Green and Gold Rugby

Welcome to coverage of Ireland vs The Wallabies at Croke Park

That’s good dedication mate

Tim Tams are the secret?

Now Im on my flatmates computer while he is out somewhere getting hammered… not sure he’d be impressed I’m using it… Tim tams definitely a secret weapon to staying awake

Getting hammered on a Sunday? That’s also dedication

We journos can get hammered any day of the week

This is the big one of the Tour – can we do it?

I reckon we can… but we’ll have to lift our game by at least another 80%…. work rate at the breakdown, set piece, basic skills….

Hey, I’m living it up here as well. Another cup of tea in a minute. I just don’t care.

Ha! I just cracked a beer…. could be counter-productive

Just showed the ground. Looks in pretty good shape. Not the mud bath we feared

BOD’s 100th will be huge for the Irish…

Yeah, my hope is that the lack of team time and fact that we’re not their biggest match (I think) might give us an edge…

Yeh I think they’ll be feeling the off-season…. but they’ve proved their quality before….

How bad were the Poms yesterday?

Bingo Dingo:

Belief
Group of players

Points of difference

oh.. dismal… was awesome! HA!

The Boks and AB’s were also average… do yourself a favour and type in INVICTUS into youtube… the new movie about ‘95 RWC. Tell me it doesnt give you goosebumps…

hat was a random tangent… sorry… Kris.. g’day

Out they come… Rocky, Gits and Big Kev giving them a lesson…. here come the Irish

If you’re in Australia and you’re reading this, you can call yourself hardcore

John Hayes…. how bout that head

Welcome the real MattyK!

ta

Another victim for Fatcat

GDay Timmsy

Some of the Australians Mo’s look creepy

His ears look like half chewed Minties….

three nights in a row is starting to take it’s toll…

How slow is this anthem?

Slow, Stirring, Sensational

I think they should have more marching bands play the anthems instead of backing tapes.

and weird drummers

Just quietly… some Irish sorts in that Croke Park crowd

The mullet is alive and well in Ireland

Ok lads… will sign off til halftime.. enjoy

KICK OFF!!

Will ROG be MOM for Australia?

Just a little too much mustard on the kick

Why kick long so early they had numbers?

And that is how you shut 80K paddys up

OK that answers my question

What a start!

Ireland missfire in midfield from BOD gifts a run in try to Drew Mitchell

Whoopsie daisy

Not a great first touch for your 100th game

Gits slots and its 0-7 to Wallabies after 3 min

Kaplan evening it up

ROG slots a penalty. 3-7 after 5min

The new Puma gear the Paddies are wearing is not half bad

Interesting line-out

fucking Kaplan

scrum time

Dominated

wtf?

Gits put them under pressure with his half ass droppie

Watching tapes of Ella and Noddy slotting field goals

I’ve always said Kaplan is a top ref

Cheeky throw to no 1 again?

Jeez those tashes are rank

Magic touchfinder from gits. Hits the corner flag

Knock this one off

Fucking Kaplan

ditto

That was a bit of a crap call

Yellow

Red

Lot of offside happening from the Irish. They been getting lessons from NZL ?

Big Cliffy!

Why do they keep looking at that fucking kick?

Giteau will miss

Good blind side flooding from the forwards, one more phase and it would have come back to the right.

Ireland offside. Gits misses at 15min

Never kicks them from there

He can’t kick off his wrong side

no surprises there

kicking again

and again back at that corner

Throw to Rocky?

horrible lineout

Gits almost had an intercept

20mins almost up, we’ve stopped competing at the ruck

I think ioani just broke.

Diggers’ arm is fucked

Ioane has just fucked himself

looks up, don’t want him off now.

What happened to Diggers?

line outs are sigh

Diggers playing again

good pressure from Ireland

All from our shit lineout.

Smith on for Pocock

already?

Blood

Absolutely raped by Kaplan there

If they get a ruck in our half, Kaplan will give them 3

Onya Johnno

I didn’t even see what the penalty was, even in slo-mo

Our lineout is a massive problem

Pen by ROG 6-7 after 21min

concur scarfman

Another botched Aussie line out

Great defence from Diggers

Good stuff

Yeah impressed with the defence, and no idea Moses.

Our lineout is pants. If only someone had forseen this… well apart from Gagger, obviously

Aust has only won one line-out from 5 with that shitty throw to the front

How did he think he was onside?

Quiet tonight – a lot of softcocks going to work in the morning

Unfortunately congratulating myself on this isn’t feeling good

Wallabies bulldoze a ruck and get a penalty. Gits slots. 6-10 after 25min

Gits slots the penalty from the O’Leary offsides

Morning all, just finished my uni assignment, started at 10am so thinking I might not make the second half with a new job starting tomrorow as well!

