So how did Ireland overcome Scotland? | Six Nations 2024 Analysis
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Ireland are the back-to-back Six Nations Champions. But before they could be crowned, Andy Farrell's army had to overcome a well-prepared and fired up Scottish side who may have just found a way to shut down their attack. So what did Scotland do to the Irish, and how did they overcome them to take the title?
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I'm spanish, my first language is spanish and my second one is english but I really feel very confident with it.
Being able to fully understand one of your videos without 0.75x the speed or without reading the subtitles would mean that I leveled up my english understanding by a lot, by a HUGE LOT.
Keep the great content coming, loving each of your videos.
Javier - con lo que escribiste, has mostrado a nosotros que ya escribes como yo, un nativo (irlandés) jajaja. 🎉🎉Solo que yo no tengo un acento tan amable como el de Squidge 😂. Muy buen trabajo con tu inglés! Seguir así!
Peter O'Mahony what a man
what an A class prick
I've been watching rugby all my life, I'm a big fan. But many times I honestly haven't a clue what's going on. You make the game very understandable, thanks.
Thanks for your analysis over the World Cup and six nations, it has been very insightful and enjoyable
"Leinster and green Leinster" love it
Nah, pretty disrespectful to the likes of Bundee, Crowley, Murray, Tadgh Beirne and Nash. This joke is tired
@@jessiechaptersLowe plays for Leinster
@@jessiechaptersBut regardless, I love watching Ireland play but it's a pretty fair joke. Don't take it so personally, lots of countries have a small number of clubs and Ireland still won. What's to moan about ? It was clearly a joke and not criticism.
@@thomasgilbert8321 Yeah I made a mistake by listing Lowe. I just think it's a bad joke, it doesn't really make sense. I've seen this joke so many times and it's just not fair to the other players that make Ireland as good as they are.
O`Mahony is such a legend!
It's been quite a while since Squidge analysed an Ireland Scotland game. Think the last one was 2020 !
There’s usually not much to say unfortunately. Scotland can’t compete
It’s his famous anti-Irish bias
Gonna miss peter omahony and the shithousery he brings. Not to mention hes one of the most unintentionally funny rugby players ever
Well, his lawn needs attention now... he'll be in like Quin on the lawnmower!
Great analysis. When you see things in a game but don't know what is different to create them always rely on squidge to provide the answers.
Great analysis re: Forshaw/Tandy tactic + ruckspeed, but was looking forward to hearin more on Ireland going forward (1:29).
Thanks! your analysis is invaluable. It's hard to find anywhere else giving this level of detail.
Scotland have emphasised their ‘time in the tackle’ thing for quite some time now, I’m not sure they got it from the Welsh?
Such amazing commentary!!! Thank you!!!
Thank you Squidgy for the joy! Rugby!
Christie was GREAT in this match, and that hold up by Redpath 8| Insanely done :D
If it really is his last game, O'Mahoney has finished with a 5th Six Nations title. Not bad going. I think Alun Wyn Jones won 5 as well. I don't think anyone has more than that. Maybe Jason Leonard if you count the 5 Nations era as well?
That's a great stat (and achievement fron the guys you mention obviously). I thought maybe Jonny Wilkinson had five 6N titles but turns out it's 'only' four. The late Christophe Dominici's international career spanned five French titles (including the 5N in 98) but he didn't play in one of them. Maybe there's another French player from that era to win five 🤔
Thank you Squidge! Finally, some actual insight (and perspective)
Great review as always.
your analysis is amazing
Three 6N videos on how other teams beat Scotland really feels good. Thanks Squidge!
Great analysis
Thanks for making sense of rugby 👍🏻
Excellent analysis.
Great technical insights Squidge. The nuances and small shifts in tactics are hard to spot, but you have an eagle eye! Roll on 6N 2025!
Great video as always squidge. Don't remember the Springboks beating any Andy Farrell Ireland team though. Haven't beaten Ireland since 2016 in fact. Theres only been three games mind you, but that's nearly a decade!
