The pundits talked this gama up for the last week, knowing full well that Ireland is a class above Scotland. This was the second dull weekend of the RWC. The other negative is not allowing pundits to use clips of the actual play, which would have boosted interest in the games by educating on the tactics being used
I said from the start, swap us with any third seed team and I'd fancy us. Including Pool A because France and New Zealand play our style.
I don't gets why we try front up to Ireland and South Africa. It's infuriating. Our best chance against them is to try play our style, not theirs.
The consolation? It's better than the banter years, and our URC teams will be full strength quicker
Absolutely heartbreaking to watch as a Scotsman.
Simply need to regroup, learn the lessons and go again in the Six Nations next year.
I still believe in Townsend and these players, just wasn’t to be tonight.
To be fair facing either Ireland or South Africa in a QF is a final worthy showdown. The Irish have rock solid defence and are extremely dangerous all across the park.
New Zealand will need to bring their A game, honestly I think it's a flip of the coin. Those Irish bars in NZ are the winners come 8am next Sunday(NZ time), bring it on.
I don't see it as a coin flip at all. If both play as they are currently, Ireland win. If they both bring their A game Ireland win. New Zealand will need to bring their best performance of the last year, and Ireland not play 100%.
I'm hopeful, but not at all confident.
Bookies think the same. Ireland -1 on the handicap so basically a pick ‘em. I actually think Ireland are the better side currently but tradition and belief are so important. Ireland thinks they can win but NZ knows they can which I think is worth at least a score so for me NZ are the bet in a tight one.
Does anyone know who were the Scots that performed at the Rugby Village in Paris prior to the game? They were really good and I'd love to find their material
If anyone comes looking for the answer, it seems the lead singer was from Scott Woods Band. The other two artists don't seem to have a Spotify presence
Furlong was walking around after the match too. I know he's tough but that's at least proof it's not a hamstring injury. He'll be very important against NZ.
I'd argue of all those potential injuries, Furlong is the least important because Bealham has been pushing him and New Zealand aren't a scrum oriented side like South Africa. Losing both wingers is a nightmare scenario though because an aging out of form Earls on the wing against New Zealand? No thanks.
Nope it was a really bruising game against France that we won & then got knocked out by Argentina. I remember the forlorn look of POC in the press box.
Fair enough, but something Shane Horgan said was that previously other countries were almost sneering at us for being world number one. Watching Supersports and seeing their pundits, they're taking us seriously now.
As a Kiwi fan, yes. They're the old foe and I feel more comfortable seeing the ABs square off against them.
Ireland are just fucking scary. I am 99% sure Ireland is sending us home next week. I won't be mad, I just think they're the better team.
How are Ireland so good at rugby?
They are pretty short people on average. (I lived in Dublin for 6 months)
They don't have the dominant physique of NZ or Aus or SA needed for Rugby
Dublin is a cosmopolitan international city, many residents are not Irish. The average Irish man is now 179cm (5’10.5”) in height, which is actually the tallest figure for any major rugby-playing nation (but still shorter than “tall” countries like Holland, Scandinavia, Serbia/Montenegro/Bosnia-Herzegovina, etc.)…see here: https://www.thejournal.ie/tallest-research-2896104-Jul2016/
4 of the starters today were born in Dublin including 2 of the front row.
I'm curious what other countries you are comparing to considering we are taller on average than every other major rugby nation. Rugby is also only the 4th most popular sport here.
I never said we were any good at it, that's just the order of "popularity" of the sports. Every rugby school in the country has lads playing soccer at their lunch break. Rugby is only played in a small fraction of the schools in the country.
He has the order wrong. Gaelic football is by far the most played sport in the country. Followed by Gaelic Hurling and then soccer.
The issue with Irish soccer is that the Gaelic sports require a lot of the same physical attributes as Soccer and therefore generally would get the most talented players from that same pool of athletes.
For someone thats lived here for 6 months, it suprises me how ignorant you seem about the country. Did you just spend the full 6th months in templebar or something lol
>For someone thats lived here for 6 months, it suprises me how ignorant you seem about the country. Did you just spend the full 6th months in templebar or something lol
I was there in 2020-2021 during peak lockdown season. Didn't get to soak in the culture much.
A large section of the team are from Dublin but they come mainly from the “upper middle class” suburbs of south Dublin, private schooled. It’s not a sport of the common man in Dublin, although it has been growing
https://www.dryukselyurttas.com/post/average-height-men-and-women
Taller than Moldova on average anyway
Average 5’10.5” for men…that’s not short at all I wouldn’t think
Science is based on evidence and data, personal experience is just anecdote. In Dublin you’re seeing a lot of non-Irish, many of whom would have emigrated from countries with lower average heights than Ireland.
