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Match Reaction #2: Tommy Nooooooooooooooo!
Tommy Bowe was denied what seemed an inevitable try by some stout defending by Scotland’s Graeme Morrison from a crossfield kick by Jonny Sexton which almost caught the Scottish defence napping. As he...
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Match Reaction #3: All Kinds Of Everything
Morrison has Tommy Bowe pinned for the one-two-three! Whatchu gonna do when Hulkamania runs wild on you, brutha? This was an oddly splintered sort of match, which suffered quite badly from the...
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And the Final Table Shows …
With due credit to Irish Times rugby correspondent Gavin Cummiskey, the key motivation that will have driven two national coaches in particular during this week is the potential impact that Saturday’s...
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Hoping That Some Calcio Storico Will Break Out In This Horrorshow Of A Match
Filed under: Harmless Fun, Six Nations Tagged: Bag of shite, Calcio Storico, Horrendous game, Italy, Scotland, Six Nations
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Match Reaction #1: Sins Of Omission
From an English perspective, it has been a hugely encouraging Six Nations: the team improved with every performance, won four out of five games, were narrowly [and somewhat controversially] beaten in...
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Match Reaction #2: Where The Game Was Won And Lost
The England scrum is about to disappear stage right in about three seconds ... Twenty-four of England’s thirty-point haul came directly from scrum penalties; the other six were from two penalties late...
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Play La Marseillaise; Play It!
Freddie’s back at No10 and Les Bleus have scored 94 points in three games in front of clamourous home crowds, hammering the Wallabies 33-6 before gutting the Pumas 39-19, then breaking down a...
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Ireland vs England Match Reaction
Not an oul fellah in sight: Ben Youngs, Joe Launchbury, Peter O’Mahony and Cian Healy are four youngsters who will have big parts to play over the coming decade in these clashes. The torch has been...
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Ruck Marks: England vs Ireland 2014
Conor Murray and Andrew Trimble make an effective last ditch tackle on England wing Johnny May to prevent a certain try early in the game [photo copyright – Mark Pain].Narrow margins! England versus...
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Ireland Second Rows in 2016 – The Post-Paul O’Connell Era
Donnacha Ryan and Devin Toner celebrate Ireland’s victory over the All Blacks in Chicago. They’re neither the most complementary second row partnership that Ireland have fielded in the professional...
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