It was all over when France conceded a penalty in front of the post in the last 4 minutes, All Ronan O' Gara had to do was kick it over and France had to get more than a converted try.
France gave it everything they had for the last few minutes but Ireland held them at bay.
Absolutely Brilliant, although i missed Ireland's second Try as the power went out for 10 minutes in the area. This makes up for two years ago when France came back in the last few minutes and stole victory from us.
Adding to my enjoyment of the evening was a wonderful Bishops Finger and a fantastic O' Haras Irish stout. Earlier i kegged another home brewed Cider so nicely chilled i pulled my first pint and i think the flavour has gotten better. It is less watery than the other week. It is still cloudy in the keg unlike the bottles but it probably makes no difference to the flavour.
My Wheat beer is probably finished fermenting as it has been seven days but im going to leave it for another week or more before bottling to give it more flavour. Im hoping the better yeast i used will be better than what came in the kit. If you remember i used the yeast from this kit in my first failed brew to no avail.
On a different note i saw the second half of the England V Italy game and even though England stomped Italy, it seemed to be a poor game and England only capitalised on Italian mistakes.
Hopefully when we face Italy next week we can thrash them and then do the same to England. We have just beaten the best team in the Northern Hemisphere so im hoping for great things and perhaps a 6 nations championship if Ireland can keep this pace up.
Velkyal i hope will get to see Scotland playing while he is in Prague. Im sure it will be on in the pubs as i know it was when i was over there a few years back and Ireland beat Enlgand. We saw the score written in the snow on cars.
Great rugby and great beer: such a wonderful combination. It would nearly make you overlook all the G******s ads around Croker.
ReplyDeleteIts just a shame my only company for the game was one of my cats. The downside of living in a small commuter town where i do not actually know anyone. The wife is in the Philippines for a month but will be back next week.
ReplyDeleteI considered going to the local to at least be around people but the choice was Guinness or Bishops finger & O'Haras so it was no contest.
The best team in the Northern Hemisphere? You were playing France not Wales, unlike my bunch of unfortunates. Bishop's Finger whilst watching Ireland, sounds familiar!
ReplyDeleteCommiserations Al, Jaysus they took some hard knocks though. They were throwing themselves at the Welsh like it was a NFL (boring though it is) game forgetting they were not wrapped in bubble wrap.
ReplyDeleteThat said, the Welsh were very good but they did not play as well as they should have. I will stand by France as statistically they are the better team. Do you have any idea how long Ireland has waited to beat them? Yet we have no problem handling Wales usually and it can go either way.