England (3) 13 / 10 (0) Ireland (Final Score)
England and Ireland did battle in the Six Nations at
Twickenham, London at 18:00 SA Time (16:00 GMT).
This was the live match discussion Article.
The match was broadcast LIVE on SuperSport 8 on TV in SA and BBC1 in UK.
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Scorers:
England:
- Penalties – Owen Farrell (2)
- Drop Goals – 0
- Tries – Danny Care (1)
- Conversions – Owen Farrell (2)
Ireland:
- Penalties – Jonathan Sexton (1)
- Drop Goals – 0
- Tries – Rob Kearney (1)
- Conversions – Jonathan Sexton (1)
Teams:
England: 15 Mike Brown, 14 Jack Nowell, 13 Luther Burrell, 12 Billy Twelvetrees, 11 Jonny May, 10 Owen Farrell, 9 Danny Care, 8 Billy Vunipola, 7 Chris Robshaw (Captain), 6 Tom Wood, 5 Courtney Lawes, 4 Joe Launchbury, 3 David Wilson, 2 Dylan Hartley, 1 Joe Marler Replacements: 16 Tom Youngs, 17 Mako Vunipola, 18 Henry Thomas, 19 Dave Attwood, 20 Ben Morgan, 21 Lee Dickson, 22 George Ford, 23 Alex Goode.
Ireland: 15 Rob Kearney, 14 Andrew Trimble, 13 Brian O’Driscoll, 12 Gordon D’Arcy, 11 Dave Kearney, 10 Jonathan Sexton, 9 Conor Murray, 8 Jamie Heaslip, 7 Chris Henry, 6 Peter O’Mahony, 5 Paul O’Connell (Captain), 4 Devin Toner, 3 Mike Ross, 2 Rory Best, 1 Cian Healy Replacements: 16 Sean Cronin, 17 Jack McGrath, 18 Martin Moore, 19 Iain Henderson, 20 Jordi Murphy, 21 Isaac Boss, 22 Paddy Jackson, 23 Fergus McFadden.
Date: Saturday 22 February Venue: Twickenham Stadium, London Kick-off: 18:00 SA Time (16:00 GMT) Expected weather: Partly cloudy, no rain. A high of 11°C and low of 3°C. Winds from the South at 29km/h. Referee: Craig Joubert (South Africa) Assistant Referees: Romain Poite (France), Leighton Hodges (Wales) TMO: Jim Yuille (Scotland)
In the PRO12 Scarlets beat Solly’s Edinburgh, final score Scarlets 25/21 Edinburgh, Carl Bezuidenhout got 8 points for Edinburgh with a conversion and two penalties. Scarlets scored 3 tries and Edinburgh 2.
Over. England (3) 3 / 10 (0) Ireland (50 min)
England hard on attack now – posting so slow, apologies
Can England score – 2m out, penalty England
Farrell slots a penalty & then Danny Care scores under the posts, originally from a very poor kickoff by Sexton. Conversion good
England (3) 13 / 10 (0) Ireland (60 min)
Lets hope this posts
England really have the bit between their teeth now
Moore on for Ross
Ireland defending like mad. Get scrum 5m from own line
Will update thread score as soon as I can get in to it
Vunipola 2 on for England, McFadden for Ireland
Irleand fluuf a massive building phase, don’t know how many phases they went through, but all in vain.
Great scrum by Ireland to win rescrum. Huge push
Cronin and McGrath on for the scrum
Thomas on for England
Atwood and Henderson also on.
Solid scrum by Ireland, Ireland set up maul, but England win put in from Atwoods hard work
Massive relieving kick by England takes play back to halfway line with 8min to go
Wow, just seen Lions/Stormers score. 19/0 Lions, eish
S W I N G L O W 🙂
4 min left, Ireland throwing the kitchen sink at it now, great defence by England though – no way through for O’Driscoll and his charges
Ireland trying to run everything from there own 22, but just keep getting battered back
Both teams dead on their feet
May gets a massive kick in again, to send Ireland right back to where they started in their own 22. 1m left
Last chance saloon by Ireland, their throw in
Thats it, game over.
Great win for England.
England (3) 13 / 10 (0) Ireland Final score
So 6N still anyones. Good stuff – only Italy real out of it, although Scotland have a mountain of 17 to climb
A bit too close there…. But England did squeeze a win out!!
Hope you guys are ok, my machine is taking forever to refresh.
It is like blogging in treacle!!
Cheers all, am heading over to `Stormers thread – if I can still post. Mighty pissed off with that damn picture of the ‘gator that keeps popping up – What do alligators know, or care about rugby? Spoilsports!
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