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IRL vs AUS
International Women's Rugby
Kingspan Stadium, Belfast
Ireland
vs
Australia
36
FT
10
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Full-Time: 36 - 10
That's all we have for now from Belfast, thanks for joining us here on Tribe. Be sure to tune in for plenty more Women's Internationals around the globe this week. I'm Cam Russell, signing off.
A great preparation match for both teams as they head to their respective WXV competitions later this month - Ireland heading to Vancouver, and Australia to South Africa. Ireland will take some confidence from this performance as they head into the daunting prospect of facing World Champions New Zealand on the 29th in WXV1. Australia will have one more match to warm up against Wales on the 20th, before facing them again in their first match of WXV2 on the 28th.
Utter dominance from Ireland in both halves today. They picked up where they left off from the first half, putting the game beyond doubt midway through the second spell with tries to Higgins and Wafer, who got a pair today. They could have had more, with little resistance coming from the Australian defense late in the game, however the TMO picked up some handling errors to chalk two of them out. Australia will have plenty to work on following this one, as it was only some speed and footwork from Maya Stewart with a try in each half that was the shining light for this Wallaroos team.
80+1'
Breen hits the right post with a tough kick 10m in from touch, and it bounces back, which will be the final act of this game!
E. Breen
Missed Conversion
80+1'
80'
MOLONEY FINISHES IT IN STYLE! Ireland kick for touch 5m out and set up the lineout maul with their throw. The backs come in to join the forwards, powering it over the goal line to score the try out right, with Moloney surfacing with the ball! There will be no TMO intervention this time and that's a strong finish for Ireland.
36-10 C. Moloney
Try
80'
79'
Good scrum for Australia, and they go left. There looks to be space, but Smith drops it cold. Scrum to Ireland near halfway. Ireland win the scrum and go left finding good space and working it into the Australian half. It goes right and more metres here for Ireland, entering the 22m. Back to centre as they set up the attack, then unleash Flood on the left wing, stopped just short of the line. Back right, and Australia are penalised for not rolling away.
77'
Try overturned! Ireland shift it left, and some great offloads sees Breen dash away 40m to score out left. But, TMO Tempest spots a forward pass by Campbell, so Australia will feed the scrum on the Irish 10m line.