England v Ireland; Six Nations Round 3

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ENGLAND vs  IRELAND

Date: Saturday 27th February 2016
Venue: Twickenham
Kick Off: 16:50 (GMT)
Referee: Romain Poite (FFR)
Asst Refs: Nigel Owens (WRU), Alexandre Ruiz (FFR)
TMO: Shaun Veldsman (SARU)
TV Coverage: Live on ITV, RTE, FR2


Head to Head

Played - 119
Wins - 65/47
Draws - 7
Points - 1443/1037


Current Form

England:
W 40-9 v Italy
W 15-9 v Scotland
W 60-3 v Uruguay

Ireland:
L 9-10 v France
D 16-16 v wales
L 20-43 v Argentina


Recent Meetings

05/09/15 England 21 Ireland 13
01/03015 Ireland 19 England 9
22/02/14 England 13 Ireland 10
10/02/13 Ireland 6 England 12
17/03/12 England 30 Ireland 9



Teams

England


1 Joe Marler (Harlequins, 39 caps)
2 Dylan Hartley (captain, Northampton Saints, 68 caps)
3 Dan Cole (Leicester Tigers, 58 caps)
4 Maro Itoje (Saracens, 1 cap)
5 George Kruis (Saracens, 12 caps)
6 Chris Robshaw (Harlequins, 45 caps)
7 James Haskell (Wasps, 64 caps)
8 Billy Vunipola (vice captain, Saracens, 23 caps)
9 Ben Youngs (Leicester Tigers, 54 caps)
10 George Ford (Bath Rugby, 19 caps)
11 Jack Nowell (Exeter Chiefs, 12 caps)
12 Owen Farrell (vice captain, Saracens, 37 caps)
13 Jonathan Joseph (Bath Rugby, 18 caps)
14 Anthony Watson (Bath Rugby, 17 caps)
15 Mike Brown (vice captain, Harlequins, 45 caps)
Replacements
16 Jamie George (Saracens, 5 caps)
17 Mako Vunipola (Saracens, 30 caps)
18 Paul Hill (Northampton Saints, 1 cap)
19 Courtney Lawes (Northampton Saints, 44 caps)
20 Jack Clifford (Harlequins, 2 caps)
21 Danny Care (Harlequins, 56 caps)
22 Elliot Daly (Wasps, uncapped)
23 Alex Goode (Saracens, 20 caps)


Ireland


15. Rob Kearney (UCD/Leinster) 68
14. Andrew Trimble (Ballymena/Ulster) 60
13. Robbie Henshaw (Buccaneers/Connacht) 17
12. Stuart McCloskey (Ballynahinch/Ulster)*
11. Keith Earls (Young Munster/Munster) 47
10. Jonathan Sexton (St Mary's College/Leinster) 58
9. Conor Murray (Garryowen/Munster) 44
1. Jack McGrath (St. Mary's College/Leinster) 27
2. Rory Best (Banbridge/Ulster) Captain 91
3. Mike Ross (Clontarf/Leinster) 56
4. Donnacha Ryan (Shannon/Munster) 36
5. Devin Toner (Lansdowne/Leinster) 33
6. CJ Stander (Munster) 2
7. Josh van der Flier (UCD/Leinster)*
8. Jamie Heaslip (Dublin University/Leinster) Vice Captain 82

Replacements
16. Richard Strauss (Old Wesley/Leinster) 14
17. Cian Healy (Clontarf/Leinster) 56
18. Nathan White (Connacht) 10
19. Ultane Dillane (Corinthians/Connacht)*
20. Rhys Ruddock (St Mary's College/Leinster) 7
21. Eoin Reddan (Old Crescent/Leinster) 68
22. Ian Madigan (Blackrock College/Leinster) 27
23. Simon Zebo (Cork Con/Munster) 22

lostinwales wrote:What a welcome to test rugby for McCloskey. Nice break at the end but every other time he has had the ball he has had a couple of English defenders at the same time.

He barely had one good clean pass throughout the game. Sexton is seriously off form.

How many breakdown penalties can England give away without getting blown for it?

Oh for god sakes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


Penalty penalty penalty penalty!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Do they not feckin learn!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Rory_Gallagher wrote:How many breakdown penalties can England give away without getting blown for it?

They do it all the time and get away with it. And to think these people have the cheek to say Wales are always getting the rub of green with refs.

At last!!!!!

Great score but definite call for a knock on by Kruis in the phase before the score.

Good try by England.

Billy V has simply been immense today.

Oh god not him scoring.

And why does Farrell do that stupid thing with his fingers! He should stop that!

First half dominance starting to show now with Ireland tiring.

