Ireland vs Scotland

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Ireland vs Scotland

RWC 2023, Pool B

Saturday 7 October, 8pm
Stade de France, Saint-Denis

Referee: Nic Berry
Assistant Referee 1: Wayne Barnes
Assistant Referee 2: Jordan Way
TV Match Official: Brett Cronan

Ireland

15. Hugo Keenan, 14. Mack Hansen, 13. Garry Ringrose, 12. Bundee Aki, 11. James Lowe, 10. Johnny Sexton, 9. Jamison Gibson-Park

1. Andrew Porter, 2. Dan Sheehan, 3. Tadhg Furlong, 4. Tadhg Beirne, 5. Iain Henderson, 6. Peter O’Mahony, 7. Josh van der Flier, 8. Caelan Doris

Replacements:16. Ronan Kelleher, 17. David Kilcoyne, 18. Finlay Bealham, 19. James Ryan, 20. Jack Conan, 21. Conor Murray, 22. Jack Crowley, 23. Stuart McCloskey

Scotland

15. Blair Kinghorn, 14. Darcy Graham, 13. Huw Jones, 12. Sione Tuipulotu, 11. Duhan van der Merwe, 10. Finn Russell, 9. Ali Price; 1. Pierre Schoeman, 2. George Turner, 3. Zander Fagerson, 4. Richie Gray, 5. Grant Gilchrist, 6. Jamie Ritchie (capt), 7. Rory Darge, 8. Jack Dempsey.

Replacements: 16. Ewan Ashman, 17. Rory Sutherland, 18. WP Nel, 19. Scott Cummings, 20. Matt Fagerson, 21. Luke Crosbie, 22. George Horne, 23. Ollie Smith.

tigertattie wrote:Where’s the card for sexpest for the push?

The push was well deserved, Schoeman should have been carded though. Dangerous from him.

Heuer27 wrote:We made a better fist of it against the Boks. And we never fired a shot against them.
Let’s win the second half and get the first flight home.

Never going to happen

31-0 is where Scotland have been known to start playing.

This is utter, utter drivel against Ireland once again.

Feels like this game has gone a bit haywire now

I think the most embarrassing thing is Ireland are taking off their key players to save them for the bigger games.

Now we know how Romania feel

Seems to me the bombsquad is catching on in Ireland

Gordon D'arcy on commentary is just a bit too Dublin smug for my liking.

Scott Hastings is his usual inane drivel.

This in a microcosm in why this display is so disappointing. Tap and go and knock on, undoing so much hard work.

What is with TV companies wanting to show emotional fans of teams that are losing? Is it really necessary like, leave the poor people alone.

Scotland high point so far ? Schoeman pushing Dan Sheehan over the advertising hoarding.

Bit of a joke this performance. The trip from Smith was pathetic

Mcsweens wrote:Gordon D'arcy on commentary is just a bit too Dublin smug for my liking.

Scott Hastings is his usual inane drivel.

Darcy is from Wexford not Dublin.

Look we’re getting stuffed. Today outplayed. But why are Ireland getting off with soooooo many offsides and coming in at the side at the breakdowns????

That's a very sexy little kick from Crowley. I'm swelling up a bit. Not quite half chub but the anti climax of the match in general had created an unfairly flaccid starting point.

Oh jeez there's 20 minutes left 

What's our biggest ever defeat?

Collapse2005 wrote:

Mcsweens wrote:Gordon D'arcy on commentary is just a bit too Dublin smug for my liking.

Scott Hastings is his usual inane drivel.

Darcy is from Wexford not Dublin.

In that case he has no excuse. I didn't say he was born in Dublin.

Must be getting close

tigertattie wrote:Look we’re getting stuffed. Today outplayed. But why are Ireland getting off with soooooo many offsides and coming in at the side at the breakdowns????

This is Nick Berry's recognised blindspot.

Toonie has to take the fall for this one.

We need to move forward with a coach who can get us out of this funk against the big boys.

Smith has had a shocker this game

Young lad may take a real dent in confidence after this

We got a few right good pumpings off SA and NZ in the 90s. We've never conceded 70 (yet).

Probably time this Scotland side stops getting talked up without consistently delivering against top sides, tbh

Here comes the come back

No?

Oh well

Well at least we did not get nilled!

