Ireland vs All Blacks (2018)

[rotated]

If they don't get out of jail here, thank fuck they won in SA and last week otherwise it'd be a four loss season, to three teams. Honestly not that different to 1998 where they were unlucky in the close ones.

[Mokey]

@jc It doesn't help when some of the worst passes and stupidest penalties are coming from the senior players.

[Victor Meldrew]

Zero variation from the AB's - seem to be telegraphing their moves.. No fluidity and more mistakes and ill-discipline I've seen for a long time

[Crazy Horse]

I don't want a yellow here.

[Donsteppa]

That moment when Justin Marshall starts a sentence with “I don’t think”... then pauses.

[JC]

Marshall talking shit about contests in the air.

[No Quarter]

Reckless, should be YC by today's rulings.

[akan004]

Can someone tell Aaron Smith to stop doing box kicks.

[taniwharugby]

@crazy-horse was pretty clumsy.

[Stargazer]

Mo'unga on for Dmac.

[Mokey]

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[akan004]

Should have made this sub at half time.

[Victor Meldrew]

@akan004 said in Ireland Vs All Blacks:

Can someone tell Aaron Smith to stop doing ineffective box kicks.

FIFY

[Crazy Horse]

Yes finally. Time to see if Mo'unga can make a difference

[No Quarter]

They seem to have changed the way they rule contests in the air now. England got away with a couple last week as well.

[Mick Gold Coast QLD]

@gunner said in Ireland Vs All Blacks:

Ireland playing all the rugby on the back of a shitload of penalties. Not really doing a lot with it though.
Great defence both sides, not many missed tackles out there.
I think we’ve just got to keep plugging away, a chance or two will present itself and we’ve just got to bloody nail them when they do.

This is a lot closer to my half time assessment than all the doomsayers here this morning!

I thought your All Blacks took the ball up with particular vigour and deliberate physicality in the first twenty minutes and, in defence, they are taking the tackled player backwards most of the time.

Ireland has had plenty of opportunities with a lot of the second part in the All Blacks 25, with no profit.

To me the All Blacks look pretty much like their usual patient first half selves.

You are not being helped by Mr Barnes - I have a .pdf copy of his Wikipedia page, as amended by ungruntled All Black supporters immediately after the 2007 World Cup, which you would enjoy but I don't know how to upload it.

And those over-excited Irish commentators have fair dinkum missed their ride to the Formula One commentary box and turned up at the rugby by mistake. They had the Irish no try scored from the moment their No 4 took the ball at the top of his line out jump!

[canefan]

Get Aaron Smith off

[Stargazer]

@no-quarter Rieko didn't land on his back/head/neck. That's why it's not a card.

[Gunner]

How was that not a yellow - minimum?

[taniwharugby]

need to stop forcing the pass