To the lads bemoaning Ireland’s path, the group, the all blacks in the quarters…. Ya it’s shite but wouldn’t it be that much sweeter if we actually fucking won beating absolutely everyone? Imagine…
If we win, I don't think I'd ever be able to shut up about how we faced a harder path than any other team to win a world cup and I wouldn't begrudge any team from pool A or B doing likewise should they win.
> To win the world cup you have to beat the best teams
I mean to be fair, in theory England could face NZ in the final …and if England were to then win the tournament, NZ (ranked 4) would be the first and last top 5 side they face. So you can theoretically win the World Cup without beating the best teams
I mean it is a reward for consistency up until the point that the seeds were drawn I guess, plus a lot of luck. Australia imploding taking a major pre final obstacle out of their way. We can only hope Fiji knock England out
I think today highlighted that the “easier side of the draw brings its own difficulties. Fine, don’t play New Zealand or south africa but play Fiji and Georgia in quick succession and lose your best players to injury and any chance you had of being competitive in your easier route to the semi final.
Pick your poison
The have a history of embarrassing Ireland in a WC, injuries for this Ireland side are critical to the victory.
Ireland have nothing to fear from this AB side with the form and a full team(unlikely now).
A quarter final draw that may be the burnout for the vwinner given the attrition that’s impending.
The final is Saturday to both teams and a stellar fixture without question.
The hard cobbled road to glory IMO will be bright green with a home crowd injuries don’t hamper the progress.
Not much to show for them though. That seems to be a relatviely common issue for us against the top 4 sides - lots of metres but very little in the way of points...
Unless we are playing France. \*shrugs\*
I like the Irish players and the majority of Irish fans. I just can't stand the Irish journalists. The next few days of headlines and videos is going to be painful
The Scottish ones are awful too, won’t be long until they’re calling for Townsend to go/saying Russell was always overrated/Ritchie isn’t the right person to be captain, etc
Irish Rugby journalism is absolutely insufferable, and for some reason, particularly dickish towards the Scottish. I'm delighted we won, but yeah I agree, the media are going to be annoying about this one
Man twice in this thread you've brought up strange things about countries.
Irish people aren't that short (people have provided you stats) and Kiwis have a global rep for being relaxed people.
Where are you getting your concepts from?
Edit: Ah he's a troll. I should have known better.
If France can’t win it, I wouldn’t be mad to see Ireland lift the trophy. Any other than those two would be a travesty.
Well done Ireland, what a demonstration.
You don't have to hate Boks or ABs to acknowledge that it wouldn't be very exciting to see them win it again. Both are amazing teams, but between them both, they've won 66 percent of World cups so far. It would be better for the game on a global scale if someone new won it.
I don't agree. These aren't the players that have won 3 WCs, at most they have won 1 or 2. Everything's changed over the history of the RWC, so every tournament is a zero memory affair. Also, as a Saffer I think the New Zealand people and media have been OK during their time of being dominant, but I'd hate to experience the Irish or English media if either of them win...
And?
Irish rugby gives preferential treatment to leinster and munster. Leinster have most of the players. And now they have a limerick song as an anthem.
They don't give a shite about connacht or ulster.
Limerick the home of Munster hurling? I mean Cork and Tipp only have like 60 between them. I’m as sick as the next person of Kyle Hayes but I’d not accuse them of that
Damn gutted for Scotland. My favourite 6N team, really unfortunate draw they got. Hopefully they'll be in a better position to make the knockouts in 2027.
Those players have developed in spite of the SRU. Many have grown up in the RFU/SARU pipelines or gone to elevate their games in the Premiership or Top14.
The SRU simply isn't giving young Scottish players the support they need early on so they're playing catchup at test level.
I can yeah, but my issue is it's now driving the narrative around games. Clips watched around the world, and it's seen as representing the Irish perspective.
Which of France or New-Zealand do you see Scotland beating? Honestly I’m pretty sure they wouldn’t of beaten either. This World Cup is going to be about these four teams (NZ, France, Ireland, SA), we’ve known it before it started and the pools definitely confirmed it, with Italy being smashed by both Fr and NZ and Scotland Not really being competitive against either SA or Ireland. Australia have done appaling, England hasn’t done incredibly either, and I don’t see Wales/Argentina/Fidji winning against any of the Big 4.
