Ireland V Australia

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ME-109 wrote:All water under the bridge now....Aus up next which will be interesting...someone start a thread

How hard was that..........

Aye, sexton injured. saw him pull up just before the whistle. hamstring or something by the look of it. Would rather we had Jackson, but lets see what Mad dog can do!

Sexton seems short on confidence

On both tries, we needed our cover defense - Redden. On first try redden didnt trust outside man to make the tackle, second try, he just couldnt be bothered covering.

For me, the problem is Redden. He seems to be trying too hard and is confusing the players around him. He is like a headless chicken out there, quick pass but Ireland need stability...

Reddan has been dreadful. Sexton showing once again why he isn't world class. Unless his pack is on top his kicking game is abject. ROG in his pomp would single handedly drag Ireland through games like this. Sexton never has.Thats the difference. Ireland's backrow is unbalanced as ever. This unit does not work. How many more games as evidence do we need?

Madigans on...this will be interesting.

Madigan is on

Ireland still a man up so they need to capitalise on it and score early on.

Madigan on. Hope he does well.

Where on earth are Heaslip and POM at the breakdown? Lazy, lazy play from the backrow.

That looks a try...

How did Les Kiss retain his job.

that's not a try surely? His legs are in touch.

Knock on! Good work Tommy!!!!

no downward pressure...big call and the correct one. gives ireland hope.

Well, that was a knock on in slow mo...

What the hell is Tommy doing giving him that room though?

That looked like a try to me.

Bowe's positioning has been poor today.

Just didn't get wide enough again Nachos...created more work for himself than anyone else. Thankfully the Oz dude lost control of it.

Kiss did an exceptional job as defensive coach until Kidney moved him to attack. If this is a new defensive pattern it sure ain't working.

Oh FFS! That was way too easy!  

That was too easy...

Madigan, where were you?

Aw, come on! One of ya!

Nice step by Cooper.

Aussie scrum is doing surprisingly well too.

Awk FFS Madigan and Marshall. What on earth was going on there?

Kearney has been awful

Sexytoes has a hamstring injury. He's a doubt for next week.

Jeebus, Ireland don't seem too sure of what they're doing.

Kearney has been poor, this game is fast going out of Irelands reach...

We have to play NZ next week. Oh dear.

I dread to think what the score will be if they play like this against the Kiwis next weekend.

Get Murray Reddan is useless Murray will double in defence as a back row r

You tackle your opposite number Madigan, how hard is that??

Chilli remembering how to play well there...come on lads, give yourselves some belief.

Murray needs to come on.

Such a lack lustre performance. The atmosphere at the game sounds terrible

Why when we make a good break do Irish players jog to support the player?

Notch wrote:Murray needs to come on.

He needed to come on after 20mins...

It's very quiet there considering...

They might as well go for the corner surely?

Murray on at last...

We are kicking it so so much. Sickening.

Does anyone like the Ref Cam? I'm not keen to be honest.

The scrum is abject. If Ross can't scrummage why on earth is he in the side?

Beautiful handling by Madigan there. Did well to get that.

What about the obvious knock on? the ref is blydi blynd!

Why arnt they taking 3?????

Excellent!  The lads are finding their balls now...come on lads!

Urgh! maybe not.

Bloody hell!

Can they take Ross off? He's having a bum game...

If were not going to get anything from the scrums we might as well have Archer on.

So disappointing. Really poor captaincy there as well from POC. Not one Irish player could even gain a grading of 'meh'. 1-15 and subs have been poor or anonymous. And this is a pretty poor Australian side.

Never seen ireland so dominated up front.

Jaysus, this is depressing...