Care has added some zip and quality of bench showing already. I can see us pulling away a little now, Ireland look spent.

game set and match

Ireland have done well to hold them this long but eventually all the tackling we're doing had to tell.

Shifty wrote:Oh god not him scoring.  

Why?

If that's a try saver by Nowell....wow.

Now that's a try-saver. McCloskey looked a little slow there.

When he's been on the pitch, Haskell has been fantastic.

Fabulous second score.

English defensive line speed very good indeed.

In touch first??

No he wasn't. The player just dropped it|

He was not in touch he lost the ball over the line?

Sgt_Pooly wrote:When he's been on the pitch, Haskell has been fantastic.

Agree SGt, hes playing like the player we wanted,...just relentless and brutal in defence.

Id like to see him just start to carry a bit more. He's made a couple today and they were big.

A bit worrying if the tmo can't see he was wrong.

Should be a yellow for Robshaw, Ireland's lineout has killed them

His knee hits the line before he loses control so its the right call. Shame, good break from Sexton.

Some real green shoots in attack from Ireland but the biggest issue we face is our unsympathetic passing. Just basic skills so low from all the teams this year. Think England would have five tries or so by now if they executed very basic skills well!

He really seems to suite the wolf pack ethos GF, do the basics and concentrate on disrupting the opposition.

Lets get that bench emptied, up the tempo. We don't want to give Ireland any hope, they look like they can get back into this.

Next score is a big one.

Heaslip is a show pony on the wing and not doing the hard work

England are desperately in need of a half decent stand off. All the ball in the first half and no guile. Everything is either too predictable or too slow.

Never heard of this 'de lan' and I've probably spelt that wrong. Should have been another yellow for that penalty.

Those beautiful offloads from Dillane to VDF back to Dillane give me hope our next generation have the skills to win with a less negative game plan than the one we've had to adopt to get any success in the past. Great to see.

How was that not a 2nd yellow??

Ireland really need better than Heaslip, not sure what he adds anymore.

Clifford on for Robshaw pls, give us pace.

How did we not get a yellow there????

mikey_dragon wrote:Never heard of this 'de lan' and I've probably spelt that wrong.

Ultan Dillane. Exciting prospect, very athletic, big guy, good skills.

Haskel should be offl, I am not sure Brown knew what he was doing

Robshaw off before he's carded, I suspect.

Spoke too soon!

Mike Brown a lucky boy - very reckless to be fly hacking a ball next to someone's head.

I think Care was trapped there. Refs need to show empathy here and wave it on. This happened a lot to Wales last night and Barnes showed no empathy at all.

mikey_dragon wrote:I think Care was trapped there. Refs need to show empathy here and wave it on. This happened a lot to Wales last night and Barnes showed no empathy at all.

Agree Mickwy.

If there was a yellow it should have been for Haskell for being off his feet.

Brown reckless - should be carded.

Care a bit unlucky to be carded.

Try here and we'll have a good finish. Come on Ireland. Wee burst for McCloskey.

Notch wrote:

mikey_dragon wrote:Never heard of this 'de lan' and I've probably spelt that wrong.

Ultan Dillane. Exciting prospect, very athletic, big guy, good skills.

Good news for Ireland then. Where does he play his club rugby?

Good effort by VDF there, but Daly actually managed to defend on this occasion.

GeordieFalcon wrote:And why does Farrell do that stupid thing with his fingers! He should stop that!

No he shouldn't. It's for a charity called joining Jack and people from Wigan area like him, Bradley Wiggins and a few Rugby League players do it to show support.

Nah penalty. Game over probably.

Ireland robbed there but you can t see the ball down wrong quesstion asked by ref

That was a try.

Correct call, no try.

Huge huge scrum....that's why Dan Cole is one of the best.

mikey_dragon wrote:

Notch wrote:

mikey_dragon wrote:Never heard of this 'de lan' and I've probably spelt that wrong.

Ultan Dillane. Exciting prospect, very athletic, big guy, good skills.

Good news for Ireland then. Where does he play his club rugby?

Good effort by VDF there, but Daly actually managed to defend on this occasion.

Connacht. The fact they're never on TV is probably why you've not heard of him! But he's actually having a very good season.

RiscaGame wrote:

GeordieFalcon wrote:And why does Farrell do that stupid thing with his fingers! He should stop that!

No he shouldn't. It's for a charity called joining Jack and people from Wigan area like him, Bradley Wiggins and a few Rugby League players do it to show support.

I wasn't aware...I take it back then.

Reddan has not done well since he came on - he ignored all the players on the left when Care was sent off and clearly fed that when there was no stability for his front row.

I hope it also shuts up all these people who says Billy cant play 80 mins!!!!