rumncoke wrote:Joe like other Coaches before him will pay a heavy price for loyalty to players he trusts but are past there prime .
When Barnes failed the yellow test for high tackle on Sexton I sensed that Ireland had little chance of winning .
In Barnes book a single unseen and assumed offence in the red zone gets a red for failure to release the welsh did all night to ensure slow recycle with immunity .
There is no way an English referee should have been in the middle for that game .
The penalty count of course looks fair but a bin player is worth at least 5 - 10 points
How hitting a player in the face with a knee is not dangerous even if accidental is a question MrBarnes should think about .
As you can gather I don't consider Barnes had a good game but the it is hard to be totally immune to a welsh crowd
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The bit in green is absolutely correct Ron'n, it is a major fault, the world and it's mother knows that Bob is "great in the air", just absolutely crap on the ground, and last night failed the gut check for tackling by a fullback. Whilst Schmidt was busy blaming Jackson for their first try, I watch feeble attempts by Earls & Zebo to commit to a tackle of North but I also noted Bob ambling back and getting with in the circle of "I could do nothing about it so didn't commit myself to it", that circle being far enough away to shirk, not close enough to be lambasted for not tackling. Joker
Other Mexicans that were way below their best last night, SOB big time, the two props but especially LH, Heaslip, Sexton was poor again, Henshaw made one really crucial error but was otherwise as good as anyone for Ireland. Was Ringpiece on "lght duties"?
Others on the shitlist for underperformance (much to my delight of course) Best, Zebo was practically wasting oxygen, Murray but then he should have come off before halftime well done Schmidt
, Stander. I'd give a bit of credit to Ryan, Earls despite being not overly effective, Toner though not his best game. That's about it.
Most of the rest Ron'n, you could have saved the effort.