Ah itās all November rugby. Why be picky?
Heās a class act. I had him in my current favourite players last week - his handling skills and his running are majestic. Not a bad kicker either.
Not sure about converting to union. He had a chance before seemingly and turned it down. Iād imagine thereās as much, if not more, money to be made in the NRL than youād get on a NZ rugby union contract. If he moves for the money heād have to go to France.
Cracking player either way.
There is more in the Aviva than I thought there would beā¦RTE have some no mark commentating on it
A barely audible rendition of AmhrƔn na bhFiann there.
Think Ireland will do a handsome job on these lads.
Ha, the state of that nerd waving the flag.
Heās transferred from Setanta. Yeah bigger crowd than I thought too. Empty in the corners but itās not the embarrassment it might have been.
Just switshed on sky sports for the england match and they had a 2 minutes silence for rememberence day or whatever, impeccably adhered to
That commentator not with RTE for a good while? Think you may be wrong there rocko.
I expect a very good performance from us.
How many times will someone on RTE mention that x player used to play gaelic? One mention so far but I estimate it will come in around the three mark.
Cracking pass from Stringer there to get the backline moving.
Really good try there.Court,Cronin,Toner,OāBrien all impressive.Stringers decisiveness and his swift delivery make massive difference to our play.
Christ that was poor defence. To run over untouched from slowish ball like that.
āBut why would you want to drop it on your own scrum no matter where you are on the pitch? I can never understand that.ā
Itās not rocket science Tony. Itās not unthinkable that a team might struggle on their own put-in.
England 10-0 up after the bones of half an hour against the Aussiesā¦they are wearing a quite nice black strip today
Terrible game so far. Ward talking shite, Hook talking more shite. Ireland not competing in the lineouts or scrum.
[size=ā2ā]Edit: They turned over 1 lineout.[/size]
Bandage will be delighted with Devon Toner so far, i believed bandage was talking up his ability about 18 months ago and was shot down by all and sundry
āIām not sure that was the right thing to do. Intention right, execution not so.ā
Fucking idiot Ward.
Despite having no real creativity in their side England are playing very well hereā¦Youngs doing great stuff at scrum half and their set piece and defence is holding up very well
Boring half of rugby. Ref not helping, heās letting Samoa linger around the tackles for ages. Ireland need to up the pace and intensity though.
Larryās boyfriend was very much at fault there for the try
The scrums are talking half the day to sort out, they reallly need to speed up the whole thing.
āPeople at home get confused by terms such as ball carrier and advantage line.ā
This is shocking stuff from RTĆ today.
BBC Ireland coverage on too rocko with BBC Ireland coverage.Might be worth malking the big switch