Italy v Ireland 2017

[wixfjord]

Some start. Healy and Scannell have been excellent.

[nelly the elephant]

Some start. Healy and Scannell have been excellent.

The entire back row and Henshaw too.......dominating the physical exchanges.

[wixfjord]

Completely different performance to last week, and against a rabble of a team.

That kick from McClean really sums up Italy. Not good enough for this level.

Having said that, we've really aggressive. Defence is much better. Ringer picking up where he left off in the 2nd half in Murrayfield.

Zebo, Heaslip, Scannell, Healy, Henshaw all playing really well, but Stander the pick of the bunch for me. Immense.

[nelly the elephant]

Massive opportunity for scannell. Hopefully he plays as well as he has been for Munster all season.

Judging by the first 40...to the manor born....just that last one on the stroke of halftime going astray.....putting himself about in the loose to great effect.

[simonokeeffe]

good thing we recalled Ryan for the "injured" Henderson, cant have our locks scoring 5 points for our own team let alone not getting needlessly sinbinned

yes Im trolling

[Oldschool]

Zeno and Murray are on fire. We should hammer them.

Are we watching the same game?
Zebo has tried to chip through three times at least.
He's dangerous with ball in hand - work that one out.
Murray passing still laboured but a lot better than last week.
Ref isn't policing offside.
Is this the future for refereeing?
How Italy didn't get a YC and we did I don't get.

[Dave Cahill]

Zeno and Murray are on fire. We should hammer them.

Zeno(sic)'s snake hipped swerve around Mbanda was pant tighteningly good. He has been absolutely top class today, possibly his best 40 minutes in the green jersey thus far?

[fourthirtythree]

Zeno and Murray are on fire. We should hammer them.

Zeno(sic)'s snake hipped swerve around Mbanda was pant tighteningly good. He has been absolutely top class today, possibly his best 40 minutes in the green jersey thus far?

Autocorrect was thinking of Zeno's arrow or something.

Stander!

[jezzer]

Zeno and Murray are on fire. We should hammer them.

Zeno(sic)'s snake hipped swerve around Mbanda was pant tighteningly good. He has been absolutely top class today, possibly his best 40 minutes in the green jersey thus far?

Agree totally. But the snake is an anaconda who has just eaten a crocodile.

[jezzer]

Brilliant finish from Gilroy. Set up by Seanie taking the tackle and offloading instead of just shovelling it.

[wixfjord]

I don't think I've ever seen as dominant a performance from an Irish backrow. Heaslip's workrate is just ridiculous.

[Oldschoolsocks]

And that's how you do ruthless


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[wixfjord]

Zeno and Murray are on fire. We should hammer them.

Are we watching the same game?
Zebo has tried to chip through three times at least.
He's dangerous with ball in hand - work that one out.
Murray passing still laboured but a lot better than last week.
Ref isn't policing offside.
Is this the future for refereeing?
How Italy didn't get a YC and we did I don't get.

Mate you need to give up.

[paddyor]

Fabulous leadershipping from the captain in the lead up to the last try.

[Golf Man]

Zeno and Murray are on fire. We should hammer them.

Are we watching the same game?
Zebo has tried to chip through three times at least.
He's dangerous with ball in hand - work that one out.
Murray passing still laboured but a lot better than last week.
Ref isn't policing offside.
Is this the future for refereeing?
How Italy didn't get a YC and we did I don't get.

Mate you need to give up.

+1 - getting more boring than me

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[wixfjord]

+1 - getting more boring than me

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Yeah, hopefully the two of you will cop the eff on and appreciate how good Zebo, Murray and Heaslip were today.

Hopefully we've put that nonsense to bed for at least two weeks anyway.

[FLIP]

Murray was great today, Marmion added something to the mix when he got on.

Scannell did well, the back row as a unit were on fire. Much better than last week.

[Ruckedtobits]

I don't think I've ever seen as dominant a performance from an Irish backrow. Heaslip's workrate is just ridiculous.

+1 totally agree, very pleased for all Irish Squad. Scannell showed the true depth of Irish Rugby with excellent debut. Donnchadh Ryan and Craig Gilroy both demonstrated their international quality skills also.

Working for each other and with each other makes Ireland dangerous. When we become individual we are so much less than a team. In that regard, well done to Paddy Jackson and Conor Murray for guiding the variety of our attack.

[Dave Cahill]

Scannell showed the true depth of Irish Rugby with excellent debut

Not to disagree entirely, but I think its Tracy that demonstrated that. After Scannell having such a brilliant debut, the depth was shown by Tracy coming on and playing so well also - that we can lose our captain, they guy who is his normal back up, and substitute the guy who replaced them both so well with a player like Tracy shows that we are in a pretty healthy place right across the front row.

[wixfjord]

Scannell showed the true depth of Irish Rugby with excellent debut

Not to disagree entirely, but I think its Tracy that demonstrated that. After Scannell having such a brilliant debut, the depth was shown by Tracy coming on and playing so well also - that we can lose our captain, they guy who is his normal back up, and substitute the guy who replaced them both so well with a player like Tracy shows that we are in a pretty healthy place right across the front row.

Thought Tracy was very good when he came on. Doesn't have the basics of Scannell but better carrying impact.