For this bonus pod I spoke to Warriors fan David Arnott about…
🏉 Scotland’s November
🏉 Finn Russell
🏉 Glasgow’s season so far
🏉 Players to look out for at the RDS this Saturday
191 : Opposition view – Glasgow Warriors
Category: Contributors
190 : Ireland v Australia wrap
THIS WEEK’S GUESTS
FULL TIME TAKES
Conor Cronin
Great atmosphere, great to be there!
The game however wasn’t all it could’ve been. Game management was lacking, kicks for touch not getting any distance. Defence was good on the first half, that’s a real positive. No one really making yards or running decent lines from my pov. Is it that we were missing Johnny? Or were the rest of the team not ready to step up in his absence?
MASTODON
RichardMifsud One for the purists in the Aviva tonight Happy with the W but the performance was way down on previous ones. D was good but our attacking shape wasn’t great and too many inaccuracies didn’t allow us to create pressure .Good learning for the young lads Ross B with a serious pair to kick that one over. Crowley had a good outing. Big Joe Mc with some minutes under his belt. Respect to the Wallabies 🙌🏻 #IREvAUS
The2ndrow Well that match happened
OZ will be kicking themselves they didn’t win that
They had chances but we were able to hold them out
We lacked accuracy which led to a lack of discipline & we invited OZ onto us
The How to beat Ireland blueprint is there just make a mess of the breakdown
No clean ball have JGP and moreso Crowley a tough time. That said Crowley did well enough & thats perfectly fine in a first cap like that
Doris at times looked like he was literally dragging Ireland to that win
David Cahill Well I’m off to buy some lotto tickets coz the luck is with us right now
Kevin “The Spiddal Kid” It’s games like that which help to build the mental resistance you need in a tight game when you’re tired and need to go to the well one more time to get the result.
For the less experienced players who got game time today that will do them well to be able to draw upon that experience in future.
FRONT FIVE ARTICLES
Rassie Erasmus banned… Again – Rugby World magazine [RW Staff]
Connacht confirm that director of rugby Andy Friend will leave province at the end of the season – Independent.ie [Ruaidhri O’Connor]
Last-gasp penalty sinks USA as Portugal claim final place at Rugby World Cup (the42.ie) [via AFP]
Shambolic Wales humiliated by Georgia as Wayne Pivac’s reign now facing serious questions – Wales Online [Delme Parfitt]
Ian Foster praises progress of All Blacks despite ‘frustrating’ draw against England | Stuff.co.nz [Marc Hinton]
AUTUMN NATIONS SERIES WRAP
RWC2023 Qualifiers
HKG 22-18 KEN
USA 16-16 POR
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TON 43-19 URU
ITA 21-63 RSA
WAL 12-13 GEO
CAN 37-43 NAM
FRB 14-46 FIJ
ROM 0-22 SAM
SCO 52-29 ARG
ENG 25-25 NZL
IRE 13-10 AUS
FRA 35-17 JPN
HARPIN’ MATCH WRAPS ARE BROUGHT TO YOU BY THE IRISH RUGBY STORE
189 : #IREvAUS preview
IRELAND v Australia : 15. Hugo Keenan 14. Mack Hansen 13. Garry Ringrose 12. Stuart McCloskey 11. Jimmy O’Brien 10. Johnny Sexton > CAPTAIN 9. Jamison Gibson Park
1. Andrew Porter 2. Dan Sheehan 3. Tadhg Furlong 4. Tadhg Beirne 5. James Ryan 6. Peter O’Mahony 7. Josh van der Flier 8. Caelan Doris
16. Rob Herring 17. Cian Healy 18. Finlay Bealham 19. Joe McCarthy 20. Jack Conan 21. Craig Casey 22. Jack Crowley 23. Bundee Aki.
