England V Ireland

Sir Duckling Tuft wrote: Having watched Ireland batter England at home 4 tries to nil, I couldnt help but wonder what game the nearly all England panel were watching? Dallaglio has surely got to go, the man is a one eyed joke always has been, then bayfield, woodentop the jazzy ITV alan partridge style presenter woeful, Wilkinson is marginally better. Apparently England were superb, heroic and brave and will be unchanged to gate crash the parisian grand slam party? They lost at home 4 tries to nil and now head for their 6th six nations defeat in 10 games, hardly world beating stuff? The scrum was a total mystery, the ref pinged Ireland throughout as the England 7 man scrum wheeled for 79 minutes. This is literally the only thing than kept England alive.  Meanwhile the irish did get away some big hits at the rucks, the rules there seem more ambiguous than ever?

Eastern outpost wrote: A question re the 2nd Irish “try” - the one that was disallowed. The ball is on the ground in the ruck and Itoje plays the scrum half by grabbing his arm. The resulting decision ends up being a knock on.  Is that allowed and correct, or some dark ruck art that Itoje got away with? I’m guessing the former as no one has mentioned it.

Sir Duckling Tuft wrote: Having watched Ireland batter England at home 4 tries to nil, I couldnt help but wonder what game the nearly all England panel were watching? Dallaglio has surely got to go, the man is a one eyed joke always has been, then bayfield, woodentop the jazzy ITV alan partridge style presenter woeful, Wilkinson is marginally better. Apparently England were superb, heroic and brave and will be unchanged to gate crash the parisian grand slam party? They lost at home 4 tries to nil and now head for their 6th six nations defeat in 10 games, hardly world beating stuff? The scrum was a total mystery, the ref pinged Ireland throughout as the England 7 man scrum wheeled for 79 minutes. This is literally the only thing than kept England alive.  Meanwhile the irish did get away some big hits at the rucks, the rules there seem more ambiguous than ever?

Eastern outpost wrote: A question re the 2nd Irish “try” - the one that was disallowed. The ball is on the ground in the ruck and Itoje plays the scrum half by grabbing his arm. The resulting decision ends up being a knock on.  Is that allowed and correct, or some dark ruck art that Itoje got away with? I’m guessing the former as no one has mentioned it.  Yes if the ball is lifted it’s out of the ruck and open play so you make a tackle. Healy did similar to george from a maul on englands 5 metre line good play but if you mis time ut, it’s a pen and possible yellow

Edited by RR1972 - 13 March 2022 at 8:45am

Fact is , the red was entirely justified and the english players fault entirely, absolutely reckless. I was perhaps a tad mean in not offering some praise for the English pack keeping the game competitive for nearly an hour. But I dont go with the english hype from their media or their nearly always nearly all english panels. I feel sometimes wales as the tiny nation always gets under rated purely due to its size and the size of the media hyping up england. sometimes this hype effects us negatively, especially at twickers imo where it seems to take us half an hour to realise England are not a great side.