TheMildlyFranticLlama wrote:Probably time this Scotland side stops getting talked up without consistently delivering against top sides, tbh

Agreed

GAME ON BABY

tigertattie wrote:Here comes the come back

No?

Oh well

....

TheMildlyFranticLlama wrote:Probably time this Scotland side stops getting talked up without consistently delivering against top sides, tbh

Agreed but also we need to just perform better against them.

Not necessarily wins but actually compete. This is just abysmal

Ok, maybe the come back is on

No point in turning up to the club when it’s last orders.

This is a lesson for Ireland, you don't stop playing against good sides, they can hit you quick. They need to turn it back on again now

Could Irish players please stop getting injured. Can't we all just get along?

C'mon Fiji.

That's where I'm at now.

Russell has completely lost his head, you can tell by his reactions and stuff here

First sensible thing Scott Hastings has said all night. Horne to scrum half. Expose the tired legs.

It’s a training run for the Irish now.

jimbopip wrote:C'mon Fiji.

That's where I'm at now.

Lol. Its silly to put anything above Abe such as supporting Scotland. You'll only be disappointed otherwise..

RDW wrote:Smith has had a shocker this game

Young lad may take a real dent in confidence after this

If Smith was a kiwi or a saffer he'd be dropped for quite a while after such a petulant and selfish act.

Congrats Ireland, some set-up you've put together.
The results of 20 years of hard work are there for all to see.

Think Ireland will dust off the QF bogey this year, they’re the best team but also extremely confident since that series win in NZ. I don’t think Wales would get passed them or NZ in a semi, assuming we beat Arg or Japan.

Hard luck to Scotland, pity to see a team go out that has deserved more. If they had been in Group C or D they would be in a quarter final now. They will learn from this one no doubt and will be back strong in the 6 nations.

For Ireland, all we have to do now is beat the All Black's to make the semi's. How hard can it be, right?

Well done Ireland, looking impressive indeed. If the Boks don't win the RWC, I would hope you do.

Congrats Ireland. Well worth the win by some margin

Fair play to the majority of Irish fans here for not rubbing our noses in it. Only seen a few snaps but they were in response to some Scottish wums.

Best wishes going forward. As long as you spank the blackness we’ll still be cousins.

We all thought the selection was a bit iffy for this one but if Watson, Harris, redpath, or Healy had been on would the result have been much different?

Well done Ireland! Clinical and brutal. Who can stop them?

neilthom7 wrote:Hard luck to Scotland, pity to see a team go out that has deserved more.  If they had been in Group C or D they would be in a quarter final now.  They will learn from this one no doubt and will be back strong in the 6 nations.

For Ireland, all we have to do now is beat the All Black's to make the semi's.  How hard can it be, right?

Cheers lad, best of luck against The Darkness. Nothing ye've not done before

bsando wrote:We all thought the selection was a bit iffy for this one but if Watson, Harris, redpath, or Healy had been on would the result have been much different?

Well done Ireland! Clinical and brutal. Who can stop them?

I reckon if Ireland beat the ABs they may go all the way. Will need Lowe and Hansen fit and ready for that game though. It will be like a final.

Well done Ireland - absolutely annihilated us and barely broke sweat doing so.

No Scotland fan really expected a win but we did want to at least see progress in competitiveness against a big nation. That didn't happen and if anything we went backwards.

On the plus side  watching the sunrise over Hobart was a pretty good backdrop to the game!

Well done Ireland from here in Greece as well.

The locals in the Irish pub seemed to be supporting Scotland out of pity I suspect but the Ireland team did not shiw any of that and why should they.

Best of luck for the rest of the WC, harder tests thsn Scotland await!

https://youtu.be/NA68wEOYudc?si=En3fxR4rkDs0MABc

Listening to that interview I think it’s safe to say the Scottish pre-match bravado was noticed by the men in Green, Kinghorn would do well to reflect on his comments. Congrats to them, they were superb but rarely had to get out of 3rd gear.

Genuinely embarrassed by that performance last night, not taking the points when on offer in that first 20m was stupid, naive and in truth arrogant. I didn’t expect a win, I think we play that game 100 times and win 5, but to play like we did in that first half was utterly abject, even more so after all the talk before hand.

Not sure where we go from here really, and looking at our pipeline of players coming through I’m concerned things are not going to get any better.