Well, since I am stuck over here, I may as well cheer on the Irish

Anyone else watching?

A good number of people from my office are out there, they are mad about their rugby and mate let me tell you Croke Park (where the game is being played) is probably the best stadium (behind Telstra when it was 110,000K) that I have been to, good viewing ground and awesome atmosphere!

This will be a huge clash ahead of the world cup later this year

Course i'm watching...

possible NZ final opponents out of this game... Ireland arent doing well at the moment... hopefully it'll change soon

hehe, knew you'd be on it boxhead.


pretty s*** first half, Ireland didn't play well at all...

Yeah we've got it on here (much respect to the BBC for showing every game live). I thought the first half was great. The French were pretty dominant, but now the Irish have snuck ahead.

Can't believe this stadium - it's unreal. Every time the Irish are lining up for a goal you can hear a pin drop. 80000 people and all of them silent - crazy.

yeah, they are mental for their sport and they respect the teams, all the games I've seen over here are like that, when I saw Aus V Ireland some of the aussies in the crowd were yelling/cheering and the crowd just does this big SHHHHH noise. It's awesome, it creates the atmosphere, when they do something good or score points they go f***ing nuts, like MEGA loud too.


good times.

omfg.. 10mins to go.. up by one.. OMG COME ON IRELAND!@#!@#!@#!@#@!

french f***ers....

haha what a bastard way to lsoe!

not sure if you are getting teh RTE feed or BBC are using their own guys, I'd say the later, but the RTE guys here are crying about the kick through and take down of the fella towards the end (not sure of his name..)

also I am in London next weekend!!

Haha unbelievable finish. The winger beat like 5 guys to score that try.

On a side note, how awesome is that Chabal guy? I would hate to run into him in a fight...

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