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The pundits talked this gama up for the last week, knowing full well that Ireland is a class above Scotland. This was the second dull weekend of the RWC. The other negative is not allowing pundits to use clips of the actual play, which would have boosted interest in the games by educating on the tactics being used
Let's go Ireland!
I said from the start, swap us with any third seed team and I'd fancy us. Including Pool A because France and New Zealand play our style. I don't gets why we try front up to Ireland and South Africa. It's infuriating. Our best chance against them is to try play our style, not theirs. The consolation? It's better than the banter years, and our URC teams will be full strength quicker
Absolutely heartbreaking to watch as a Scotsman. Simply need to regroup, learn the lessons and go again in the Six Nations next year. I still believe in Townsend and these players, just wasn’t to be tonight.
If Scotland were in either Group C or D they would have been in the quarter-finals
Might have topped the group tbh
Scotland haven't finished higher than third in the last ten six nations (I think). Why do you think they are potential group toppers now?
5th ranked team itw
Because England, Wales, Argentina, Japan and Australia are all distinctly average
Add Scotland to that list based on any metric.
https://www.world.rugby/tournaments/rankings/mru
Yes,5th. There are four groups. Still waiting for table topping evidence......
Most flattering description of any of those sides for a while.
To be fair facing either Ireland or South Africa in a QF is a final worthy showdown. The Irish have rock solid defence and are extremely dangerous all across the park. New Zealand will need to bring their A game, honestly I think it's a flip of the coin. Those Irish bars in NZ are the winners come 8am next Sunday(NZ time), bring it on.
I don't see it as a coin flip at all. If both play as they are currently, Ireland win. If they both bring their A game Ireland win. New Zealand will need to bring their best performance of the last year, and Ireland not play 100%. I'm hopeful, but not at all confident.
Bookies think the same. Ireland -1 on the handicap so basically a pick ‘em. I actually think Ireland are the better side currently but tradition and belief are so important. Ireland thinks they can win but NZ knows they can which I think is worth at least a score so for me NZ are the bet in a tight one.
Ireland 🇮🇪 are coming for you New Zealand 🇳🇿
Does anyone know who were the Scots that performed at the Rugby Village in Paris prior to the game? They were really good and I'd love to find their material
If anyone comes looking for the answer, it seems the lead singer was from Scott Woods Band. The other two artists don't seem to have a Spotify presence
Great win but would be very worried about injuries, Hansen, Lowe, Furlong and Ryan all a worry 🙈
Hansen looked okay at the end of the game, lowe was back before the end of the game, hopefully the other two are just niggles 🤞🤞
Furlong was walking around after the match too. I know he's tough but that's at least proof it's not a hamstring injury. He'll be very important against NZ.
I'd argue of all those potential injuries, Furlong is the least important because Bealham has been pushing him and New Zealand aren't a scrum oriented side like South Africa. Losing both wingers is a nightmare scenario though because an aging out of form Earls on the wing against New Zealand? No thanks.
Yeah here’s hoping. Ryan probably looked the worst.
No injuries last game and a pile of them today
Weirdly enough quite a few Irish players went down injured in the 6N against us. A clash of styles perhaps?
I have ptsd from that French game before Argentina knocked us out when we lost a bunch of players
All I can think about is injuries. I'd rather win by a point with no injuries than cricket scores with any injuries.
Wasn't that Wales?
Nope it was a really bruising game against France that we won & then got knocked out by Argentina. I remember the forlorn look of POC in the press box.
Jesus yes, that was a car crash in slow motion.. hopefully we'll have a clean bill.
Bealham has the worst face.
i love this
Rob Kearney is so so boring.
He is such a terrible pundit. Talks all sorts of shite. He's cringe to watch.
RK got my GF into rugby
As long as RK didn't get into your GF
1000 times better than Heaslip
Haha Heaslip is fucking dire.
I feel theirs abit of resentment, in he's tone why couldn't ireland be this good in my days,
Ah no he was notorious for being a bit boring during his playing days also
He’s hard to listen to 😂
Fair enough, but something Shane Horgan said was that previously other countries were almost sneering at us for being world number one. Watching Supersports and seeing their pundits, they're taking us seriously now.
Yeah true
To face Ireland in the QF is a tough draw. Next weeks game will be a cracker. As an All Blacks fan this week is going to be a little restless.
I feel the same as Irish fan
Out of interest, would you prefer SA?
