Official Match Thread - England v Ireland

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Crash669
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JM2K6 wrote: Sat Mar 12, 2022 4:48 pm Could easily be red. Very late, no attempt to lower his body height, causes serious damage. Can't see any mitigation.
I was going to complain about it being nothing on first viewing but Ewels had an absolute age to drop his shoulder the stupid bastard.

Oh well, England weren't going to win anyway but at least Eddie has his excuse.
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Definite red for me.
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Torquemada 1420 wrote: Sat Mar 12, 2022 4:49 pm
JM2K6 wrote: Sat Mar 12, 2022 4:48 pm Could easily be red. Very late, no attempt to lower his body height, causes serious damage. Can't see any mitigation.
When will these stupid c**ts learn?
No doubt the "game's gone soft" brigade will be out in force, but fuck him, he's supposed to be a Test match player, he should know the bloody rules.

Darcy has just put the whole of England onto Marcus Smith's free form play...
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EnergiseR2 wrote: Sat Mar 12, 2022 4:51 pm Crowd whistling their own player for that terrible filth
Good to have you back ER.
Over the hills and far away........
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That's ominous
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This is not going to be a good day at the office. Only 75mins to go.
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Good quick tap by Harry Randall. That worked well.
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fishfoodie wrote: Sat Mar 12, 2022 4:51 pm Classless, clueless chavs in the crowd today
Get this out of your system now please, this game will be hard enough to watch without turning this board into PR for 2 hours
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Oh dear. This is gonna hurt.
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Well at least one Englishman will be happy. Daly no longer has the record of the fastest red in intl rugby.
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JM2K6 wrote: Sat Mar 12, 2022 4:51 pm Hands up everyone who's surprised that after Eddie wanked on about physicality beyond anything Ireland has seen before, one of the players who is inexplicably one Eddie's favourites has launched into a late and high hit...

No complaints about the red - shocker of a tackle. Shocker of a player tbh.
Yep. Though Ireland are very prone to high tackles with their technique and they must be punished consistently.
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Sexton must be well over the 90 seconds to take the kicks.
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JM2K6 wrote: Sat Mar 12, 2022 4:54 pm
fishfoodie wrote: Sat Mar 12, 2022 4:51 pm Classless, clueless chavs in the crowd today
Get this out of your system now please, this game will be hard enough to watch without turning this board into PR for 2 hours
Sorry mate, I know it's not the actually England fans behaving like dicks.
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The sweet yet salty tears of Lawrence Dallaglio. :thumbup:

(both co-commentators are annoying tbf)
Over the hills and far away........
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tc27
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Turned down a ticket to this..feeling like the right decision now
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Plim wrote: Sat Mar 12, 2022 4:49 pm I knew some major fuck up would happen. Game over.
And the really bad news for you guys is that Eddie has a ready made excuse now.
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Nowell doing a sterling job filling in for May at that scrum.
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Steward is soooo slow.
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fishfoodie wrote: Sat Mar 12, 2022 4:56 pm
JM2K6 wrote: Sat Mar 12, 2022 4:54 pm
fishfoodie wrote: Sat Mar 12, 2022 4:51 pm Classless, clueless chavs in the crowd today
Get this out of your system now please, this game will be hard enough to watch without turning this board into PR for 2 hours
Sorry mate, I know it's not the actually England fans behaving like dicks.
Oh no, I'm sure there's plenty, but we both know that rugby fans in every nation are like this these days.

Anyway, this looks like fifty pointer
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EnergiseR2 wrote: Sat Mar 12, 2022 4:57 pm
petej wrote: Sat Mar 12, 2022 4:55 pm
JM2K6 wrote: Sat Mar 12, 2022 4:51 pm Hands up everyone who's surprised that after Eddie wanked on about physicality beyond anything Ireland has seen before, one of the players who is inexplicably one Eddie's favourites has launched into a late and high hit...

No complaints about the red - shocker of a tackle. Shocker of a player tbh.
Yep. Though Ireland are very prone to high tackles with their technique and they must be punished consistently.
I haven't seen that as a feature of Irish play at all. Are you talking about the choke? They don't go in high there. They end up standing up
Bundee Aki isn't great at getting low plus the choke hold tackles.
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Yeah fuck this. Might go for a walk
Old men forget: yet all shall be forgot, But he'll remember with advantages, What feats he did that day
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EnergiseR2 wrote: Sat Mar 12, 2022 4:55 pm
salanya wrote: Sat Mar 12, 2022 4:52 pm
EnergiseR2 wrote: Sat Mar 12, 2022 4:51 pm Crowd whistling their own player for that terrible filth
Good to have you back ER.
:thumbup:

That was nice. Dan Sheehan making hay out on the wing a few plays in a row
The new POM.
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Went back anyway.
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Paddington Bear wrote: Sat Mar 12, 2022 5:00 pm Yeah fuck this. Might go for a walk
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What's Ireland's biggest ever win over England, wasn't it Croke Park in 08?

Anyway we're going to see it beaten today.
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Hal Jordan
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Brains on someone to whack the scrum half there.

But we are getting filleted.
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Moral victory (the best kind) at the scrum
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Didn't Ireland have advantage?
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tc27
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Getting beaten on the outside with 14 will happen but they just came through the middle there.
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Blackmac wrote: Sat Mar 12, 2022 5:01 pm Went back anyway.
Eh? Dropped it onto his leg and forward. Always a knock on.
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Fuck, Curry is limping.
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Genge reminds me of Barcella when Fra won 1 scrum against the ABs and then proceeded to be annihilated on the scoreboard. Front rowers :roll:
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sefton wrote: Fri Mar 11, 2022 10:34 pm We’re going to get butt fucked.
I think I may have been unduly optimistic.
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Marchant has had a seriously good start at least
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Great, now Curry is fucked.
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Gosh that injury in training for Curry really helped us eh Eddie

But it's okay we have 7 cover

Right


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Hal Jordan wrote: Thu Mar 10, 2022 10:18 pm Assuming Lawes stays on the full 80 (although Jones will hook a captain whose name isn't Farrell), we could end up with a 6 Lawes 7 Simmonds 8 Dombrant trio, which is horrible.
Thank you.
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JM2K6 wrote: Sat Mar 12, 2022 5:03 pm
Blackmac wrote: Sat Mar 12, 2022 5:01 pm Went back anyway.
Eh? Dropped it onto his leg and forward. Always a knock on.
Wasn’t anything other than a knock on.

Just seen a replay of the red card. Seems slightly harsh. Face to face contact but didn’t seem like a deliberate or malicious incident.

And there goes Curry.
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Is there a way someone can turn Dallaglio's mic off? Pretty please?
Feel free to turn Darcy's mic off at the same time.
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tc27 wrote: Sat Mar 12, 2022 5:03 pm Getting beaten on the outside with 14 will happen but they just came through the middle there.
Obviously Eddie will use being a man down as his excuse but the defence is worryingly poor.

And now no curry. This is going to be very bad.
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