09/09/2011 11:16:22
Finsceal
County: All
Posts: 73

1030429 Keith Earls? What have you to do to play yourself out of contention ? Be from the north? I hope this is the token start (like he got for the lions) and Trimble is starting aginst Australia.
Also very happy to see Murray starting too , perfect game for him . But I do hope all the biased tribes on this board do not base any real significance on this game .

As i said trimble is prob bown as a starter for australia and as he played every warm up match is being rested.
You talk about bias when above your points on earls are very biased in favour of trimble,
What token start did keet get for the lions, he preformed majestically in the season before the lions tour and was picked as a result of his preformanes. He had a nervy error-strewn performance against a South African Royal XV in his first game but was much better against the Free State Cheetahs and the Emerging Springboks
This game has significance as the performance, even if it is against a minnow in the form of the US, is vitally important before australia next week considering how we played in the warm ups

ormondbannerman (Clare) - Posts: 13473 - 09/09/2011 11:31:37    1030438

We need a good cohesive performance. We need to play like a team that has ideas about getting out of this group so a professional job is required.

Make no mistake Eddie O'Sullivan will have the US boys riled up to the hilt for this match and on the 09/11 anniversary aswell they'll tear into us from the off.

We need to be patient and take our chances when we get them early, then in the 2nd half cut loose when the Yanks run out of steam. I'd be dissapointed if we didn't win by 15pts+.

tribeinbrum (Galway) - Posts: 4155 - 09/09/2011 11:49:01    1030455

decent team named, SOB is obviously being rested, trimble is a so an so player a good worker but has no spark, earls can cut you apart trimble is physical but lacks vision and never really gets involved in the game in midfiels therefore earls is by far the better option. would like to see o gara start as we all know sexton cannot for the life of him manage a game yet we keep persisting with him saying he is a young fella when he is actually at his peak now. o gara defiantely for australia- sexton is way out of his depth- spare me the nonsese about talking about some soccer team at half time when he was responsible for leinster being almost out of the HC at half time as he was completely useless at managing the game. o gara would never have let that happen- so i hope kidney does the right thing as, we know o gara is and will be brillian but sexton you just dont know as he is very poor tactically.

liathroidboy (Mayo) - Posts: 4921 - 09/09/2011 12:10:19    1030476

09/09/2011 12:10:19
liathroidboy
County: Mayo
Posts: 4321

1030476 decent team named, SOB is obviously being rested, trimble is a so an so player a good worker but has no spark, earls can cut you apart trimble is physical but lacks vision and never really gets involved in the game in midfiels therefore earls is by far the better option. would like to see o gara start as we all know sexton cannot for the life of him manage a game yet we keep persisting with him saying he is a young fella when he is actually at his peak now. o gara defiantely for australia- sexton is way out of his depth- spare me the nonsese about talking about some soccer team at half time when he was responsible for leinster being almost out of the HC at half time as he was completely useless at managing the game. o gara would never have let that happen- so i hope kidney does the right thing as, we know o gara is and will be brillian but sexton you just dont know as he is very poor tactically.

Ballboy, im going to take your post apart as your talking a lot of rubbish
decent team named, SOB is obviously being rested
correct

trimble is a so an so player a good worker but has no spark
rubbish, trimble is the form winger- played all warm up games and is being rested this weekend

earls can cut you apart trimble is physical but lacks vision and never really gets involved in the game in midfiels therefore earls is by far the better option
trimble can also cut you apart, trimble was one of the only backs with vision in the warm ups so you are totally wrong there

would like to see o gara start as we all know sexton cannot for the life of him manage a game yet we keep persisting with him saying he is a young fella when he is actually at his peak now. o gara defiantely for australia- sexton is way out of his depth-
do you watch rugby at all, sexton can manage a game, ever watch leinster play. o gara on the bench with jonny starting is the way to go
Sexton wasnt out of his depth playing heineken cup final at the end of last season

Sexton is not in the class of ROG-one of the best slow game managers the game has ever seen but sexton offers so many more options like a running game, decent defence, pace etc.

Sexton was jittery in his performances for a while but he has improved tenfold and is 1 of the best 10s in the world

ormondbannerman (Clare) - Posts: 13473 - 09/09/2011 12:46:31    1030524

Results so far, no shock defeats yet but the scots only beating romania by 10 points should be worrying to andy robinson
New Zealand 41 - 10 Tonga
France 47 - 21 Japan
Scotland 34 - 24 Romania
Argentina 9 - 13 England
Fiji 49 - 25 Namibia

ormondbannerman (Clare) - Posts: 13473 - 10/09/2011 17:50:43    1031296

Ormond,

You have proved that you have an in-depth knowledge where as snuffo/liathroidboy hasnt got even the tiniest grasp, so your analysis of his post is like trying to teach long division to a braying donkey.

