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[2014 EOYT] Ireland vs Australia

InsaneAsylum said:
Talks of Folau being rested due to a heavy workload, selection will be interesting this week. Beale may slot into FB and i'm expecting Genia and Cooper to start with Toomua back into 12.
As much as I like to see the Rebels boys do well, I also think McMahon will not be selected. We need more size in the backrow especially against Ireland, not sure who will come back in, no way will hooper be dropped but I'd love to see Higginbotham, Hodgson and McCalman as the backrow.

Skelton did nothing last week and starting to get the feeling he's not up to it. I didn't rate Horwill or Carter before him. We seem to have an abundance of locks who can't do their job, meanwhile Luke Jones has pins and needles in his ass from sitting down. Also Ben Alexander HAS TO GO!

"Carn the farken Wallabies mate"
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A strange game to rest Folau in IMO ... surely you'd want your top team in against Ireland (I'd have rested him against France ... I know Beale wasn't there for selection then). Luke Jones should be playing, even if they have to start him on the blindside.

Should be close, but I'd go with Ireland on current form
 
Mr Fish said:
I thought Higginbotham had returned home?
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last I heard he was 1-2 weeks and it wasn't serious, but I may have missed something. regardless my point still stands that we need more size in the backrow against Ireland.
 
That's stupid, the concept of resting Folau. Against Ireland if you're Australia you're not going to win up front and with intensity and commitment, these guys play like piranhas at the breakdown especially at home; you obviously have to bring the real threat few other teams in the world can bring: a very big and uber-athletic backline, and Folau's a main component in that. The Wallabies are going to have to play Wallaby ball (amongst other things) and that means confiscate the ball, work phases cleanly and solidly (although they might have to commit more men in the rucks I reckon in Dublin than in Paris) and then release some Oceanic-style runners; they need Folau, his one-on-one skills might be the difference maker, and in France he was shut down almost completely all game long, they'll need all the help they can get here.

I wonder how they're going to play the kicking game though...they ran and passed a ton in France and held in hand, didn't kick away too much but the Bleu defense was just overwhelming. They might change their tactics here.
 
Ok so Best in, Folau potentially out.. any more positives for the Irish camp and we will certainly lose!
 
UlsterRugby2012 said:
Ok so Best in, Folau potentially out.. any more positives for the Irish camp and we will certainly lose!
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Stephen Ferris was seen rising from a grave brushing chunks of earth aside vigorously, producing a resounding Godzilla-like growl and seemingly heading straight for Aviva Stadium, each step an earth-shaking procession.
 
Big Ewis said:
Stephen Ferris was seen rising from a grave brushing chunks of earth aside vigorously, producing a resounding Godzilla-like growl and seemingly heading straight for Aviva Stadium, each step an earth-shaking procession.
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Now that you mention the great man. He's going travelling with Team McIllroy for few months he told me a few weeks back. Still as built as ever and even with dodgy knees I'd still back him to take all the Oz back row on his own as Simon Best once said he's Ulsters Austin 3:16.
 
I feel a 'Ferris picking up Genia like a rag-doll' video is in order soon..
 
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I can understand wanting to rest Folau but they've picked a pretty dumb time to do it. He was a shining light (at least towards the end) last week in a losing side. Even harder to see Australia winning this one with one less game breaker.

I agree with whoever said Phipps needs replacing. Too many mistakes last week when I was looking at his stats the other day. I guess this means we'll see Kurtley starting.
 
Mikel92 said:
I can understand wanting to rest Folau but they've picked a pretty dumb time to do it. He was a shining light (at least towards the end) last week in a losing side. Even harder to see Australia winning this one with one less game breaker.

I agree with whoever said Phipps needs replacing. Too many mistakes last week when I was looking at his stats the other day. I guess this means we'll see Kurtley starting.
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Mmmyyes I agree with this. Start Beale at 9.
And my suggestion for Folau's rest is they should try to rest him from now til exactly the kickoff, and then from the end of the game til later during that next week. But that's just my vision of it, I can only offer my opinion rings.
 
Mikel92 said:
I can understand wanting to rest Folau but they've picked a pretty dumb time to do it. He was a shining light (at least towards the end) last week in a losing side. Even harder to see Australia winning this one with one less game breaker.

I agree with whoever said Phipps needs replacing. Too many mistakes last week when I was looking at his stats the other day. I guess this means we'll see Kurtley starting.
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Don't forget AAC, he can play at 15 too.

I think: 11- Tomane, 14- Speight & 15- Adam Ashley-Cooper would be the best combination without Folau and Beale on the bench
 
Payne is out, my preference would be Olding but I reckon it will be D'Arcy.
 
OK that makes more sense...it's that famously dry French sense of humour, obviously
 
Every Time Ref said:
OK that makes more sense...it's that famously dry French sense of humour, obviously
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nope, it's my own personal wet "sense of humor". I like things that aren't funny, they are funny to me (if done right...or wrong, it depends).
 
Game of the round IMO. Too tight too call though I am very interested to see if Ireland can keep the shape they've shown. I mean, both SA and Aus have had recent enough trouble in dealing with the Irish but they seem a more accurate team under Schmidt.. not sure where I am going with this thought really. Ireland by 5 is probably my call.

ITO the rankings what with this being no.3 vs no.4 in the world I thought this relevant. Assuming England beat Samoa (to stay at 84.21 since they can't climb off of the Samoa fixture) this is effectively a battle for who gets position no.3 (or stays at 3 if my prediction holds ;P) and who drops to 5.

Home (on 84.84 points) at home -vs- Away (on 84.22 points)

 
^ :lol: you're the grande quindecimophiliac grande Super Moderator master poster on this forum, 20morster10, but you need another ***le to add to your board so badly too...so badly...
I'm thinking something up as we speak (let's pretend like we're speaking atm)...yes...'cosmopathy'. You suffer from cosmopathy too, s10rtm0oer2, amongst your other strange tastes for peculiar aspects of Rugby. From "cosmos", in the ancient Greek philosophical, original acceptation of the term (a nominal entity meaning universe, and 'the beauty of organization' which pertains to the universe) and the Greek root "pathos" (disease), this obsessive condition consists in a great infatuation with all things related to world organization, ranging from charts and stats to world rankings, in the field of professional sports for instance.

You're piling up those obsessive disorders, ssssssssssssss10, you weird quindecimophiliac cosmopath.
 

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