AUSTRALIA : 15 Andrew Kellaway 14 Mark Nawaqanitawase 13 Len Ikitau 12 Hunter Paisami 11 Tom Wright 10 Bernard Foley 9 Nic White
1 James Slipper (c) 2 David Porecki 3 Allan Alaalatoa 4 Nick Frost 5 Cadeyrn Neville 6 Jed Holloway 7 Michael Hooper 8 Rob Valetini
16 Folau Fainga’a 17 Tom Robertson 18 Taniela Tupou 19 Will Skelton 20 Pete Samu 21 Jake Gordon 22 Noah Lolesio 23 Jordan Petaia.
Bank of Ireland Autumn Nations Series
Saturday, November 19, 2022
Aviva Stadium Kickoff 8pm
Referee: Ben O’Keeffe (NZR) AR1: James Doleman (NZR)
AR2: Tual Trainini (FFR) TMO: Stuart Terheege (RFU)
Live on: Virgin Media Two, Amazon Prime
187 : #IREvFIJ preview
IRELAND : 15. Jimmy O’Brien 14. Robert Baloucoune 13. Robbie Henshaw 12. Stuart McCloskey 11. Mack Hansen 10. Joey Carbery 9. Jamison Gibson Park
1. Jeremy Loughman 2. Rob Herring 3. Tadhg Furlong > CAPTAIN 4. Kieran Treadwell 5. Tadhg Beirne 6. Caelan Doris 7. Nick Timoney 8. Jack Conan
16. Dan Sheehan 17. Cian Healy 18. Tom O’Toole 19. Cian Prendergast 20. Max Deegan 21. Craig Casey 22. Jack Crowley 23. Garry Ringrose
FIJI : 15 Setareki Tuicuvu 14 Jiuta Wainiqolo 13 Waisea Nayacalevu 12 Kalaveti Ravouvou 11 Vinaya Habosi 10 Teti Tela 9 Frank Lomani
1 Eroni Mawi 2 Sam Matavesi 3 Manasa Saulo 4 Isoa Nasilasila 5 Ratu Leone Rotuisolia 6 Albert Tuisue 7 Levani Botia 8 Viliame Mata
16 Mesulame Dolokoto 17 Livai Natave 18 Lee-Roy Atalifo 19 Apisalome Ratuniyarawa 20 John Dyer 21 Simione Kuruvoli 22 Ben Volavola 23 Adrea Cocagi
Bank of Ireland Autumn Nations Series
Saturday, November 12, 2022
Aviva Stadium Kickoff 5:15pm
Referee: Mathieu Raynal (FFR) / AR 1: Tual Trainini (FFR)
AR2: Jordan Way (ARU) / TMO: Chris Hart (NZR)
Live on: Virgin Media Two, Amazon Prime
186 : Ireland v South Africa wrap
186 : Ireland v South Africa wrap – Harpin' On Rugby
🏉 IREvRSA wrap
🏉 Ireland’s depth
🏉 Boks issues at 10
🏉 FRAvAUS, ENGvARG
🏉 Women’s RWC semifinals
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FRONT FIVE ARTICLES
Irish backline the fall guys as second string get chewed up by All Blacks XV | SportsJOE.ie [Patrick McCarry]
Women’s Rugby World Cup Team of the Semi-finals [Rugby World – Sarah Mockford]
Australia break 34-year drought to claim Hong Kong sevens (smh.com.au) [Georgina Robinson]
Damian Penaud scores late try as France beat Australia for record 11th straight win – The Irish Times
England stunned by Argentina in worrying start to autumn internationals | The Independent [Duncan Bech]
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THIS WEEK’S GUESTS
SELECTED CLIPS
FULL TIME TAKES
Conor Cronin
What a game. Losing players to injury before and during would’ve knocked us hard 5 years ago, but players stepped up and did everything asked of them.
Great awareness by Josh for his try, great calm heads in making sure the second was scored, not one player shirked his duty. That’s a compete team performance against some massive guys who tackle hard but Sore bodies will feel a little nicer for that win
James Griffin
Brain beats brawn. Delighted with the performance and how they adapted throughout.
Andrew Potts
A player must not lift an opponent off the ground and drop or drive that player so that their head and/or upper body make contact with the ground.
The above is from the laws.
A history making double red, maybe a red and yellow if I was been nice.
