Wobblies v Oirelind II

[Lizard]

Couldn't see a fred for this.

Are they deliberately taking the piss with the guy singing yer enthem?

[Mellsblue]

That knock on was before the hooter.

[Lizard]

Yep. But the ref is still the sole judge of time.

[Mellsblue]

He said it was at the same as the hooter, which it wasn’t.
Pocock is ridiculous.

[Lizard]

Yep. Pocock is first name on the World XV sheet. Is anyone else that far ahead of the next best in their position?

[Mellsblue]

Mike Brown. Far and away the best wing in world rugby.

[Mellsblue]

If that’s a try then wow.

[16th man]

Got to ask how many times the ref is going to let the Aussies kill it a couple of metres from the line before he produces the card that should have come on the first one.

[Lizard]

It's an anomaly in the laws that an offence which would get yellow if penalised does not result in a card if advantage is played and gained.

[Mellsblue]

Squeaky bum time.

[Lizard]

Match of the weekend so far.

[16th man]

Now that they're over the line, it's not as big a thing, but, again, the howling inconsistency of that yellow card is amazing.

[Spiffy]

He said it was at the same as the hooter, which it wasn’t.
Pocock is ridiculous.

Like Ritchie McCaw before him, Pococock's reputation as the breakdown superman now allows him to get away with murder. Though today he was out-Pococked by O'Mahony.

[Which Tyler]

That's the Raeburn back then; just gotta keep it out of SH hands over the QNs!

[SerjeantWildgoose]

Jeepers lads! It’s not like we were ever going to throw that one away in the last 10 minutes now, was it?

Ireland utterly dominant and still conspired with the ref to keep Oz in it right to the death. It’s like watching Munster, I tell ye!

[SerjeantWildgoose]

Yep. Pocock is first name on the World XV sheet. Is anyone else that far ahead of the next best in their position?

Quite a few good things from Pocock yesterday but he's not that far ahead. Peter O'Mahoney was the best 6 on the park by a country mile.

[Mikey Brown]

Is Pocock actually considered a 6 now?

[Spiffy]

Is Pocock actually considered a 6 now?

It's only a number. He plays the same way wearing 6,7 or 8.

[SerjeantWildgoose]

So does Joey, whether he’s wearing 10, 15 or 4.

[Mikey Brown]

Is Pocock actually considered a 6 now?

It's only a number. He plays the same way wearing 6,7 or 8.

I just meant I wouldn’t see him as vying with O’Mahoney in this world XV chat.

[cashead]

Is Pocock actually considered a 6 now?

Michael Cheika likes to play 2 opensides, with one physical loose forward to attempt to compensate for any lost physicality at the breakdown. Results have... varied. Like, it worked once against the All Blacks in 2015, with Fardy at 6 and Pocock at 8 (Sean McMahon replacing him when Pocock was unavailable), but was brutally exposed. The recent record against Australia also speaks for itself.

[Mikey Brown]

Yeah I’m familiar with it, Scotland are doing a similar thing, with similar struggles to find an 8 that fills the void. I really was just saying he’s still a 7, if wearing 6. I wish I hadn’t.

[Eugene Wrayburn]

It's an anomaly in the laws that an offence which would get yellow if penalised does not result in a card if advantage is played and gained.

I'm pretty sure it's not an anomaly in the laws but an irritating blindspot by most referees.

That was an appalling refereeing performance. I'm delighted we won so I don't have to expend useless energy thinking that we might have won but for it.

Decent performance by us. Thought POM seriously stepped up which helped out Nordi. With a more even breakdown everything else improved. I think that Sexton was still off his game a little. Furlong is immense.

I don't think that was our best team out and I hope we will improve again next time round

[SerjeantWildgoose]

Tony Ward and I are howling off the same hymn sheet.

https://www.independent.ie/sport/rugby/ ... 20788.html

Beyond that I am fuming over Conway's injury, shipped while in the act of scoring. It was not self-inflicted as has been suggested in some reports. Is it going to take a really serious injury before World Rugby addresses has long been a blight on the game? Apart from having your arms trapped at the bottom of a ruck I cannot think of a more exposed and, as a consequence, more vulnerable position than when crossing for a try. I couldn't tell you when I last saw a match official restart a game by way of a penalty on the halfway line to the scoring side. Here for sure is a very real cancer on the game.

I can't remember the number of times I have seen some lout who has no chance of making a tackle resort to the cheap and abysmally childish shot of sliding in knees first into someone in the process of scoring a try. I think of Cohen doing it to Girve at Twickenham back in 2004 and the latest is the fecker Haylett-Petty. Ward is right; this is fecking dangerous and the twat of an assistant ref who can clearly see should have called the try and the penalty restart.

[morepork]

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