As I was creating this thread, the forum prompted me to look at another thread called Ireland v Australia from 2022.

And I noted this. And I laughed, considering what 2023 turned out to be...

@booboo said in Ireland v Australia:

@Billy-Tell said in Ireland v Australia:

Poor Aussie. So close on this tour.

Yeah. If I was Aus I'd not be despondent moving into next year. Especially considering the side of the draw they're on.

lol

Anyway, this time around looks much the same as 2022 when we were saying it was gonna be a pounding.

Absolutely pansted by England, beaten on the park convincingly by Italy. Where to Wallabies?

Schmidt's last 2 games in charge, and lord knows we'll try hard for Uncy Joe, but it isn't going to be enough in my books.

Anyway, rumour is that JOC is back at 10 because why TF not?

@NTA said in Ireland v Wallabies 2025:

As I was creating this thread, the forum prompted me to look at another thread called Ireland v Australia from 2022.

And I noted this. And I laughed, considering what 2023 turned out to be...

@booboo said in Ireland v Australia:

@Billy-Tell said in Ireland v Australia:

Poor Aussie. So close on this tour.

Yeah. If I was Aus I'd not be despondent moving into next year. Especially considering the side of the draw they're on.

lol

Anyway, this time around looks much the same as 2022 when we were saying it was gonna be a pounding.

Absolutely pansted by England, beaten on the park convincingly by Italy. Where to Wallabies?

Schmidt's last 2 games in charge, and lord knows we'll try hard for Uncy Joe, but it isn't going to be enough in my books.

Anyway, rumour is that JOC is back at 10 because why TF not?

In my defence I present:

• exhibit A: Hamish McClennan
• exhibit B: Eddie Jones

I rest my case your honour.

Ireland team to play Australia:

15 Mack Hansen (Connacht)(28 caps)
14 Tommy O’Brien (Leinster)(4 caps)
13 Robbie Henshaw (Leinster)(83 caps)
12 Stuart McCloskey (Ulster)(23caps)
11 James Lowe (Leinster)(41 caps)
10.Sam Prendergast (Leinster)(11 caps)
9 Jamison Gibson-Park (Leinster)(44 caps)

1 Paddy McCarthy (Leinster)(2 caps)
2.Dan Sheehan (Leinster)(33 caps)
3 Tadhg Furlong (Leinster)(80 caps)
4 James Ryan (Leinster)(74 caps)
5 Tadhg Beirne (Munster)(63 caps)
6 Ryan Baird (Leinster)(31 caps)
7 Caelan Doris (Leinster)(53 caps)(captain)
8 Jack Conan (Leinster)(53 caps)

Replacements:

16. Rónan Kelleher (Leinster)(41 caps)
17. Andrew Porter (Leinster)(77 caps)
18. Thomas Clarkson (Leinster)(9 caps)
19. Nick Timoney (Ulster)(5 caps)
20. Cian Prendergast (Connacht)(6 caps)
21. Craig Casey (Munster)(22 caps)
22. Jack Crowley (Munster)(28 caps)
23. Bundee Aki (Connacht)(66 caps).

Prendergast is back. Van Der Flier and Ringrose out with injury

Numbers from 15 - 1 have come out wrong when I posted

@Kiwidom you can edit the post

Wallabies:
1 Bell
2 Faessler
3 AAA
4 Williams
5 Hooper
6 Valetini
7 McReight
8 Wilson (c)
9 Gordon
10 JOC
11 Potter
12 Ikitau
13 JAS
14 Daugunu
15 Jorgensen

Bench: 16 Pollard 17 Robertson 18 Nonggorr 19 Frost 20 Tizzano 21 Lonergan 22 Edmed 23 Kellaway

Please just run Bobby V at Prendergast’s channel all night!

@NTA When I go to edit it shows the numbers in correct order. Just won't post in correct sequence rtc

@Kiwidom I just had a play, it was the full stop after the number that seems the issue...it then makes the following lines sequential?

15. Mack Hansen (Connacht)(28 caps)
16. Tommy O’Brien (Leinster)(4 caps)
17. Robbie Henshaw (Leinster)(83 caps)
18. Stuart McCloskey (Ulster)(23caps)
    11 James Lowe (Leinster)(41 caps)
    10.Sam Prendergast (Leinster)(11 caps)
    9 Jamison Gibson-Park (Leinster)(44 caps)

9-11 dont have full stop

O’Connor having a Beaudan Barrett.

Prendergast looks like a circa 2008 random internet video of some Russian getting out of the car to start a brawl.

Australia have conceded a heap of tries to Aussies in last 2 games.
Hansen, Ioane, Lynagh.

JGP's box kicking is so accurate. If only he was playing in black.

@akan004 if only he had gone to the Crusaders instead of the Blues
If Bryn Hall got changed into an All Black JGP would have knocked it out of the park

@Steven-Harris He should have stayed at the Hurricanes.

Ireland hands on the ground at ruck gives them a penalty

Followed by a questionable penalty in their favour at ruck time

Followed by an offside maul , held up

Woke up 10 minutes ago BTW and shocked that we are this close

@akan004 said in Ireland v Wallabies 2025:

JGP's box kicking is so accurate. If only he was playing in black.

