INTENSE battle in the rain! | Australia v Ireland Highlights | World Rugby U20 Championship 

Stupid. Political decision most likely. And on just 3 pitches. This game surface was bad, and yet 2 more games were played on it later that day

Well rugby is a winter sport after all. Granted, these pitches are F'd after very heavy rain over the last month. They should have hosted it around Joburg - dry season up there with clear skies, cool temps and hard pitches for running rugby.

@@lazy_explorer And that's my point. Rugby is usually played in the winter, but the "Beautiful game" of running rugby with silky passing skills and multiple offloads is completely negated when playing on muddy pitches in a deluge...

@@_Opal_Miner_ Neither are the pitches... And there is a proven connection between the prevalence of injuries and poor underfoot conditions. But I'm sure you will be fine sitting on your couch...

@@michaelodonnell824 not very important for ireland. they are just able to play with forwards. touch, maul, try.

Playing an awful brand of rugby.

@@JaemanEdwards Maybe , but the scoreboard is what counts at this level

​​@@JaemanEdwardsf the pitches weren't like bogs we might get more open rugby. You have to play the team and conditions your presented with

@@JaemanEdwards You can't play attractive rugby in such poor conditions.

@@taintabird23 Yes. As with these other comments, you are correct.

I think you need your ears checked.

Its Allgood bro Ireland still flogged them from nz

Was there a second? 😅

LOL

I'm sure it will, bit of patience 😉

Ireland has so much talent at u20 and senior level. We've done a fantastic job at u20s

Was a bit dodgy definitely but I think you could see a grounding eventually when they showed all the replays.

@@Goldeneagle59 oh do they show other angles at this level? I thought they only did that for things like tackles that might be red/yellows for the U20s and below. Granted I haven't watched many junior games in full.

Was held up at first but then got it down on the second attempt

@@FDN10 just couldn't see the second attempt I suppose! :)

@paddygart yeah they didn't show any replays in this but i watched the match and they showed some anglez

one more time 6219 bad looser

The problem is playing 3 games in a single day (6 in less than a week) on a pitch with that much surface water, was alway going to cut up badly.There's going to be another 3 played on each of them on Tuesday. The areas around the benches were even worse, couldn;t see any grass at all

Nz werent even on the field cupcake. 😂

@@YallNotWhite_YourPINK hang on, really?

You guys a jealous of our haka cause your country don't have a culture

It's alright aireland just flogged the wallobs hahaha that's gold

dude, it was immediately upgraded to a red. Stay informed

Can Northern Hemisphere teams only score boring maul tries. Butt ugly brand of rugby.

@@JaemanEdwardswell maybe they’ve just realised SH teams can’t defend a simple maul😅. If you’ve watched their tries in the 6nations most of them were from open play running.

​@@JaemanEdwardsI could of sworn Australia scored a couple of butt ugly maul tries against Fiji. You have to play the weather conditions as well.

@@JaemanEdwards you should know all about butt ugly anytime you look in the mirror!

​@@JaemanEdwardsBack to your homework lad.

And he was a foot taller than the Irish player.

@@rightiswrongrightiswrong806 yh that's why he dipped into the tackle to milk a card

Very harsh it was,I thought he stumbled before the tackle but he seemed to drop his head and shoulder just before impact.not much the tackler could do at that speed.

Why would you pass the ball more in those conditions, that's just moronic.

@@cathalsheehan9596 The conditions. Yeah, right.

@@SyuSept If the ball is wet you are more likely to drop the ball, common knowledge.

Agree with you totally,physical contact must be removed from rugby to avoid this sort of thing happening,

It's lucky to be a yellow. There head collided yeah but that was cause they were running so fast the Australian player dropped to bounce him which led the Ireland player to drop a little but there moving to quick to slow down to get the right hight. It's unlucky but yeah changed my mind it's a yellow at most 😊

It got upgraded to a red.

It was a red card, it didn't get shown but it got upgraded to a red later on

Rugby is irelands 4th sport mate.😂😂😂

It was an immediate yellow with off-field review for elevation to red. The highlights didn't show whether it was elevated since the card came in the seventy-eighth minute.

