Italy vs Ireland rugby match twitter analysis
Following on from the popular Ireland versus France twoud (twitter cloud) analysis, this weekend saw the Italy versus Ireland RBS 6 nations rugby game in Rome. The hash tag used this time on twitter to mark everyone’s tweets about the match was #ireita.
This time round, I’m just going with 10 minute segments of the match rather than 5. I’d love any feedback on what you see so please feel free to comment below or if you are too shy you can email me at here.
Click on the individual twoud images to see the larger versions.
Pre-match
General chatter on the build up to the match
News of the hashtag to be used being passed around
1430 – 1439
The match kicks off!
1 min: Masi clotheslines Kearney – YELLOW CARD for Italy
4 mins: PEN ITALY 3-0 IRELAND
1440 – 1449
14 mins: PEN ITALY 6-0 IRELAND
Lots of penalties so far. Scrappy game
1450 – 1459
18 mins: TRY ITALY 6-7 IRELAND
Tommy intercepts a pass and runs 70m to score a try. Converted by O’Gara
1500 – 1509
22 mins: PEN ITALY 9-7 IRELAND
30 mins: O’Gara tackles Canale without the ball – YELLOW CARD for Ireland
1510 – 1519
Paddy Wallace getting a battering and goes to the blood-bin. Stringer on, O’Leary goes to fly-half.
36 mins: Perugini sin-binned for taking out his man at the line-out – YELLOW CARD for Italy
39 mins: TRY ITALY 9-14 IRELAND
Luke Fitzgerald takes a pass from Ferris to run under the posts
HALF TIME
Disucssion about the match, trys and the clothesline on Rob Kearney
1530 – 1539
Second half begins
Paddy Wallace comes off and is shown with a very swollen eye
46 mins: TRY ITALY 9-21 IRELAND
Jamie Heaslip makes a break for the posts which eventually turns into a David Wallace try
1540 – 1549
Try converted by O’Gara
48 mins: PEN ITALY 9-24 IRELAND
1550 – 1559
Scrappy game
Some substitutions but no scores
1600 – 1609
Still no scores. Still 9-24
1610 – 1619
75 mins: TRY ITALY 9-31 IRELAND
Luke Fitzgerald steals the ball and runs over for a try
Converted by O’Gara
1620 – 1622
77 mins: TRY ITALY 9-38 IRELAND
Mati throws an intercept pass to O’Driscoll who runs the pitch and scores under the posts
Converted by O’Gara
Full time!
Post-match
Post match analysis
A MASSIVE thank you to all who contributed to the match including:
February 16th, 2009 at 2:43 am
You’re welcome
February 16th, 2009 at 9:35 am
Great work Patrick – It’s very cool to see it laid out like that.
February 16th, 2009 at 12:14 pm
[...] Another roundup of those of us who had no life on Sunday, and thus tweeted about the rubgy using the hashtag… [...]
February 16th, 2009 at 4:30 pm
[...] Italy vs Ireland rugby match twitter analysis – patrickphelan.ie brilliant 10 min by 10 min tag clouds documenting the ireland v italy tag rugby match (via aarons) (tags: twitter rugby tag irelandvsitaly tagclouds) [...]
February 17th, 2009 at 10:21 am
another great job Patrick. Looking forward to the next victorious twoud!
March 1st, 2009 at 10:08 pm
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