Ireland vs Wales - Six Nations Round 2

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Date: Saturday, February 8
Venue: Aviva Stadium, Dublin
Kick-off: 14:15 GMT
Referee: Romain Poite (France)
Assistant Referees: Luke Pearce (England), Mike Fraser (New Zealand)
TMO: Glenn Newman (New Zealand)

WALES TEAM TO PLAY IRELAND (Saturday February 8 KO 14.15 ITV & S4C)

15. Leigh Halfpenny (86 Caps)
14. George North (92 Caps)
13. Nick Tompkins (1 Cap)
12. Hadleigh Parkes (26 Caps)
11. Josh Adams (22 Caps)
10. Dan Biggar (80 Caps)
9. Tomos Williams (17 Caps)
1. Wyn Jones (23 Caps)
2. Ken Owens (74 Caps)
3. Dillon Lewis (23 Caps)
4. Jake Ball (43 Caps)
5. Alun Wyn Jones (C) (135 Caps)
6. Aaron Wainwright (19 Caps)
7. Justin Tipuric (73 Caps)
8. Taulupe Faletau (73 Caps)

Replacements:
16. Ryan Elias (10 Caps)
17. Rhys Carre (6 Caps)
18. Leon Brown (7 Caps)
19. Adam Beard (20 Caps)
20. Ross Moriarty (42 Caps)
21. Gareth Davies (51 Caps)
22. Owen Williams (3 Caps)
23. Johnny McNicholl (1 Cap)​


Ireland (v Wales):
15. Jordan Larmour
14 Andrew Conway
13 Robbie Henshaw
12 Bundee Aki
11 Jacob Stockdale
10 Johnny Sexton (capt)
9 Conor Murray
1 Cian Healy
2 Rob Herring
3 Tadhg Furlong
4 Iain Henderson
5 James Ryan
6 Peter O’Mahony
7 Josh van der Flier
8 CJ Stander

Replacements:
16 Ronan Kelleher
17 Dave Kilcoyne
18 Andrew Porter
19 Devin Toner
20 Max Deegan
21 John Cooney
22 Ross Byrne
23 Keith Earls

There’s no depth in the Irish line. Get the ball flat with no one hitting it at pace

Where is the bad weather?

lostinwales wrote:Is North playing?

Dont think he got the ball once

WELL-PAST-IT wrote:He doesn't want to watch the game then KC

Computer say what...

North still on, should be playing Centre considering how many points they put on Italy. World class player.

KC  BigGee

I imagine the excuses will be rolling out later by certain North apologists. Should have left him at 13 or outside of the 23.

Hey north did something

No slam for Wales nor England this year

First touch by north. Then drops it

What a difference a week makes

Roman MOTM for me. Got everything right.

Thats the BP, hammer time

WELL-PAST-IT wrote:KC  BigGee

Judging by his posts he is watching the game. He's also clearly spending his time doing it trawling through our posts for free!

was that last pass a bit forward?

Conway deserves that try. He's had an excellent game.

carpet baboon wrote:Hey north did something

Is this the same score as the same fixture last year?

Windier than it looks

Easy win for Ireland. Wales hardly turned up.

Proper hammering this. Well impressed with Ireland managing to not just win but to win with a bonus point and with style.

Not much has changed under Farrell, Ireland’s limited rugby still relies heavily on a ref interpretation. Be interesting to see the reaction here when that comes unstuck. Wales deserve to lose with this poor and narrow defence, Hayward stealing a living again.

Irish scrum half lost a boot

mikey_dragon wrote:Not much has changed under Farrell, Ireland’s limited rugby still relies heavily on a ref interpretation. Be interesting to see the reaction here when that comes unstuck. Wales deserve to lose with this poor and narrow defence, Hayward stealing a living again.

Enlighten us please.

AWJ screamed for that card. Shameful

mikey_dragon wrote:Not much has changed under Farrell, Ireland’s limited rugby still relies heavily on a ref interpretation. Be interesting to see the reaction here when that comes unstuck. Wales deserve to lose with this poor and narrow defence, Hayward stealing a living again.

Haha

mikey_dragon wrote:Not much has changed under Farrell, Ireland’s limited rugby still relies heavily on a ref interpretation. Be interesting to see the reaction here when that comes unstuck. Wales deserve to lose with this poor and narrow defence, Hayward stealing a living again.

Haha

Romain poite has been a disgrace, he's argued with Stander and sexton for 30 mins, Ireland should've conceded a penalty try early in the 2nd half...

