Ireland v Australia, Dublin, 16 Nov 2013

[Zander]

horrible idea, surely AAC (Adam Ashley-Cooper) is the natural choice

Horrible idea? Watch him square up the opposite 13, beat him on the outside with a fend and then offload to his free winger. He could be devastating there.

Scotland's backline isn't exactly going to pressure the Wallabies on attack.

 

[Pedrolicus]

Fuck yeah
Great defensive scrum by the Wallabies

 

[Set piece magic]

I saw pollock going upstairs and thought if it was any other team it would be a warning / yellow but for us it would be a straight red. ANd I was right. Honestly fuck the IRB officiating team they can die horrible miserable deaths, just bad human beings.

Also fuck ireland and penalties, clearly dickheads, I would feel like such a dickhead if i took penalties over tries, I mean wow what an arsehole

 

[kiap]

I don't believe it. Pollock blows us a scrum pen.

 

[FilthRugby]

This is my opinion, bag it if you want, but honestly, God rugby is going soft, I mean why don't we put on tutu's and run around like little girls, seriously, Pollock, you and the over-zealous TMO have had a shocker!

 

[Pedrolicus]

Horrible idea? Watch him square up the opposite 13, beat him on the outside with a fend and then offload to his free winger. He could be devastating there.

Scotland's backline isn't exactly going to pressure the Wallabies on attack.

Could be the time to trial it.

 

[GaffaCHinO]

A 7 man wobs scrum fucks up a 8 man irl scrum what just happen.

Then TpN stuffs the throw

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[Inside Shoulder]

Ireland must have packed early so it's just a reset

 

[Pedrolicus]

Wallabies defense really up for it tonight. Really impressive.

 

[TOCC]

Horrible idea? Watch him square up the opposite 13, beat him on the outside with a fend and then offload to his free winger. He could be devastating there.

Scotland's backline isn't exactly going to pressure the Wallabies on attack.

He could be devastating there, but fullback is a position Australia is weak at and with AAC (Adam Ashley-Cooper) we have a reasonable backup at centre..

So by moving Izzy to centre from fullback you are weakening the overall back line, whereas just moving someone like AAC (Adam Ashley-Cooper) into outside centre is almost a like for like swap..

Scotland are likely to use kicking as an attacking weapon..

 

[Inside Shoulder]

Wtf was Timani doing? Trying to get the advantage I s'spose

 

[Pedrolicus]

that is a fittingly pedantic end to a pedantic refereeing display.

 

[KOB1987]

yay the TMO got one right!

 

[TOCC]

Irish forward pack had no interest in that last scrum did they lol

 

[TOCC]

Wtf was Timani doing? Trying to get the advantage I s'spose

Got his green and gold's mixed up?

 

[ForceFan]

3 games since Ireland have scored a try against the Wallabies!!

Good to get two in a row!!

 

[Zander]

Play this team against Scotland:

1. Benn Robinson
2. Tatafu Polota-Nau
3. Sekope Kepu
4. Kane Douglas
5. Sitaleki Timani
6. Scott Fardy
7. Liam Gill
8. Ben McCalman
9. Nic White
10. Quade Cooper (c)
11. Nick Cummins
12. Matt To'omua
13. Israel Folau
14. Joe Tomane
15. Bernard Foley

16. Saia Fainga'a
17. James Slipper
18. Paddy Ryan
19. Rob Simmons
20. Dave Dennis
21. Nick Phipps
22. Christian Leali'ifano
23. Mike Harris/Chris Feauai-Sautia

 

[GaffaCHinO]

He didnt look happy making the call

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[Pedrolicus]

O'Driscoll might still be good enough to play for Ireland, but he clearly isn't the player he was.

 

[Bardon]

No complaints about the result, well done Australia. You were better than us in ever facet of the game today. Glad to see things finally looking up for Ewen and the Wobs, pity it came against us though.

As for Ireland that was a totally abject performance with zero intensity. All the defensive frailties that were there against Samoa reared their head again. The difference was Australia were able to exploit them.

Ireland were very sloppy in defence, no line speed at all and looked disjointed in attack. Set piece was the worst I've seen it since the days of Eddie O'Sulivan. Lots of work for Schmidt, Kiss et al to do.

Can't see us improving next week. We'll have an intensity and desire because the public will demand it. But the inaccuracy will still be there. It's a long wait until the 6Ns when Joe gets the team back together again. No signs of any positives from today and possibly from the November series after next week.