Sun 23 October: RLWC: Lebanon v Ireland KO 2.30pm

[Damien]

Just now, SydneyRoosters said:

If Wales play Ireland Tomorrow Wales win by by 10-20 easily.

Ireland are a far better team than Wales with far better players. Yes Ireland have been poor and had a off day but there's not a chance Wales are 10-20 points better.

[DavidM]

Byrne , Mulhern , Bentley rubbish and dumb

[dkw]

Byrne binned 40 minutes too late.

[Live after death]

6 minutes ago, Roy Haggerty said:

They won’t. 

Lets hope for the sake if the European game they do, and the  almost entirely NRL based southern teams will just see it as they are superior and not want to play anymore 

[Neutralfan7]

Stupid by Byrne

[GeordieSaint]

You could see that coming with Byrne. Absolutely sums up Ireland today. Really really poor.

[YCKonstantine]

1 hour ago, YCKonstantine said:

I’d be surprised if Ireland end this game with 13 men on the pitch.

44 seconds off being right

[Sports Prophet]

2 minutes ago, SydneyRoosters said:

France have a high high likely hood of beating Samoa.

They’ve got a much better chance of beating Samoa than Wales do of beating Ireland, that’s for certain.

[SydneyRoosters]

1 minute ago, Sports Prophet said:

Your comments make me laugh sometimes  

you can’t genuinely think Ireland would win after this performance, Wales looked fantastic last week, Doesn’t matter if Ireland have “Better” players (According to you) Wales are a much better side.

[Wellsy4HullFC]

Irish sh*thousery has cost them dearly.

[Northern Eel]

4 minutes ago, Damien said:

Not a chance.

There's a big difference in Wales being 90% more organised and composed (which I think they probably are on today's showing), than being 90% sure they would beat Ireland (more like 10%).

[Sports Prophet]

2 minutes ago, Live after death said:

Lets hope for the sake if the European game they do, and the  almost entirely NRL based southern teams will just see it as they are superior and not want to play anymore 

They are superior and are still playing.

[SydneyRoosters]

2 minutes ago, Damien said:

Ireland are a far better team than Wales with far better players. Yes Ireland have been poor and had a off day but there's not a chance Wales are 10-20 points better.

Well Wales played a lot better against Lebanon in the warm up then Ireland.

[Futtocks]

Early on in his career, I made the excuse for Liam Byrne that he was thrown into the first-team game at Wigan too early, and needed time to develop. Because he genuinely was a raw rookie then.

But he's still full of clumsy errors and idiot decisions in 2022.

Edited October 23, 2022 by Futtocks

[Ullman]

3 minutes ago, SydneyRoosters said:

Cheika looks to be a great coach

You can't help feeling Ireland have walked into a trap and have been happy to go along with it.

[Sports Prophet]

1 minute ago, SydneyRoosters said:

you can’t genuinely think Ireland would win after this performance, Wales looked fantastic last week, Doesn’t matter if Ireland have “Better” players (According to you) Wales are a much better side.

Stop it. Please I beg you. My sides are hurting.

[Black Country Wire]

11 minutes ago, Roy Haggerty said:

They won’t. 

They might.

Based on their games against England nothing to choose between them.

 

[SydneyRoosters]

6 minutes ago, Sports Prophet said:

Your comments make me laugh sometimes  

Like wise 

Edited October 23, 2022 by SydneyRoosters

[SalfordSlim]

5 minutes ago, dkw said:

Byrne binned 40 minutes too late.

"Fat Ricky Butcher, he's just a fat Ricky Butcher"

[Irish Saint]

Young Kiraz has had a good game sad to see end like that

[Damien]

2 minutes ago, SydneyRoosters said:

Well Wales played a lot better against Lebanon in the warm up then Ireland.

Did you watch it?

[Live after death]

Just now, Sports Prophet said:

They are superior and are still playing.

The ARL and Australian game have nothing but contempt for the European game and international RL the lack of a buoyant  international game is purely at their feet, and i don’t see  after this world cup them queuing up for more international RL.

[Futtocks]

Phew, Kiraz looks groggy, but more or less compos mentis.

He's had a tough job, making his name in a lousy side (Canterbury) when the other winger is THE superstar of the game (Addo-Carr). But he's still shown tons of promise.

[Dunbar]

11 minutes ago, Black Country Wire said:

Will be 3 if France beat Samoa.

 

11 minutes ago, Roy Haggerty said:

They won’t. 

 

7 minutes ago, Sports Prophet said:

What @Roy Haggerty said.

I am going to wait and see the Greece game before making a final call on whether Samoa will beat France.

Samoa have some good players, no doubt, and some weaknesses in the creative spots which means that it is their physicality that will be key to winning. 

But as we have seen in other tournaments, Samoa don't get better as the touranment progresses.  They have a poor coach and they don't continue their conditioning as they should.

I am going to see how much they have regressed already before predicting they will beat France. 

[GeordieSaint]