Online comments after Ireland v USA

A selection of the “keyboard warrior” reactions after the full-time whistle of our featured matches of the weekend.

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Ireland 71 - 10 USA

8 debuts.

A boatload of tries.

Seven million offloads.

That was a very entertaining, and very impressive, game.

The best part for me? No brakes were hit.

So much to be excited about.#IREvUSA

— The Loose Head (@TheLooseH) July 10, 2021

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You can only beat what's in front of as they say, very solid performance, great to see some new faces, and some 'older' ones back in the groove for 80minutes! #IREvUSA

— Grace O'Sullivan (@gosulli) July 10, 2021

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Paul Smith Have to put it in the context of the opposition but to score 71 points and 10 tries is impressive in anyone's book. Delighted for Kelleher, a well deserved MOM, but anyone from Casey, Coomes and particularly Keenan would also have worthy winners. Some lovely rugby out there, brilliant to see a pretty young Irish team throwing the ball around and offloading with such flair. Nice to see he fans to see enjoying the free flowing rugby at the stadium too.

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People will throw the quality of opposition at that performance but that was fantastic to see. An Irish team playing expansive rugby and the Irish fans seeing young players and what their potential is. That's what these summer games are all about. #IREvUSA

— Master Of None Podcast (@MasterOfNonePod) July 10, 2021

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Really enjoyable game, that. Hopefully Ireland keep that style of play in future

— John O'Sullivan (@NotoriousJOS) July 10, 2021

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Gav Heg Some great individual performances but let's not call a spade a shovel, it was a particularly bad USA team. I think some of the non performers today for us were the more established players like Ryan, carbery and Doris.

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With no Josh van der Flier on show today I’m having a very hard time picking a #MOTM 🤪

Could be any of Doris; Coombes; Casey, Baloucoune or Keenan but with 4 tries I’m going to have to go for Ronan Kelleher #RoKe

#IREvUSA

— Miriam Collins (@MiriamCol) July 10, 2021

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Appreciating it’s against a disappointing @USARugby side but you can’t argue against this performance by the @IrishRugby boys You play what’s in front of you and they did it well with 8 debutants #COYBIG #IREvUSA @HarpinOnRugby

— @Once_in_the_job... (@Once_in_the_job) July 10, 2021

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Angela Cassin Jackson Good game but I’d love to see that’s Irish team against maybe the English team that played earlier I think that would give them both a really good run out

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FT: Ireland 71-10. Did not expect USA to lose by more than Canada today but the Eagles suffered their ugliest match for several years. Played the last 30 minutes with 14 men, but were getting trashed way before then with several maul tries killing them in the first half.

— Tier 2 Rugby (@T2Rugby) July 10, 2021

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Well the beer still tasted good.

— American Rugby Pod (@AmericaRugbyPod) July 10, 2021

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Michelle Tobin We sang the fields multiple times. Felt more like live rugby than last weekend. Clearly didn't sell out. Glad I was there but felt a bit like NZ v Tonga

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Score and opposition don't matter, I thoroughly enjoyed that. Why? Because the players clearly did. You'd have to dig deep to criticize this end to the test season for Ireland, esp with fans there. Plenty of talent to give us plenty of future selection headaches. #IREvUSA

— Harpin' On Rugby (@HarpinOnRugby) July 10, 2021

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Many thanks to all who offered opinions.

Look out Monday for our match writeup JLP