Don’t start this again 😂
@@nkosinathimazibuko2561 I mean it is true. Was being purposely tongue in cheek with the in nearly a decade bit but....
Would rather lose to Ireland for a decade, than lose every quarter final in a world cup since it's inception.
@@AjaySalmon our cricket team
@@thelespower 🤣 truth, but we don't claim that our cricket team is the best in the world.
Great player with commitment to Ireland with power
Yes Squidge! Preach!
Great analysis. Quirky but great.😂
I am a die hard Scotland fan but have been very upset with the in consistency they have brought to many games for a long time now but one thing i am verry happy with as this seems to be go away now and they keep putting out incredible performances on a much more consistence manner. great video again Squidge and what a brilliant 6 nations this year lets hope scotland continue to improve as they defiantly have the ability to be the best.
Waken up, what do you think is causing the inconsistency? The players or the brick walls the officials introduce?
Scotland have been victims to big decisions make wrong in the past five 6 nations, but there have been more in this 6 nations than all of those combined. At least one big decision in each game, and two big decisions in most games. That's ignoring the general brick wall like 17 penalties to 0 in a row against Wales where 9 wrong decisions were made.
Wake up
Brilliant squid
Hit the notification harder than Ben Earl celebrates
Not possible!
What about the second half. Ireland speeded it up and brough their game to another level.. Ireland will learn from the last two games and improve their attack 😊
Exactly
Great set of videos through this competition lads. Quality over quantity was the right call. Thanks for the effort
Hey Squidge, just wondering if you guys are planning to make a 'So how did South Africa win the 2023 world cup' video?
"How did Townsend's team push the side the 'South Africans would call the world's number 2?' " 🤣
We would not call them number 2 because New Zealand is number 2😂
@@hannesbornman1045 what would you call the French mate..when they battered the kiwi, s?😂😂😂😂
@@michaelmoynihan9591 How does that logic go? NZ beat Ireland, France beat NZ, England beat Ireland, Ireland beat SA, SA beat England France and New Zealand. All there is to go on is the fact (how ever hard it is to face) that NZ ended up in the finals and neither France nor Ireland did. Sorry
lol literally finished your italy video
excellent
Hi Squidge, thanks a million! 😊 I'm not sure if you answer questions, I know you've already put so much work in, but I'll ask anyway and be happy to hear anyone's reply... Is this Scottish defence the reason the Irish attack looked so inanimate during phase play? They looked to my (less educated) eye like they were jogging rather than running at the gainline. But if Scotland slowed the ball so much that they'd literally to stop and wait then maybe they'd no choice but to run from a standing start- maybe they deserved so much less of my frustration than I felt at the time...
10 in a row should mean Scotland has to do a Fantasy Football esque forfeit
So good, Squidge analysis is unreal... it embarasses sooo many 'professional pundits' so frequently... thank you!
Super interesting breakdown as always. Although im absolutely at a loss as to how Carley can give thay try at 15:17 from that angle.
Another great vid as much as it was also a bit depressing as a Scot - any chance of a round-up of the Euro Championship or even just the final (though that can probably be summed up thus: Y no Aubry, bro?)
Haven't seen many Welsh videos from you for a while squidge... Yma o hyd
Hi Squidge, will you ever release the video you made for the New Zealand vs Erin's Isle RWC QF 2023? i'm so keen for it
Any chance of a video on george north now he's retired?
I'm glad to hear that you'll make some videos about the women's six nations now that the men's one is over 😁 should be another great tournament
Excellent analysis, as a viewer it is hard to see how much of a role conditioning plays in the game. I struggled to see that conditioning is the weak link in the Scotland game - that one thing stopping them from going from being a good team to being a GOOD team. Not to take anything away from the Scottish lads, I am English and for me the Scots where the team of the tournament, delivering exciting games and really high levels of rugby, I cannot wait for this team to have run through enough drills and enough runs for them to unlock their full potential, I see a team which could be bloodying the noses of the Saffa's and the All Blacks in the near future.
