6N 2017: Ireland v England, 18 March

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IRELAND v ENGLAND
18 March 2017
KO: 17:00 GMT
Aviva Stadium, Dublin

Referee: Jerome Garces (France)
Touch judges: Mathieu Raynal (France) & Marius Mitrea (Italy)
TMO: Ben Skeen (New Zealand)

Live on [BBC, RTE, DMAX, FR2, ITV (H)]

A. Head to Head

131 Played 131
47 Won 76
8 Drawn 8
76 Lost 47
1,079 Points 1,526

B. Recent Form

27 February 2016
Twickenham, London
21 – 10 to England

5 September 2015
Twickenham, London
21 – 13 to England

1 March 2015
Aviva Stadium, Dublin
19 – 9 to Ireland

22 February 2014
Twickenham, London
13 – 10 to England

10 February 2013
Aviva Stadium, Dublin
6 – 12 to England

17 March 2012
Twickenham, London
30 – 9 to England

C. Teams

IRELAND

Payne; Earls, Ringrose, Henshaw, Zebo; Sexton, Marmion; McGrath, Best (captain), Furlong; Ryan, Henderson; Stander, O'Brien, Heaslip,

Replacements: Scannell, Healy, Ryan, Toner, O'Mahony, McGrath, Jackson, Conway.

ENGLAND

Brown; Watson, Joseph, Farrell, Daly; Ford, Youngs; Marler, Hartley (captain), Cole; Launchbury, Lawes; Itoje, Haskell, B Vunipola.

Replacements: George, M Vunipola, Sinckler, Wood, Hughes, Care, Te'o, Nowell.

Oh FFS, we're cooked.

Support play is just not good enough from Ireland!

what on earth is going on with the English tackling

A penalty why? You can't even tackle these pussies now? Frak off.

Not much wrong with that tackle

Lol.

England can only make their tackles when it is around the neck. Otherwise they seem to keep falling off.

trebellbobaggins wrote:A penalty why? You can't even tackle these pussies now?  Frak off.

o0

That is a terrible decision.

If he'd blown for BV's high tackle earlier it would have been fair enough.

Currently 0-3 to England in this half. Like I said, this possession is meaningless if we can't convert it into points.

Oh Christ not Tom Wood. Powder puff.

Nothing wrong with it. Soft. My grandad wouod be ashamed.

Oo so the ref wants you to win.

Lol, that's laughable. Are the Irish really that soft?

Smart from Best.

Cracking kick.

There weren't even arms in that tackle from Wood. Totally illegal.

Well done on the win Ireland.

Would like to see some of those hits on Sexton again, they look committed and barely late but might be horribly biased.

High tackle on Hughes lol

trebellbobaggins wrote:Oo so the ref wants you to win.

payback for Barnes trying to stitch the French up

Offside and my god he saw it.

nathan wrote:Lol, that's laughable. Are the Irish really that soft?

Well, what do you think after those tackles, Nathan? 

Take it back, definitely late from the useless, lanky idiot Wood. No idea why he's even in the squad.

Bit unlucky there, just a bit of over enthusiasm

Rory_Gallagher wrote:

nathan wrote:Lol, that's laughable. Are the Irish really that soft?

Well, what do you think after those tackles, Nathan? 

You are missing the part where they have to have a moan after each one. They'll be taking their ball home in a moment.

Leavy - big game for him. Excellent, excellent prospect. It will be a massive battle between himself and van der Flier for the 7 shirt.

Thought Farrell might go for the corner there. I don't think we're going to have lots of chances down this end so might have been worth the gamble given our maul.

Ringrose and Hendy have been excellent in this game.

And here is Jamie George to win the entire game himself according to one poster on here.

Ireland tiring or am I being fooled here

That's the end of Ireland I feel, England should see this home now.

Hughes tackled by a player in the floor, should be our pen

Teo in lala land

Counting his teeth

Oh so this is how Ireland win.. I' am sad to see this best in the world side have to get so dirty.

Our bench just doesn't have the impact that England's does. In fact, they will probably weaken the set piece in particular.

How on earth is that a reset? Ireland wheeling it

Shame for Teo, looked like mixing it up with a bother might have helped.

We need to speed this up, we're really short on time.

Henshaw is an idiot sometimes. If he rolled away that would have been our penalty.

This is going to be a close finish

Typical O'Mahony. Amazing player.

Rory_Gallagher wrote:Cracking kick.

Great kick but couldn't see where Itoje was offside ...

England choked in the face of the Irish fire and poor decisions.

England will win

That's the game.

Heaf - I can't even remember what happened when I made that comment. 

ebop wrote:England will win

I don't think we will