England props in a nutshell 🤷‍♂️

He was a good ref Paul Honiss

That’s a classic Irish try if ever there was one. Etched in my brain.

Because we all had more hair on our heads and less everywhere else. More energy, more women, more fun and more ambition 😂😂😂

Yeah but you forget you could pass it back into your 22 from anywhere and kick it straight out. Ball was always being kicked especially at like half way

@@paulmcdonald2347 almost a different game back then.. some of those plays you just wouldn't get away with anymore

The good old days.

@@johnmc3862 not really we just had more hair on our heads, less everywhere else, more women liked us and we had more energy. Well actually it was the good old days alright wasn't it 😂🤣

@@RazorMouth I still have the hair but that's about it. 😆

Ben Cohen.

@@johnbuggy9121 Should have been yellow card & pen from the restart

I am Irish

@@stephen279 ...expensive isn't it?!

We came close to the slam a few times - easy to forget that the French were very good in that period too.

@@Stemilion9 :-D You're right there

Maybe it's me but the Irish ☘️ Scrum half (Skinner?) was a fantastic passer&very dynamic!

Ireland always seem to be the ones who end records. They ended All Blacks unbeaten run of 18 consecutive wins. Then they ended England's unbeaten run of 18 consecutive wins. They also stopped England from winning b2b Grandslams. God I hate playing Ireland in crucial games. 🤣🤣🤣

@@JackOfBlades8642 Haha great stats 🙏😀

The good old days.

@@Fred-jh2xg indeed. Though those were relatively barren years. Had to wait till 2009 for a grand slam. Back when Munster and Leinster were at least in the semi finals of the H cup as well, if not winning it. People say O'Gara couldn't tackle, or Stringer, but they directed play so well that most of the time they didn't have to

@@JorgenHartogs Your memories go back far.. Did people honestly forget the car-wreck of the 90s that shipped 11 losses on the bounce, copped 4 losses in a row to Italy, got pummeled by Samoa, another 2 before that against Namibia and even shipped 35pts at home to Romania. The 00s will forever be remembered as the decade that set the bar for glory in 3 triple crowns before a 4th with the 09' grand slam. Along with batches of wins against wc finalists Australia & wc winners South Africa (In all honesty, only 12 months within those 10-years went awry in the 2007/08 season. Very little else).

I miss those great players as well, but let's not be too nostalgic. Only a few years ago Ireland were the best team in the world, playing great rugby in offence as well as defence. It's just a shame they peaked about a year before the World Cup. They're not too bad now either, a bit unlucky, but mostly just trying to find their footing again.

If the evidence of this video is anything to go on, they were not magic at all. Stringer was completely at fault for England's first try, should have been covering the space for the chip before the disallowed try, and even in the last play nearly made a balls of everything. And for Ireland's try, O'Gara wasn't actually in the backline when they spread it wide, and he missed a virtually unmissable kick near the beginning. So, bad defence and attack is what this video suggests.

Agree. The Ireland try needed its full build-up because it was well crafted from deep

bought into our ow hype and then Argentina showed up with other plans. The hype train is back and it's full steam ahead again into this year's.

@@dashingeduardosuarez can’t compare that team to the current one though so think if we’ve ever had a chance it’d be this year even tho it’s the worst draw we’ve ever had

In that game I was expecting England to murder us but then there was a scrum where we pushed them back and I remember thinking something like "Hold on..."

it ain't been a lifetime yet..

More strange without a crowd

@@moc7323 Yes, it's good to see us back! That post was a year ago or more, KZfaq algorithms are very unpredictable!

They've changed the law since. But back then that sort of double movement was not allowed. Looks weird to see it questioned now.

Double movement no try

Same. You're allowed to place the ball after the tackle, which is what he did. Don't know if the laws were different then

Because his body came up from the ground and shifted towards the line, it would be deemed playing the ball on the ground. If he’s just reached out, it was a score. It happened so quick, it would quite possibly/probably be given today. Different laws go through phases of strict implementation or get almost ignored. Like feeding the scrum straight was a thing for a while recently but seems almost forgotten about again. Whereas years ago, it was a strict law.

Elbow and right leg moved forward which is "crawl" I believe.

It would be fine tpday

It would be given today but that dirty bastard cueto diving into Dempsey's legs football style would be a sinbin aswell, goes both ways

He made up for it

Rog kicked everything afterwards even one from 45yards plus which he wasn't known for

I only came to the here to see it

He's so underrated

Yeah wow he missed a kick?? He nailed everything else though!

Sexton missed aload against England last year right infront of the post aswell so

Sure they CONSTANTLY break the rules. Every game. Non stop. It's ridiculous how they haven't even been handed more yellow cards. The clear amount of offsides is unbelievable.

The title says world champions which was correct.

2003 world cup winners

Forwards are hybrids now, very versatile.

Well they were holding the title of world champions back then.

The rules on double movement ware different back then .. no try

Definitely double movement 😂😂

They changed the rules since ... that was a double movement back then (but agree, not today)... i think Eng really got on the wrong side of Honniss that day, esp in the lineout (Thommo had a shocker, Big Mal had an incredible game) and rolling mauls.

That's true and one of the biggest reasons in my opinion for Irish failure at world cups, low expectations. Even when we were ranked #1 in the world we were still "happy" to be beating teams ranked below us rather than expecting it as standard. Until Irish rugby starts setting the target of winning against all teams as the standard, expected result, we won't be getting anywhere near a world cup.

What's your opinion now?