RWC: Japan v Ireland (Pool A)
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@taniwharugby said in RWC: Japan v Ireland (Pool A):
@rotated last year the focus was more England, a game that had been being talked up for 2 years, the Irish one only started looking more important in the few months leading in.
At the end of the day, I really dont give a shit who we play, I'd love to win it beating Ireland, England and Wales, and we will have to win every game any way, so who we meet is irrelevant.
Framing it this way, at best just shifts the explanation to being evidence that nz can barely handle consecutive hard tests.
Gutted if we miss the 'easy' quarter. Because we ain't that good. Will need to win 3 toughies in a row now probably.
@Rapido as will Ireland if that is who we face, and I cant see them doing that on the evidence of thier play this year.
As someone else alluded to above, they are gonna have to play thier top lineup again, as they try to top thier pool.
It will be interesting to see if Japan can replicate that performance again, I'm not sure they can either.
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@Rapido as will Ireland if that is who we face, and I cant see them doing that on the evidence of thier play this year.
As someone else alluded to above, they are gonna have to play thier top lineup again, as they try to top thier pool.
It will be interesting to see if Japan can replicate that performance again, I'm not sure they can either.
@taniwharugby said in RWC: Japan v Ireland (Pool A):
@Rapido as will Ireland if that is who we face, and I cant see them doing that on the evidence of thier play this year.
As someone else alluded to above, they are gonna have to play thier top lineup again, as they try to top thier pool.
It will be interesting to see if Japan can replicate that performance again, I'm not sure they can either.
I don't give a shit about Ireland's run in. They're likely no longer contenders, now. But they're potential party poopers. I prefer a Saf 07 run.
My own theory about 2015, which is a theory a tad disrespectful to Heyneke's boks, is that NZ spent far to much emotional energy in our 1/4 final dispatching a poor France, because we had demons to exorcise, leaving us still partially spent in our relatively brain dead semifinal performance that we squeaked past.
Great teams can still get past that, of course, we aren't great though. Were currently 'only' good.
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@taniwharugby said in RWC: Japan v Ireland (Pool A):
@Rapido as will Ireland if that is who we face, and I cant see them doing that on the evidence of thier play this year.
As someone else alluded to above, they are gonna have to play thier top lineup again, as they try to top thier pool.
It will be interesting to see if Japan can replicate that performance again, I'm not sure they can either.
I don't give a shit about Ireland's run in. They're likely no longer contenders, now. But they're potential party poopers. I prefer a Saf 07 run.
My own theory about 2015, which is a theory a tad disrespectful to Heyneke's boks, is that NZ spent far to much emotional energy in our 1/4 final dispatching a poor France, because we had demons to exorcise, leaving us still partially spent in our relatively brain dead semifinal performance that we squeaked past.
Great teams can still get past that, of course, we aren't great though. Were currently 'only' good.
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@taniwharugby said in RWC: Japan v Ireland (Pool A):
@Rapido as will Ireland if that is who we face, and I cant see them doing that on the evidence of thier play this year.
As someone else alluded to above, they are gonna have to play thier top lineup again, as they try to top thier pool.
It will be interesting to see if Japan can replicate that performance again, I'm not sure they can either.
I don't give a shit about Ireland's run in. They're likely no longer contenders, now. But they're potential party poopers. I prefer a Saf 07 run.
My own theory about 2015, which is a theory a tad disrespectful to Heyneke's boks, is that NZ spent far to much emotional energy in our 1/4 final dispatching a poor France, because we had demons to exorcise, leaving us still partially spent in our relatively brain dead semifinal performance that we squeaked past.
Great teams can still get past that, of course, we aren't great though. Were currently 'only' good.
@Rapido well I dont give a shit who we play.
If we cant beat Ireland and/or now see them as the boogeyman then I think we have bigger problems.
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@Crucial said in RWC: Japan v Ireland (Pool A):
I liked how JJ said that he had been planning this one for some time. A bit like how Schmidt had been planning Chicago for some time as a good chance to catch a better team on the hop.
