'13 WC | Group A | Fiji 32-14 Ireland | Rochdale

[RedVee]

Anyone know which anthem the Irish used? I can't imagine anyone getting emotional over "Ireland's Call".

Ireland's Call it was. Combined team remember.

 

[expansionist]

Don't have the halves to beat any top team. Plus they have Ashton Sims who is the Ben Roberts of forwards

haha thats too funny

 

[Usain Bolt]

Aussie forwards will be intimidated by the Sims brothers

 

[roughyedspud]

what a fantastic game,great atmosphere too...


and forget about giving england a fright,they'l give australia a fright too....can't see either of us tonking them

 

[MrAnonymous]

what a fantastic game,great atmosphere too...


and forget about giving england a fright,they'l give australia a fright too....can't see either of us tonking them

Lol no.

If we play close to our best we will put 50 on them.

 

[roughyedspud]

and if you don't?

 

[MrAnonymous]

We will still win comfortably.

 

[roughyedspud]

we'll see

 

[Rod]

Yeh decent work by the irish. line was 40.5 so they well and truly did above expecatations.

Eh the line was like 14.

 

[hutch]

Aussie forwards will be intimidated by the Sims brothers

Aussie forwards will have a field day with the sims brothers. Ashton is a massive liability.

 

[nadera78]

Aussie forwards will have a field day with the sims brothers. Ashton is a massive liability.

He's an angry young man!

 

[adamkungl]

Fiji too big too strong. Will give the Aus and Eng forward packs a serious fight but hard to see their halves having the class to do any major damage.

 

[hutch]

Fijis backline must be the fastest in rugby league history. Both wingers and naqaimas are absolutely lightning!

 

[Harrigan]

Lol no.

If we play close to our best we will put 50 on them.

Yeah, they were out on their feet after the first half hour. The second half they couldn't reach the energy levels they had early on too.

Like I said, they'll go all out early on and punish both the Aussie and English packs before dropping off massively and that's when they'll concede a heap of points. Apart from the wingers, that Irish back line was made up of Championship players. Fiji looked brittle out wide at times and had the opposition had just a touch more class they would have gone in trailing by a few at HT.

It was a good occasion and the Fijian defense was an awesome sight to see but realistically there is a massive gap in quality between them and the top 3.

 

[newman]

Poor old Ireland are going to cop a hammering by us and the poms. Dreadful luck being drawn in this pool.

 

[MacDougall]

Fijis backline must be the fastest in rugby league history. Both wingers and naqaimas are absolutely lightning!

The back 3 would go close to being the fastest back 3 I've ever seen but Wes, while having some toe, doesn't compare to them.

 

[marv]

and forget about giving england a fright,they'l give australia a fright too....can't see either of us tonking them

Your having yourself on there mate If they play like that up front, they'll get dicked by both. Groom and Noielia (sp) won't have the time and space they did monday either.

I think Aus will roll them easy and we will have too much if were right

 

[roughyedspud]

we'll see....i reckon fiji will give em a right going over for a hour...