By the way, did you make up an irishy sounding first name? I haven't heard that one before
Nah, I googled it.
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Nah, I googled it.
Rugby players are just built different, always amazes me when a guy has blood pouring out of his face but is desperate to get into the game
One of the worst example was Florian Fritz a few years ago. If you watch it on youtube you will get why I don't really want to put the video in here.
Then a few hours later you’re watching Gabriel Jesus lying flat on his back, waiting for four physios to assess his injuries after a Fulham player wafted a hand in his general direction.
I hope I’m not crossing a line here but if anyone is a bit squeamish I’d avoid watching this. Rugby league but it still applies.
I can’t help but laugh. He surely had done it before as I can’t imagine your initial reaction to seeing your kneecap out of place is to hit it back
I taught one of them, I think 2.0, (the lock/back row) french at a summer camp back in the day. He was a monster back then.For the Irish name watchers in this thread... yet another Sean O'Brien is playing his first match for Connacht tonight
The latest clone is a center, had a pretty good match tonight.
That was a really enjoyable game between England and France at Twickenham, proof you don't a need a try fest to get a good game. Those two French tries were a delight. England improved a bit on what they've shown in their previous 3 games and their discipline still needs a bit of work. In 2019, England conceded just 7 penalties a match. This year they're probably giving away something like 12 a game.
Sadly there were some caterpillar rucks in the match between Northampton and Sale. None of Sale's 14 points were scored by an Englishman - both tries were scored by South Africans (Jean Luc Du Preez and Lood De Jaager) while American AJ MacGinty kicked both conversions.
Sadly there were some caterpillar rucks in the match between Northampton and Sale. None of Sale's 14 points were scored by an Englishman - both tries were scored by South Africans (Jean Luc Du Preez and Lood De Jaager) while American AJ MacGinty kicked both conversions.
Just wait a few hours for Scotland and Ireland to put a dampener on what's been a good weekend of rugby.
Itoje has probably given away 7 a match on his own in this championship.
Caterpillar rucks really wrecked my head last night during Connacht Edinburgh. The Edinburgh 9 was totally taking the piss, every kick was six or seven seconds after the "use it" call.
At one point in the second half, the ref told him to use it, six seconds passed.... And the ref just shouted "use it" again
AJ MacGinty, ex-Connacht
I'm pretty sure he's actually Irish qualified but the US capped him first.Edit: yup, born in Dublin.
Ha!
Probably no lie in that. The weather is absolutely horrendous too.Itoje has probably given away 7 a match on his own in this championship.
Caterpillar rucks really wrecked my head last night during Connacht Edinburgh. The Edinburgh 9 was totally taking the piss, every kick was six or seven seconds after the "use it" call.
At one point in the second half, the ref told him to use it, six seconds passed.... And the ref just shouted "use it" again
AJ MacGinty, ex-Connacht
Edit: yup, born in Dublin.
Ha!
Wouldn’t class it as horrendous. Just a very small light drizzle of rain. Last years game against England was certainly horrendous weather wise.
I’ve not got a good feeling about today at all.
I hope I’m not crossing a line here but if anyone is a bit squeamish I’d avoid watching this. Rugby league but it still applies.
I can’t help but laugh. He surely had done it before as I can’t imagine your initial reaction to seeing your kneecap out of place is to hit it back
Watched the game live. Absolute astonishment to see him swat the physios away and jog back into position. If memory serves they forced him off eventually.
Bloody hell, Romain Poite is the ref for this game
Come on Ireland.
Good start pity we didn't get the try
Good start pity we didn't get the try
Wow. Ireland all over the Scots
Really poor start by Scotland, their championship is in danger of fizzling out.
We've beaten them 9 times out of the last 10.
Yeah, but it's easy to see why this year folks might think things are different.
Games gone really scrappy now.
Really looking like it's going to be low quality compared to yesterday.
I know but popular wisdom is the teams are going in opposite directions. I seem to think Ireland are better than most Irish fans think they are though
They almost certainly are, but equally are nowhere near as good as they should be. We're also really frustrated with the lack of building for the future.
Furlong with the shimmy
Keenan is hopefully going to be our fullback for the foreseeable future. Even though things are not going great in general for Ireland, he's been so reliable since he got his chance.
Surely there was an infringement in there but that is shocking from Ireland.
Oh for feck's sake if this stands. Comedy of errors.
Romain awards what he wants
Ireland's fundamental first instinct under Farrell seems to be to kick the ball away. It's pretty depressing.
That was gloriousFurlong with the shimmy
I really can't see Farrell and Catt lasting too long.
Adding this to the thread for posterity
Our fundamentals just seem to be getting worse and worse.
I was looking forward to Lowe qualifying for Ireland, but he's been extremely frustrating this championship. He seems to switch off a lot.
And somehow, amidst all the chaos in our general play, our lineout has become immense.
There's one man to thank for that.
Hard to deny, isn't it? I thought it might have been too early for him to have such an influence since the improvement started against Wales. But considering every other facet of our game right now, it's the obvious conclusion.
Gibson Park is really crap
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