Ireland v France 6N
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Found the 2nd half boring by the way. This is rugby's issue. Game went to pieces and the best plays for like 25 minutes were kicks.
Purists probably loved it. Fans of both sides liked the game in the balance. As a neutral there was little to get excited about as both teams played trench warfare.
Ireland didn't care, they were in front, and played professionally. France were just a bit shit. Entertain me FFS.
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@mariner4life on the flip side the first half (and early second half) was brilliant to watch
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@KiwiMurph said in Ireland v France 6N:
@mariner4life on the flip side the first half (and early second half) was brilliant to watch
First half was bloody good. Each team forced in to errors that the other side made use of, a couple of great tries, really good stuff.
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Reading through the comments we all had different commentators but they were just as biased. In NZ we had the Irish homer (Robinson?), who is basically the Paddy version of TJ.
As to the match, Ireland were worthy winners. France looked directionless at times.
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That excellent long range France try showed why playing “wild” can make Ireland look lost. Ireland are so well structured on attack, defence and transition that sometimes a bounce pass or piece of unexpected throws their shape into disarray.
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@Crucial said in Ireland v France 6N:
That excellent long range France try showed why playing “wild” can make Ireland look lost. Ireland are so well structured on attack, defence and transition that sometimes a bounce pass or piece of unexpected throws their shape into disarray.
It’s a scary tactic to play though and carries no guarantees.The main talking point of the last 2 weeks is how to beat France. The match had a 46 minute ball in play time which is incredibly high. Ireland and Italy both kept the ball in play and kept the massive French pack moving. France had few lineouts in both games, mainly from penalties. They were physically spent by the 60 minute mark allowing ireland to keep possession easily and pin them back.
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@Bones Was Brendon Pickerall the TMO…?
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@Steven-Harris said in Ireland v France 6N:
@Bones Was Brendon Pickerall the TMO…?
Don't think it was Pickerell, I thought it was a welshman.
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@booboo said in Ireland v France 6N:
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@Jailbreak7 said in Ireland v France 6N:
If we could channel a mix of ABs 2015 and 2011 vintage wed be ok...
I'd be really worried about facing these two teams with an AB 2021 vintage, but the last 3-4 AB games have me thinking we can beat these two teams.
Maybe not on consecutive WE's and we still have some fragility, but so do the teams today - esp. France.
Agree basically.
Ireland clear No.1 team at the moment, but they aren't so clearly dominant like England '03, ABs '11, '15 (and some other years I forget).
Think a number of teams line up against each other with close to 50/50 chances.
Poss. momentum is going to be key - particularly for France. Be interesting to see how these two go against Scotland and England
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@Steven-Harris said in Ireland v France 6N:
@Bones Was Brendon Pickerall the TMO…?
Pickerill was the TMO. Based on the angles we were shown I had no problem with his decision.
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@The-Irishman said in Ireland v France 6N:
@Bones said in Ireland v France 6N:
@Jailbreak7 said in Ireland v France 6N:
Was contact not made on the shoulder
Tmo is fucked. Clear shoulder to head? Nothing of the sort moron
@Bones said in Ireland v France 6N:
@Jailbreak7 said in Ireland v France 6N:
Was contact not made on the shoulder
Tmo is fucked. Clear shoulder to head? Nothing of the sort moron
Most blatant red card I've ever fucking seen. The player was practically unconscious. Get your blinkers checked.
I'm sure all Porter wants is consistency from Barnes eh.
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Ireland kicking was better. Especially into the corners. Dunno why France dumped jaminet for ramos. Ramos just can field kick well.
Ireland got the rub of Barnes there they won’t have town in France.
Irekand have some really world class players. Their hooker (injured this week) & Doris are right up there.
France were on a 14 match streak, loss will help them imo.
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@pakman Ireland do seem to live a charmed life when it comes to head contact - on both sides of the ball. Even the way Sexdoll jumps to make a tackle doesn't seem to have resulted in anything.
Must be that cloak you wear when you're number one.
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@Bones said in Ireland v France 6N:
@pakman Ireland do seem to live a charmed life when it comes to head contact - on both sides of the ball. Even the way Sexdoll jumps to make a tackle doesn't seem to have resulted in anything.
Must be that cloak you wear when you're number one.
This 100%
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100+ games to judge Barnes by and it can sometime be a mystery as to why he is WRs top ref.
Generally a good ref but he is still prone to have howlers and when he has an off game combined with a howler or two it attracts criticism like the clip above.Many of the head contacts pointed out in that clip aren't dangerous as they are 'passive' but it is also fair to say that the one that was YC'd also wasn't dangerous f the same logic is applied. The Head contact was secondary and from the tackled player's head whipping down, not from the tackler riding up IMO.
That Youtube channel is only useful in that someone has gone to the bother of collating potentially contentious stuff to look at. The analysis and comment is usually terrible.What I do find interesting (and commented on above) is just how much Ireland run the risk of a game changing call. Lots of upright tackling and shoulders at the collarbone area. You'd think that eventually they will get a (French) ref that screws them. The high tackle laws are there to drive safer technique and I see no technique change from Ireland.
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Did the video highlight Penauds no arms tackle on Lowe?
It's a pathetic video. There were other instances that France got away with. The head contacts he highlighted were soak tackles. They don't cause damage like shoulder charges.
