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[2014 EOYT] Ireland vs Georgia

Didn't see the lad down, hope he's ok.

All credit to Georgia, they've put a fight up, I just wish they'd done it a bit more legally. But take what you can get...
 
Georgia learning the hard way the pitfalls of losing a player to the bin, conceded most of the 30 with only 14 on the park
 
I hope to **** Olding isn't shoved onto the wing.

Yep, looks like he is. What a waste.
 
UlsterRugby2012 said:
I hope to **** Olding isn't shoved onto the wing.

Yep, looks like he is. What a waste.
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Pretty sure he's at fullback...

Ah You carrying well in that passage.

EDIT: If only we could have played rugby like that all day.
 
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With all due respect to Georgia's defensive effort. If a tier 1 team infringed this much there would've been a few more cards.
 
Jones deserves that, he's been good today and extremely brave in the air. Probably immediately injured again now that he's played well though.
 
Jockstap said:
Would be a cricket score by now had they not killed the ball so many times though.
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Yeah, they started well, were certainly competing but as the game has gone on its more "use it as a defensive tactic and hope the ref doesn't notice". Odd considering all their pack play for big clubs in the Top 14 where you'd think they'd be taught discipline
 
Off the back of what we have seen today Im really not sure what the centre pairing should be next week if Payne is still injured. Henshaw and Darcy are probably most likely, but didn't see much today to push Darcys case. Cave has done nothing to push his case.

Surprise selection of Henshaw and Olding?
 
Decent win but could have been a lot better.

Wonder why Jack never came on?
 
UlsterG said:
Off the back of what we have seen today Im really not sure what the centre pairing should be next week if Payne is still injured. Henshaw and Darcy are probably most likely, but didn't see much today to push Darcys case. Cave has done nothing to push his case.

Surprise selection of Henshaw and Olding?
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I'd hope so.
 
D'Arcy and Cave were pretty poor, D'Arcy in particular is involved on previous form alone. Should Payne not be fit an Olding-Henshaw axis would be my pick. Tbh none of the starting team really enhanced their chances for next week, other than Foley who is perhaps worthy of a bench spot. Marmion looked good, brought real pace however against a tired Georgian pack. Jones was also impressive did well under the high ball (not that the Georgians chased/kicked well) and has got some real gas, was actually pretty good defensively too. Have to say no injuries is probably the biggest positive though.
 
Losing a player to a serious injury a couple minutes after you've just used up your bench was pretty rotten luck. Not sure what Ireland can read into that, if you add the yellow card to that, they really only ran rampant with easy tries when the tiring opposition were playing with 13 men or 14 men. So the second half not that surprising considering that.
 
psychic duck said:
Losing a player to a serious injury a couple minutes after you've just used up your bench was pretty rotten luck. Not sure what Ireland can read into that, if you add the yellow card to that, they really only ran rampant with easy tries when the tiring opposition were playing with 13 men or 14 men. So the second half not that surprising considering that.
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Not really, the Georgians killed so much ball when Ireland were close to the line that had they played legally they would've been blown away. They were lucky not to be carded a couple of more times.
 
Jockstap said:
Not really, the Georgians killed so much ball when Ireland were close to the line that had they played legally they would've been blown away. They were lucky not to be carded a couple of more times.
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What's 'not really'?

You think it wasn't bad luck to lose a player with still 20 minutes to go and just after you've used all your subs? And that Ireland can take lots of lessons out of getting a few tries against a side that was tiring and down to 13 men between for a fair amount of the last quarter?
 

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