RWC Week 5: Ireland v Scotland
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@KiwiMurph said in RWC Week 5: Ireland v Scotland:
@Kirwan said in RWC Week 5: Ireland v Scotland:
@KiwiMurph said in RWC Week 5: Ireland v Scotland:
The idea that this world cup is the most wide open ever in terms of who can win it was rubbish. Scotland are the 5th best team and aren't in the same sphere.
Ireland, South Africa, France are all genuine options and England and NZ can’t be written off.
Can’t remember another WC with that many options.
Did you see England today? England can be written off.
Nz can be written off.
It's a 3 horse race.
What absolute bullshit
@voodoo said in RWC Week 5: Ireland v Scotland:
@KiwiMurph said in RWC Week 5: Ireland v Scotland:
@Kirwan said in RWC Week 5: Ireland v Scotland:
@KiwiMurph said in RWC Week 5: Ireland v Scotland:
The idea that this world cup is the most wide open ever in terms of who can win it was rubbish. Scotland are the 5th best team and aren't in the same sphere.
Ireland, South Africa, France are all genuine options and England and NZ can’t be written off.
Can’t remember another WC with that many options.
Did you see England today? England can be written off.
Nz can be written off.
It's a 3 horse race.
What absolute bullshit
Let's check in next week
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@KiwiMurph yep. Refs favour the home teams, no?
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Where's the penalty advantage for being inside the 10 from the chip kick Berry?
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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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The Irish commentary on Stan is beyond nauseating.
@antipodean could be worse. You could have Gordon Darcy
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The Irish commentary on Stan is beyond nauseating.
@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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It's a fucking lineout Berry. Play without him.
@antipodean Berry is in the top 3 of crap refs
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@antipodean Berry is in the top 3 of crap refs
@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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The Irish commentary on Stan is beyond nauseating.
@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!