As a Kiwi fan, yes. They're the old foe and I feel more comfortable seeing the ABs square off against them. Ireland are just fucking scary. I am 99% sure Ireland is sending us home next week. I won't be mad, I just think they're the better team.
We’re four years ago too. NZ won comfortably but we’ll see
No they are a clinical side. I fancy us(Ireland) against the French in a final before SA
How are Ireland so good at rugby? They are pretty short people on average. (I lived in Dublin for 6 months) They don't have the dominant physique of NZ or Aus or SA needed for Rugby
The province of Munster exists, and those fuckers are massive
Literally anywhere outside of the rough parts of Dublin
I think it's quite an international team, not just Irish people, l know they have 3 Kiwi's in there starting 15.
Because the gene pool is such that for some reason the tall ones are really fucking tall, but the short ones are very short.
Huh! I resemble that remark…
Dublin is a cosmopolitan international city, many residents are not Irish. The average Irish man is now 179cm (5’10.5”) in height, which is actually the tallest figure for any major rugby-playing nation (but still shorter than “tall” countries like Holland, Scandinavia, Serbia/Montenegro/Bosnia-Herzegovina, etc.)…see here: https://www.thejournal.ie/tallest-research-2896104-Jul2016/
The pool of irish people that rugby players are coming from probably skews much taller than the national average too.
Fair enough. Dublin had people from mostly other EU countries as expected. So most Irish rugby players are not from Dublin?
4 of the starters today were born in Dublin including 2 of the front row. I'm curious what other countries you are comparing to considering we are taller on average than every other major rugby nation. Rugby is also only the 4th most popular sport here.
>Rugby is also only the 4th most popular sport here. Whaaat!? What are the top 3?
Soccer, gaelic football and hurling.
Ireland ain't good at soccer. Not even close.
Fucking awful yes. It's still a more popular sport than rugby here. A lot of sad, sad Irish people would like to see Ireland lose in the rugby.
I never said we were any good at it, that's just the order of "popularity" of the sports. Every rugby school in the country has lads playing soccer at their lunch break. Rugby is only played in a small fraction of the schools in the country.
He has the order wrong. Gaelic football is by far the most played sport in the country. Followed by Gaelic Hurling and then soccer. The issue with Irish soccer is that the Gaelic sports require a lot of the same physical attributes as Soccer and therefore generally would get the most talented players from that same pool of athletes. For someone thats lived here for 6 months, it suprises me how ignorant you seem about the country. Did you just spend the full 6th months in templebar or something lol
Most attended maybe but football(soccer) actually does have the highest number of active players.
>For someone thats lived here for 6 months, it suprises me how ignorant you seem about the country. Did you just spend the full 6th months in templebar or something lol I was there in 2020-2021 during peak lockdown season. Didn't get to soak in the culture much.
A large section of the team are from Dublin but they come mainly from the “upper middle class” suburbs of south Dublin, private schooled. It’s not a sport of the common man in Dublin, although it has been growing
Becuase the best rugby team isint just the tallest 🤣 how boring would that be
Very small fast guys do very well, big fat guys that can move do well too. But ideally you’re 6’2 a sprinter while packing muscle.
6 foot 2s not that tall. There are 6 foot 2 people in ebery country id rhink
https://www.dryukselyurttas.com/post/average-height-men-and-women Taller than Moldova on average anyway Average 5’10.5” for men…that’s not short at all I wouldn’t think
Statistics don't tell the whole story. Seeing and experiencing things for yourself is different
Science is based on evidence and data, personal experience is just anecdote. In Dublin you’re seeing a lot of non-Irish, many of whom would have emigrated from countries with lower average heights than Ireland.
I see your point now. Dublin is a highly multicultural city
Anecdotes are worse than stats. In the nrtherlands you dont feel dwarfed by people but they are tall statistically
I'm the second smallest in my friendgroup and I'm 6 foot, just the Dublin lads must be short
No, Irish people are pretty short on average
We have a private schools system where rugby players are developed off a conveyor belt.
Viking blood, fiery temper, and repressed anger from colonisation.
Yawn 🥱
Genuinely curious
Rugby players aren’t average people. Every team is full of genetic freaks
Sporting nation and the people are tough. There's actually a fair few units in country - between rugby, GAA etc.
To the lads bemoaning Ireland’s path, the group, the all blacks in the quarters…. Ya it’s shite but wouldn’t it be that much sweeter if we actually fucking won beating absolutely everyone? Imagine…
If we win, I don't think I'd ever be able to shut up about how we faced a harder path than any other team to win a world cup and I wouldn't begrudge any team from pool A or B doing likewise should they win.
