RWC QF: All Blacks v Ireland

[DaGrubster]

@stodders

I want to wipe their smug shit eating grins off their faces and condemn them to 4 years of hell as their greatest side breaks up, knowing they still haven’t gone past a qtr final.

[Bones]

@frugby said in RWC QF: All Blacks v Ireland:

@Bones said in RWC QF: All Blacks v Ireland:

@frugby said in RWC QF: All Blacks v Ireland:

Ireland punishing our ill-discpline with 3s

That's England. Ireland go for full points.

I think in this setting they'll accumulate. I reckon the ABs largely will to, because it will be tight and both teams will defend well.

Jordie to knock a couple over from 55 out in the first ten would set a lovely tone.

[Bones]

@DaGrubster said in RWC QF: All Blacks v Ireland:

but have had little Ruby over the last 3 weeks.

I'm glad her parents found responsible babysitters.

[pakman]

What I want to hear at end of game:

[Bones]

@pakman it's being played at the cake tin?

[NTA]

@Bones said in RWC QF: All Blacks v Ireland:

I'm a genus

The genus of homo sapiens is homo, so....

[DaGrubster]

@Bones said in RWC QF: All Blacks v Ireland:

@DaGrubster said in RWC QF: All Blacks v Ireland:

but have had little Ruby over the last 3 weeks.

I'm glad her parents found responsible babysitters.

[Bones]

@NTA said in RWC QF: All Blacks v Ireland:

@Bones said in RWC QF: All Blacks v Ireland:

I'm a genus

The genus of homo sapiens is homo, so....

[pakman]

@Bones said in RWC QF: All Blacks v Ireland:

@pakman it's being played at the cake tin?

Was sung at 3rd place playoffs in Tokyo.

[canefan]

@Victor-Meldrew said in RWC QF: All Blacks v Ireland:

@canefan said in RWC QF: All Blacks v Ireland:

@Kiwiwomble said in RWC QF: All Blacks v Ireland:

@george33 said in RWC QF: All Blacks v Ireland:

Got a feeling on the bench they will go for Christie over Roigard as well , experience needed

can we get one of the "fluffy bunny" filters set up for the word "experience"?

experience at being bang "average"? he's only got 19 tests so hardly a veteran who has been through some shit and come out on top...playing smith for 60-70 minutes is the fucking experience we need

Ask yourself, in the last 15 minutes when everyone is tiring, and we want someone to do something brilliant that might just turn the game, does Roigard or Christie spring to mind?

My only doubt about Roigard is if we are leading by two points and need to defend and his lack of experience in a tight game. Christie might a better bet in that case but I think Roigard is well worth the risk as he looks really confident and composed.

Like the motto of my football team says, To Dare is to Do.

[Derm McCrum]

Apparently Jimmy O'Brien ate a Kimberley Mikado with his coffee this morning so it looks like he's not in the squad.

[stodders]

@NTA how do you think the game will go as an independent observer with no skin in the game?

[booboo]

In case it hasn't been mentioned ...

https://twitter.com/AllBlacks/status/1712034563697045611?t=1XHU4Qh6RvC3NV32ZhaRnQ&s=19

6pm CET Thursday = 2am AEST = 4am NZST

All is right with the world.

[booboo]

@Derm-McCrum said in RWC QF: All Blacks v Ireland:

Apparently Jimmy O'Brien ate a Kimberley Mikado with his coffee this morning so it looks like he's not in the squad.

None of that makes any sense to me.

Ploise exploin ...

[Frank]

@Victor-Meldrew said in [RWC QF: All Blacks v Ireland]

My only doubt about Roigard is if we are leading by two points and need to defend and his lack of experience in a tight game.

Yeah, and this is based on the probably wrong assumption that we are actually leading and that Christie is going to pull off one miracle tackle after another that Roigard will somehow be unable to do.

Picking Christie is pretty vintage Foster.
A player that you know is bang average but conforms to a notion of safety first or some other nonsense.

[Bones]

@Frank said in RWC QF: All Blacks v Ireland:

Picking Christie is pretty vintage Foster.
A player that you know is bang average but conforms to a notion of safety first or some other nonsense a stopped clock is right once a day so the other 1,439 minutes don't matter.

Worked for Taylor and Beauden.

[PecoTrain]

@canefan said in RWC QF: All Blacks v Ireland:

Like the motto of my football team says, To Dare is to Do.

Just because you're mentally prepared for endless disappoint, doesn't mean we all are...

[canefan]

@PecoTrain said in RWC QF: All Blacks v Ireland:

@canefan said in RWC QF: All Blacks v Ireland:

Like the motto of my football team says, To Dare is to Do.

Just because you're mentally prepared for endless disappoint, doesn't mean we all are...

[PecoTrain]

@booboo said in RWC QF: All Blacks v Ireland:

@Derm-McCrum said in RWC QF: All Blacks v Ireland:

Apparently Jimmy O'Brien ate a Kimberley Mikado with his coffee this morning so it looks like he's not in the squad.

None of that makes any sense to me.

Ploise exploin ...

I expect it has something to do with the following, but I'm still clueless
https://adturds.co.uk/2011/04/05/kimberleys-mikado-and-coconut-creams-jacobs-mallow-advert/

[NTA]

@stodders said in RWC QF: All Blacks v Ireland:

@NTA how do you think the game will go as an independent observer with no skin in the game?

AB defence is the problem.

That's the headline.