The old firm of Ireland just too good for the willing Italians
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Italy win a scrum penalty. Furlong folds. Garbisi gets the penalty.
Ireland 20 Italy 13. 14 minutes to go.
Shit they’re are some seriously looking Irish and Italians out there? I thought we were bad at poaching from the islands…
@jimmyb said in Ireland v Italy:
Shit they’re are some seriously looking Irish and Italians out there? I thought we were bad at poaching from the islands…
Born in Ireland
@jimmyb said in Ireland v Italy:
Shit they’re are some seriously looking Irish and Italians out there? I thought we were bad at poaching from the islands…
Poaching from the Serious Islands is abhorrent.
@sparky said in Ireland v Italy:
@W32 said in Ireland v Italy:
Bummer ending
Unless you're Irish.
Dumb from both sides.
All over.
Ireland 20 Italy 13.
But the truth is there was a cigarette paper between these sides. Ireland's replacements at 9 and 10 saw them home. Just.
@game_film pool stage exit?
@jimmyb said in Ireland v Italy:
Hollie Davison to red the 2027 RWC. Way better than the European/nz/aussie crap we’re getting
Certainly not the worst, but bang average. Of course it's difficult to tell if she, like other refs, is being let down by the wider team. Case in point Italy's first try - the lineout -> maul Ireland clearly drove early - completely ignored.
She's experienced enough now to push back on interjectionist TMOs too.
Watching replay now (well Stan's "mini" highlights, don't know result, not read thread), but am plugging in to whinge about how fucked up that forward pass call was.
Fuck sake, look where the bloke who passed it (Menoncello?) was. He was slowing down and was still ahead of the ball. Therefore the ball MUST have gone backwards relative to the player. Physics people!
Officiating team living in the 80s there.
Fucked up.
said in Ireland v Italy:
Watching replay now (well Stan's "mini" highlights, don't know result, not read thread), but am plugging in to whinge about how fucked up that forward pass call was.
Fuck sake, look where the bloke who passed it (Menoncello?) was. He was slowing down and was still ahead of the ball. Therefore the ball MUST have gone backwards relative to the player. Physics people!
Officiating team living in the 80s there.
Fucked up.
Interesting juxtaposition with the pass to Pillock in the Jocks v Poms.
SCW is a big fan of Hollie Davison's.
@sparky said in Ireland v Italy:
SCW is a big fan of Hollie Davison's.
Clive is a monumental fuckwit and it surprises me not at all that he posted on LinkedIn about it. "A woman refereed a rugby game and here's what it taught me about..."