6N 2017: Ireland v England, 18 March

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IRELAND v ENGLAND
18 March 2017
KO: 17:00 GMT
Aviva Stadium, Dublin

Referee: Jerome Garces (France)
Touch judges: Mathieu Raynal (France) & Marius Mitrea (Italy)
TMO: Ben Skeen (New Zealand)

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

A. Head to Head

131 Played 131
47 Won 76
8 Drawn 8
76 Lost 47
1,079 Points 1,526

B. Recent Form

27 February 2016
Twickenham, London
21 – 10 to England

5 September 2015
Twickenham, London
21 – 13 to England

1 March 2015
Aviva Stadium, Dublin
19 – 9 to Ireland

22 February 2014
Twickenham, London
13 – 10 to England

10 February 2013
Aviva Stadium, Dublin
6 – 12 to England

17 March 2012
Twickenham, London
30 – 9 to England

C. Teams

IRELAND

Payne; Earls, Ringrose, Henshaw, Zebo; Sexton, Marmion; McGrath, Best (captain), Furlong; Ryan, Henderson; Stander, O'Brien, Heaslip,

Replacements: Scannell, Healy, Ryan, Toner, O'Mahony, McGrath, Jackson, Conway.

ENGLAND

Brown; Watson, Joseph, Farrell, Daly; Ford, Youngs; Marler, Hartley (captain), Cole; Launchbury, Lawes; Itoje, Haskell, B Vunipola.

Replacements: George, M Vunipola, Sinckler, Wood, Hughes, Care, Te'o, Nowell.

Eddie is Eddie. the lads themselves are very grounded.

Eddie has rubbed off on them and they also speak of 'greatness'

Will Heaslip get a starting spot today? Haven't seen much of him for months now. Does he still play rugby?

ebop wrote:Eddie has rubbed off on them and they also speak of 'greatness'

Why would they not? The record of wins they have is very impressive.

ebop wrote:Eddie has rubbed off on them and they also speak of 'greatness'

they say they seek to achieve it.

I swear some people just look for reasons to hate the poor lads. Nothing they say or do could ever be right because opinions have been formed regardless.

Wait wait

Check this out.....

"To go from where we are to greatness takes another step of endeavour"

Eddie Jones (2017)

Hahahaha

Do you guys cringe a bit?

What's your point ebop?

It's funny 7.5

That's the point

Am I missing the joke ebop? You may have to explain it to this simple culchie...

Name another coach that speaks that way on the record

Name one

Go on

I don't get your joke ebop?

But what is so funny about that quote and why would English fans cringe?

I see nothing wrong with aiming as high as you can myself.

Come on 7.5, you cringe a bit

I really don't get what you're trying to get at.

Lol

7.5 / 100

Forget it 7&1/2, I think ebop is just on one

Good on ya eirebilly

Right. Good luck everyone. Got my first Guinness in hand. Hope in 8 hours time I'm still standing and england have been crushed.
Enjoy the day

carpet baboon wrote:Right. Good luck everyone. Got my first Guinness in hand. Hope in 8 hours time I'm still standing and england have been crushed.
Enjoy the day

Ding ding brother, enjoy

Good luck to one and all. Here's hoping for a rugby classic.

Enjoy.

and no controversial calls from the officials either way ...

carpet baboon wrote:Right. Good luck everyone. Got my first Guinness in hand. Hope in 8 hours time I'm still standing and england have been crushed.
Enjoy the day

i'd imagine you're much more confident of that than us England fans are of getting anything out of a game against the team who crushed the best in the world. enjoy your drink with confidence!

Only half of the Irish side singing the anthems against most of the English.

Ireland 0-1 England

Typical Welsh/Irish trying to spoil our game!

Will be interesting to see who has suffered if anyone with this delay.

Oh dear, here was me saying Payne is safe under the high ball

Bit of a messy game all round really

Irish line speed hurting us at the moment

Just so happy to see POM at 6 and CJ at 8

Did Ireland really need that many players to clear that ruck, must of been 5 players there

Ireland very fired up indeed. Looking like 20 point favourites to me in this mood.

trebellbobaggins wrote:Ireland very fired up indeed.  Looking like 20 point favourites to me in this mood.

Unfortunately so.

Best off but Munster's Scannell is not a bad back up. He has been in some form.

Another 80 min of the reverse 'psychology' then trel.

Daly has missed a few tackles so far, not the best of starts

Not much super about this Saturday so far....hope it picks up.

Looked about 3 forward passes during that passage, must have been dead flat if not.

Itoje lucky to get away with the high tackle.

High tackle on Billy missed

Not a great day for referees.

mid_gen wrote:Itoje lucky to get away with the high tackle.

Wasn't as bad as it first appeared on the replay.

Very harsh penalty.

Payne has now dropped two out of two high balls. England will certainly target him now.

Think the ref's missed a knock on and a high tackle from us.

Completely late tackle there.

Sexton down injured yet again or is he trying to get a review.

Rory_Gallagher wrote:Completely late tackle there.

Love sacks was it.

Get Paddy on now.

Nothing in that from Itoje

That's the second no arm tackle on Sexton. Both players leading with the shoulder.

eirebilly wrote:Payne has now dropped two out of two high balls. England will certainly target him now.

I think he is just lacking a bit of sharpness. He hasn't been back long.

Rory_Gallagher wrote:Completely late tackle there.

 Need to look at things in real time.