6N 2016: Ireland v Wales, 7 February

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IRELAND v WALES
7 February 2016
KO: 15:00 GMT
Aviva Stadium, Dublin

Live on RTE, ITV, FR2, DMAX, BBC(H)

Referee: Jérôme Garcès (France)
Touch judges: [tbc]
Television match official: [tbc]

A. Head to Head

123 Played 123
52 Won 67
4 Drawn 4
67 Lost 52
1,365 Points 1,461

B. Recent Form

29 August 2015
Aviva Stadium, Dublin
10 – 16 to Wales

8 August 2015
Millennium Stadium, Cardiff
21 – 35 to Ireland

14 March 2015
Millennium Stadium, Cardiff
23 – 16 to Wales

8 February 2014
Aviva Stadium, Dublin
26 – 3 to Ireland

2 February 2013
Millennium Stadium, Cardiff
22 – 30 to Ireland

C. Teams

IRELAND

S Zebo; A Trimble, J Payne, R Henshaw, K Earls; J Sexton, C Murray; J McGrath, R Best (capt), N White; D Toner, M McCarthy; CJ Stander, T O’Donnell, J Heaslip.

Replacements: S Cronin, J Cronin, T Furlong, D Ryan, R Ruddock, K Marmion, I Madigan, D Kearney.

WALES

G Anscombe; G North, J Davies, J Roberts, T James; D Biggar, G Davies; R Evans, S Baldwin, S Lee, L Charteris, A-W Jones, S Warburton (capt), J Tipuric, T Faletau.

Replacements: K Owens, G Jenkins, T Francis, B Davies, D Lydiate, L Williams, R Priestland, A Cuthbert

I honestly thought that was harsh against Priestland there, knock on only in my mind.

Presitland is doing well, but G.Davies is having a bad game

nobbled wrote:

mikey_dragon wrote:

nobbled wrote:Sorry but Garces can't see the Welsh holding on. Very odd!

If you're off your feet then it becomes an offence. Open your eyes.

My eyes are wide open. Both of them. Unlike one of yours.

Yeah. How's life on the we hate Wales bandwagon?

eirebilly wrote:I honestly thought that was harsh against Priestland there, knock on only in my mind.

Yeah, an odd one. If it was deliberate - surely a YC. If not - scrum. Penalty is a cop out.

Gethin is on

Hope Lee can keep going

wales606 wrote:Presitland is doing well, but G.Davies is having a bad game

I agree, and I think it might be Davies' worst game for Wales. He just looks really slow and that's very uncharacteristic for him.

Classy offload by Payne, but hard one to take.

mikey_dragon wrote:

wales606 wrote:Presitland is doing well, but G.Davies is having a bad game

I agree, and I think it might be Davies' worst game for Wales. He just looks really slow and that's very uncharacteristic for him.

Might need Lloyd on soon to tighten it up

uh oh gethin scrumaging

mikey_dragon wrote:

nobbled wrote:

mikey_dragon wrote:

nobbled wrote:Sorry but Garces can't see the Welsh holding on. Very odd!

If you're off your feet then it becomes an offence. Open your eyes.

My eyes are wide open. Both of them. Unlike one of yours.

Yeah. How's life on the we hate Wales bandwagon?

Ha ha! Poor lickle Wales. Always the victim of vicious impartiality!

Ireland have done a lot of work at the breakdown to keep out Warburton/Tipuric/Gethin

Roberts having a stormer in attack and defence

Roberts is awesome. Must be playing some of his best rugby with Quins too - reminds me of his Cardiff form in 2009. I bet you'd give anything to have those days back .

Ireland forcing things too much now- playing too much rugby. Need to go back to what worked- play territory, pressurise, target the breakdown.

mikey_dragon wrote:Roberts is awesome. Must be playing some of his best rugby with Quins too - reminds me of his Cardiff form in 2009. I bet you'd give anything to have those days back .

Yep. He wasn't the leader his is now though, or as clever a defender

Bad drop, it was on there.

So nice having JD2 back at 13, makes yards in the wide channels consistently and has done great in defence today.

mikey_dragon wrote:Roberts is awesome.

At least we can agree on something.

nothing in this at all between the 2 teams

nobbled wrote:

mikey_dragon wrote:Roberts is awesome.

At least we can agree on something.

You weren't lying when you said you have both eyes open then...

Tom James

Robert MOTM already surely? Even if Ireland win.

Well, going on this weekend's games so far the SH teams aren't going to quaking in their boots.

This is at least technically quite good. But jeez, where's the creativity? Rugby by numbers.

wales606 wrote:Tom James

?  The only good thing about James is that he's not Cuthbert.

Good tackle though.

Why won't Garces penalise Ireland at the breakdown? Their offences haven't been this blatant since 2008 Pro12 rugby.

Run into tackle. Recycled run into contact. Repeat repeat repeat

Sad to see how poor NH rugby rally is

And these 2 teams infinitely better than the rubbish Scotland and England did

About time ffs!

Great counter rucking!

Feck sake Garces... can't buy a breakdown pen or turnover for love nor money despite our great work all game.

Henshaw is a good player but Roberts is showing him own backside in this match.

well done sam that was sloppy play by the irish player on the side of the ruck then

Both team been very disciplined for 20 minutes, but Ireland blink first.

Lloyd Williams on, not surprised Davies looked knackered a second ago

Has there been an offload all game ?

F*ck

Bad mistake from Lloyd, but thought that came off an Irish hand so should be a scrum Wales

sigh.....

Bonkers Irish penalty, what was garces thinking there.

Harsh penalty against Francis, thought he did just enough.

606 thats what i thought

Have to say that a draw would be a fair result.

Riskysports wrote:Has there been an offload all game ?

I don't know but there's been tries, and from both teams.

Is Garces a Welsh name? I think I know some Garces from Swansea- they own a tanning salon and some truffle hunting boar

Could come down to a drop goal shot for someone

Peter Stringer wrote:Is Garces a Welsh name? I think I know some Garces from Swansea- they own a tanning salon and some truffle hunting boar

West Glam truffles? Fabulous!!

Clever Wales, keep it in the Irish half

Set up the DG in a couple of minutes?

The Welsh are going to do this!

Aonther miss :/

Madigans first kick has/had the potential to be a game losing kick.

Safe to say that priestland doesn't practice drop goals down in bath

unlucky rhys we need to keep them down here

Quite an intense game.

It's like rugby league (with infinite tackles) though.