Women's Rugby World Cup

[Dave Cahill]

IRELAND WOMEN’S Team & Replacements (v Spain Women, Rugby World Cup 2021 Europe Qualifer, Stadio Sergio Lanfranchi, Monday, September 13, kick-off 5pm)

15. Eimear Considine (UL Bohemian/Munster)(18)
14. Amee-Leigh Murphy Crowe (Railway Union/Munster)(2)
13. Lucy Mulhall (Rathdrum/Leinster)*
12. Sene Naoupu (Old Belvedere/Leinster)(41)
11. Beibhinn Parsons (Ballinasloe/Blackrock College/Connacht)(11)
10. Stacey Flood (Railway Union/Leinster)(3)
9. Kathryn Dane (Old Belvedere/Ulster)(13)

1. Lindsay Peat (Railway Union/Leinster)(34)
2. Cliodhna Moloney (Wasps/IQ Rugby)(26)
3. Linda Djougang (Old Belvedere/Leinster)(12)
4. Aoife McDermott (Railway Union/Leinster)(16)
5. Nichola Fryday (Blackrock College/Connacht)(18)
6. Dorothy Wall (Blackrock College/Munster)(7)
7. Ciara Griffin (UL Bohemian/Munster)(Captain)(36)
8. Brittany Hogan (DCU/Old Belvedere/Ulster)(4).

Replacements:

16. Neve Jones (Malone/Ulster)(3)
17. Laura Feely (Blackrock College/Connacht)(19)
18. Leah Lyons (Sale/IQ Rugby)(26)
19. Sam Monaghan (Wasps/IQ Rugby)*
20. Edel McMahon (Wasps/IQ Rugby)(9)
21. Emily Lane (Blackrock College/Munster)(3)
22. Enya Breen (UL Bohemian/Munster)(6)
23. Lauren Delany (Sale Sharks/IQ Rugby)(14).

Match will be live on World Rugby YouTube/Facebook and rugbyworldcup.com/2021

Status of Italian bins and rodents remains uncertain.

[Dexter]

Spain look like the better team after 5 mins.
Could be a long evening for Ireland...

[Ruckedtobits]

Knock-out rugby Lesson One: Take your points.

[Dave Cahill]

Hugh Cahill (no relation) is having technicial issues with his microphone. Even electronics are sick of listening to him.

[Dave Cahill]

Ireland go in at half time 5-0 ahead with a try from Parsons (who else). Neither team seems to be able to get on top of the other so this one is still very much in the balance

[LeRouxIsPHat]

Odd that M#1 hasn’t commented yet.

I’m only half watching but it’s very tense stuff. I think the pressure from the loss the other day is having a big effect, hopefully they can stretch the lead to more than 7 soon and relax a bit.

[Dave Cahill]

might be trouble here....

[Dave Cahill]

might be trouble here....

Yellow for Eimear Considine - not having her best game it must be said

[Dexter]

Officials seem happy to ignore side entry into rucks in he women's game too

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[LeRouxIsPHat]

Flip. Can’t kick loosely like that when they’re short a defender.

[Dexter]

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[Dave Cahill]

Fuppin' fuppity fup

[LeRouxIsPHat]

Oh Beinhinn Parsons! What a player!!

[Dave Cahill]

Amazing, simply amazing - what a player

[blockhead]

Parsons in full flow is simply stunning.

[Dave Cahill]

big win for ireland - you could see what it meant to them by djugang's reaction.

a lot of work still to do, but a strong defense is always a good start

[LeRouxIsPHat]

big win for ireland - you could see what it meant to them by djugang's reaction.

a lot of work still to do, but a strong defense is always a good start

Fixing the lineout would improve us massively. It’s not like it’s just the throwing, a lot of it just around not being sloppy with catching or holding on to the ball.

Parsons is simply phenomenal, deserves to be a superstar off the pitch as well as on it. Murphy Crowe has some engine as well, just sprint sprint sprint all afternoon. Flood is very good at getting second touches that put the wingers away. Pity we couldn’t score a few more points after a lot of good play near the end but fingers crossed we can take that into the next game and if we just tidy up a few areas a small bit then there’s a big performance in them.