Snoffo/liathroid boy thinks that having two usernames actually give him the power of bi-location so he can be in NZ and back in the back of beyond(wherever that is probably not Mayo or Dublin) at the same time? The mind boggles.

ochonlir (Cavan) - Posts: 4343 - 10/09/2011 18:29:21    1031313

Poor team scrapes through

ochonlir (Cavan) - Posts: 4343 - 11/09/2011 08:44:54    1031530

11/09/2011 08:44:54
ochonlir
County: Cavan
Posts: 3481

1031530 Poor team scrapes through
A win is a win, there was some good performances and some bad- sextons kicking at goal wasnt great but we were playing an extremely fired up yank team, playing the 10th anniversery of 9/11.
We didnt play the conditions- trying to spin the ball out wide was never going to work in those conditions if we had kicked the ball more and put it behind them and into the corners we would have done much better

ormondbannerman (Clare) - Posts: 13473 - 11/09/2011 08:53:38    1031531

Embarrassing enough performance from Ireland.

Loyal2TheRoyal (Meath) - Posts: 4522 - 11/09/2011 08:57:16    1031534

Pathetic, abject, feeble, useless, pitiable, I'm running out of words to describe how poor that was. This was the USA, a team that the second string Aussies will beat by around 70 points. Murray was useless and needs dropped, I genuinely can't remember what D'Arcy has done in an Irish jersey in the past 3 years, the tactics were completely shocking and trying to play an expansive game in those conditions and against a pack that was so poor beggars belief. There was not a single positive to take from that game, forget Australia who will win with consummate ease but play like that against Italy and we don't have a hope. It's like fecking '07 all over again

pplocal (Tyrone) - Posts: 5878 - 11/09/2011 08:57:45    1031535

I think after watching the last part of that crap. O'Gara has to start ahead of that poster boy Sexton what a shocker.

arock (Dublin) - Posts: 4956 - 11/09/2011 09:12:36    1031539

good team with 2 main weaknesses - sexton and darcy

healy96 (Westmeath) - Posts: 177 - 11/09/2011 09:14:43    1031540

11/09/2011 08:53:38
ormondbannerman
County: Clare
Posts: 201

1031531 11/09/2011 08:44:54
ochonlir
County: Cavan
Posts: 3481

1031530 Poor team scrapes through
A win is a win, there was some good performances and some bad- sextons kicking at goal wasnt great but we were playing an extremely fired up yank team, playing the 10th anniversery of 9/11.
We didnt play the conditions- trying to spin the ball out wide was never going to work in those conditions if we had kicked the ball more and put it behind them and into the corners we would have done much better
11/09/2011 08:57:16
Loyal2TheRoyal
County: Meath
Posts: 4280

1031534 Embarrassing enough performance from Ireland.
11/09/2011 08:57:45
pplocal
County: Tyrone
Posts: 3841

1031535 Pathetic, abject, feeble, useless, pitiable, I'm running out of words to describe how poor that was. This was the USA, a team that the second string Aussies will beat by around 70 points. Murray was useless and needs dropped, I genuinely can't remember what D'Arcy has done in an Irish jersey in the past 3 years, the tactics were completely shocking and trying to play an expansive game in those conditions and against a pack that was so poor beggars belief. There was not a single positive to take from that game, forget Australia who will win with consummate ease but play like that against Italy and we don't have a hope. It's like fecking '07 all over again
As ive already said a win is a win.
Chill, relax,
Playing a up tempo wide game was never going to work in those conditions but they clearly are aiming to play that way against australia
and you have to do play that beforehand for it to work
They didnt play the conditions but as kieth wood said on ITV yesterday a win is a win. Who cares about how much we won today by if it leads to a win next week.
There is plenty of positaves to take
1. Paul O Connell is in fine form
2. Ferris was unbelievable
3. Maul was very good, very organised.
Calm down, its not the end of the world

ormondbannerman (Clare) - Posts: 13473 - 11/09/2011 09:26:37    1031541

play like that against the Italians and them boys will be cutting short their holiday to New Zeland.

gotmilk (Fermanagh) - Posts: 4971 - 11/09/2011 09:46:52    1031542

Not sure why everybody is so surprised, I've been telling people on here how poor we are for weeks now and yet expectations were still mind bogglingly high! Lads very simply we are in with a 50/50 chance of beating Italy to second spot and then its curtains, I take no pleasure in seeing my country struggle but we have to be real about our chances......they're very very slim.

Htaem (Meath) - Posts: 8657 - 11/09/2011 09:55:12    1031544

Its like watching the Namibia game 4 years ago, have we learnt ANYTHING in that time?

brendtheredhand (Tyrone) - Posts: 10897 - 11/09/2011 10:40:43    1031558

Not surprised at all

ochonlir (Cavan) - Posts: 4343 - 11/09/2011 10:49:17    1031567

People said the exact same at the last World Cup as we scraped past Namibia and Georgia. Then looked what happened against France and Argentina. There's no cohesion, no form, no hope. Contrast this with Wales, they came into the World Cup with some form and will be kicking themselves they didn't put SA away

pplocal (Tyrone) - Posts: 5878 - 11/09/2011 11:27:08    1031577

When will people realise that Ireland are a very poor team and stop this nonsense about having a great chance in the W.Cup ? They have NO chance !!

Cavan_Slasher (Cavan) - Posts: 10253 - 11/09/2011 12:45:07    1031609

wont be wasting a lie-in next weekend, having watched this morning's offering: poor build up and no excuses on the back of the warm up games the Aussies will have a field day

KevHill (Antrim) - Posts: 271 - 11/09/2011 15:28:18    1031714