Kind of ignores the existence of Aaron Smith.

Scrum pushes early after JGP slightly delays the feed.

BUT we didn't catch the high kick from the short arm

Irish crowd booing a correct call that cancels the try.

Our lineout has gone to shit, more from the throwing side

Ireland 32 Australia 14 with ten to go.

@sparky said in Ireland v Wallabies 2025:

Ireland 32 Australia 14 with ten to go.

Men against boys really.

@Jet Super Rugby is vastly inferior preparation for Test Rugby these days than top European club Rugby.

@Jet said in Ireland v Wallabies 2025:

@sparky said in Ireland v Wallabies 2025:

Ireland 32 Australia 14 with ten to go.

Men against boys really.

Physically we've been ok.

Tactically we've been crap

Mack Hansen getting a standing ovation from an Irish crowd for scoring 3 tries against his own country.

Modern rugby.

Disgusting.

@Jet He won't be the last. Coming soon to the Aviva Stadium (Twickenham to me and you), England's own Hoskins Sotutu.

@sparky said in Ireland v Wallabies 2025:

@Jet Super Rugby is vastly inferior preparation for Test Rugby these days than top European club Rugby.

Agreed and that's mainly because we are the last two nations who want to play a brand of running Rugby

It won't matter, but at 32-19, with 5 mins to go and a penalty in front you absolutely take the 3.

Yeah 7 hands on deck past the ball.

Wish you'd seen that earlier, you Pommy bastard

@NTA England run it a lot, so do France, so do South Africa.

39-19 to Ireland. A comprehensive win.

@sparky said in Ireland v Wallabies 2025:

@NTA England run it a lot, so do France, so do South Africa.

Once their forwards have the ascendancy or after a kick.

I'm not saying we're more highly skilled - clearly the Wallabies aren't - but we don't do forward attrition as well

@sparky said in Ireland v Wallabies 2025:

39-19 to Ireland. A comprehensive win.

Spoke too soon

We look ready to get in the plane

Guys aren't even trying to make tackles

I'm regretting that I lack the ability to sleep in

Narratives are a crazy thing. Many All Blacks fans would tell you how good a job Joe Schmidt is doing, but since winning at Ellis Park, the Wallabies have won 2 of 9, with one of those being a limp dick win over Japan. Realistically his reign ends with eight losses in ten...

@NTA said in Ireland v Wallabies 2025:

@sparky said in Ireland v Wallabies 2025:

@Jet Super Rugby is vastly inferior preparation for Test Rugby these days than top European club Rugby.

Agreed and that's mainly because we are the last two nations who want to play a brand of running Rugby

Razor gave the game away last week in his post match presser (or maybe it was Chicago)...he said something like we are trying to find ways to improve the speed and get fatigue back in our game.

As in , we want the refs to speed it up because we want to throw it around as we dont have Ox Nche and Jasper Wiese in our squad.

Now while I agree with him in principle, he (we) NZ and Australia, need to play the game we are in, not the game we think we should be playing.

It's why Tupea and Leicester in midfield worked with little or no practise. Up the jumper running hard.

Feel a bit for the Wallabies i think this has been a massive season for them especially with the Lions series
There players looked cooked
I dont think having players come and go has’nt helped (Skelton ,Ikitau and O’Connor) not to mention losing some key guys to season ending injuires like Noah Lelesio ,Tom Lynah and Tom Wright

@frugby said in Ireland v Wallabies 2025:

Narratives are a crazy thing. Many All Blacks fans would tell you how good a job Joe Schmidt is doing, but since winning at Ellis Park, the Wallabies have won 2 of 9, with one of those being a limp dick win over Japan. Realistically his reign ends with eight losses in ten...

Yeah, he and his team have been incredibly disappointing since their victory over Argentina this year. Looking back, Rennie was the man to take the Wallabies forward. He was finally starting to get them back on track and paid a heavy price for playing a B team against Italy. Big mistake by RA to get rid of him when they did.

@Steven-Harris said in Ireland v Wallabies 2025:

Feel a bit for the Wallabies i think this has been a massive season for them especially with the Lions series
There players looked cooked

Most of the players have less than 10 Tests this year, and not all of them played a full season of super rugby.

The fact is we're not hard enough because our guys don't get enough hard rugby from 14 onwards.

@akan004 said in Ireland v Wallabies 2025:

Looking back, Rennie was the man to take the Wallabies forward. He was finally starting to get them back on track and paid a heavy price for playing a B team against Italy. Big mistake by RA to get rid of him when they did.

I agree with this. We would have had a much better showing at RWC2023 if Rennie was still there. Hooper would have been in the mix for example.

Eddie set fire to everything he built, and Joe simply put out the flames and got it back to something creditable. We lost almost 24 months to Eddie and fuckwits like Hamish McLennan, and probably lost a lot of players during that time.

However, Joe is trying to coach a squad that is at the tail end of Eddie's damage and a system that is utterly useless for preparing bodies for competitve sport.