Great effort Mosebro

Rocky regains his Irish attitide

Why kick that shit away? Not like we’ll pressure the lineout, would rather we just recycle

Nice work from T-Rex

Call that new boss up, and tell him piss off, will be late!

nice Moses

if he gives you any grief, he is a mug.

Now to our powerhouse lineout

stupid kick, and it almost went out on the full. absolute waste

Get out of the way ref

I’m at work atm scarfman :p

Great show and go from Gits

Great play

Lots of very flat Aussie passes. Only time till the ref/touchies get involved

Gits its even better than Halangahu

How many fwd passes from Gits there?

I love the retaliation from Palu

shit

Elsom needs to call the lienout for himself

WTF is Kaplan doing? He has invented a new set of rules – as he usually does I suppose

Scrum looking very solid, hope Al Baxter is watching.

Massive tackle

What the fuck was wrong with that?

I saw arms

what the fuck

carded for that!

HE IS A CUNT!!!

bullshit

advantage?

Complete and utter bullshit

Kaplan you fucking cheating twat

just because the guy fell down.

Surprise surprise, Kaplan fucks up bigtime. De ja fucking vu

Nothing wrong with that

Kaplan…. what??

is the crowd calling bullshit?

The home commentators are even saying that was wack

magic tackle

nothing wrong with it

Penalty to the Paddies

Kaplan is totally off the hook

If you are the tackler, you have the rights to the ball

No replay but that looked fine to me

i’d give palu a medal for that hit

Geeze that almost came off for ROG/Wallace

Fuck boys, we need to rise above this cunt

What is with the flourishing signals from Kaplan after he gives a penalty

what is doing with our lineout??

Advantage?

Probably not terrible for Palu to get a rest, especially if Pocock is off..

Loving all these 7 man scrums, does cliffy even push?

Do you reckon Cooper is setting them up for the dummy kick, run 90m, try?

take your time lads.. soak up the 10 min

I’m with you Swainy

he’s kicked every time he’s had the ball

again

i think deans has a rule when playing in the northern hemi:

don’t run from your own half..

kick the leather off the ball?

I think most teams have that rule these days

the ref’s are too unpredictable and the risk of penalties is too great

SOme refs are more unpredictable than others

Don’t think it’s a NH thing Eddo, we did the same crap in the 3N

Fuck kaplan, he was the tackler you dick

But Ireland run it.. with good results tonight…

well.. it makes sense here

guess he wasn’t supporting his weight, fair enough?

he is a retard. How can he still be reffing?

Put on Duncan McRae to sort out ROG

put on Cliff to sort out ROG

he’s the lowest of the low

Stu Dickinson is even better than this bloke…

Am loving the defence from the Wallabies this tour

QC getting tough

ohh. mongrel from Quade…

Stu – I’d take stu any day of the week!

Bam bam having a field day on the ground

I know it close to half but has it been ten yet?

QC understands, don’t mess with the Mo Bro

and there goes another

Pocock.. muscling up…

Palu back now? Surely…

massive lineout

Cliffy on

try time come on!

here he comes

Palu back on 39 min

Lucky he didn’t get a yellow for that – applying the same rules as Cliffy’s hit

Could Vickerman make it to from Oxford before the game is over?

solid ten seconds from Palu

Cliffy to score, full of beans with 30 seconds to go is his bag

Or not

Quade’s BBQ rugby returns

Classic QC

Someone fire up the QC blooper reel

How are we leading?

bloooooooooooooddddddddddddddyyyyyyyyyyy helllllllll

Two in a row from QC

HAHA

ha!

Wallabies 10 Lineout / Kaplan 6

wtf was that?

oh shit..

my feed must be 30 seconds behind

Night all, good luck in the second half

hope you enjoyed a return to Quade of the past

Ben Tune is having a go at Kaplan now.

See ya Mose-bag – hows the mO

Soooooooooooooftcooooooooooooooooock

good! I hope Cliffy calls some cuzzies onto Kaplans ass

Wallabies have lost 5 throws, out of what 9?

At half time the Wallabies are up 6-10, but as Scarfman says, between the lineout (4 lost on own throw) and Kaplan, too much pressure, which the Wallabies are applying well between phases, is being released

will we go to sleep again in the second half?

All the pommy / Irish / Welsh commentators have panned Kaplan

It was the first thing they talked about

Me 8 Tim Tams 0

Doubt it Swainy. besides lineout we are on top. Bam bam is fucking people up.

