Rugby World Cup 2019 - Ireland shit the pot all over again

anon26343222 · September 28, 2019, 9:57am

The heat, the conditions,

myboyblue · September 28, 2019, 9:58am

Tist

anon78624367 · September 28, 2019, 9:58am

Turnarounds.

anon32894817 · September 28, 2019, 9:58am

Not guaranteed. Probably yes but not 100 percent.

dodgy_keeper · September 28, 2019, 9:58am

The heat, the conditions, the referee, the six day turnaround - anything else we are forgetting?

anon32894817 · September 28, 2019, 9:59am

That’s it sid.

anon32894817 · September 28, 2019, 10:00am

Humidity. We hopefully won’t be playing japan. They are the host nation. I’d say the other countries will struggle with it too but the japs will be used to it. I presume as the tournament goes on you get more used to it.

FlakeAway · September 28, 2019, 10:01am

By the time the knock outs come the heat & humidity will have dropped significantly thus giving us a great chance to coast to victory.

It’ll be fuckin baltic by the time the final comes around.

Ireland! Ireland! Ireland!

Sidney · September 28, 2019, 10:01am

England’s games against Argentina and France are 5:00 and 5:15 kick-offs respectively

They are fucked for the quarter-final

the_man_himself · September 28, 2019, 10:02am

Explain how Ireland would not have qualified with two bonus point wins from their last two games if they hadn’t got the losing bonus point today?

anon61878697 · September 28, 2019, 10:04am

We were told that ireland did very intensive training in the heat in Portugal in preperation.

carryharry · September 28, 2019, 10:04am

That’s dry heat you numpty

FlakeAway · September 28, 2019, 10:06am

Aren’t we great?

anon61878697 · September 28, 2019, 10:06am

So management got prep all wrong???

dodgy_keeper · September 28, 2019, 10:06am

Japan, as good as they were today, have never beaten New Zealand in two friendlies, have they?

#TeamOfUs

anon32894817 · September 28, 2019, 10:08am

Ireland would only be able to get to 15. Scotland with 3 bonus points wins would leave them on 15. Japan are now on 9 points. A bonus point defeat to Scotland and a bonus point win would leave them on 15 points. It would then go to scoring difference.

ChairmanDan · September 28, 2019, 10:09am

There’ll be a few more twists in Pool A yet. Wouldn’t be discounting prospects of Ireland winning pool. It’s all much of a muchness anyway as to which of the two best teams in the world, New Zealand or South Africa that Ireland face in the quarter final.

Big_Dan_Campbell · September 28, 2019, 10:09am

Just illustrates how good a job of preperation Big Mick McCarthy did in 2002 when we managed to get out of the group and return home undefeated despite the conditions and short turnaround.

Coach Schmidt really should have consulted with a manager from a real sport as part of his prep.

anon32894817 · September 28, 2019, 10:11am

Did Ireland play either of the host teams in 2002?

Sidney · September 28, 2019, 10:13am

In all four matches in 2002, Eire were noticeably fresher than their opponents as the matches wore on

I expect Mick to become sports science adviser to the Dublin Gaelic football team when he steps down from Eire

The Dubs only appoint the very best people