Wales and Ireland Two warm up test series Match Thread

[maestegmafia]

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7th SEPTEMBER 2019
KO: 14:00
IRELAND VS WALES
Aviva Stadium

Ireland

15. Rob Kearney (UCD/Leinster) 91 caps
14. Jordan Larmour (St Mary’s College/Leinster) 15 caps
13. Robbie Henshaw (Buccaneers/Leinster) 37 caps
12. Bundee Aki (Galwegians/Connacht) 19 caps
11. Keith Earls (Young Munster/Munster) 77 caps
10. Jonathan Sexton (St Marys College/Leinster) 83 caps
9. Conor Murray (Garryowen/Munster) 73 caps

1. Cian Healy (Clontarf/Leinster) 90 caps
2. Rory Best (Banbridge/Ulster) 119 caps CAPTAIN
3. Tadhg Furlong (Clontarf/Leinster) 35 caps
4. James Ryan (UCD/Leinster) 18 caps
5. Jean Kleyn (Munster) 2 caps
6. CJ Stander (Shannon/Munster) 32 caps
7. Josh van der Flier (UCD/Leinster) 18 caps
8. Jack Conan (Old Belvedere/Leinster) 15 caps

Replacements
16. Sean Cronin (St Mary’s College/Leinster) 69 caps
17. Dave Kilcoyne (UL Bohemians/Munster) 30 caps
18. Andrew Porter (UCD/Leinster) 17 caps
19. Iain Henderson (Queens University/Ulster) 47 caps
20. Rhys Ruddock (St Mary’s College/Leinster) 22
21. Luke McGrath (UCD/Leinster) 13 caps
22. Jack Carty (Buccaneers/Connacht) 6 caps
23. Garry Ringrose (UCD/Leinster) 23 caps


Wales

Leigh Halfpenny (Scarlets); George North (Ospreys), Jonathan Davies (Scarlets), Hadleigh Parkes (Scarlets), Josh Adams (Worcester Warriors); Rhys Patchell (Scarlets), Tomos Williams (Cardiff Blues); Wyn Jones (Scarlets), Elliot Dee (Dragons), Tomas Francis (Exeter), Jake Ball (Scarlets), Alun Wyn Jones (capt, Ospreys), Aaron Wainwright (Dragons), Justin Tipuric (Ospreys), Ross Moriarty (Dragons).

Replacements: Ken Owens (Scarlets), Nicky Smith (Ospreys), Dillon Lewis (Cardiff Blues), Adam Beard (Ospreys), Josh Navidi (Cardiff Blues), Gareth Davies (Scarlets), Dan Biggar (Northampton Saints), Owen Watkin (Ospreys)

[Guest]

Halfpenny’s looking a bit beefy! Too much weights! Looks like a flanker.

[Guest]

Good on some of the Irish players sporting grey hair

[Collapse2005]

Sexton and murray bossing the game so far

[Collapse2005]

Spoke too soon

[RiscaGame]

Classy by Biggar

[Guest]

Good on Dan Biggar - just told the ref he didn’t score! Good sportsmanship.

[Guest]

Sexton ain’t doin jack

[Guest]

Nice try and bonus points for almost taking a dodgy French referee out of the RWC

[RiscaGame]

Nice line.

[majesticimperialman]

Nice try by Wales. How Biggar did not score is beyond me.

[majesticimperialman]

Very sloppy play by Ireland.

[RiscaGame]

Never seen Dee do that for Wales yet. Constantly does that release on the floor for Dragons

[Guest]

Sexton down...oh he’s up, heart palpitations for Ireland. Thank god he’s up.

[RiscaGame]

Brutal half.

[majesticimperialman]

Wales should be disapointed only being 3 points in front at half time. 

Ireland look tired. out of sorts. Sexton not having a good game does nothing to help their situation either.

[SecretFly]

Sexton down...oh he’s up, heart palpitations for Ireland. Thank god he’s up.

If it's not to be it won't be.  If he doesn't make it, he won't make it.  WC still gotta be played and will be.

[SecretFly]

Wales should be disapointed only being 3 points in front at half time. 

Ireland look tired. out of sorts. Sexton not having a good game does nothing to help their situation either.

You're right they look out of sorts but apart from the Biggar intercept period, where are in-form Wales looking dominant enough to be well ahead?