The officials were disgracefully weak, and the players know the laws. Once again SA rugby displays the worst of their rugby culture. It’s a shame,as they are better players than that.
McBride had their cards marked a good punch in the head is all they understand.
Will World Rugby wait until we see a serious incident on the TV before they back Refs to the hilt to end this stupidity.
Kevin OCeallaigh
What a game. A true test match. Kolbe’s tackle was a stone cold red card. He changed his grip and drove Hanson into the ground. However, in hindsight I’m glad he stayed on. At least the SA journos can’t use a red card as an excuse for Ireland’s win. The world champions were beaten fair and square; 15 v’s 15!
Brian Corr
It’s hard not to be happy with the win, but I think we’ve gotten so used to being in control that that one didn’t feel so good.
Murray and McCloskey were excellent until they were forced off.
Unlike A against NZ last night the senior team stayed in the fight and the scrum held up great as well. It was good to see SA front row walking away from penalties disgusted.
I know Porter is number 1 by a long shot but it was good to see Healy roll back the clock and get a good bullocking carry in.
I know it was surprising SA missed touch with that late penalty into the corner but thought Ireland should have dealt with it better.
Considering how much time Ireland were on the back foot in the first half 6-6 was a great half time score.
Can’t say the ref affected the outcome but I can say I didn’t like his performance and felt he was bad for the game rather than for one team.
Peter Tracey
Great to see JGP back and so quick with ball bar one or two box kicks. O’Brien did well when he came on. McCloskey and Murray were doing well until too they had to go off. Bealham did well too and we need a good scrum when the front 3 go off. Kelleher to come back will be a big boast when he does. Still need to blood some more players. Rest Johnny until the 6 nations. Give some 10s a chance.
FRONT FIVE ARTICLES
Irish backline the fall guys as second string get chewed up by All Blacks XV | SportsJOE.ie [Patrick McCarry]
Women’s Rugby World Cup Team of the Semi-finals [Rugby World – Sarah Mockford]
Australia break 34-year drought to claim Hong Kong sevens (smh.com.au) [Georgina Robinson]
England stunned by Argentina in worrying start to autumn internationals | The Independent [Duncan Bech]
AUTUMN NATIONS SERIES WEEK 1 WRAP
ROM 30-23 CHI
SCO 28-12 FIJ
SPA 6-40 TON
ITA 49-17 SAM
NZL 55-23 WAL
IRE 19-16 RSA
FRA 30-29 ARG
GEO 34-18 URU
ENG 29-30 ARG
RWC2023 FINAL QUALIFIERS
USA 68-14 KEN
POR 42-14 HKG
Week 2
Sat Nov 12
TONvCHI
ITAvAUS
IREvFIJ
ENGvJPN
GEOvSAM
WALvARG
FRAvRSA
RWC2023 FINAL QUALIFIERS
POR V KEN
USA V HKG
Sun Nov 13
ROMvURU
SCOvNZL
HARPIN ON RUGBY MATCH WRAPS ARE BROUGHT TO YOU BY THE IRISH RUGBY STORE
185 : #IREvRSA preview
IRELAND : 15. Hugo Keenan 14. Robert Baloucoune 13. Garry Ringrose 12.Robbie Henshaw Stuart McCloskey 11. Mack Hansen 10. Johnny Sexton > CAPTAIN 9. Conor Murray
1. Andrew Porter 2. Dan Sheehan 3. Tadhg Furlong 4. Tadhg Beirne 5. James Ryan 6. Peter O’Mahony 7. Josh van der Flier 8. Caelan Doris
Replacements: 16. Rob Herring 17. Cian Healy 18. Finlay Bealham 19. Kieran Treadwell 20. Jack Conan 21. Jamison Gibson Park 22. Joey Carbery 23. Stuart McCloskey Jimmy O’Brien.