Mate surley the Wallabies will come out and give it plenty…..

cant believe that yellow. Just pisses me off

Bloody hope so

I think we need to think about keeping it in hand a bit more… we actually look good with it in hand for once…

I’m confident in wallaby performance, but ireland gonna make trys too

I don’t know if he did actually ref them, Joubert did the first one and some Pom did the last one – maybe perth?

Our kicking game needs work, Quade is just banging it straight down Kearney’s throat

True dat

he wouldnt of reffed perth as he is safa

Don’t think we had Kaplan- we had Joubert, Barnes, Rolland? and Joubert IIRC

Good to see someone else taking the aimless kicking role from AAC today /sarcasm

Sorry, Kaplan did the Bledisloe in Sydney

even the posters on bbc boards are saying kaplan’s been making terrible calls against aus, so it must be pretty bad — only caught the last 5 mins

Kaplan is a CUNT!!!!

hahaha. the guy is a joke!!

Haha, knew you would love it Paarl

Who are you talking to PB? The entire rugby watching population of the earth?

We’re up PB, doesn’t that mean we can whinge about the ref?

At least he has been consistent with his ruck, lineout and scrum rulings

Kaplan for president!

Even though we have copped the rough end of that a few times

Hahaha! Wait till te game is finish before you go off.

A try to the Good Guys early in the second half and it’s ours boys!!

Kaplan should be reffing Sailor v Capper charity fights, not Rugby Internationals

Kaplan shoud be in his home,

Our backline is not really functioning, by the way

So how is it looking, raining slow pitch?

‘Carn Boys!!!!

bam bam for PM

Yeh I agree Scarfman… Gits needs to take more command

We’re keeping it as a surprise Scarfie

Ia it 2 in the morning in Aus? Hell what are you lot doing on the net???????????

no lives mate…

rugby nerds

Two goo dplays from Rocky

I’m at work PB ;p

Irish 9 has had a shocker

2nd half started?

Genia not too much better though

Yeah 2 minutes in

Did you get a chance to see the anthems at the start of the match Paarl?

Bliksem James, working this time?

Juan, Cliffy

Yeah, emergency at a hospital. Luckily it’s quiet atm

good metres…. good reffing

s hit on the highlights reel?

Consistency!

Great continuity from our boys

Exactly what AAC was done for in the first hald

ref might call a bit better for aus after seeing the replay of cliffy’s tackle at half time

Juan please not that again, still hurting after that takhaar betoger, hell I would have lined him up with the mauser, between the eyes! doodskoot.

big kick

fuck

faaaaaarrrrk

duisldfbaklhjgflajhgdf

Gits misses penalty 44th min

thats huge

Should have slotted that

Not sure what a takhaar betoger is but I don’t think it is complimentary

hit him QC!

the try is coming!

3 lineouts in a row!

Takhaar, dreadlock, flee nest demonstrotor raggue shite.

maybe our lineouts are a bluff?

Aussie’s breakdown work is great atm

Genia has actually played quite poorly

Yep

The curse of the AUssie halfback- brilliant one week, shithouse the next

i waana see try no kicking!

yeh not as good as last week…. bit slow to the bdown and passes not quite hitting

fat cat is a better 9

good pill benn!!!

first time I remember seeing us catch a high ball cleanly for ages

Has someone told Cooper he can’t pass it?

OK I am off, enjoy the best and good luck, have to take the Collie for his sunday walk and get the kid in the cricket nets, the Proteas slam the Poms , so at least one cheer the whole of the weekend, talk again tomorrow.

See you PB

the internet would have melted down if it was Burgo out there putting this performance in

AAC forgets to pass, big shock

AAC should really try that more often

flat as shit

Great run, can’t believe he didn’t pass

The rest of them should follow AAC’s lead

Kind of hard to pass to a man in front of him

Where is Giteau? fuck

The number of times Chis goes backwards….

cliff is hungry for the try

Great control, looking good so far

Nah, AAC simply fell over there

Not good when your 9, 10, and 12 are all playing poorly

We need points here!!

But how deep is the Aussie backline atm?

BOD done anything of note yet?

not very deep

Aussie look good when they don’t kivk every ball.

Add 13 to that Scarfy, where is he?

on the up benn!

JJJ- dropped the ball that resulted in the Aussie try

BOD set up the Wallabies first try

No surprise 13 isn’t getting the ball

True

big scrum

what?

Diggers is defending well but it hard to perform at 13 if 9 10 & 12 are getting you the ball.

FUCK

wha?

farrrrrrk

kaplan looking for a scrum penalty

CUNT!!!!

What the fuck?

Bullshit.

Stupid thick cunt!

We destroyed them