6N England v Ireland
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OK match day squad yet to be confirmed, so only the 26 man squad and therefore could still change but not likely.
Hmmm. Eddie playing silly buggers with the back row again. Curry the only specialist flanker and he has yet to return to full training following return to play concussion protocols. 🙄
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England team announced. Dombrandt has hardly trained due to Covid but is selected on the bench, which seems strange. Ewels keeps his spot with Launchbury on the bench - I can just about live with that as Ewels didn't do too badly v Wales. Given unavailabilities I'm not that pissed off with this selection, though I still think Ireland will be too strong for us. They look like they all know where they want to go, whereas England seem somewhat confused.
England: Steward; Malins, Marchant, Slade, Nowell; Smith, Randall; Genge, George, Sinckler, Itoje, Ewels, Lawes (capt), Curry, Simmonds.
Replacements: Blamire, Marler, Stuart, Launchbury, Dombrandt, Youngs, Ford, Daly
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Ireland team to face England. Their bench looks a bit more intimidating than England's and may be the difference.
Ireland: Keenan; Conway, Ringrose, Aki, Lowe; Sexton (capt.), Gibson-Park; Healy, Sheehan, Furlong, Beirne, Ryan; O'Mahony, van der Flier, Doris.
Replacements: Herring, Kilcoyne, Bealham, Henderson, Conan, Murray, Carbery, Henshaw.
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That'll be a yellow
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Not much mitigation though.
Oh geez
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Hang on, isn't the mitigation that it's head on head? It wasn't a high shot.
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Absolute shit show. Rules are destroying the game. Yellow all the way. Like the Italy game last week, it destroys the competitiveness.
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Yet another match ruined.
Should have tackled less upright though and I don’t think Ryan will be back either.
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@billy-tell said in 6N England v Ireland:
Yet another match ruined.
Should have tackled less upright though and I don’t think Ryan will be back either.
Pretty sure we can expect a "levelling" card before halftime. Curry just took a clean out to the head.
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@bones said in 6N England v Ireland:
@billy-tell said in 6N England v Ireland:
Yet another match ruined.
Should have tackled less upright though and I don’t think Ryan will be back either.
Pretty sure we can expect a "levelling" card before halftime. Curry just took a clean out to the head.
I would prefer 14 vs 14 TBH.
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@billy-tell said in 6N England v Ireland:
@bones said in 6N England v Ireland:
@billy-tell said in 6N England v Ireland:
Yet another match ruined.
Should have tackled less upright though and I don’t think Ryan will be back either.
Pretty sure we can expect a "levelling" card before halftime. Curry just took a clean out to the head.
I would prefer 14 vs 14 TBH.
Reckon you won't have to wait long
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Whaaaat....Irish player held up forever, maul breaks up and he gets one knee to the ground, ref calls tackle?
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Has Super Rugby still got 20 min red cards?
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Yellow against Ireland surely? High shot in English player.
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That's bullshit to not look at the high shot on Slade.
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Calf or Achilles for Curry. England forwards are going to run out of puff...
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@bones said in 6N England v Ireland:
Calf or Achilles for Curry. England forwards are going to run out of puff...
Yep. Eddie’s genius selection of one specialist flanker in the 23 coming home to roost 🙄
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@catogrande said in 6N England v Ireland:
@bones said in 6N England v Ireland:
Calf or Achilles for Curry. England forwards are going to run out of puff...
Yep. Eddie’s genius selection of one specialist flanker in the 23 coming home to roost 🙄
Nowell is there
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@billy-tell said in 6N England v Ireland:
Yet another match ruined.
Should have tackled less upright though and I don’t think Ryan will be back either.
The sending off was a fucking disgrace. That crowd in Twickenham have paid big money and the game was ruined in the second minute. Quickest sending off in 5/6 Nations history.
Hint to World Rugby, the punters aren't playing to watch the referee.
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@sparky said in 6N England v Ireland:
Hint to
World RugbyEwels, the punters aren't playing to watch the referee. -
Ireland making hard work of this.
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@sparky said in 6N England v Ireland:
@billy-tell said in 6N England v Ireland:
Yet another match ruined.
Should have tackled less upright though and I don’t think Ryan will be back either.
The sending off was a fucking disgrace. That crowd in Twickenham have paid big money and the game was ruined in the second minute. Quickest sending off in 5/6 Nations history.
Hint to World Rugby, the punters aren't playing to watch the referee.
There has to be a better way to ensure player safety than just using Red Cards for something which is obviously not malicious. Give a Penalty Try and a Yellow Card?
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2 minutes game time list there while lines up kick then told further forward….
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Ireland would be nothing without second rate cane Gibson-Park
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@bones said in 6N England v Ireland:
Ireland would be nothing without second rate cane Gibson-Park
It’s hard to take you serious when the ABs can’t beat Ireland!
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Half time. England 9 Ireland 15. Ireland not firing all cylinders but 6 points ahead and have a man advantage.
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@billy-tell said in 6N England v Ireland:
@bones said in 6N England v Ireland:
Ireland would be nothing without second rate cane Gibson-Park
It’s hard to take you serious when the ABs can’t beat Ireland!
Imagine how shit we'd be without Smith....oh....wait...
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Ireland living up to the stereotype of ‘dumb Mick’
It’s a simple game
Use the man advantage
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Irish scrum being minced.
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Though unlikely, Ireland could lose this.
Imagine Sexton's face.
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@mikethesnow said in 6N England v Ireland:
Ireland living up to the stereotype of ‘dumb Mick’
It’s a simple game
Use the man advantage
That was pretty clever though. 2 Irish on the wrong side of the breakdown having to be cleared, allowing time for VDF to get on the ball and score a holding oen.
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And then dumb obstruction in the lineout 🤣
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Keenan's having a bloody good game. Superb under the high ball.
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Itoje is having a stormer.
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Ireland making very, very heavy weather of this.
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Seriously some of the highest military grade reffing ineptitude I’ve ever seen. Just bizarre….
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The scrum is costing Ireland dearly.
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The ABs really need to add the 50/22 to the bag of tricks.
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I wanted Ireland to put 100 on England
But dumb play can’t be rewarded
Come on England
