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

If they can see it, that will be a try

Great tackle form Thompkins (you, know him, the English lad)

WELL-PAST-IT wrote:The previous one was definitely............................

Naughty boy

Grounded short....

Heaf wrote:

WELL-PAST-IT wrote:The previous one was definitely............................

Naughty boy

In that sort of mood today, I expect it will be despairing later this afternoon

They had a head of steam and it always looked like they were going over.

Its probably fairer to let the ref make a judgement in these ones

[quote="WELL-PAST-IT"]

Heaf wrote:

WELL-PAST-IT wrote:The previous one was definitely............................

Naughty boy

Yeah I have a bad feeling about the next one ...

We don't do well in the rain and wind.

They only showed it from that angle once and it was clearly grounded short. Why didn’t he look again? Ireland and French refs, greatest pairing since Thelma and Louise.

mikey_dragon wrote:They only showed it from that angle once and it was clearly grounded short. Why didn’t he look again? Ireland and French refs, greatest pairing since Thelma and Louise.

they showed more than one angle but all were rubbish

mikey_dragon wrote:They only showed it from that angle once and it was clearly grounded short. Why didn’t he look again? Ireland and French refs, greatest pairing since Thelma and Louise.

Nothing like finding evidence of your own bias

There was no great view of the grounding, so went with on field decision

lostinwales wrote:

mikey_dragon wrote:They only showed it from that angle once and it was clearly grounded short. Why didn’t he look again? Ireland and French refs, greatest pairing since Thelma and Louise.

they showed more than one angle but all were rubbish

I said the front angle - they only showed it once and it was clearly grounded short. You can’t roll it over the line as far as I’m aware but we couldn’t see that anyway.

Did he get that down?

They should check it at least. 

Weird that no English are complaining about Sexton today. If AWJ was whinging they’d be crying for the next 2 weeks. Toxic people.

Ha never a try

I don't think so

mikey_dragon wrote:

lostinwales wrote:

mikey_dragon wrote:They only showed it from that angle once and it was clearly grounded short. Why didn’t he look again? Ireland and French refs, greatest pairing since Thelma and Louise.

they showed more than one angle but all were rubbish

I said the front angle - they only showed it once and it was clearly grounded short. You can’t roll it over the line as far as I’m aware but we couldn’t see that anyway.

It's a maul not a tackle so van der Flier is fine to play it on the ground. He isn't held by a Welsh tackler. Same as if a maul comes down in open play, the attacking side have a chance to get the ball to ground so it's available to play by the 9.

We didn't see the ball grounded over the line on any angle but the ref and touch judge both saw it grounded over the line so were just checking the knock on.

No and



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Parkes should hang his head after claiming that ‘try’

mikey_dragon wrote:They should check it at least. 

Weird that no English are complaining about Sexton today. If AWJ was whinging they’d be crying for the next 2 weeks. Toxic people.

That really isn't necessary

mikey_dragon wrote:They should check it at least. 

Weird that no English are complaining about Sexton today. If AWJ was whinging they’d be crying for the next 2 weeks. Toxic people.

Really Mikey ????

Well that's Ireland used their get out of jail card

Poor poor defence from Ireland there. Great line by Parkes, 9 times out of 10 he grounds that cleanly. Big stroke of luck for Ireland.

Looked a good poach to me

Haven’t ireland got a card yet...

AWJ don't look very 'appy

On the one hand I thought that steal by Stander was fine.

On the other hand if it has been penalised there's definitely a question of yellow card that close to the line.

This game is on the edge here.

Wales definitely looking the stronger side now, if they can score now it will make a real game of it

I haven't worked out which prop is at fault, or is it both

If you’ve got 20 minutes to score two tries, and Poite is the ref, don’t call for a scrum after a penalty. They take about 2-3 minutes with him!

king_carlos wrote:On the one hand I thought that steal by Stander was fine.

On the other hand if it has been penalised there's definitely a question of yellow card that close to the line.

This game is on the edge here.

Ref was screaming 'no hands' before the steal.

It’s probably Dillon Lewis.

Feet went, landed on his face

Really dirty shoulder in the back of Van Der Flier

lostinwales wrote:

king_carlos wrote:On the one hand I thought that steal by Stander was fine.

On the other hand if it has been penalised there's definitely a question of yellow card that close to the line.

This game is on the edge here.

Ref was screaming 'no hands' before the steal.

I know, but there's no one on their feet clearing out for Wales so I don't think it's the right call.

Obviously Stander should still release if he hears the ref screaming no hands.

Well to be fair we had no chance as soon as Poite was announced as ref.

Thought that scramble was okay

...and he wonders why......................

Great game

Good enough game, Wales will do really well to win from here

mikey_dragon wrote:Well to be fair we had no chance as soon as Poite was announced as ref.

Haha

Really enjoying it

BigGee's taking time out his weekend to mod the thread. Stay polite please 606ers.

The 6 Nations is wonderful tournament but I really wish we could have cleaner threads that concentrate on the rugby on 606v2. A few too many posters seem to buy into the silly rhetoric from some players with words such as 'hate' and 'war' thrown around all too frequently.

Go for the bonus point

BigGee wrote:I am just going to keep on deleting posts that have the intention of antagonising. Please just get back to the match, it is becoming a good game

Can you do the same for the welsh performance, it seems to be antagonising their fans quite a bit

He doesn't want to watch the game then KC

Is North playing?

ahh