RWC 2011: Australia v Ireland Post-Match Reaction
Can you believe it? The Rugby World Cup 2011 has officially been blown wide open. Huge performances from the Irish pack, whilst the Wallabies couldn’t get their attack going under immense pressure.
What were your thoughts on the game?
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That fcken hurt.
Well played Ireland, thoroughly deserved. Passion and smart tactics.
Our forward pack was outclassed. Simple as that.
Tough road ahead!
who keeps removing my comment?? :( c’mon ireland!!
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Sorry Conor, thought it might be a virus! Love it.
How good were the irish front row? Just a perfect time to hit some form the only worry is BOD what’s the story with him falling off tackles the last two weeks so unlike him
Australia out foxed and out boxed????? One magnificent performance does not make a campaign, but a magnificent campaign entails magnificent perfomances! The thing is Ireland were not at all flattered by the result, it could have been much worse for the ozzies!! Will someone explain to me in plain english what I saw???
Overjoyed, yet baffled in Dublin.
Couldn’t believe it! Hope it’s the wake up call the Aussies need! And by the quarter finals are gonna need!!!!!!
dear Australia, f*** you very much for losing to Ireland today because it now means we have to play you in the quarter finals and you most probably will beat us as usual…if you had stuck to the script then everyone would be happy but you just had to lose.
sincerely springbok fan.
u can be as sincere all u want mister springbok man, but the thought after that performance by the irish that u should just merely turn up in the quarters is laughable. watch out the world of rugby giants david is coming to slay u.
How long is the crooked feed legal to the scrum in rugby union ?
Genia seemed to do it all day long
“Can you believe it?”
No, not really. Ireland narrowly lost to Oz in previous world cups by a single point. They’re a dangerous side.
“The Rugby World Cup 2011 has officially been blown wide open. ”
Not really, AB’s are still gonna win it, except instead of Oz, SA, and France being the only ones with any chance to stop them, you might be able to add Ireland to that list, still a BIG ‘might’. AB’s are too good. Argentina are starting to catch fire too though.
I was ultimately surprised at how good Ireland was, even though I thought their aging stars could get up for one or two games they were fantastic.
Not to over exaggerate but they have set the World Cup alight, and that is not to say that it won’t get better, but at the moment that is the first upset and every competition needs a few upsets to keep it honest. The fact that the upset occurred in the group stages and so early in the group stages only means that the conversations on the possible consequences are longer and more stimulating. I also think it will inspire a few other northern hemisphere sides or maybe even Samoa, if indeed they needed any inspiration.
Of the SANSAR nations Australia were always my favorites to get turned over. They were fancied by many to win the tournament by many people, and still are by some. But the fact remains that I remember that England beat this team twice and made them look very ordinary at that. All the glam of their fast backs was a cover for the fact that they had a shaky lineout, an awful scrum and no recognized kicker, who wins the world cup on that premise. Their much vaunted win against the All Blacks at the end of the TN only confirmed in my head why the AB are the best team in the world.
Australia won that day but for me the beauty was watching NZ completely change their approach in the second half and almost win the game. The greatest teams are the ones that have a number of available tactics in their armory and are intelligent and flexible enough to recognize when to change from plan A to plan B. South Africa suffer from the same one dimensional game as Australia, in their case if they can’t batter you to death then the ideas are finished. South Africa do have more experience and resilience to turn to, which is why they won against Wales but I believe that if a team can tackle their runners at the gainline and beat them at the breakdown, then they will struggle.
Wales warned the Tri Nations of their fragility and Ireland finished the job, there is a long way to go, I still believe that the SANZAR teams are the three best in the world and I still believe that NZ are the best team in the world but I also think that there is an obvious game-plan to play against Australia and South Africa, executing that plan is harder in practice than on paper but the fact remains that Samoa, for example, knows exactly what they need to do to beat the Boks and the so does every team when playing Australia.
The fact that we don’t know how to play the All Blacks makes them by far the best team in the world.
Matt Giteau – where are you now? All is forgiven!!! (Isn’t that right Robbie?)