Cmon lads we need a thread of its own for this game. Half time, full time 'debate' etc in one easy to find place.

Cant wait. 

LLCOOLJ14 wrote: Which Irish players wont score a try??!!

Peter Stringer.

John Hayes wont.  Mark my words.

7/1 on Paddy Power for us to score more then 100.  Its the only good value bet I've seen.  This shower couldnt score 100 points against Portugal though. 

Rog is gone up to about evens to score a try at atny stage in the game on betfair....as is Leamy...seems good value to me.......

Hmmm thats not bad is it.  RoG was our top try scorer during the 6N wasnt he?

Oh sssshhhh now.  Denis Hickie is ambling about on a dusty boulevard talking about DVD's.  Ssshhhhh.

hickie 10-11 to score two or more sounds good, as he's 1-18 to score a try..

that 100 point bet is down to 5-1.. how much did you put on it?

Yea, ROG has an excellent try scoring record for us recently....IVe ploughed on him...

Swirv is 1/2 on betfair too....think our 2 wingers and FB should defo socre tonight....

Can get hicks at 1/5......

Sounds like a possibility.

Pacey Irish romp to a record 13-try win

By GERRY THORNLEY

In the first minute of the secondhalf Eric Miller broke wide off the base of an attacking scrum in the left corner, tying in the Eagles out-half and inside centre. His fellow loose-forwards arrived on cue and the ball was recycled quickly for the halves to move it out, Mike Mullins straightening through a gap to score untouched.

An identikit move proved to be the pivotal moment in the defeat to Argentina last week, except that Mick Galwey took Peter Stringer's pass but was stopped short of the line, when he was wrongly adjudged to have knocked on, while the Irish backs screamed forlornly for the ball. A week on, the Irish management and players no doubt smiling ruefully to themselves, Ireland had learnt their lesson.

They had had little else to do all week but stew over the one that had got away in Buenos Aires. This was payback time at Singer Family Park in Manchester, New Hampshire, and the poor, unfortunate USA Eagles happened to be in the way.

Centre Mike Mullins led the scoring with a hat-trick of tries to his name, and there were also two touchdowns each for debutantes Geordan Murphy and Guy Easterby, as well as the latter's brother Simon. You could nit-pick, for Ireland could easily have hit 100, but the bottom line was that Ireland hurt feeble opposition where they were most vulnerable to post a record win.

They did so despite missing about half a dozen or more first choice players, making 10 changes before the start and six during the game, blooding five more new caps, maintaining their focus and their rhythm better as the match wore on.

Anything less would almost have been regarded as failure. Compared to Ireland's 53-8 win over the Eagles in the World Cup eight months ago, this try feast undoubtedly shows that the Americans have gone backwards. But it also shows that Ireland have progressed significantly.

Where then they relied on their set-pieces and David Humphreys' kicking game, scoring just two of their seven tries through their backs, this time they used a much higher tempo, continuity-based game through the hands, the backs accounting for nine of the 13 tries.

This was further vindication of team Ireland's new brand of rugby, the emphasis on pace, width and a high tempo proving particularly potent against part-timers with negligible defensive organisation at close-range lineouts, out wide or even off ruck ball when forced to turn and regroup once the initial first-up tackle had been missed.

In the first-half Ireland were guilty of over-complicating and over-driving their line-out ball, failing to make the expected inroads at scrum time, and also failing to take at least two guilt-edge chances. All of which was highlighted at the interval, whereupon Ireland quickened up their line-out and loose ball, increased the tempo and generally took their chances.

All had good games, some very good ones. The three recalled Lions were straining at the leash, Eric Miller, Jeremy Davidson and Paul Wallace making hungry returns. Malcolm O'Kelly was his usual mobile, hard-working self and checked out his football skills in scoring his third try in his last six tests.

Simon Easterby began to augment his solid, blindside game with his undoubted ball-carrying abilities and David Wallace was more prominent at the breakdown. However, this was a day for the backs to dip their bread and they all did. Mullins straightened the line and ran with his usual dynamism to lead the way with a hat-trick of tries.

Guy Easterby, given an armchair ride against the surprisingly stand-offish Eagles' fringe defence, showed the value of a scrum-half with a running threat

Leinster Zulu wrote: 83-3 against the USA in June 2000.

We should beat that tonight if we have any realistic hopes of doing anything at this WC......

Since when is David Wallace John Hayes?