You’d just love to see him have a go at a big lad only he seems too sneaky a little bastard for that.

Wingers who drop the ball over the line! England butchered at least two tries by not drawing and passing.

Wingers who drop the ball over the line!

I think he was high tackled then the ball was knocked away by a great tackle. Little bit different but hey ho.
Still, better than Ashton.

I mean actually have a go so that someone would give him a proper hiding.

Just as well it wasn’t BOD. He’d be facing the death sentence if he ever tried to travel to Ireland. 😀

Spikey will be unlikely to start. He’s a proper hard nut though unlike Farrel who is just a cheap shotter.

Exciting stuff, one big break may decide this.

Three (poss 4) great 15s at the moment. Good to see Kearney back at his best.

Let’s hope it’s a classy moment that wins it.

Classy moment?

There’s one.

not something to brag about really. My boy is better than Ashton. And he’s only 11 and at least he can tackle.

Not bragging, just pleased to see the right players being picked at last. Now for the centre!

Ah. Damn Kearney!!

Our new guys showing a bit of immaturity here and we are getting punished hard.

Swing low sweet missed overlaps!

Neither side looks like scoring from long phases do they…defence is excellent from both sides.

Cracking game.

8)

Phew 😆

Best match of the 6N so far, could have gone either way. Well played Ireland. How did we survive being scrummaged off the park??

Pulsating match there! MASSIVE hits going in right to the last. Well done eng for keeping discipline and condistency

So, Ireland beat Wales
France beat England
Wales beat France
England beat Ireland

All going to form 😆

Excellent defence, a very poor re-start from Sexton that led to the try and poor handling by Ireland in the last quarter. It was England’s defence that won them the game, but on the flip side, it was Ireland’s that kept them in the game when they lost momentum in the third quarter.

I would have liked to have heard Brown say “I think England wanted it more today” in the MOM post-match interview 😀

As much as Ireland mixing up the tactics between matches can often work to catch the opposition unaware, I couldn’t help thinking they could have played to their established strengths a little more today and mixed it up a bit too much.

Great to see England with a backline actually capable of running the ball too.

Not going to happen. Great match from both teams. O Connell won or at least helped that try by cheating but we all know that. Glad England won, but on balance we have the harder job to do to win. Ireland should win all thier matches, England Wales will be close England and Ireland need to bank points in case of a draw at the top and I think perhaps Ireland might win the points completion.

No. He’ll have some apologising to do after that bloody restart. Ireland should have realised that the kicking game wasn’t working for them after the first half. They looked dangerous when moving the ball quickly. Their long phases of possession all seemed to fizzle out eventually.

As for O’Connell cheating for the try, well, I’d be disappointed if a forward didn’t do what he did. The only transgression I saw worthy of a yellow today was Farrell’s hit on Murray – but hey, it wasn’t the winning or losing of the and everybody knows he’s a little prick anyway. The game was played in excellent spirit and while I’m no fan of Joubert! I couldn’t see anything he got wrong in a big way.

These are the games you can’t complain at losing. No controversial refereeing decisions to whinge about. No lack of effort from your own side. Could have gone either way. Best game of the tournament so far.