RWC Week 5: Ireland v Scotland
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A very well drilled and confident team. But its the rugby acumen around this Irish team that is the difference for me .
The ability to get in the refs ear early - sell them "their" story early EG. 1st scrum penalty to Scotland - chatter chatter chatter.. next scrum pen to Ireland (it was 50/50 for mine) - it also shows itself in the way (sexton in particular) milk penalties by dramatizing the shit out of it (France and SA are also very good at this)
The ability to milk time or speed up the game - e.g. slow it down when they need to (see first 25mins today) but also the ability to spot an opportunity and speed the game up when they want too.
The other big advantage they have this world cup is - essentially every game is a home game ... unless they play France.
They will be very hard to beat next week and I don't feel that Foster and this ABs team have the same level of rugby acumen (if any) the Irish have demonstrated the last 12 months --
The only way I can see the ABs winning is to get up early with a stellar 1st 20mins (unfortunately I think that is what Ireland will do to us), AND the ref is not an Englishmen (excluding Barnes) or a Frenchmen
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Wow that’s a surprise.
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The Irish commentary on Stan is beyond nauseating.
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@antipodean could be worse. You could have Gordon Darcy
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@antipodean said in RWC Week 5: Ireland v Scotland:
The Irish commentary on Stan is beyond nauseating.
It isn't much better on Sky..... But hey I imagine anyone listening to our NZ TV crews would think much the same
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Wow a double surprise
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It's a fucking lineout Berry. Play without him.
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@antipodean Berry is in the top 3 of crap refs
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@stodders said in RWC Week 5: Ireland v Scotland:
@antipodean Berry is in the top 3 of crap refs
100%.
Scots woulda strolled in if not for his ineptitude
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@antipodean said in RWC Week 5: Ireland v Scotland:
The Irish commentary on Stan is beyond nauseating.
Christ it’s bad isn’t it? Painting beautiful attacking pictures??? Wtf is that!
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@voodoo said in RWC Week 5: Ireland v Scotland:
@antipodean said in RWC Week 5: Ireland v Scotland:
The Irish commentary on Stan is beyond nauseating.
Christ it’s bad isn’t it? Painting beautiful attacking pictures??? Wtf is that!
Absolute wank material. Makes me long for Nisbo inspired blandness to be honest
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@stodders said in RWC Week 5: Ireland v Scotland:
@antipodean Berry is in the top 3 of crap refs
Every single tackle ball Berry is telling the Irish to stop doing something - he needs to be reminded that’s he’s the fucking ref, not their coach
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