Good stuff from the underdogs!!
Well done Billy!!!
Guscott with the great clinical put down!!!
So as suspected it's going to be another two months of crushed hope.
Well Scotland predictably messed up when chances were available and England did the job but looked rusty. I have to say A-A's post on page one kinda of worryingly sums the teams up.
Cumon Wales tomorrow & hopefully Warburton won't be out tonight celebrating Spurs going 2nd.
Italy been the most impressive team today and that's not what I was expecting.
BOD seems a bit downbeat
Underdogs to win again???
Good start - could be a fun match
A quiet for the kicker too (unlike yesterday)
Great scrummage Wales. Needed that.
We certainly did. Was looking like Australia all over again for a while there.
I thought it was the England captain who was many I give silly penalties away 😉
Good come back from Wales. Fun for the neutral
Hadn't spotted this thread!
Deliberate knock on rule is shit. That is all.
Yep, tough call there Flashy.
More butchered chances than Eng/Scot ??
Probably more fun to watch as a neutral!!
The really tough call was no card for the tip tackle.
Jerome knew he had to wind you and AA up 😉
Nice low tackle too...;-)
Good tackle that.
Wales playing flat, ball is only just out of reach of Irish fingers.
Very nice to have a game with so few penalties. Have become too much of a feature in the modern game
Cmon Rhys!
Yeees!
So far this weekend of 6n rugby has hardly been riveting
27 phases and it takes an Irish cock up to create the penalty. Coaches nightmare.
So who will snatch this in the end?
A Roberts or Zebo break?
It's quite tense though.
Fair result...?
Good to watch, good result 😉
Just about fair, Molly. Ref bottled decisions in the first half, but overall Wales just couldn't finish well enough. So, yes, suppose that's about it.
Tackle of the match - Trimble on AWJ or Roberts 2H big hit??
I only saw the second half, but Irelands attack looked very pedestrian. 1 out and bosh it up!
I don't know, the green machine's attack looked grand for the first twenty. Wales' increasing dominance of the Irish scrum seemed to suck the life out it. By the time Wales scored that first try I was relieved to concede 7 without the accompanying yellow card that would have resulted from a PT.
Not a classic IRE-WAL game but some big hits. Particularly enjoyed Trimble's on Wyn-Jones. Didn't think Trimble had a tackle like that in him. Surprised Zebo stayed on - he looked injured to me. Mullered some chances too.
Trimble looked up for it ( 😉 ) from the anthems. I think he won it too, but Roberts was awesome in the tackle too.
Yes, zebo looked less than 100% after a bright start.
Ok, lots of chances missd yesterday and today but a fun start and could be a close championship
Irish pack looked better in 2H after a ropey end to 1H
Brave of both teams to go for the win after 80...a mistake could have been very costly...I was bricking it in the last few minutes.
Not a fan of ITV sport coverage generally. Commentator summed it up when he said Wales were freshening up the front row with Charteris being replaced by Bradley Davies...they're both second rows 🙄
Zebo had no oomph about him
Roberts looked like he'd eaten the whole box of oomph.
Ireland lucky there I'd say. Welsh v solid possession.
Some Irish set pieces in the backs did look sublime though.
Not a fan of ITV sport coverage generally. Commentator summed it up when he said Wales were freshening up the front row with Charteris being replaced by Bradley Davies...they're both second rows
As I mentioned on the other thread, they were going on about this being the first draw since '74. Wales -Ireland 1991 was 21 all.(I was sharing a house with a bunch of Dubliners. None of us were happy .)
The Southern Hemisphere nations must be quaking in their boots...........
Not.......
What a dreadful display of rugby all weekend .
Only saw the Ireland/Wales game.
Very wham bam, but ultimately both teams just cancelled each other out, with only Ireland showing any creativity.
I'm going to say it but this weekend had some of the dullest international matches I've seen. 6 Nations can only get better hopefully.
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Thought he was lucky with the first one but the second one, when I saw it, made me wonder what the difference between a tip tackle and a dump tackle is.
To be fair the contact itself is good, if he'd driven through then OK but he stand which means he's never going to be able to control the situation.
Is the tip tackle law about the man tipping or being deliberately tipped?
- The player is lifted and then forced or ‘speared’ into the ground (red card offence)
- The lifted player is dropped to the ground from a height with no regard to the player’s safety (red card offence)
- For all other types of dangerous lifting tackles a yellow card or penalty may be considered sufficient
The second one on James is worse really. Both together should have been yellow imo. The high tackle on North was just a pen, how it was missed is beyond me
Second one looks a lot worse in those animations. Mind you I thought Liam Williams was lucky to have the ball where it was as it cushioned him a bit. Would have probably had a bent neck if not!
Definately should have been a yellow if not a red, citing perhaps?
First one red,throught the 90,second one not as much in it,player doesn't ever have control of him. One of the things panels look for is the player having control over the oppo at any time,even if he loses it. In the first he does,the second it is almost a bounce tackle. A citing for the first one I would think.
Quite a lot of high tackling this weekend and more than one "contact" with eyes!!
Liam was lucky not to be hurt in the first one.
Can't quite understand the grumbling - ok, several errors and botched chances in all matches, but for a first weekend pretty good entertainment. And all the tries... 😉
First aand second considered together? At least yellow imo.
If it was the other way round I'd have been screaming at the telly for a card. So yes at least a yellow. I was also delighted to see Not Toby take the ball out of the scrum and barge over for a try as all I could see happening from that passage of play was a penalty try and yellow for our TH.
I actually thought Ireland were OK, way more offloads and line breaks than normal. I thought Zebo was a breath of fresh air compared to Rob Kearney at Full Back.
What has happened to North, have people managed to work him out or is he out of sorts. I'm not saying he is bad he just doesn't seem to be the player that lit up the championship a few seasons ago?