Exactly why I have no interest in seeing Ireland for a QF, what game do you think they've been targeting since the pools were drawn? Not Japan that is for sure.
@rotated said in RWC: Japan v Ireland (Pool A):
@Crucial said in RWC: Japan v Ireland (Pool A):
I liked how JJ said that he had been planning this one for some time. A bit like how Schmidt had been planning Chicago for some time as a good chance to catch a better team on the hop.
Exactly why I have no interest in seeing Ireland for a QF, what game do you think they've been targeting since the pools were drawn? Not Japan that is for sure.
Bring it on.
What game do you think we are targeting given Dublin 2018?
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@rotated last year the focus was more England, a game that had been being talked up for 2 years, the Irish one only started looking more important in the few months leading in.
At the end of the day, I really dont give a shit who we play, I'd love to win it beating Ireland, England and Wales, and we will have to win every game any way, so who we meet is irrelevant.
@taniwharugby said in RWC: Japan v Ireland (Pool A):
I'd love to win it beating Ireland, England and Wales, and we will have to win every game any way, so who we meet is irrelevant.
I'm pretty excited about this prospect. Would be the most satisfying way to win it
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@Bones said in RWC: Japan v Ireland (Pool A):
Hopefully this embeds as @jegga might find it tasty.
https://www.facebook.com/637222079702985/posts/2518814611543713/
Gold
Btw the Titanic was built in Ireland
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@jegga said in RWC: Japan v Ireland (Pool A):
Btw the Titanic was built in Ireland
Sort of. Belfast, I think.
I can't wait to meet Ireland. Put them back in the box.
Wales have beaten us too, but not many are alive to remember it.
@Snowy said in RWC: Japan v Ireland (Pool A):
@jegga said in RWC: Japan v Ireland (Pool A):
Btw the Titanic was built in Ireland
Sort of. Belfast, I think.
I can't wait to meet Ireland. Put them back in the box.
Wales have beaten us too, but not many are alive to remember it.
Northern Ireland play with Ireland in test rugby and in their provincial comp so they can have an equal share of the titanic .
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@Snowy said in RWC: Japan v Ireland (Pool A):
@jegga said in RWC: Japan v Ireland (Pool A):
Btw the Titanic was built in Ireland
Sort of. Belfast, I think.
I can't wait to meet Ireland. Put them back in the box.
Wales have beaten us too, but not many are alive to remember it.
Northern Ireland play with Ireland in test rugby and in their provincial comp so they can have an equal share of the titanic .
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Northern Ireland play with Ireland in test rugby and in their provincial comp so they can have an equal share of the titanic .
Fair call. They can spread the disasters between themselves. We are probably on an IRA hit list now though...
@Snowy said in RWC: Japan v Ireland (Pool A):
Northern Ireland play with Ireland in test rugby and in their provincial comp so they can have an equal share of the titanic .
Fair call. They can spread the disasters between themselves. We are probably on an IRA hit list now though...
Nah, The Provos are all about Gaelic not Rugby. The UVF and UDA are more likely
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@Snowy said in RWC: Japan v Ireland (Pool A):
@jegga said in RWC: Japan v Ireland (Pool A):
Btw the Titanic was built in Ireland
Sort of. Belfast, I think.
I can't wait to meet Ireland. Put them back in the box.
Wales have beaten us too, but not many are alive to remember it.
Northern Ireland play with Ireland in test rugby and in their provincial comp so they can have an equal share of the titanic .
@jegga said in RWC: Japan v Ireland (Pool A):
@Snowy said in RWC: Japan v Ireland (Pool A):
@jegga said in RWC: Japan v Ireland (Pool A):
Btw the Titanic was built in Ireland
Sort of. Belfast, I think.
I can't wait to meet Ireland. Put them back in the box.
Wales have beaten us too, but not many are alive to remember it.