Mate Ireland don’t get red cards!

​@@MrBrynmairthey got a red card last game against England bro

@@MrBrynmairThey have got the most in this championship 😂

​@MrBrynmair England game mate we got one and this one was upgraded to a red so 😂

Didn't it get upgraded to red? They're using the initial yellow and off-field review system from Super Rugby. Slight dip from Aussie lad might have been seen as a mitigating factor but definitely can't have any complaints if it was upgraded to red.

@@memyselfwhaa6341 There is quite a significant dip from the aussie lad, if he hadnt dipped as much it would of been a tackle to the torso

@@Ricky-rm5eg The Aussies have a better backline than the Irish.

I've seen you on a few Irish videos posting negatively. There's a real bitterness to you. The conditions were awful yesterday there wasn't much good quality running rugby played in any of the games. Check this same Ireland teams performances in the under 20 6 nations a few months a go they played some beautiful rugby (the 10 Prendergast wjo you also slammed on another video was player of the tournament) and as regards your comment on another video about the quality of that tournament. Look at the results yesterday and the results in the senior game latey. The tide is slowly turning, the NH game is at worst on par with the SH now, you can't look down your noses at us anymore and you can't handle it.

@@zimzimma5688 Not true. I just enjoy winding you sensitive little leprechaun's up. I do the same with the arrogant, yet insecure Saffa's. The truth is, I have much respect for irish rugby, and the systems implemented years ago, are paying fruit. To win an historic series against the All Blacks in NZ, and follow it up with Grand Slam glory speaks to the success of these systems. Ireland play with great heart, poise, and cohesion, and will be a handful for anyone at the World Cup. I even support the Irish sevens teams with Jordan Conroy and Aimee Leigh Murphy Crowe being my faves. Try scoring supremos. And after the 1st round of this 2023 U20 World Championships, I said on comments, that the most impressive teams to me, were Australia, France, Georgia, and Ireland. I rate this irish team. But you can't deny it was, mainly due to the conditions, an ugly win.

@@zimzimma5688 tru

You can dream of beating them too. 😂😂😂

Trust me I dont have to dream - its only recently become half a challenge 😂

piet, sounds like Soud Africf to me, Northern sides are now bigger, stronger, and more than capable of destroying your southern hemisphere crackheads. The south Africans prided themselves on their physical strength which won the games for them years ago rather than rugby skills, when you wake up now a Northern team will be holding the Cup, yours William McBride

Gotta play the pitch and conditions.

@@harshbutfair8993 Aussie could move the ball to the wings. Why not Ireland. Last night in a rugby league game the Warriors played the Rabbitohs in a deluge of rain. The ball was moved constantly and rapidly with hardly a dropped ball.

Nice whinge but you’ve had practice I can tell

Ireland identified a weakness and exploited it to win the game with a bonus point. During the u20 6 nations, Ireland scored the highest number of tries ever in the competition. During that tournament Ireland played a really expansive high speed multi phase attack because the weather and pitches (4g) were far better and allowed that type of game. Perhaps the question u should be asking is why didn't Oz have the ability to front up in the contact area and change their tactics accordingly

"used that dominance very negatively,". Rugby is about finding something that the other team don't like/can't defend and doing it again and again and again, until you batter them. Nothing negative about that at all. That's the game, which makes your comment seem very strange.

Appalling attitudes from the southern whingers who cannot except they are no longer on top of the Rugby tree, hope Ireland win the bloody thing and hammer you whinging southerners, Willy McBride

🧂

Dont blame the pitch or conditions which could be judged in the less than 6mins of an 80min game.

Winning Ireland

The same boring Ireland who just won a GS with 32 tries and 239 points in 5 games? Still got a try BP in awful conditions here. I’d pass the salt, but it looks like someone already has

Boring but WINNING

Slow rugby? Ireland have the fastest breakdown clearance time in the world. Are you 12?!

@@michaelmoynihan9591 🙂

Just a ruSSian troll, nothing to see here 🙃

Winning a few games? The north have been dominating the last few years in under 20s and seniors

Your grammar is appalling.