What did you think of .....?

Question

the ENGLAND / IRELAND rugby match

oh my god england got leathered ha ha ha ha typical

and to think that they thought they had a chance aw poor things

Answer 1

By far the best team. Now the pressure is really on. As co- favourites, you have to get to the world cup final. Will your bottle hold?

After the finals a lot of your players will retire, It will be good too see how good the Irish team is then?

England will have a better squad next season when these players come back into it. They were not available on Saturday, because of injury.

Sheridan

Stevens

Thompson

Hill

Moody

Hodgson

Robinson

Queto

Balshaw

Borthwick

Answer 2

I thought it was a fantastic game of rugby. Very good indeed. Pity about the 80000+ plastic paddies in the stadium. Really spoilt the occassion for me. Oh well not to worry. Lets hope none of them get tickets for the RWC games and real rugby supporters, as opposed to politically motivated hysterical morons, can get a chance to see their team play.

Answer 3

GGGGGRRRRRREEEEEEAAAAAAATTTTTTT!!!!!!!!!...

Answer 4

Yea I'm Irish and I'm delighted by the result. We may have a chance of winning the world cup.

Revenge is sweet and if i may say so. Ireland made the right kind of history. Tee Hee.

ViVa O'Driscoll.

Answer 5

The best team of the night won!

Watch out Nations, there is a Gaelic storm heading your way!

Answer 6

world cup honey

Answer 7

Dont mind em all, of course Ireland can win the World Cup, to rule them out would be plain stupid. If England had one that game in Croker by the same margin we'd still be hearing about it in 5 bloody years! Let Ireland revel in their glory! Somebody said Ireland are ranked 4th or 5th, yeah thats true, but if they'd beatin France they'd now be ranked second in the World. Plus , if they had hit the ground running (some journalists have stated that it was the worst twenty minutes played from any six nations team this season) Ireland would have beaten France........but they did'nt, granted. But the Irish now have nothin to fear........ anyone remember how Ireland got on out in New Zealand last summer!!!!!!!!!! My recollection pertains that they did VERY d**n well, O'Connell himself blamed one of the losses on his error, gooo on Ireland!!!!!!!!!!

Answer 8

great, as we would say back home "lekker"

cool looks like they are playing rugby back in the stone ages.

i heard that they have been sparring with the flintstones" but again i say rumours

ha ha  

cool

Answer 9

It was a great game of Rugby. As an Englishman it was hard to watch 'my' team get comprehensively beaten.

Ireland were the better side and played the much better 'football' in the loose areas of the field. They never let England settle and eventually even though we defended well and tackled hard we were over powered.

Once a tiredness starts to set into the losing team the last 15 minutes of a game can seem like an eternity.

So well done to Ireland, they learnt from the mistakes they made against the French and made sure England didn't get the chance to do the same.

So please keep your joy a bit of 'teasing' should be part of sport.

We will have to store up our 'hurt' and get our 'own back' next year, or better still in the final of the World Cup.

Answer 10

It was a awesome game... I really enjoyed it. I thought the game against the French was very tight, and was sorry to see Ireland lose, but I think this result overshadowed that defeat. I really hope the men in green can cause some upsets in France (except against the boks).

Answer 11

it was the best ever , the Irish should hold there heads high

it was big advert how the Irish can make all welcome , mind you , most rugby fans are like that , i think it would be a different if the English football team had be playing , football can learn from rugby , well done Ireland well done to the Irish rugby fans

Answer 12

hahaha, and who lost to France????

Answer 13

It was an excellent game and I don't think English rugby fans have anything to be ashamed of at all. They were thoroughly beaten by a team that consists of a world class half-back pairing that have played together since they were kids and a three-quarter line that hails from one province; Leinster.

Until now, any doubts about the Ireland XV have surrounded their front five. In N. Best, Easterby, Wallace and Leamy they have four top class back rowers and O'Connell seems to have refound his form, judging by the display he put in on Saturday but the real worry has been the front row and O'Callaghan who has a tendency to blow hot and cold.

Granted, on Saturday, with over 80,000 supporters, God Save the Queen in Croke park and the whole aura of this historic sporting occasion, every player in the Ireland team rose to the occasion and absolutely belted the life out of a far from mediocre England team but let's face it, whilst England were head and shoulders ahead of the rest, this is not the case anymore. Scotland (my team) beat them last year!

Take a look at the real competition you have going into the world cup instead of revelling in what is irrelevant (ie. beating the seventh ranked rugby team in the world) and start considering the reality of your world cup campaign.

You're in a pool with France, who just beat you at Croke Park. They're going to be at home in Paris and you're going to have to beat Argentina as well. Argentina have the second best pack in the world behind New Zealand and France at home, I'm sorry but it's just not going to happen. I believe Ireland are capable of beating Argentina but I can't see them even scraping past France with France at home.

This means that Ireland will probably face New Zealand in Cardiff on 6th October in the quarter final of the Rugby World Cup. I'm afraid that their World Cup will end there and then.

In the meantime, enjoy... you're playing great rugby and if the team can channel a fraction of the energy they put into beating the English then I don't see why they can't do better but you can quote me as having said that I sincerely don't think that Ireland are capable of beating France or New Zealand in Paris this Autumn. Ironically, England are likely to go further in the tournament and be knocked out in the semis but that's the luck of the draw and history doesn't remember the plucky loser so maybe take it easy on your anglo-bashing and have a think about the Autumn first before you laugh so loud you end up looking silly.

Answer 14

I will concur with Diarmid completely, it's easy to get carried away with the occasion, as I believe the Irish team did quit literally on Saturday, that's not to say that they are not a worthy team, they are, but a Wold Cup campaign is an entirely different thing, Diarmid's analysis was fairly accurate, Ireland really struggled against France at Croke Park (albeit without O'Driscoll) but in the World cup you'll be in France playing against a home advantage and I don't think you will be up to it.

Whilst we are going on about Irelands glorious defeat over the English, remember this, every team has its peaks and troughs, I remember the days when Ireland were the Wooden Spoon merchants, England are a team on the way back, a lot of these guys coming through now will be around for 2011 let alone 2007, and as for Wilkinson whether you like it or not he is a world ranked player who injury permitting has not yet reached his prime.