Ireland v Australia, Saturday 26 November

[Dctarget]

3 minutes left.

Have to score to win.

We finally have ball.

Am Genia.

Must resist urge to box kick.

Must resist.

Must resist.

Ahhh fuck it *plop*

 

[Hugh Jarse]

Full Time. IRE 27 AUS 24

Grand Slam gooooone.

So close but so far.

Well done to the Irish. Strangled us in the first half for possession, and played better to the referees interpretations. Could have gone either way. Far too many mistakes from the Men in Gold to be too upset with the result.

We wasn't robbed. We robbed ourselves. A great game of footy with all the theatre meaning that there will be much discussion about this game for a long time. The bottom line is that Australia did not play well enough for long enough to take the game beyond the control of any refereeing decisions.

 

[Major Spliff Biggins]

How did they affect the earlier turnover? They had one player, on the ground. Either he had a hand in the ruck, or didn't roll away.

 

[Dctarget]

Regardless of the ref, we can't complain about losing that. The amount of dodgy ball we tried to shift after making a half break was ridiculous.

 

[KevinO]

Apogies for the useless Irish commentators. The worst thing about tv war is when they change the local coverage provider you get stuck with Muppets.

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[Tordah]

DHP my MotM in a losing side

 

[Prodigy]

Surely, names like Moore, Slipper, Simmons are on the way out now.


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[KevinO]

Surely, names like Moore, Slipper, Simmons are on the way out now.


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Would hope Cheika makes some changes next week now. At least start Sefa on the wing and give moore a rest.

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[ACR]

27 -7 penalty count to the Irish over two games. Yeah, thats normal.

Cheating bloody southerners.

To be fair though, the Irish are a good side right now.

 

[Micheal]

I hate to say it because no one wants to be the losing fan whose angry at the referee but World Rugby is strangling my love of international rugby.

There is absolutely no consistency or accountability and refs seem to either pander to the home crowd or just generally have no fucking clue as to what's happening.

We need some quality control.

 

[Upthenuts]

the speed and skill disparity betwen north and south- is easily fixed by officals looking for every possible fvaourable ruling.

 

[Joe Blow]

Ireland are missing the impact of Sean O'Brien. A real pity because I was looking forward to the battle of the back rows.

Well our back row got schooled for the first 40 so you can thank your lucky stars that SOB was not there to make it even more dominant for them

 

[Hugh Jarse]

I hate to say it because no one wants to be the losing fan whose angry at the referee but World Rugby is strangling my love of international rugby.

There is absolutely no consistency or accountability and refs seem to either pander to the home crowd or just generally have no fucking clue as to what's happening.

We need some quality control.

Just gotta play better to take any influence of the referee out of the game.

 

[Tomikin]

Would hope Cheika makes some changes next week now. At least start Sefa on the wing and give moore a rest.

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Speight had a great game, even scored a try.. I'm not against starting Sefa, but if Hodge had drawn and passed Speight could have had a chance at 2 more..

 

[Upthenuts]

27 -7 penalty count to the Irish over two games. Yeah, thats normal.

Cheating bloody southerners.

To be fair though, the Irish are a good side right now.

two good sides considering how injury prone ireland arse

 

[Joe Blow]

Folau too. He held on to the ball when we had a 2 on 1 outside him. A definite score bombed and we lost momentum after that.

 

[Rugbynutter39]

DHP my MotM in a losing side

With Ireland's injuries this was a good win for them. Aussie's played better. Dhp was superb whilst I thought Folau was shite.

Time for Folau and dhp to switch positions?

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[Kev]

Speight had a great game, even scored a try.. I'm not against starting Sefa, but if Hodge had drawn and passed Speight could have had a chance at 2 more..

I've always defended Speight but can't anymore. His defence was terrible again

 

[Kev]

With Ireland's injuries this was a good win for them. Aussie's played better. Dhp was superb whilst I thought Folau was shite.

Time for Folau and dhp to switch positions?

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I would drop Folau. Last week against the French showed we don't need him. This week he fucks up the easiest try. But we all know that will never happen

 

[Tomikin]

I would drop Folau. Last week against the French showed we don't need him. This week he fucks up the easiest try. But we all know that will never happen

I dont think we should drop him, but a winger is probably where he should be at the moment, he can't kick, and can't pass, but he breaks tackles and takes high balls, probably the best in our team.. tell him to stand out wide and be the end of the line..