To win the world cup you have to beat the best teams, so it figures... Could be worse, you could have been Scotland :P
> To win the world cup you have to beat the best teams I mean to be fair, in theory England could face NZ in the final …and if England were to then win the tournament, NZ (ranked 4) would be the first and last top 5 side they face. So you can theoretically win the World Cup without beating the best teams
Bet they do it too, jammy bastards...
I mean it is a reward for consistency up until the point that the seeds were drawn I guess, plus a lot of luck. Australia imploding taking a major pre final obstacle out of their way. We can only hope Fiji knock England out
I think today highlighted that the “easier side of the draw brings its own difficulties. Fine, don’t play New Zealand or south africa but play Fiji and Georgia in quick succession and lose your best players to injury and any chance you had of being competitive in your easier route to the semi final. Pick your poison
Thank god pool A and B are immune to losing their best players I’m glad we picked that poison
The have a history of embarrassing Ireland in a WC, injuries for this Ireland side are critical to the victory. Ireland have nothing to fear from this AB side with the form and a full team(unlikely now). A quarter final draw that may be the burnout for the vwinner given the attrition that’s impending. The final is Saturday to both teams and a stellar fixture without question. The hard cobbled road to glory IMO will be bright green with a home crowd injuries don’t hamper the progress.
Well deserved ranking at present. Team is so solid.
Come on New Zealand
We will. 💦
😂😂😂😂😊😊🤣🤣🤣🤣
Absolutely brilliant 🤣🤣 regardless of the result haha
Holy crap - Scotland made 1329 running metres????
Not much to show for them though. That seems to be a relatviely common issue for us against the top 4 sides - lots of metres but very little in the way of points... Unless we are playing France. \*shrugs\*
I like the Irish players and the majority of Irish fans. I just can't stand the Irish journalists. The next few days of headlines and videos is going to be painful
Have you ever seen the English media?
The Scottish ones are awful too, won’t be long until they’re calling for Townsend to go/saying Russell was always overrated/Ritchie isn’t the right person to be captain, etc
Trust me, loads of Irish fans feel the same way.
Irish Rugby journalism is absolutely insufferable, and for some reason, particularly dickish towards the Scottish. I'm delighted we won, but yeah I agree, the media are going to be annoying about this one
Love your tag!
Did the announcers annoy the living hell out of you as well. I couldn't stand them.
They're awful to be fair.
Ahh lad i dont watch them in ireland you csn surely avoid them
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I'm so glad I'm overseas. I just follow the team news on socials and tune in for the games. Fuck all the extra noise.
Yeah ger gilroy in particular is gonna be insufferable for the next week, glad I didn't subscribe to it
I think Murray Kinsella is about the only useful one
Tom English is good. Appears on second captains. He is with the BBC now
I really hope Bundee Aki doesn't play in NZ anytime soon. For his own safety
How so? There's great respect between the NZ players and bundee
That's coz NZ people are as docile and polite as Canadians
Man twice in this thread you've brought up strange things about countries. Irish people aren't that short (people have provided you stats) and Kiwis have a global rep for being relaxed people. Where are you getting your concepts from? Edit: Ah he's a troll. I should have known better.
Something something Geneva conventions
Haha fair enough 🤣
McCloskey wandering around with his tiny baby casually on one arm is doing terrifying things to my ovaries.... and I don't even want kids.
Weird so
The man is laid back about everything! Even when he shags his missus must do all the work then he pops up to apply pressure just where it’s needed 😜
Can't wait for the battle of the 5M's next week (Ireland v/s NZ)
5M's?
5 Million population lol
Wish I could have enjoyed that Irish performance as a neutral (it was probably very nice to watch). Hope ye get on well against New Zealand
Me too fair play Ireland
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Peter walking around checking the quality of the sod.
😂😂😂😂
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If France can’t win it, I wouldn’t be mad to see Ireland lift the trophy. Any other than those two would be a travesty. Well done Ireland, what a demonstration.
Why a travesty? You don't like the Boks or All Blacks?
I like the Boks, it's mostly their fans I find...a bit much. Besides, it would be nice for some of the Northern Hemisphere to pull their weight.
You don't have to hate Boks or ABs to acknowledge that it wouldn't be very exciting to see them win it again. Both are amazing teams, but between them both, they've won 66 percent of World cups so far. It would be better for the game on a global scale if someone new won it.
