Ireland vs Wales - Six Nations Round 2

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Date: Saturday, February 8
Venue: Aviva Stadium, Dublin
Kick-off: 14:15 GMT
Referee: Romain Poite (France)
Assistant Referees: Luke Pearce (England), Mike Fraser (New Zealand)
TMO: Glenn Newman (New Zealand)

WALES TEAM TO PLAY IRELAND (Saturday February 8 KO 14.15 ITV & S4C)

15. Leigh Halfpenny (86 Caps)
14. George North (92 Caps)
13. Nick Tompkins (1 Cap)
12. Hadleigh Parkes (26 Caps)
11. Josh Adams (22 Caps)
10. Dan Biggar (80 Caps)
9. Tomos Williams (17 Caps)
1. Wyn Jones (23 Caps)
2. Ken Owens (74 Caps)
3. Dillon Lewis (23 Caps)
4. Jake Ball (43 Caps)
5. Alun Wyn Jones (C) (135 Caps)
6. Aaron Wainwright (19 Caps)
7. Justin Tipuric (73 Caps)
8. Taulupe Faletau (73 Caps)

Replacements:
16. Ryan Elias (10 Caps)
17. Rhys Carre (6 Caps)
18. Leon Brown (7 Caps)
19. Adam Beard (20 Caps)
20. Ross Moriarty (42 Caps)
21. Gareth Davies (51 Caps)
22. Owen Williams (3 Caps)
23. Johnny McNicholl (1 Cap)​


Ireland (v Wales):
15. Jordan Larmour
14 Andrew Conway
13 Robbie Henshaw
12 Bundee Aki
11 Jacob Stockdale
10 Johnny Sexton (capt)
9 Conor Murray
1 Cian Healy
2 Rob Herring
3 Tadhg Furlong
4 Iain Henderson
5 James Ryan
6 Peter O’Mahony
7 Josh van der Flier
8 CJ Stander

Replacements:
16 Ronan Kelleher
17 Dave Kilcoyne
18 Andrew Porter
19 Devin Toner
20 Max Deegan
21 John Cooney
22 Ross Byrne
23 Keith Earls

Tompkins is being shown as a massive weakness...

Bumped off twice, sat down once and now panicked into being stepped for the try!

Much like every full back in this tournament: I wish lamour was english.

Probably the worst conversion attempt of Sexton's career!

Great try by Ireland.

Polite waited so long there

Adams been limping for a few mins now, he could be in trouble

I thought wales chose to have the wind behind them?

How are Ireland's kicks 15m plus longer?

Me too - maybe the commentary team got it wrong ...

This is exactly what we didn’t want to do, allow ireland all the possessions and territory. Now our most potent scorer is going off.

Great burgling at the line-out there ...

Great reply from Wales, great hands!

Great play great try by Wales.

Sexton having a right go all the time lol.

That might have been a tad forward!

Try confirmed though

Bit forward.

Beautiful try. Ireland pay for a lack of ruthlessness.

So it begins, Poite giving Ireland scrums that they collapse.

That was a bad mistake by Williams and it has cost them

Wales strike from their first real spell of possession. Ireland may rue not making more of their territory and possession so far. Pass possibly a bit forwards but not clear and obvious ...

Scrappy old game this.

Sexton converts

12-7 Ireland

Good try Ireland.

Thought Thomkins a bit lucky with the first try, definitely a hand/arm around the neck when he cut back inside

tigertattie wrote:Scrappy old game this.

I suspect the next one will be scrappier

Pivac’s Wales has a definite NZ blueprint.

Some lovely inside passes from them mikey.

Wales are looking pretty good with ball in hand ...

WELL-PAST-IT wrote:

tigertattie wrote:Scrappy old game this.

I suspect the next one will be scrappier

Could end up being just one big scrum/fight

Well a cagey old first half, with neither side getting away from the other.

The wind does not seem to have been a huge factor yet, it looked pretty even really. Ireland are meant to have it behind them in the second half.

Well, whatever the score, it was the best, most diverse little half from Ireland in quite a while. So finally something promising seems to beckon....
Of course forward based certainty is kinda being sacrificed to service the looser way. But that's what it's all about - balance.

Could be a big factor if the rain arrives as now expected in the 2nd half.

looks like only a gentle breeze in the stadium, flags hardly moving.

Happy enough
Ireland not making the most of the positions they are getting in

But much improved from last week

Pass to W-Jones definitely forward

Nice first half. some good passage of play from both sides.
Ireland slightly in front, but second half will tell, if is Ireland or Wales on track for a Grand Slam or not.

WELL-PAST-IT wrote:Pass to W-Jones definitely forward

Zzzzzzzzzzzzz

Wow...what a set of pundits on the BBC for this one. Gareth Thomas...awful. johnny Wilkinson just talks utter tosh..."were wales and Tompkins feeling empowered in that defensive situatuon" jeez come on...

At least Bod is pretty good.

mikey_dragon wrote:

WELL-PAST-IT wrote:Pass to W-Jones definitely forward

Zzzzzzzzzzzzz

When you wake up Mikey, you might want to look for yourself.

Henshaw playing well

Well that one was definitely forward!

WELL-PAST-IT wrote:

mikey_dragon wrote:

WELL-PAST-IT wrote:Pass to W-Jones definitely forward

Zzzzzzzzzzzzz

When you wake up Mikey, you might want to look for yourself.

Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.

lateral but just

They mentioned Jarrod Evans is on the bench in the first half. I wonder what happened to Owen Williams?

WELL-PAST-IT wrote:lateral but just

That's enough guys, the ref gave it, therefore it was a try

The posts and flags seem to be swaying a certain way. I think Wales might have the wind?

BigGee, I was referring to Bigar's fumble

WELL-PAST-IT wrote:BigGee, I was referring to Bigar's fumble

Fair enough in that case

The previous one was definitely............................

GeordieFalcon wrote:Wow...what a set of pundits on the BBC for this one. Gareth Thomas...awful. johnny Wilkinson just talks utter tosh..."were wales and Tompkins feeling empowered in that defensive situatuon" jeez come on...

At least Bod is pretty good.

...ITV

Thompkins certainly got a tackle in there, that saved a try

one pass take contact ruck

rinse and repeat