Ireland v USA - Live Match Thread & Post Match Discussion

[Pal Joey]

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Ireland v USA, Sunday 11/9 4:00pm (EST), New Plymouth

Ireland (15-1): Geordan Murphy; Tommy Bowe, Brian O'Driscoll, Gordon D'Arcy, Keith Earls, Jonathan Sexton, Conor Murray, Jamie Heaslip, Shane Jennings, Stephen Ferris; Paul O'Connell, Donncha O'Callagha; Mike Ross, Rory Best, Tom Court.

Res: Jerry Flannery, Tony Buckley, Donnacha Ryan, Denis Leamy, Eoin Reddan, Sean O'Brien, Andrew Trimble.


United States (15-1): Blaine Scully, Takudzwa Ngwenya, Paul Emerick, Andrew Suniula, James Paterson; Roland Suniula, Mike Petri, Nic Johnson, Todd Clever (capt), Louis Stanfill, Hayden Smith, John van der Giessen, Shawn Pittman, Phil Thiel, Mike MacDonald.

Res: Chris Biller, Matekitonga Moeakiola, Scott LaValla, Pat Danahy, Tim Usasz, Nese Malifa, Colin Hawley.

[HammerofThunor]

Ireland's lineout is too for kicking to the corners.

[Glas a du]

The USA are offside at every ruck!

Aye, get your excuses in early.

[Gibson]

Feic off Glas. Hes doin his jawb.

[Guest]

Glas is on the WUM.......

Really pleased with how Best is playing so far for Ireland.

[rodders]

Glas Shane Jennings.

This is like watching professionals play amateurs....unfortunately its Ireland who look like the amateurs.

[HammerofThunor]

Ireland going off their feet at every ruck

[Pal Joey]

Very clever of Ireland to bring their own lush pitch with them.

I can feel some points coming on soon for them. Some pints too!

[Cari]

Cymro - it's like a wet weekend in Rhyl down there.

AWWWWWW NOOOOO TOMMY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Jeez it's slippery out there. No try from Earls.

[Guest]

Tommy boy what's wrong with you?!

[Glas a du]

Feic off Glas. Hes doin his jawb.

Touchy! Take a next, all the is making you crabby.

[Gibson]

Bowe you tart!

[HammerofThunor]

Has Bowe greesed his hands before the game?

[rodders]

Ah!!!

[Guest]

Ireland doing their best not to score a try!

It'll come though.

[Biltong]

I have to say the referee is allowing the game to flow in some difficult conditions.

[Notch]

How bad are Tommy Bowes hands early on? He's better than this!

That was a wee bit better, still making heavy weather of it. Need to get the ball into Ferris' hands when we're in the 22.

[Gibson]

Ha! I was taking care of my man. Im loyal.

Coffee? been drinking

We are getting there.

[Guest]

I've actually hardly noticed the ref except at the scrums. Not bad going by him.

[rodders]

To be fair to Bowe it was an awful pass from D'arcy.

[Cari]

It is very slippery out there, and there's been a few knock-ons and players going on their orses. I blame the weather...

[Cari]

To be fair to Bowe it was an awful pass from D'arcy.

Yeah! And did you just that from Murphy?!

[rodders]

Murphy !!!

[Gibson]

Terrible conditions Notch. In fairness. Soapey Pill.

[Cymroglan]

None of them can catch it.

[Glas a du]

Murphy has shaken hands with Bowe!

[rodders]

Murray !!!!

[Gibson]

Jenno MOTM so far.

[Cymroglan]

What was the name of that American speedy winger ?

[HammerofThunor]

Quinlan's is a bit biased isn't he?

[Cari]

You can tell conditions are sheet. Look at the score. On a good day that would not be the score....

Gibbo, don't get excited but Quinny is really bigging up Jenno

[Glas a du]

Jennings, fantastic. He always gets on my nerves when I'm supporting the opponents.

[Notch]

It's just like the warm-ups; we have possession, territory but we make incredibly heavy weather putting points on the board. We just huff and puff and struggle to score.

[HammerofThunor]

Ngwenya

[Guest]

At least there's a bit of balance with there bein a non Irish commentator with him Hammer

It'll come for Ireland, no need to panic at all.

[Gibson]

He would be Thunor ... if Jenno wasnt his arch-enemy for 10 years!

[Cari]

Before anyone says - don't blame Tommy for that!

[Glas a du]

Is Bowe going to catch a cold?

[Guest]

Notch - no where near as bad as the warm ups. You're actually playing a lot better, and doing some good moves in the backs. It's only dropped balls that are troubling you and in this whether, errors like that are understandable, you guys aren't looking that bad at all.

[Cymroglan]

Ngwenya

Thasts the one,, is he there ?

[Gibson]

Dreamer

[Cari]

Cymro - if that's the one who plays for Biarritz, then yes he is (so I heard in the commentary).

[HammerofThunor]

At least there's a bit of balance with there bein a non Irish commentator with him Hammer

It'll come for Ireland, no need to panic at all.

I'm a bit sick of it actually. They haven't mentioned England enough

Whoops, knock-on

[Guest]

whether/weather - who cares about spelling, they sound the same

Gibbo - bit early for me, reckon I'll stick to , but diolch.

[Cymroglan]

Diolch Cari

[Ozzy3213]

Conor Murray looks lively, but needs to get a bit more control in his game.

good scrum there Ireland.

[HammerofThunor]

Cymro, he's the one in the stars and stripes scrumcap

[Pal Joey]

Yeah dreamer, scrappy so far but Kidney at HT should ask them to make more of their possession... control the ball more. It will come in the 2nd half hopefully. They look most likely to score - conditions aren't helping.

[rodders]

Why when we break and have quick ball is O'Callahan charging in the 10 channell!!

[Cari]

Dreamer - Portnoys will

Jeebz! Ireland just can't get through...come on!!!

[Pal Joey]

Tommy!!!

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