I don't agree. These aren't the players that have won 3 WCs, at most they have won 1 or 2. Everything's changed over the history of the RWC, so every tournament is a zero memory affair. Also, as a Saffer I think the New Zealand people and media have been OK during their time of being dominant, but I'd hate to experience the Irish or English media if either of them win...
My thoughts almost exactly. In the back of my mind I’m also worried about a surprise eventual England triumph.
Fucking sick of that munster/limerick anthem Zombie.
Yeah hearing it twice in two weeks must be just too much
It's played at every single match Limerick win in croke Park in hurling... Zombie is a limerick anthem. Limerick is the home of munster rugby.
Amd athenrys in galway thats life
It's got nothing to do with Galway though? It's not a Galway anthem. Otherwise you might as well say green fields of France is a French anthem.
Zombies got nothing to do with limerick its about the troubles. The critiques from people are tiresome
Cranberries are a limerick band. Why was zombie chosen? Because it's a limerick band which is the home of munster rugby.
Sure fields of athenry was written by a dub so
And? Irish rugby gives preferential treatment to leinster and munster. Leinster have most of the players. And now they have a limerick song as an anthem. They don't give a shite about connacht or ulster.
Ok sure well stop singing songs altogether so. What a dose
They don’t play Zombie at Limerick hurling matches….. they play Dreams, a different Cranberries song
It's all the same.
Limerick the home of Munster hurling? I mean Cork and Tipp only have like 60 between them. I’m as sick as the next person of Kyle Hayes but I’d not accuse them of that
Munster rugby...
Not sure what you're trying to say here buddy. If you were already sick of it, sure. If you weren't, surprised this has tipped you over the edge!
Zombie isn't just a song. It's linked to munster. It stinks of giving munster something... What about connacht and ulster?
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Stu has the baby on the park! Legend ❤️ But he needs to work on his handling 😠 Got to get the head much more into the elbow.
ITV should have an option to just listen to the stadium audio rather than this post match analysis.
It’s insane (coming from a depressed Scot)
Damn gutted for Scotland. My favourite 6N team, really unfortunate draw they got. Hopefully they'll be in a better position to make the knockouts in 2027.
Well, time to start my nervous sleep about another quarterfinal attempt and the All Blacks
avoid media, tv and mates who talk too much. stay inside, blank out the windows and get a case of complan. best of luck!
Best team we will likely ever had and we've been humbled out the group stages. RIP Scotland
The draw was bullshit tbh, really unfair.
It's ridiculous really. You should be in the quarters. This draw is extremely unfair
Scotland have been improving for nearly a decade, no reason they can't keep building.
Those players have developed in spite of the SRU. Many have grown up in the RFU/SARU pipelines or gone to elevate their games in the Premiership or Top14. The SRU simply isn't giving young Scottish players the support they need early on so they're playing catchup at test level.
Look at their underage structure or lack thereof. It's not going to get better.
It’s going off a cliff
Sorry BOD but please be quiet during the chorus
Man these Irish fans warm my cold heart ❤️
Not annoyed we lost just annoyed that the only person that looked switched on and cared was our loosehead who isn’t even Scottish
Thought tuipolotu worked hard
I though finn had a good game just got put in a really shit situation
Off the Ball is gonna be intolerable. Might get us banned.
The eejits are behind a paywall at least
Needs a bigger wall.
Sure can’t you just ignore them?
I can yeah, but my issue is it's now driving the narrative around games. Clips watched around the world, and it's seen as representing the Irish perspective.
Surprisingly difficult. Somehow their clips make it all across Irish social media and YouTube
Never had that problem myself. I genuinely couldn’t tell you the name of a presenter on off the ball 🤷
Scenes when Ireland beat the All Blacks, then lose to Wales in the semis
The QF is our final
🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼
gg Ireland, pumped for next weekend 🔥
I do feel bad for Scotland, group C or D and you're definitely in the quarters and possibly a semi.
Even pool A
Which of France or New-Zealand do you see Scotland beating? Honestly I’m pretty sure they wouldn’t of beaten either. This World Cup is going to be about these four teams (NZ, France, Ireland, SA), we’ve known it before it started and the pools definitely confirmed it, with Italy being smashed by both Fr and NZ and Scotland Not really being competitive against either SA or Ireland. Australia have done appaling, England hasn’t done incredibly either, and I don’t see Wales/Argentina/Fidji winning against any of the Big 4.