Ireland v Wales

GREAT Ireland TRY

lovely hands from ireland , cracker of a try !!

Excellent try Ireland. Just like the first one, numbers just didn't add up for the defending team.

Wales better team by far, but absolutely criminal missed kick by Priestland in front of posts and equally criminal was going in early when Wales had a 5 metre scrum. Just lack of professionalism, which has long been the curse of Welsh teams. Roberts only looks half fit.

A good game at last, that half was about initiative from both teams.

Incredibly Ireland are the same price now as they were before the game. While we could all see Wales were the better side, the tide has turned ans Warburton is now off injured.
1.5 Ireland maximum play now.

Wales had their chance and blew it up the spout. How many more chances did they expect away from home against an efficient side who surely cannot play any worse than they have and still find themselves 5 points up

Warburton off for second half.

Spot on lustrumm.

Agree, Wales are losing this game themselves rather than Ireland winning it. Held up try over the line, blew 5 metre scrum, missed kick etc. Don't deserve anything on that performance.

yeah roberts looks off the pace, 1/2p getting a beating in the air from kearney, priestland place kicking all over the place

but the welsh backs running game looks brutal

Cuthbert is too tiny !

COME BACK SHANE !!

cuthbert didnt half take some leather off the ball when he put his boot to it

Ire have grown well into this.  Both teams looking a match for France so far with Italy not miles off the pace.  Scot/Eng well in div 3

no warburton, wales immediately getting bashed at the breakdown

oh dear

Hook looks miles off the pace

why dont they let halfpenny kick? or hook now he's on!!

We're seeing Priestland's true colours today. Looks a world beater when his pack give him an armchair ride, but he's a total bottler when the pressure is on.

well there you go

george north easy man of the match at this rate

Bloody hell, 1pt margin coming up.

Wayne Barnes isn't a big fan of intentional knock-ons is he?

well that evens up the slap down and yellow cards issue

Priestland's misses looking truly expensive right now

this is awful from ireland. kick kick kick

Yes, he's ignored both ballaman. Both looked very intentional to me.

Some massive errors by O'Connell and Murray costing Ireland. They could really be out of sight by now.

RED WALES!?

WTF!?, That should be RED not YELLOW!

That is as clear cut a red card as you will see.

ffs that is a red card

zero learnt from the Rolland farce at the world cup

Has a touch judge ever recommended a red in the history of rugby?

They are all referees and should know the laws.


If anyone thinks that that isn't worse than the Warburton one they should get their head tested. Clearest ever red card.

Shouldhave been a straight red no question !!

ah consistancy, far worse than what SW got a red for in the WC too

what a donkey

just for a second i thought i was watching England

TRY Tommy Bowe!

was a red card ..... but justice has just been delivered

this is a bit like england/scotland yday... except better quality

It's a good thing for Dave Pearson that his incompetence isn't going to ruin this game. Another good try for Ireland.

a bit like england/scotland yday????

what are you smoking?

better team losing

1.01 if this goes over

Brad Davies's face showed disgust, so as far as he was concerned, the 'tackle' was ok!

I cannot ever recall a linesman calling a red card though.

I guess that as the incident was 'pnished' on the field. then that is the end of the matter?

That may well be the case Freshy, which adds extra farce to proceedings. I've seen about 8 or 9 of those since the Warburton one and only 1 red card. At least 2 have been very obviously worse offences.

please be a try

please be a try

**** defence Ireland

yes north is so strong

masssssivvvve conv due

though game still v much in balance if not

MISSED

heard some shouts and thought it was over but of course they were irish

Why the feck bring ROG on now.  Jaysus

win or lose wales have shown up the irish midfield as vulnerable

this has to be yellow too no?

YESSSSSSSSSSS !!

HA ! HA ! HA !

COME ON WALES !!!!

clock still running

excellent

finally get an inrunning result this weekend

WALES WIN !!!!

Well done Wales

what a game!! amazed i got out of that in proffit lol

That ones a hell of a lot closer to legal, but there is still a lifting motion by Ferris so he has been pretty stupid. Ridiculous that both get the same sanction.


So in the end Dave Pearson's uselessness has cost Ireland. That and the fact that Ireland fluffed it.

Great stuff Wales, they are one tough team these days.

Wales can go big time now for GS with Fra at home last up and players to come back

excellent match today

eddie butler really needs to be taken away from comentating on wale's games - he's a disgrace and much more so than brian moore is!

i honestly don't see that last tackle as a pen, in fact a good tackle imo

i love wales!! hahaha

Well deserved win   

PP money back on try scorers too for anybody who bet with them

similar to Warburton's tackle in the RWC

PADDY POWER REFUND AS WELL

Do you really think wales were impressive? 5/10 from me and as much chance of a slam as i have of winning the lottery!