Springboks : 15 Cheslin Kolbe 14 Kurt-Lee Arendse 13 Jesse Kriel 12 Damian de Allende 11 Makazole Mapimpi 10 Damian Willemse 9 Jaden Hendrikse
1 Steven Kitshoff 2 Malcolm Marx 3 Frans Malherbe 4 Eben Etzebeth 5 Lood de Jager 6 Siya Kolisi (captain) 7 Pieter-Steph du Toit 8 Jasper Wiese
Replacements: 16 Bongi Mbonambi 17 Ox Nche 18 Vincent Koch 19 Franco Mostert 20 Deon Fourie 21 Kwagga Smith 22 Faf de Klerk 23 Willie le Roux.
Bank of Ireland Autumn Nations Series
Saturday, November 5, 2022
Aviva Stadium
Kickoff 5:15pm
Referee: Nika Amashukeli (GRU)
AR1: Mathieu Raynal (FFR)
AR2: Andrea Piardi (FIR)
TMO: Stuart Terheege (RFU)
Live on: Virgin Media Two, Amazon Prime
184 : Ireland’s November prospects
183 : Scarlets v Leinster wrap
THIS WEEK’S GUESTS
FULL TIME TAKES
Conor Cronin
BP win on the road, always a good thing. Was it perfect and world class? No. But it was enough against poor opposition. We continue to build players and get them experience, nothing wrong with that. Definitely something wrong with the penalty count though
Martin Lynch
Played Great . Great To See The New Lads Making Their Debuts . Top Of The Table . 👍🏉💙
Greg Kelly
If you’ve seen one of these games you’ve seen them all. Blood a few new players on the conveyer belt in a pretty run of the mill 5 pointer against poor opposition.
Ronan McManus
Rob Russell isn’t the flashiest player on the pitch but he has shown, so far this year, that his awareness, positioning and finishing are absolutely first class.
Scarlets were poor though.
FRONT FIVE ARTICLES
Leinster Rugby | Mick Dawson – A Celebration! [Marcus Ó Buachalla]
Rugby in the firing line as brain damage is linked to contact sport – The Irish Times [Gerry Thornley]
29 Irish women’s players take up contract offers worth €15k to €30k (the42.ie) [Murray Kinsella]
Fightback not enough as injury-hit Munster suffer third derby defeat (irishexaminer.com) [Simon Lewis]
Carty drop-goal seals Connacht win in Swansea | Rugby365
URC ROUND 7 WRAP
Round 7
GLA 37-0 BEN
SCA 5-35 LEI
LIO 22-31 STO
DRA 47-7 ZEB
MUN 14-15 ULS
OSP 19-22 CON
BUL 40-27 SHA
CAR 17-25 EDI
Round 8
FRI NOV 25
STO V SCA
ULS V ZEB
SAT NOV 26
BUL V OSP
BEN V EDI
LEI V GLA
MUN V CON
SUN NOV 27
LIO V DRA
SHA V CAR
HARPIN MATCH WRAPS ARE BROUGHT TO YOU BY THE IRISH RUGBY STORE
182 : #SCAvLEI preview
LEINSTER : 15 Chris Cosgrove 14 Rob Russell 13 Liam Turner 12 Charlie Ngatai 11 Dave Kearney 10 Ross Byrne 9 Luke McGrath
1 Ed Byrne 2 John McKee 3 Thomas Clarkson 4 Ross Molony 5 Jason Jenkis 6 Rhys Ruddock (c) 7 Scott Penny 8 Max Deegan
16 Tadhg McElroy 17 Michael Milne 18 Vakh Abdeladze 19 Brian Deeny 20 Martin Moloney 21 Nick McCarthy 22 Charlie Tector 23 Ben Brownlee.
Scarlets : 15 Johnny McNicholl; 14 Tom Rogers, 13 Steff Evans, 12 Jonathan Davies (capt), 11 Ryan Conbeer; 10 Dan Jones, 9 Gareth Davies
1 Steff Thomas, 2 Daf Hughes, 3 Harri O’Connor, 4 Jac Price, 5 Tom Price, 6 Aaron Shingler, 7 Dan Thomas, 8 Sione Kalamafoni.