Ireland are doing okay for a team only learning how to play the game again

[Collapse2005]

Hope Patchell is alright, he looked pretty warped when he went off

[mikey_dragon]

Patchell HIA, not good, as he could be out for a few weeks. Biggar is usually awesome in defence but he has been rather poor during this series. JD2 hasn't been a great defender today. I think I was recently suggesting that Kearney looks past it? I was wrong about that. He is definitely the guy you want fielding the ball against teams like Wales.

[Guest]

Wales should be disapointed only being 3 points in front at half time. 

Ireland look tired. out of sorts. Sexton not having a good game does nothing to help their situation either.

Odd comment. Ireland look better in attack, for me. Wales better in the set piece perhaps.

Close game so far.

[RiscaGame]

Think Madge is listening to the possession stat really? That’s my best guess.

[mikey_dragon]

Ireland have won a few 1v1s, but as I alluded to Biggar and JD2 are missing tackles.

[Collapse2005]

Wales should be disapointed only being 3 points in front at half time. 

Ireland look tired. out of sorts. Sexton not having a good game does nothing to help their situation either.

Odd comment. Ireland look better in attack, for me. Wales better in the set piece perhaps.

Close game so far.

Looks fairly even in my view everywhere except lineout. 10-7 about right

[majesticimperialman]

Think Madge is listening to the possession stat really? That’s my best guess.

I am actually watching the game. so your guess is wrong.

[RiscaGame]

IF (and obviously I hope not) Patchell is out, Evans has to start against Georgia in case he has to start against a bigger team.

Tomos Williams looking like first choice 9 for me. Box kicks not as rushed as Gareth Davies and Aled Davies is Aled Davies.

[RiscaGame]

Must only be one team allowed to jackal today.

[Collapse2005]

Wales lucky not to get carded in that sequence, lots of infringements.

[mikey_dragon]

Ireland were holding on multiple phases ago anyway. Let’s sub Raynal for Barnes.

[RiscaGame]

That’s Wales’ chance gone now Best is off.

[mikey_dragon]

Stander took it outside the 22....

[BigGee]

Wales getting pounded here, they will do very well to hold out

It goes to TMO

[RiscaGame]

Very iffy

[BigGee]

It was the second question, so try stands

[Collapse2005]

Wales lucky not to get a yellow

[mikey_dragon]

Wonder how he seen that...

[majesticimperialman]

Sexton having a dad day with the boot. compared to his normal kicking.

[No9]

WTF.. complete cr@p ref decision. Ref call held up, goes to TMO as convinced by Barnes. TMO says inconclusive so on field call and ref changes his mind and awards it.... how the hell does that work.

[Guest]

Dodgy French referee living up to their reputation. It’s like a game of roulette with these jokers.

[Shifty]

Can you ask for the TMO, the TMO says inconclusive, but you award the try anyway?

That's a new one to me.

[mikey_dragon]

Ireland cheating at the scrum again. Just need their French mate to give it to them now.

[Collapse2005]

It was a pretty obvious try. Good call ref

[Guest]

It’s because the ref asked ‘any reason NOT to award it’. And the TMO couldn’t see a reason. So try.

[RiscaGame]

Finally got a scrum penalty. Didn’t care about the binding on the arm, but pinged him in the end.

[Collapse2005]

Ireland cheating at the scrum again. Just need their French mate to give it to them now.

Bad call on that one. Wales collapsing the scrum.

[Guest]

It was a pretty obvious try. Good call ref

Disagree about obvious. Hence needing the TMO to review it. The Hadleigh Parkes try was obvious.

[Shifty]

Perfect lineout ball off the back and we still mess it up. Hopeless.

[No9]

It was a pretty obvious try. Good call ref

You want to slow down on the Guinness. Obviously affecting your ability to think.

[Guest]

Ireland cheating at the scrum again. Just need their French mate to give it to them now.

Bad call on that one. Wales collapsing the scrum.

Other way around. Hence the penalty to Wales. It was obvious!

[mikey_dragon]

Ireland were cheating all last week at the scrum Guns. You’re always so one-eyed in this fixture. If Wayne Barnes was the man in the middle you’d be having a field day.

[LondonTiger]

Can you ask for the TMO, the TMO says inconclusive, but you award the try anyway?

That's a new one to me.

Question was any reason I cannot award the try. Think it was Barnes who saw the grounding on the pitch. TMO says nothing conclusive to overrule the on field decision.

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