I think Wales just about deserved that. So many missed chances as well.

HYMNS AND ARIAS

CONAN LAN

I thought Barnes should have pressed Pearson on exactly what he saw.

Spear tackle Dave? Landed on his neck? Red card.

great composure by halfpenny for the last kick, what a great game

SPYKE R US

Where's pacrifc gone?Cat got your tongue.

21-23

You have to take the touch judges word really. Just like the Bryce Lawrence thing with Schalk Burger. Sees a gouge, reports a gouge, says it's "at least a yellow". Touch judges just refuse to advise reds.

Wales with Eng away next up and then 3 home games will certainly be thinking a fair chance of GS now.

Final game v Fra would be a great decider

Pen at the end was prob right,  but never a yellow, not that that mattered, what was more worrying is how easily wales got from their own 22 to the irish 22.  poor display from ireland to be honest,
  had the game sown up and plucked defeat from the jaws of victory.

cant see why in the world we went for the 3 points when it was on the outeredge of sextons range and for the life of me i dont understand why ogara and reddan come on with 3 mins to go .

very disappointing tbh

How do the officials explain that catastrophic error in failing to red card BD ?

It was not even a penalty at the end, however, despite that, I think that Wales deserved it, & are a cut above the French, & with a tight five that was cobbled together, they are the real deal.

a boly in his neck and O'Connell would be a dead ringer for Herman Munster.

bolt

something being overlooked here and it is Ferris just being plain feckin stupid making a tackle like that right in front with 1 minute to go

Freshy - I think for my thoughts you may as well read ballaman's post below. It wasn't a terrible tackle by Ferris, but enough under the laws to be a pen. Yellow card both pointless and a bit daft bearing in mind Davies' tackle.


Same as yesterday, the losing team can have issues with the officials, but in the end they both cost themseleves the win through errors and poor decisions.

Well done Wales!

BD should have been off though.

After some losses on the football earlier, I am now £300+ up for the day. I took the gamble until the end and it paid off, not once when we Wales were 8 points behind did I consider laying it off.

what price did wales trade 8 points down ?

just as well as you will end up in the poor house laying odds like that when Wales were 8 points down

Ire low was 1.08 so Wales well into double figs if there was money in the market on that side of the book but I didn't notice

cheers

RM, I have to agree with Ballaman's post.

Wales right now, are playing a very good brand of rugby, they always seem to cross the gain line, which I cant see any other team in the Six Nations living with.

they traded at at least 11 for a while, quite possibly higher, i wasn't taking to much notice though, that was a head in hands moment until the last kick lol

I should say I didn't take those odds when they were 8 points down, I took a pre-match bet with a bit of trading but for the most part I held the liability.

George North is a bit of a beast. Put D'Arcy on his @rsey, before an exquisite back of the hand pass to see Davies away for his try. Power and finesse in one movement.

North is the best 20 yo we have seen in The Championship for a while.

TheVis     05 Feb 12 13:50 
ITCB - perhaps provincially it's the non-Irish players that finish the teams off nicely whereas in Wales it's the non Welsh that just haven't been good enough

Well it's a theory and most of the Irish imports are very good.  Don't think it is the main issue though.

For the Welsh payers coming into the National Camp, its a real step up for them.  Better coaching, more upbeat, more ambition.  For several Irish players, in essence the Leinster contingent, joining up with Ireland is like a return to the Dark Ages.  Even the Munster Players must be sick to death of listening to Uncle Decco; some of them have had him coaching them since they were kids!

How many times today did you see Sexton and Kearney resort to the garryowen?  Far more often that they would in a blue shirt, that's for sure.  That's a key difference in direction between the likes of Schmidt and Kidney.

Ok, Kiddo got us over the line in his first year by our fingertips.  That was the awful year when the laws favoured catch and kick.  Perfect for the way he likes to play.  The laws have thankfully moved on and season by season Ireland have regressed under his stewardship.  Australia in the RWC was an anomoly and a one off.We frustrated Australia with magnificant defence and we didnt need to create anything to win.

Yet nobody says a word because Decco is one of the good guys.  Very humble etc.  Never gives anyone any ammunition to go after him.  But for how much longer?

I don't want to overreact because today we got beaten by a very good side.  But we have been in decline for too many seasons now.  I really hope we can go to NZ in the Summer with a new fresh modern coach.

We'll know a hell of a lot more after next week.  I shall be hoping the French hype machine gets into gear after what was a fairly laboured win over Italy I thought.