It's the old 'I yellowed a player what do you mean' defence

Well done Ireland, worthy winners, took their chances, Wales did not

mikey_dragon wrote:Not much has changed under Farrell, Ireland’s limited rugby still relies heavily on a ref interpretation. Be interesting to see the reaction here when that comes unstuck. Wales deserve to lose with this poor and narrow defence, Hayward stealing a living again.

A lot has changed once you open the other eye. Much more going on in the backline. Wales not able to cope with it with the number of line breaks and metres made.

Dirtydave wrote:Romain poite has been a disgrace, he's argued with Stander and sexton for 30 mins, Ireland should've conceded a penalty try early in the 2nd half...

It's the old 'I yellowed a player what do you mean' defence

Hard to feel sorry for Wales when you benefitted from a decade of Barnes.

Dirtydave wrote:Romain poite has been a disgrace, he's argued with Stander and sexton for 30 mins, Ireland should've conceded a penalty try early in the 2nd half...

It's the old 'I yellowed a player what do you mean' defence

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Pot Hale wrote:

mikey_dragon wrote:Not much has changed under Farrell, Ireland’s limited rugby still relies heavily on a ref interpretation. Be interesting to see the reaction here when that comes unstuck. Wales deserve to lose with this poor and narrow defence, Hayward stealing a living again.

A lot has changed once you open the other eye.  Much more going on in the backline.  Wales not able to cope with it with the number of line breaks and metres made.

That’s also true, and I put that in part down to our weird defensive structure. 

Well done Ireland

shocking game management and errors but Wales could have edged this. 2 pens at 55 and 60 Wales went for scrum and lineout when they should have taken 3 with Half on the pitch. Would have been 19-13 with 20 left......but they wasted 3 minutes and gave up the scrum, momentum and then another try. AwJ had a shocker.

Make Stander captain.

Beating Wales feels great as we have not got a great record against them lately albeit thats 3 wins in a row now.

Excellent result Ireland. Wales just couldn’t cope with that onslaught and a lot more enterprise from Ireland.

Big game to prepare for now against England and then hopefully onward to a grand finale against France.

Not playing Italy are you?

Ireland won that game as they just didn’t let wales have the ball

Be interesting to see the stats but I’d go 70% possession at least for Ireland

Well played Ireland great win.

Wales are very good at disrupting lineouts and mauls, AWJ still got it.

tigertattie wrote:Ireland won that game as they just didn’t let wales have the ball

Be interesting to see the stats but I’d go 70% possession at least for Ireland

Ireland 54% possession. From the stats Wales did sod all with the ball when they had it. Most meters run was Dan Biggar with 37!

Roman poite:

Me not sure about that, didn't see anything, but on field decision is try!

Also roman Poite: there no issue with the touch down, on field decision no try

Dirtydave wrote:Romain poite has been a disgrace, he's argued with Stander and sexton for 30 mins, Ireland should've conceded a penalty try early in the 2nd half...

It's the old 'I yellowed a player what do you mean' defence

I disagree, bashing the ref isnt needed.

Ireland win in sticky, staggering 2nd/3rdish gear.  Good signs being seen about where Farrell seems to be wanting to go but of course these players at International have reflexive memories of how they've played for the last number of years.  It will need more practice to let any new ideas gel both on the training ground and then in games.

But quite good to make Wales look limited and impotent.  That's not a sneer at a team I always respect and fear as competitors, that's saying it takes a good performance to beat Wales with stuttering ease.  I mean we really are all over the place at times so if we tighten things up.... promising

mikey_dragon wrote:Not playing Italy are you?

They've conceded the game already to save their players - so terrified are they of the Green Tidal Wave! - or is that piddle trickle?

Isn't needed?

Unless it's valid!

BTW....early sign too of Wales post-Gats in second half.  Don't think that would have been how Wales played in a second half under Gatland and Edwards.  So interesting game for interested observers.

Dirtydave wrote:Roman poite:

Me not sure about that, didn't see anything, but on field decision is try!

Also roman Poite: there no issue with the touch down, on field decision no try

I think you will agree he got both decisions right in the end though

Not really. Poite clearly said he had no idea, then said it had been sent up as a try. Stander should have got yellow. Awful ref.

Wales fan here.

Congrats Ireland- deserved win based on the performance of both sides.

We just seemed to lack any imagination on the rare occasion we got the ball, and didn't seem to know how to pressurise Ireland when they had possession.