Ah, a brand new Squidge video directly after sitting through an unskippable ad where we find out about that nameless player who Bryan Habana found out was 'slow on the turn'. What could be better?
Who was slow on the turn?
5:24 can’t get over your perceptiveness on your analysis. You’re clearly a genius or I’m a moron….or hopefully somewhere in between!!
The Foreshaw Press? Come on, teams have been doing this for years. Scotland have been doing this for years when it suits.
I think that was the last 6 nations for some of those players.
12:10 can anyone explain why this knock on advantage only lasted a phase and half, literally 7 seconds, when Scotland went sideways and coughed up possession? Why wasn't it brought back for a scrum? Ireland proceed to break in to the Scottish 22 and score eventually and it stopped Scotland getting an attacking platform on the Irish 22.
An explanation on the try not being grounded, or the blocking to create the space for it would be great too.
I would love a video of France to understand how the team we slightly beat in the World Cup, somehow started being shite
"Cheeky trip to the basement" 😂
Scotland worked so hard preparing the defensive plan that they forgot about attack
2 man tackles is a standard tactic that is used by every team in the world
When are you going to upload or update us on the RWC 2023 final analysis video?
chess term DANGER LEVELS where you ignore the opponents threat with an equal or greater one
They finished top of the table
They put in a good performance against the best team in the world
So Squidge, what you’re suggesting here says to me that the way around this type of defence which slows down Ireland ruck speed, is to not take the ball into contact. Pass it instead. Do not run into defenders. Try to achieve some extra supreme fitness and then use that to keep the ball constantly moving through the hands. And then, at the times that the Ireland players inevitably run out of puff, kick it or alternatively take a tackle which commits defenders, thereby turning up a few openings. Either way, Ireland will have possession of the ball or they’ll be putting their opponents back into their own half. And it ain’t possible to score if you don’t have the ball or if you’re constantly catching kicks way back in your own half.
If Scotland had won, I think Christie would have got the MOTM shout. Dude just got better and better over the games.
This isn't intended as a slight on the man since he played the ref (as all good rugby players should) but Christie lived offside for most of the game. Another ref might have penalised him for it but it was a great bit of gamesmanship by himself.
Looking forward to seeing where Scotland go in future, though their U20's team would have most people concerned
The "Forshaw System" was used extensively by Saracens, especially during their period of dominance over Leinster.
Agree that Andy Christie was MoTM
Babe, wake up! New squidge rugby video just dropped!
You just... you just said his name.. in full.. my ears... did I really just hear that.....
Easily.
SQUIDGE ITS ME, ITS THE GUY FROM REDDIT, PLEASE BE IRELAND'S COACH.
Jokes aside, Farewell To The War God, Peter O Mahony
This is a really silly question but what's the logic in kicking it away? Is it not easier to keep possession than it is to win possession back again?
There are many reasons to kick, but the big one is that territory is more important than possession. Playing Rugby in your own 22 is like playing football in your own penalty box, something will go wrong eventually, you are at high risk of giving away points. With rugby there is the added factor that the ball can only be passed backwards meaning that it can be bloody hard to move the ball from one end of the pitch to the other without putting it on the boot. So essentially it is easier to give possession away and then win it back in the opposition half of the pitch than it is to keep a hold of the ball in your own 22.
And they still couldn’t beat us ..😮
I think that crediting this type of defence as a one off anti-ireland tactic is a little unfair. Spending more time in the tackle has been a big focus for both Edinburgh and Glasgow this season which says to me that Tandy and the SRU have been planning this shift for a while. Great analysis though!
2:13 - Huh?
Are we gonna see rwc videos ?seeing that you're using rwc footage
With a 6-2 split 😂
In retrospect I agree Squidge that Irelands manner of playing wore down Scotland but I’m not convinced it was purposeful. Though i think sometimes the choices we make can have unintended positive outcomes. Which it did, by a hair, for Ireland. I personally find the consistent trend of kicking for the corner and not taking the points to be arrogance from a lack of confidence. Not believing themselves to have the ability to get back down the field teams are gambling with the kick to the corner. Whereas in their pomp the 2015 all blacks took the points early and marched down the field building pressure. But perhaps the analytics say something else so what do i know!
