The Rugby Thread

Jacob laughingstockdale

posh boys can’t jump

doherty wrote: Cooney needs to be playing instead of murray. Simple

gufct wrote: beaten all over the place if that was the soccer team they’d be ripped apart by the panel.

Won the second half 12-7!

Look as said those 2 tries could have been avoided. But in general everything is too slow and static. No real imagination.  Cooney should start the next game as hes quicker getting the ball away and hes a running threat. Could really do with some invention in the backline.

agree they’ll find the going tougher v Wales , who love inflicting pain on England ,and also the point about the half backs. It never looked right today at all, almost as if the occasion was too much, bit like Ireland’s World Cup efforts as soon as knockout beckons. Very frustrating to watch.I do feel Irish rugby has to expand now, the old fee paying schools contributing most of the internationals has to end if a deeper pool of playing talent is to be built up, but is the appetite there? The prominence in our sporting calendar of schools rugby and the blanket media coverage of same is just extending the exclusive elitist image, and is a real turn off for many.

Pretty comprehensive stuff by England - third game in a row they have just physically had far too much for Ireland. Apart from the two glaring individual mistakes Ireland's defence was actually quite good again, but it's the attack that is the big worry at the moment. They just look so toothless. Although hard to have much joy when you're losing nearly all the collisions.