STW 2014/15 Rugby Thread

Glorious hand off by Jiffy Junior in Sexton earlier.

Not looking good for Samson Lee.

Or for Ireland, I have to say.

Ref spoiling the game.

No, cheating back rows spoiling the game. I haven’t disagreed with many of Barnes decisions. Warburton warned just before the yellow. He was the tackler and didn’t release.

Every play ends in a pen to whoever has the ball. Dull stuff.

Don’t disagree, but that’s how the teams are playing – one out and charge it up.

Not a great game so far, however you look at it.

I do love a drop goal from open play, though.

And now no Melon in the second half.

Hmmmm. Pessimistic.

Superb defending! Best part of 40 phases!

Ireland should have gone for the posts, I reckon.

All we need is a Barnes red card for a full house!!

Come on come on come on 😆

Put it in straight Spikey

Well that was tense.

Slambusters.

Again.

Cracking game. No complaints here. Massive win for Wales and well played to them. Thought Barnes managed the game well enough and it was a bit painful to watch Ireland throw away a few chances. Oh well, championship goes to the last day. 🙂

EDIT: I do wish Barnes would shut up though. Is he the chattiest ref?

Well done Wales, superb game. Off to cry into my Guinness .

Agreed in full, DD. Second half was so intense.

Barnes is still a male chicken.

I don’t know how many games like that I can watch, great game but so tense. Jesus I am broken 😆

Well, look back to the start of the championship, we pretty much all said “Wide open championship, no GS this year”.

FFS BBC, stop showing Ireland’s 13 man missed overlap 😆

Not sure about the penalty try either. Looked like Ireland flopped over…was it given for pulling it down?

Worst part of the game was definitely Barnes.

Amazing defense from Wales and a well worked try backed up by one of the best place kickers in the game. Not a great performance in the sense of worrying other teams watching but great to somehow pull out the win under immense pressure. From an Irish point of view, worryingly, Sexton had a hand in almost everything that went wrong. Not a great performance from him which made it tough for them. Very surprised they didn’t kick their points though. International rugby is all about taking the points when they are on offer!

Not sure about the penalty try either. Looked like Ireland flopped over…was it given for pulling it down?

Yep, was given for pulling down.

I certainly wasn’t sure about it, either.

Just finished watching. Flippin eck. That was the longest four hours of my sport watching life.

I’ve no idea what half those crucial penalties/scrums were for tbh.

Madigan and Reddan’s entrance re-vitalised Ireland after a poor enough performance from Sexton and Murray. Although it’s hard to evaluate the effect as it was all Wales defending against waves of green at that stage anyway. Sexton was pretty poor though and I’m surprised Joe didn’t put Madigan on earlier in the game. S&M had a bad day at the office and Wales’ work at the breakdown and line-out gave Ireland a taste of their own medicine. Slightly concerned that plan B wasn’t working with a more-or-less first choice back-line. Oh well, it was a great game and could have gone either way in the last ten. Wales will be looking for a try frenzy against Itsly then. It would be a great recovery from their first game if they took it on the last day.

I’ve no idea what half those crucial penalties/scrums were for tbh.

Don’t worry, you’re not alone in that. Barnes didn’t know either.

The only time I liked Barnes was for the decisions in Wales’s favour at the end. Goodness knows how his decision making process works though!

Jeepers How shite was that band

Anthems were awful. As was the butchered opening opportunity for England.

8)

This could be a long 80 mins

Someone punch Dan Cole in the face

Someone punch Dan Cole in the face

My money’s on Hartley.

Tackles:
Charteris 37, Warburton 30, Faletau 24, Biggar 22 Lydiate 21, Baldwin & AWJ 20

The pen try, about 4 Welsh players dived under the maul as it reached the line. Lucky to avoid yellow.

England butchering chances all over the place. And I’m struggling to care 😐

I have to say, the last scrum was surely an Irish pen?

Here we go again!!!

I don’t care if England make errors, I’m glad they are trying!!

Yellow card all day long.

Looked like a yellow for Dank Hole there. Lucky.

Scotland will win this!