If you’re constantly kicking for the corner it means that you’re confident in your ability to win the game by more than 7 points. Ireland kick to the corner with the hope of blowing teams out of the water as early as they can, so that the team will have to catch up on the scoreboard. And when teams are desperate to catch up on the scoreboard they make mistakes and over play and that’s exactly what Ireland want. It forces them to turn down kickable penalties and they have to play with a similar approach to Ireland and teams are rarely able to do that against Ireland. It’s confidence in their ability to execute from set piece, while simultaneously being a way to avoid a close finish that could go either way. Ireland are similar to New Zealand in the sense that they don’t enjoy close games. They prefer to have the freedom to express themselves with a healthy lead on the scoreboard. Whereas South Africa have complete belief in their ability to see out a tight game. So it’s a double edged sword. They have an insane amount of belief in themselves to be able to score tries when the opportunity presents itself. The other side being, they aren’t extremely comfortable in a 3 point game. South Africa aren’t comfortable going all out and backing their set set piece to score tries and blow teams out early so they take the points on offer. Just a different psychology there’s two ways of looking at it.
Also, just want to point out, the South African approach to winning games is equally impressive I wasn’t saying one was better than the other. Just an example of two polar opposites who have complete belief in their philosophy. Just as South Africa don’t want a fast frenetic game, Ireland and New Zealand don’t want a slow game.
@@BobH-eh8wu it’s an interesting analysis
Great show and appreciate the amount of time you must put into creating but you stated twice in this post that South Africa have beaten Ireland, the last time SA beat Ireland was in 2016. Just saying 🇮🇪
Sorry to say but the next 2 times will be in a few months time.
I hope so fervently you have to eat your unapologetic presumptious words.
@@justme9818 luckily hope is free.
Shud be a good 2 matches.
Manners are free too!!!
@@markwillies7666 South Africa are favorites for sure. But if Ireland cause an upset. I'm sure you will come up with an excuse. Blame El Nino or some cosmic entity.
Thank you for making it. I did :-) Looking forward to the Six Nations that isn't for men.
I think the Jokes about Leinster are growing thin 😂 there is only 4 clubs in ireland
Saffa fans are so easily baited
Same with Irish fans. Just make a video about how SA are the best team in the world and you'll see many Irish in the comment section. 😂
Its really easy to quantify where Scotland are at.
1) 2nd place as a minimum in this championship. The Nic Berry special try isnt a try vs France means Scotland were 2nd by rights, by controlling that game and winning it.
2) Against Ireland, they took it to the last possession, and had the right points been on the board, Scotland would have been going in to that game just needing a win. That is how close they are to Ireland.
3) There were, I think 40 net wrong decisions against Scotland through the six nations. Imagine what they might have done with bonus points against Wales and England and what that confidence would have given them againat Italy.
So that is where they are, right on Ireland's tail, but then we all knew that coming in to it, and we know it now.
I wonder if that influenced all these strange decisons throughout the 6 Nations. 9 big decisions went against Scotland, 9!!! And then the rest.
Scotland are done. That was their shot.
What was there shot? The whole championship
@@Sineadhawk at anything other than a calcutta cup
How is that new tackle tack tick different from the choke tackle the Irish were known for a few years ago?
They targeted specific players when doing that this is every tackle
The Irish plan was to tie the ball up and win a scrum turnover with the choke tackle. They often used more than just 2 bodies as well.
The choke tackle has a very specific aim ie. To create a turnover and win possession. It takes at least 2 defenders. Committing 2 players to each tackle is just doubling up the defensive numbers to pull down a bigger player or slow the ball down as Squidge describes here. There's no specific technique beyond 2 players tackling. A choke tackle aims to keep the attacking player upright as long as possible and stripping the ball from the player, turning the tackle into a maul or winning a penalty from the eventual ruck.
