat that's en vogue for the next few weeks.
If you're getting 3 yellows for swinging arms and punch ups. Yeah you have a discipline issue.
If the ref is sending lads to the bin for line out technicalities and dropping your bind at scrum time, you don't have a discipline issue. You just got monstered in the scrum.
