Is Beale out as well?
Moore being out is good news but Ioane and Pocock are possibly the two players you’d handpick to be injured if you had the choice.
Sorry Ioane and Moore. Brendan Fanning mxing up his rappers
I’ve had a small bet on Ireland/Ireland & Ireland/Oz double results. I think our backrow will target Cooper’s channel and expose his piss poor tackling off set pieces, if we can force a few turnovers at lineout time this will be definitely be the case, as they’ll probably remove him from the outhalf channel altogether on Irish ball.
He’s never faced a backrow with this many ball carrying options, I just hope someone has told O’Connell to stay away from the ball and hit rucks and do some grunt work for a change, he’s possibly the least productive ball carrier in international rugby and the amount of crash balls he takes up is absolutely baffling.
I’d expect us to come out with all guns blazing and put it up to them for at least the first half, I know the wallabies have been strong in the 2nd half of a lot of their matches, while we have faded, so it’ll be interesting to see if we have improved our conditioning & mental alertness enough to maintain the effort for the full duration.
Come on you boys in green.
[quote=“manaboutdog, post: 589111”]I’ve had a small bet on Ireland/Ireland & Ireland/Oz double results. I think our backrow will target Cooper’s channel and expose his piss poor tackling off set pieces, if we can force a few turnovers at lineout time this will be definitely be the case, as they’ll probably remove him from the outhalf channel altogether on Irish ball.
He’s never faced a backrow with this many ball carrying options, I just hope someone has told O’Connell to stay away from the ball and hit rucks and do some grunt work for a change, he’s possibly the least productive ball carrier in international rugby and the amount of crash balls he takes up is absolutely baffling.
I’d expect us to come out with all guns blazing and put it up to them for at least the first half, I know the wallabies have been strong in the 2nd half of a lot of their matches, while we have faded, so it’ll be interesting to see if we have improved our conditioning & mental alertness enough to maintain the effort for the full duration.[/quote]
I’d be surprised if cooper was anywhere but on the wing off all Ireland’s set plays and bring in cooper/o Connor to defend the channel.
Iv backed Ireland at 7.4 on betfair. Not overly confident but thats too big
Mon ta fuck Ireland. Come on
Ah lovely
Do the Irish lads take it up the inside channel much?
I’ve backed Ireland +11 and would be surprised if we didn’t cover that. I think we’re in with a real chance and the Australian injuries are a massive boost to our gameplan. We should be fancying our chances of winning this.
Do you need to have funds in the Australian wallet to have a bet on the WC games with betfair, keep trying to get money on but keep getting that I do not have enough money in my wallet and to transfer funds despite there being loads in the main wallet?
That’s why I said if we can force turnovers, especially on lineouts.
Rob Kearneys tan :blink:
Very disappointing that we broke away from the lineup before the final notes of our glorious anthem. Disrespectful to Phil Coulter.
Is that Rabbit O’Connor on the wing for Australia?
Donal Lenihan is sickening already. I’m switching to ITV.
It is indeed Bandage.
Have you not Setanta Ireland?
Went for over 39.5 points along with Ireland - 11 with PP
Fucking hell, what a horrible start from the kickoff.
good stuff from out forwards, setting down a marker
Relax Rocko. Great response by the pack.