One crap line out and that was the difference between Ireland and Scotland. Madness
With that kind of analysis you should perhaps start your own channel!
That's a little bit of a simplistic view
You can’t look at the final score, ask “what if an early score hadn’t happened”, and assume that everything in between would have been the same. Without that try, Ireland would probably have kicked more penalties for 3 points, and still won. They dominated possession, territory, scrums, lineout wins, restart wins, 22m entries, and penalty count.
Ye irish only spend 36 minutes inside scotland half in last 40 minutes. 😂😂😂 clueless comment. Stat,s don,t lie.? Try ping pong kid.😂😂
Nr. 3 tho.
A video on the Women 6 Nations? Please.
Tuesday next week! It's coming!
Yep Scotland's defence was superb but the second half was a different story. Ireland could and should have had multiple tries.
Shame they didn’t match it in attack.. would have made for a fun game
All Blacks VS Ireland QF review when? 😌
Nothing to review there mate, the all blacks woke up that day and decided to be the all blacks. There, review done
More NFL inspired than LRZ’s Christmas list…
Hilarious!
UA-cam, how do I permanently BLOCK this VIOLENT CRAP?
Anything Scotland did - ‘incredible composed skill’
Anything Ireland did - ‘boring brute force’
All that analysis and this is rife with oversimplification
I feel like I'm going crazy or missing something everyone else is seeing, but surely porters try is held up? No one seems to be talking about it or how much of a blunder it was from the ref? There is no way in hell he saw the ball grounded through that mess of bodies and from every replay I have watched at 0.25 speed I still cant see it being definitively grounded either
I think he just decided for himself that Ireland deserved it whether it was grounded or not.
It wasn't grounded, and there was blocking.
Let's not pretend officials care about the laws or the whole tournament would look entirely different.
@@johnpollock7952saw you whinging on last years six nations matches aswell. Good to see you’re still around and haven’t changed 👍
Ireland got lucky against the Scots - The lineout overthrow from Scotland gave Ireland a 7-pointer, and many have said Porters try was held up the Scots should have beaten Ireland if you look at these issues.
Sour grapes
shoulda beaten France too, remember that game? :)
Beaten by Italy.😂😂 irish had ball 36 minutes of second half.stat,s don,t lie.stick to ping pong kid..10 in a row kid.😂😂😂
Got lucky 😂 Scotland didn’t score a try until the 77th minute. Irelands had 2 tries held up. Please stop
This is Scotland's problem all competition though; relying on decisions to go yr way is going to bite you on the arse 40% of the time. I don't want to look back on our best team in decades and think shoulda, woulda, coulda
Old School? Hes 34 ffs!
I know you don't like it, but do you not even mention the fact the try was held up? It's clear as day.
Why wasn't tadhg furlongs try a try
I feel the SA bashing is poor form (and pretty low hanging fruit if I'm honest). Winning a world cup and being ranked number one in the world is a great achievement by any team, don't undermine that. Leave it for the series between Ireland and SA to decide the rankings.
Goodbye Petey O'Mahoner
Lord Rassie said he rather have a low winning percentage and winning the world cup than having a high winning percentage and being knocked out in the quarters.
Yeah but then it’s truly not a good consistent team. Like what’s the arguement then with six nations? Just don’t bother every other year
Saying ground in the first minute or two while showing the porter "try" is taking the piss
It wasn’t a “try”; it was a real try.
Ireland deserved to win but i still think porters try was held up
Yeah but furlongs was a try
This should be the game Scotland take the most from. And you could the score was Scotland 13, Ireland 7, Kinghorn and Turner 10. Still too many silly mistakes though - and AF has proved with Ireland that these can be coached out of the game with Ireland I just don't know if Townsend knows how to. Surprised no mention of the illegal blocking of baird for the NFL try
That wasn’t illegal blocking. You all need to stop.. seriously stop blaming everyone else except for your players
@@Sineadhawk I literally blamed Kinghorn and Turner for 10 points