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<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Sir. Speedy @ Feb 15 2009, 06:46 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div>

Wait, what? Castro was a penalty machine, and had an average game overall. Parisse didn't give away penalties, but he wasn't on song either. His carrying was hardly to write home about, never really getting past the first tackler in contact, or making an impact out wide. He threw a wild pass to boot, and his most impressive effort was pushing away a small Irish back. He wasn't bad, but he can do much better than that.

Actually, the entire Italian pack was just not good today. They could only slow down things, didn't put up their hands at the line-out and were outsmarted by the Irish pack Italy have to fear the Scotland game by now, who actually have decent halfbacks and backs who can break the line on occasion, rather than just shipping the ball on and ending up where they started, like the Italian backs.

Ireland have to feel confident ahead of the England game. Their pack was pretty stable, with Heaslip, Ferris and POC leading the charge. The backs were not up to much, but defended well and managed to click once or twice, which proved enough against the Italians, but if Englands defence do manage to click again, they might become unstuck and have to scrape out a win through the boot of O'canonlykickAra.

<blockquote data-quote="Nidhogg" data-source="post: 245977"><p>&lt;div class=&#039;quotetop&#039;&gt;QUOTE (Sir. Speedy @ Feb 15 2009, 06:46 PM) <a href="http://index.php?act=findpost&amp;pid=379235" target="_blank">&lt;{POST_SNAPBACK}&gt;</a>&lt;/div&gt;</p><p></p><p>Wait, what? Castro was a penalty machine, and had an average game overall. Parisse didn&#039;t give away penalties, but he wasn&#039;t on song either. His carrying was hardly to write home about, never really getting past the first tackler in contact, or making an impact out wide. He threw a wild pass to boot, and his most impressive effort was pushing away a small Irish back. He wasn&#039;t bad, but he can do much better than that. </p><p></p><p>Actually, the entire Italian pack was just not good today. They could only slow down things, didn&#039;t put up their hands at the line-out and were outsmarted by the Irish pack Italy have to fear the Scotland game by now, who actually have decent halfbacks and backs who can break the line on occasion, rather than just shipping the ball on and ending up where they started, like the Italian backs.</p><p></p><p>Ireland have to feel confident ahead of the England game. Their pack was pretty stable, with Heaslip, Ferris and POC leading the charge. The backs were not up to much, but defended well and managed to click once or twice, which proved enough against the Italians, but if Englands defence do manage to click again, they might become unstuck and have to scrape out a win through the boot of O&#039;canonlykickAra.</p></blockquote><p></p>

[QUOTE="Nidhogg, post: 245977"] <div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Sir. Speedy @ Feb 15 2009, 06:46 PM) [url='index.php?act=findpost&pid=379235']<{POST_SNAPBACK}>[/url]</div> Wait, what? Castro was a penalty machine, and had an average game overall. Parisse didn't give away penalties, but he wasn't on song either. His carrying was hardly to write home about, never really getting past the first tackler in contact, or making an impact out wide. He threw a wild pass to boot, and his most impressive effort was pushing away a small Irish back. He wasn't bad, but he can do much better than that. Actually, the entire Italian pack was just not good today. They could only slow down things, didn't put up their hands at the line-out and were outsmarted by the Irish pack Italy have to fear the Scotland game by now, who actually have decent halfbacks and backs who can break the line on occasion, rather than just shipping the ball on and ending up where they started, like the Italian backs. Ireland have to feel confident ahead of the England game. Their pack was pretty stable, with Heaslip, Ferris and POC leading the charge. The backs were not up to much, but defended well and managed to click once or twice, which proved enough against the Italians, but if Englands defence do manage to click again, they might become unstuck and have to scrape out a win through the boot of O'canonlykickAra. [/QUOTE]