RWC warmup - Ireland v Samoa
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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.
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@sparky If the ABs played like that this place would go into full meltdown.
Ireland are the number 1 side in the world and got smashed around for large parts of the game.
Not trying to sound like I'm having a dig or getting personal or anything, but it does make me laugh when teams like Ireland win like that, they get credit, but the ABs if they won like that would get crucified and all the we hate Ian Foster comments and how fat he is blah blah blah would be out in full force.
The Irish have a history of peaking before every world cup. They might be good enough this time, but we've seen this before.....
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i thought Samoa played well and did enough to win, great Defence and discipline which is what we lacked alot of in past. England and Japan WE coming!
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Jeez that was a staunch effort by Samoa.
Probably a little unlucky with a couple of decisions - Ireland contact on the last lineout jump there for example.
However, Sopoaga failing to find touch at the end there was the out.
Could have been an amazing weekend for the Pacific.
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@African-Monkey said in RWC warmup - Ireland v Samoa:
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.
How were Ireland lucky? It was pissing rain which suited Samoa who were happy to play kick chase. They're a bigger, heavier side and played the conditions well. Ireland are a light side who like to move the ball.
Samoa got a lucky try.
For the lineout the same thing was happening the irish lineout throughout.
