RWC Week 3: Springboks v Ireland
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With a two week break to the Scotland game I expect Farrell will go with a close to full strength team. I expect Conan to start, probably at 8 with Doris moving to 6, and POM getting a rest. Maybe Henderson for Ryan, Bealham for Furlong, and Sheehan getting a start. I think the backs will be full strength, with possibly Henshaw starting. Can’t see Farrell taking too many risks against the Scots.
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I replied to a comment in the ABs Namibia thread but it should go here. Ireland's ruck work is exceptional, the best and most accurate of any comp. It is a significant reason why they beat SA even with a faltering lineout. They also tailor their tackles to the player they are tackling, hitting most people low and upright players like Eben high - with the hilarious result of him being physically lifted by a winger.
@Duluth said in RWC Week 2: All Blacks v Namibia:
shenanigans past the ruck
Ireland do this very well, they are presenting the right picture to the ref, yet illegal more often than not. It is really good, disciplined, and accurate ruck work - and it is often at speed with them hitting their rucks from a couple of metres behind the tackled player at exactly the right moment. They are the best in the business at rucks, and with most games ruck to set piece ratio something like 5:1, who cares if you loose 5 lineouts!
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@Machpants said in RWC Week 3: Springboks v Ireland:
@Derm-McCrum said in RWC Week 3: Springboks v Ireland:
SA should be top of the pool on 15 points by the time Ireland play Scotland.
How can SA top the pool, unless Ireland lose to Scotland without a bonus point? Cos if they both get 15, Ireland go through as the winner of the game between the twoAh I misunderstood, yes SA will be on 15, then Ireland will just need 1 point against Scotland to finish top of the pool
Unless Scots win with four tries, having put 200 on Romania!
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@Machpants said in RWC Week 3: Springboks v Ireland:
@Duluth said in RWC Week 2: All Blacks v Namibia:
shenanigans past the ruck
Ireland do this very well, they are presenting the right picture to the ref, yet illegal more often than not. It is really good, disciplined, and accurate ruck work - and it is often at speed with them hitting their rucks from a couple of metres behind the tackled player at exactly the right moment. They are the best in the business at rucks, and with most games ruck to set piece ratio something like 5:1, who cares if you loose 5 lineouts!
The deep clean. But convinced ref to penalise us for same last year in second test.
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@pakman said in RWC Week 3: Springboks v Ireland:
@Machpants said in RWC Week 3: Springboks v Ireland:
@Duluth said in RWC Week 2: All Blacks v Namibia:
shenanigans past the ruck
Ireland do this very well, they are presenting the right picture to the ref, yet illegal more often than not. It is really good, disciplined, and accurate ruck work - and it is often at speed with them hitting their rucks from a couple of metres behind the tackled player at exactly the right moment. They are the best in the business at rucks, and with most games ruck to set piece ratio something like 5:1, who cares if you loose 5 lineouts!
The deep clean. But convinced ref to penalise us for same last year in second test.
Sorry, arrows are green not red
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@Halfout said in RWC Week 3: Springboks v Ireland:
With a two week break to the Scotland game I expect Farrell will go with a close to full strength team. I expect Conan to start, probably at 8 with Doris moving to 6, and POM getting a rest. Maybe Henderson for Ryan, Bealham for Furlong, and Sheehan getting a start. I think the backs will be full strength, with possibly Henshaw starting. Can’t see Farrell taking too many risks against the Scots.
I agree about not taking any risks, but he will want to limit match minutes cos it's a match every week if they want to keep progressing.
He has tried Doris at 7 as well - he needs to give the front liners some rest and have the back-ups not getting stale either. Sexton on the bench possibly. -
Well done Ireland.
Quite a humdinger of a battle and you took your opportunities better than us.
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@Derm-McCrum said in RWC Week 3: Springboks v Ireland:
@Billy-Tell said in RWC Week 3: Springboks v Ireland:
@Derm-McCrum said in RWC Week 3: Springboks v Ireland:
The 3 residency players in the squad is probably the last of the bunch as IRFU have shifted to their IQ Rugby programme since 2017. In short, they want already Irish qualified players picked for the provinces.
Let’s be honest. The move from 3 to 5 years forced their hand.
In part yes. They announced IQ Rugby a couple of weeks after WR made their announcement but had been planning it for a number of months. The writing was on the wall anyway - there were too many duds and too many NIQ players filling up the squads within the provincial quotas. They're now at 94% Irish qualified, with only 10-11 players who are ineligible to play due to being capped elsewhere.
Indeed. Only 4 non Irish qualified players have been signed by the provinces for the coming season.
Alex Nankivell
Steven Kitschoff
Dave Ewers
Santiago CorderoOnly Nankivell can technically qualify on residency but he will be 31 or 32 by that time so he isn't a project player as some might think.
Ireland has the 3rd oldest squad at the world cup but have generally been strong at u20 level since 2019. Hardly any of those players have broken into Farrells squad yet so the need for project players isn't there. But yes the IRFU have been very cynical in the past.
Scotland have just poached Ben Healy (Scottish grandparent) offering him a contract Munster/IRFU couldn't match. That's just the way things are.
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I noticed the world's "greatest 12" let his rival waltz past him in the 72nd minute-Mr Aki seems a bit slow on the turn...
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