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sinceramente mi aspettavo l'irlanda facesse di più!che partita di merda!

Sono rimasto abbastanza deluso dalla partita che non mi è piaciuta, ma ancora di più dal finale pauroso con un uomo a terra (poi identificato con O'Gara) e l'arbitro e alcuni giocatori che concitatamente facevano segni affinchè i medici entrassero in campo.
Poi La7 ha tolto il collegamento e non si è capito l'accaduto ne la sua dinamica, ne le conseguenze.
Adesso leggo che O'Gara ha avuto un principio di soffocamento, gli Irlandesi accusano qualcuno tra gli Scozzesi di aver deliberatamente tentato di strozzare in una mischia aperta il buon Ronan.
Qualcuno ha ulteriori notizie?

3-4 minuti dopo la fine era in piedi e camminava. E stringeva la mano ai giocatori scozzesi.

Non ho sentito ne' letto niente al riguardo di strangolamenti.

anche perchè per strangolare una persona fino a farla diventare cianotica e priva di conoscenza tericamente credo ci voglia qualche secondo in +. talvolta succede che prendendo un colpo vada di traverso la lingua, che nn sia successa una cosa del genere anche a ronan. riguardando l'azione non si capisce nulla, si vede solo uno scapaccione che rifila il n° 17 scozzese a o' callaghan fortunatamente a fine collegamento s'è visto il giocatore irlandese in piedi sulle sue gambe..

O'Sullivan ha parlato di strangolamento (braccio intorno alla gola).

Ma ha anche detto che non lo puo` provare (ma chi ha visto allora?).

Scott Murray believes Scotland's forwards must provide a better platform for their much-maligned backs to express themselves.

The Scotland pack is regarded as the best the country has produced for some time, but the backs are widely considered to lack the necessary firepower to trouble the world's tightest defences.

Frank Hadden's side are increasingly reliant on the metronomic boot of Chris Paterson for their points, the latest example coming against Ireland in the RBS 6 Nations Championship.

Paterson kicked six penalties in a flawless performance at Murrayfield to keep Scotland in touch with Ireland right to the end.

But it was Ronan O'Gara, having already scored the game's only try, who slotted the decisive penalty to hand his side an 18-19 victory and with it their third Triple Crown in four years.

Murray won his 83rd cap against Eddie O'Sullivan's side to overtake Gregor Townsend as Scotland's most capped player and is well placed to point the way forward for his country.

The Edinburgh lock said: "We are a good team but we need everyone to play 100% or we won't play well. We can't have any passengers.

"The frustrating thing is we are training under pressure and running the patterns really well. It's just when it comes to games that we aren't stringing any phases together.

"Whether we are panicking or not having confidence in the way we're trying to play, I don't know, but there is a belief in the squad that we can do something special - we just haven't brought it out yet.

"I think we maybe need to create a bit more space for the backs. As forwards we seem to be throwing the ball to them and say, 'right, do something with that and we'll mop up'."

Murray admits it was a relief that Scotland eventually got the Italy nightmare out of their system, but insists there is more to come from a side desperate to make its mark.

He said: "The two teams didn't really play the way they wanted to. There were plenty of things which went right for us but our general team pattern wasn't quite right.

"We were really disappointed but we're trying to take the positives from it because Ireland are the second or third best team in the world. We were right up there with them.

"We need to pick the bones out of what happened on Saturday and look forward to France this weekend."

Gordon D'Arcy admits Ireland's Triple Crown celebrations at Murrayfield were muted by the disappointment of failing to emulate their heroics against England.

The Irish clinched their third Triple Crown in four years with a nervy 19-18 triumph over Scotland that was light years away from their stellar performance at Croke Park two weeks earlier.

Eddie O'Sullivan's side may be the best of the home nations by some margin but the lifeless, if ultimately professional, manner of dispatching the Scots was a major comedown.

Ronan O'Gara landed two late penalties to reclaim the lead and halt Scotland's revival.

Only a handful of players raised their hands in jubilation at the final whistle with most consumed by relief, and D'Arcy acknowledged it had been a frustrating afternoon.

'Just because we'd won the Triple Crown twice in a row doesn't detract from the achievement,' he said.

'To beat the three teams in back to back seasons is a great achievement and we are delighted to have won another Triple Crown.

'The reason we weren't jumping around at the end was because we want to do better.

'We wanted to repeat our performance against England. It might be expecting a lot but that's what we must strive to do.

'We set our own standards and we didn't live up to them against Scotland. The boys knew that.'

D'Arcy, who produced another sparkling display and is a leading contender for the player of the tournament award, accused Ireland of over-elaborating but was impressed by the home defence.

'Scotland were coming off the back of their defeat to Italy and they really wanted to restore their pride,' he said.

'When games are close like that you have to fight for every blade of glass. They were fighting for their lives.

'We kept the ball for a long time and became a bit giddy with it when we should have kept it solid.

'We started well and we looked like we were wearing them down but then they got back into the match in the second half.

'They got their tails up and (Chris) Paterson punished our poor discipline - you can't give someone like that anything.

'We're disappointed to concede those six penalties - especially as our defence was good enough not to give them away.

'It was never going to be a 20-point win and so we'll take the one-point win. We're still there or thereabouts in the championship.'

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