I guess thatâs Brexit sorted so
Not sure whether itâs the stupid text bubbles or the fact that the photo isnât even from Saturdays match that makes it most cringey
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I hope we see a million more of them⌠it will make the the world cup failure even better.
Rory Best has some head of hair there.
Wouldnât ya think the stupid cunt who made that could have sourced a picture from Saturday?
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to be honest, Iâd say they wouldnt have known it was the wrong one.
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a gang in here giving it big licks about the win
as a new found rugby fan and so as to increase my knowledge I asked them what position did stockdale play
not one knew
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It was actually a turgid, error strewen game. In fairness there was a lot of honest endeavour and hard work but low on skill and risk taking. The lowest common denominator with rugby is which set of fat lads can make least amount of mistakes and essentially lie on the ball better than the other team and slowing the ball down. Ireland went apart when their 7 foot beanpole went off and the tactic of kicking the ball into touch didnât work so well anymore.
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an excellent summation.
The optimal Rugby strategy seems to be to hold onto the ball for the least amount of time possible. Particularly in your own half. To get to the other half of the field the best way seems to be to kick it back to the other team and force them to make a mistake. Even near your own try line if you win back the ball the optimal play is to kick it back to the other team and give them possession 20 yards out rather than try to play it out yourself.
If ever in doubt give it back to the other team.
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Schmidtball
A long standing favoured tactic of all Irish soccer teams
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we sang songs about it.
Ah here, Ireland are a nobody in soccer terms - a tiny country ---- The rubby boys are no.1 in the world apparently - -the inferiority complex here is something to behold from the rubby set ---- looking to soccer all the time.
That wasnât a criticism of rugby, merely a comment on the nature of the game. The fact that no one can be ahead of the ball and at the elite level is extremely difficult to break down a defence means if you can kick it 50 yards down the field and rush the line up and stop them say 40 yards from where you had possession, then percentage wise thatâs a good play. Thereâs a fair chance you can turn them over or force a knock on etc. and get the ball back in a better position.
Gaelic is the complete opposite, possession is so hard to win back that the optimal strategy seems to be to take absolutely no risk whatsoever with the football. To the point where kicking it backwards 40 yards to your unmarked keeper is a better play than even a 60/40 ball 40 yards forward. You also never want to carry a ball into a tackle.
Hurling is different, while obviously preferable to keep possession itâs much easier to turnover the ball, more defined tackle etc. which means you can afford to hit 60/40 balls and playing it around the back is much riskier. Limerick got an untold amount of scores this year from turning over backs in possession.
In soccer as well possession is vital. It makes no sense to hoof ball forward as the Republic do and you can see in their results itâs a terrible strategy. All the best teams now City, Barca etc. pass it to death.
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Some awfully mean-spirited posters on here. The IRFU, Guinness & Vodafone had convinced those who donât follow sport that Saturdayâs âtestâ game was vitally important but then lads go and point out that world rugby bosses refer to them as friendlies and want to replace them with games that mean something. Let them enjoy it for goodness sake, they are harmless sorts.
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Youâre correct Ewan. As the man says, let them eat cake.
the mind boggles. On the weekend of the proclaimed greatest achievement in Irish Sport they are point scoring off the soccer team, which lets be honest, are an easy target, the poor misfortunes.
For all the criticisms. The ireland soccer team have reached a world cup quarter final in a sport where there are lots of competitive teams.
Ireland rugby have only ever reached the quarter finals of what is basically an 8 team tournament.
Over achievement versus under achievement right there
Irelands record at world cup against actual rugby nations
Australia played 5 lost 4 won 1
Argentina played 4 lost 3 won 1 *
France played 4 lost 3 won 1
New Zealand played 1 lost 1
Scotland played 1 lost 1
Wales played 3 lost 2 won 1
*questionable rugby nation
That is fucking shocking
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Those stats are incredibly misleading. It doesnât take account of the impact winning meaningless friendlies in November has on this great rugby nation.
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What a morning on here, chaps still going ape over the result two days later.
The historic efforts of both the association football crowd and GGA ones in divisive and partitionist attitudes persists. This is rugby country and people love the collisions, the chance, the skill, the effort and the bravery of it all. The efforts to downgrade this reminds me of the old quote from the Irish Times;
âIn rugby football, you kick the ball; in Association football, you kick the man if you cannot kick the ball; and in Gaelic football, you kick the ball if you cannot kick the manâ
Edit: the last post of a 10K epic, appropriate for the week that was in it, rugby football dominates.
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