Replacements: 16 Shaun Evans, 17 Kemsley Mathias, 18 WillGriff John, 19 Morgan Jones, 20 Iwan Shenton, 21 Archie Hughes, 22 Rhys Patchell, 23 Corey Baldwin.
BKT United Rugby Championship 22/23 – Round 7
Friday, October 29, 2022
Parc y Scarlets. Kickoff 7:35pm
Referee: Andrea Piardi (FIR)
AR 1: Adam Jones (WRU)
AR 2: Simon Mills (WRU)
TMO: Matteo Liperini (FIR)
Live on: TG4, BBC2 Wales, Premier Sports, SuperSport, Discovery + & URC.tv
181 : Leinster v Munster wrap
THIS WEEK’S GUESTS
FULL TIME TAKES
Conor Cronin Lots of talking points on that game, unfortunate for refereeing to be one.
Leinster inaccuracy was difficult to watch, good to see munster putting it up to us, though of course they “had nothing to lose” 🙄 It shows that with the right team selection they could really pose us a problem. Fingers crossed they continue to not select the right team.
Leinster allowed munster to set a tempo, to dictate the pace of play. I want to see much more accuracy from leinster, and for them to punish teams in the 22.
Andrew Bailey Why not neutral refs. Ireland is too small a country – no matter how hard a ref tries he has affiliation somewhere. And it works both ways – can sway in favour of one team in an effort to stay neutral. Not fair on ref or teams. Wales Scotland Italy and SA – but the big Irish games get Irish ref
Andrew Potts Leinster huffed and puffed but did not blow the house down.
Munster showed a bit of Leicester DNA pragmatism, always sort of falling on the wrong side, always sort of slowing things down.
Leinster were good except for scoring.
So many little things just upsetting a happy try. Poor return for Leinster, two fortunate yellows for Munster that could have been red. Seen both of those red recently. That question? Was force applied, was it high, any mitigation? Plus Stander was red carded against SA for the second type of offence.
Frawley is a unique player, appearing to play a number of positions very well.
He looks like an exception that proves the rule.
Luke good for MOM.
Finally, Joey in Munster is the waste of a perfectly good 10.
Chris McDonnell Andrew Potts stander ended a players career with that challenge. I thought penny was excellent. Held up over the line twice in the first half and we butchered a few line breaks, lowe, dave K or lowe would have had a try or two.
Gavin Hegarty I need to rewatch it as from the south lower it looked like brace was terrible. His advantages were only for Munster and never for Leinster.
Kleyns yellow was a red all day, jumped after the kick was made and angled his body to hit side on with an elbow to Osbourne’s head. Citing has to come.
Odd to say but we’re now 6/6 but still have been disappointing.
We dominated the first 30 but still couldn’t put the points on the board, some very unleinsterlike play and decision making. Our lineout needs huge work.
Henshaw and ringrose were outstanding throughout, Porter was great when he came on. Frawley looked comfortable @15.
We’ll need to be better soon.
I think we let a bad Munster team play, their backline had no purpose and just shipped the ball on, no lines or moves. We (and brace) made them look good.
FRONT FIVE ARTICLES
Andy Farrell names exciting Ireland squad for November internationals | SportsJOE.ie [Pat McCarry]
Tadhg Furlong admits it breaks his heart to see Munster jerseys at his local club – Pundit Arena [Eoin Harte]
Gallagher Premiership clubs struggling to reach agreement over fixture chaos | Sport | The Times [Will Kelleher, Alex Lowe]
Ulster’s meeting with Sharks postponed after gastro bug (rte.ie) [Neil Treacy]
URC ROUND 6 WRAP
ROUND 6
BEN 22-44 BUL
CON 36-14 SCA
ZEB 19-38 EDI
LIO PPD GLA
SHA PPD ULS
LEI 27-13 MUN
CAR 30-24 STO
DRA 32-25 OSP
Round 7
FRI OCT 28
GLA V BEN
SCA V LEI
SAT OCT 29
LIO V STO
DRA V ZEB
MUN V ULS
OSP V CON
SUN OCT 30
BUL V SHA
CAR V EDI
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