Anglo Saxons 23 - 17 Irish Wolfhounds

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The scorers:

For England Saxons:
Tries: Spencer, Waldrom
Con: Burns 2
Pen: Burns 3

For Irish Wolfhounds:
Tries: Kearney, O'Leary, Zebo
Con: Madigan

That's an unlucky one to concede, but it was coming. Thought Burns made the wrong decision! It was on anyway.

Nice shot of Wig in the stand - his lugs always make me laugh.

Looks like the dogs had 'em.

stlowe wrote:I'm not sure about English use of the bench so far, one of our best forwards going off and yet May hasn't come on for some faltering back three players and OC.

Yes agree with that

Well taken by Waldrom a bit of bad luck but sure you can't do much about that. O'Leary has improved a lot this year, some Munster heads want him ahead of Murray who I think has been average enough. TOL's passing has improved tenfold.

ireland positioned to strike back again.

Go on O'Leary!

Well taken.

TRY TIME!!!

TOL has injected some impetus since coming on, looking sharp.

Bad defending there by England

paper thin tackling there on the SH. Good try. Too good for them.

Good score by O'Leary. Game on.

TOL you legend!

Cheers Thomond

Try by TOL! Back starting for Ireland?

Eng have made some stupid changes, making their team weaker as Ireland get stronger. dumb, clearly losing is fine they want to look at new blood.

It's a little scary to see Archer and Loughney one remove from the seniors- promising players but the cupboard really is a bit bare.

Here's Johnny!

It was never in doubt Rory . I told you he was playing well. He is a great scapegoat in fairness.

cupboard bare? look at the state of eng right now. you're overflowing talent lol.

Notch wrote:It's a little scary to see Archer and Loughney one remove from the seniors- promising players but the cupboard really is a bit bare.

I hope Sin e is watching this as he thinks he doesn't need Botha/Du Preez

England using choke tackle on Ruddock and win scrum. Well I never!

trebellbobaggins wrote:cupboard bare? look at the state of eng right now. you're overflowing talent lol.

What are you talking about? Your scrum is destroying us.

Rory, give the provincial points scoring a rest for wee while would ye?

Pot Hale wrote:England using choke tackle on Ruddock and win scrum. Well I never!

Cheats

Was well played by Gaskell!

Notch wrote:Rory, give the provincial points scoring a rest for wee while would ye?

Was a clear joke Notch

Rory I think baggins is Welsh, looking for a rise.

Eoin O'Malley looks very good

Rory_Gallagher wrote:

Pot Hale wrote:England using choke tackle on Ruddock and win scrum. Well I never!

Cheats

Was well played by Gaskell!

If you can't beat 'em Rory.

Yeah, he is. I like O'Malley a lot as a player.

i'm not. i mean as a whole. irish rugby is well ahead of ours right now.

christ you can't even be nice about another team without being called for trolling.

I've said it before, we could learn a lot by looking at how you are doing it. i think our structure is wrong and we could do with less teams, less games and more control from the union to make the best of our resources and i think you do it incredibly well with quite a small pool. you'd never know it as they are so well developed.

O'Malley is class, as is Kearney. Very clever players.

Bad decision.

those botched kicks could be the difference.

maestegmafia wrote:Eoin O'Malley looks very good

He does. Very lively.

Face pass - cheers for that.

Toner is so tall he has snow on his cap

England should finish this. Too many subs at this point and Ireland looking raggedy.

Aye but I was just referring to the front row trebel. There are a number of props in England who are better than the lads turning out for the Wolfhounds and aren't even in the reckoning for the Saxons.

That's an example of what Spence has to learn about right there Rory

Thanks for the update on the score.

A side that's weak in the scrum and knocks the ball on far too much- we shouldn't be in this game.

Superb defence by Kearney. What A star..

A Very nice chip at pace by Armitage could have caused serious trouble for Ireland.

Chilli con II ?

Notch wrote:Aye but I was just referring to the front row trebel. There are a number of props in England who are better than the lads turning out for the Wolfhounds who aren't even in the reckoning for the Saxons.

That's an example of what Spence has to learn about right there Rory ;-)

*facepalm*

Bit close quarters for that. Had EOM been out wide however it would have been good But yeah, his decision making needs work.

Flip me, Kearney is brilliant isn't he?

oh right notch. Yup that's fair. as a whole though you get so much right. Lots to admire.

Intotouch - 17- 20-12 now.

20-12 now.

Penalty converted by Burns.

I'm a fan of Burns, but he's had a poor game by his usual standards.

Ahhh. Just handling, we can't afford it to not be great if we want to get back in it.

stlowe wrote:I'm a fan of Burns, but he's had a poor game by his usual standards.

Great kick there though

That's a real nasty for Zebo to deal with.

Pressure pressure it's told In the end

Ireland so good at running toward their own men, making the tackle very difficult but without actual obstruction. Really good movement.