Northern Ireland play with Ireland in test rugby and in their provincial comp so they can have an equal share of the titanic .
they're all really British anyway
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@jegga said in RWC: Japan v Ireland (Pool A):
@Snowy said in RWC: Japan v Ireland (Pool A):
@jegga said in RWC: Japan v Ireland (Pool A):
Btw the Titanic was built in Ireland
Sort of. Belfast, I think.
I can't wait to meet Ireland. Put them back in the box.
Wales have beaten us too, but not many are alive to remember it.
Northern Ireland play with Ireland in test rugby and in their provincial comp so they can have an equal share of the titanic .
they're all really British anyway
@mariner4life said in RWC: Japan v Ireland (Pool A):
@jegga said in RWC: Japan v Ireland (Pool A):
@Snowy said in RWC: Japan v Ireland (Pool A):
@jegga said in RWC: Japan v Ireland (Pool A):
Btw the Titanic was built in Ireland
Sort of. Belfast, I think.
I can't wait to meet Ireland. Put them back in the box.
Wales have beaten us too, but not many are alive to remember it.
Northern Ireland play with Ireland in test rugby and in their provincial comp so they can have an equal share of the titanic .
they're all really British anyway
They obviously want to be , Britain has understandable reasons for not agreeing.
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@mariner4life @jegga Do we even have any Irish posters on the Fern in general, that would bite on that rancid bait?
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@mariner4life @jegga Do we even have any Irish posters on the Fern in general, that would bite on that rancid bait?
@Nepia said in RWC: Japan v Ireland (Pool A):
@mariner4life @jegga Do we even have any Irish posters on the Fern in general, that would bite on that rancid bait?
not any more
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@Nepia said in RWC: Japan v Ireland (Pool A):
@mariner4life @jegga Do we even have any Irish posters on the Fern in general, that would bite on that rancid bait?
not any more
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@Nepia said in RWC: Japan v Ireland (Pool A):
@mariner4life @jegga Do we even have any Irish posters on the Fern in general, that would bite on that rancid bait?
not any more
@jegga said in RWC: Japan v Ireland (Pool A):
@Nepia said in RWC: Japan v Ireland (Pool A):
@mariner4life @jegga Do we even have any Irish posters on the Fern in general, that would bite on that rancid bait?
not any more
Did we chase away, was it, NH Fan?
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@jegga said in RWC: Japan v Ireland (Pool A):
@Nepia said in RWC: Japan v Ireland (Pool A):
@mariner4life @jegga Do we even have any Irish posters on the Fern in general, that would bite on that rancid bait?
not any more
Did we chase away, was it, NH Fan?
@Nepia said in RWC: Japan v Ireland (Pool A):
@jegga said in RWC: Japan v Ireland (Pool A):
@Nepia said in RWC: Japan v Ireland (Pool A):
@mariner4life @jegga Do we even have any Irish posters on the Fern in general, that would bite on that rancid bait?
not any more
Did we chase away, was it, NH Fan?
He was NH fan and a couple of other names .
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@Nepia said in RWC: Japan v Ireland (Pool A):
@jegga said in RWC: Japan v Ireland (Pool A):
@Nepia said in RWC: Japan v Ireland (Pool A):
@mariner4life @jegga Do we even have any Irish posters on the Fern in general, that would bite on that rancid bait?
not any more
Did we chase away, was it, NH Fan?
He was NH fan and a couple of other names .
@jegga said in RWC: Japan v Ireland (Pool A):
He was NH fan and a couple of other names .
Thats @Derm-McCrum
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@jegga said in RWC: Japan v Ireland (Pool A):
He was NH fan and a couple of other names .
Thats @Derm-McCrum
@Duluth said in RWC: Japan v Ireland (Pool A):
@jegga said in RWC: Japan v Ireland (Pool A):
He was NH fan and a couple of other names .
Thats @Derm-McCrum
There was another one between those two names, he didn't seem to try and hide it though.
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@Duluth said in RWC: Japan v Ireland (Pool A):
@jegga said in RWC: Japan v Ireland (Pool A):
He was NH fan and a couple of other names .
Thats @Derm-McCrum
There was another one between those two names, he didn't seem to try and hide it though.
