And so we move on to match two in my Sunday morning marathon of woe with Ireland men losing to England at dear old Twickers by 13 – 10.
Following the impressive victory against Wales Joe Schmidt goes from “hero” to “slightly less impressive” after he was out-thought and the team where out-fought in this high intensity encounter.
[aside type=”Note” status=”open”] News Just In: My old Munster mate James informs me we have an Irish win to celebrate with Irish Clubs beating English Counties 22 – 23 in Darlington last night. No Ulster club players involved so it’s not really an “All Ireland” win then James:-P [/aside]
The game kicked off at a frenetic pace with defences dominating in a loosely refereed match.
England went close on the 6th minute when Jonny May looked to have scored only for the replay to show that Andrew Trimble and Conor Murry had managed to knock the ball free in the act of touching down.
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