Official Match Thread - England v Ireland

[Crash669]

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.

[Random1]

Definite red for me.

[Hal Jordan]

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...

[salanya]

Crowd whistling their own player for that terrible filth

Good to have you back ER.

[laurent]

That's ominous

[BnM]

This is not going to be a good day at the office. Only 75mins to go.

[I like neeps]

Good quick tap by Harry Randall. That worked well.

[JM2K6]

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

[Random1]

Oh dear. This is gonna hurt.

[Torquemada 1420]

Well at least one Englishman will be happy. Daly no longer has the record of the fastest red in intl rugby.

[petej]

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.

[Mr Tim Buktoo]

Sexton must be well over the 90 seconds to take the kicks.

[fishfoodie]

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.

[salanya]

The sweet yet salty tears of Lawrence Dallaglio.

(both co-commentators are annoying tbf)

[tc27]

Turned down a ticket to this..feeling like the right decision now

[Uncle fester]

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.

[Hal Jordan]

Nowell doing a sterling job filling in for May at that scrum.

[Torquemada 1420]

Steward is soooo slow.

[JM2K6]

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

[petej]

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.

[Paddington Bear]

Yeah fuck this. Might go for a walk

[Uncle fester]

Crowd whistling their own player for that terrible filth

Good to have you back ER.

That was nice. Dan Sheehan making hay out on the wing a few plays in a row

The new POM.

[Blackmac]

Went back anyway.

[Torquemada 1420]

Yeah fuck this. Might go for a walk

[Crash669]

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.

[Hal Jordan]

Brains on someone to whack the scrum half there.

But we are getting filleted.

[JM2K6]

Moral victory (the best kind) at the scrum

[I like neeps]

Didn't Ireland have advantage?

[tc27]

Getting beaten on the outside with 14 will happen but they just came through the middle there.

[JM2K6]

Went back anyway.

Eh? Dropped it onto his leg and forward. Always a knock on.

[Hal Jordan]

Fuck, Curry is limping.

[Torquemada 1420]

Genge reminds me of Barcella when Fra won 1 scrum against the ABs and then proceeded to be annihilated on the scoreboard. Front rowers

[sefton]

We’re going to get butt fucked.

I think I may have been unduly optimistic.

[JM2K6]

Marchant has had a seriously good start at least

[Oxbow]

Great, now Curry is fucked.

[JM2K6]

Gosh that injury in training for Curry really helped us eh Eddie

But it's okay we have 7 cover

Right


Right

[Hal Jordan]

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.

[ScarfaceClaw]

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.

[salanya]

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.

[Crash669]

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.