RWC QF: All Blacks v Ireland
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@gt12 don’t agree there.
POM is correct it’s a bullshit question. Cane got his revenge, not up to reporters to ask about a sledge delivered at an appropriate time years ago!
@MajorRage last year wasn't it? possibly the last time they played?
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i've seen another angle of the Ioane/Sexton "incident" and that makes it look for all money like the first words come from the guy in green (when Iaone had moved on to shake the next guys hand), Ioane chirps back, and Sexton blows up.
It's all dumb shit and i wish people would stop talking about it
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@gt12 don’t agree there.
POM is correct it’s a bullshit question. Cane got his revenge, not up to reporters to ask about a sledge delivered at an appropriate time years ago!
@MajorRage
I agree it is a shit question, but he must have expected it. He cant disavow the sledge, so he should have owned up to it.
If he’d said ‘yeah, that one came back to bite me a bit, he was excellent today when it really counted for his team’ then I’d have a pretty different opinion of him. I imagine a Dane Coles or Gregan or Fitzpatrick would say something similar.
It’s fair that he might not have been in the right head space but perhaps that’s the point, he was happy to be a bully when we lost with quite a few things going against us.
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@Wairau said in RWC QF: All Blacks v Ireland:
Who's the pillock who always says SavAYa?
and TamEYEti WilliamsBe thankful you don't have itv. Actually I drunkenly tweeted them to ask if it would be too hard to talk to the teams before a game about pronunciation. No response.
Fyangaranooka had a great game for a guy I've never heard of.
@Bones said in RWC QF: All Blacks v Ireland:
@Wairau said in RWC QF: All Blacks v Ireland:
Who's the pillock who always says SavAYa?
and TamEYEti WilliamsBe thankful you don't have itv. Actually I drunkenly tweeted them to ask if it would be too hard to talk to the teams before a game about pronunciation. No response.
Fyangaranooka had a great game for a guy I've never heard of.
Actually looking at it again TamEYEti doesn't sound too bad. Although Tah-mEYE-tee might work better.
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@taniwharugby said in RWC QF: All Blacks v Ireland:
@JayCee was a ruck about phase 14, BR was over the ball, should have ended there, Barnes called away and BR quickly pulled away, so often players keep going when they have won it...the discipline in those 30 odd phases was something rarely seen by this AB side.
I think a couple of those ruck no calls were marginal
Retallick over the ball - he was quick to call no hands
Ardie over the ball - did Ardie fully detach as the tackler?
T. Williams offside - close but pulled away after one extra long go at it.
Ioane neck roll - looked to have started around the shoulders and then go higher@ACT-Crusader said in RWC QF: All Blacks v Ireland:
looked to have started around the shoulders and then go higher
Yeah, and Rieko pulled one out in the opening phases of the game I think it was so I wouldn't be pointing fingers.
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@gt12 don’t agree there.
POM is correct it’s a bullshit question. Cane got his revenge, not up to reporters to ask about a sledge delivered at an appropriate time years ago!
@MajorRage said in RWC QF: All Blacks v Ireland:
not up to reporters to ask about a sledge delivered at an appropriate time years ago
That makes about zero sense.
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Maybe this is the opposite of the 2007 RWC campaign. Rather than over thinking it about whether individual players can get through three knockout games in a row, just get stuck in and fire up for each game at a time.
Injuries, attrition, and tiredness being factors that each team that makes the Final just has to deal with.
@Donsteppa said in RWC QF: All Blacks v Ireland:
Maybe this is the opposite of the 2007 RWC campaign. Rather than over thinking it about whether individual players can get through three knockout games in a row, just get stuck in and fire up for each game at a time.
Injuries, attrition, and tiredness being factors that each team that makes the Final just has to deal with.
I mean, this was basically what we did in 2011 - largely imposed because of an injury crisis in the 10 jersey.
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@taniwharugby said in RWC QF: All Blacks v Ireland:
@JayCee was a ruck about phase 14, BR was over the ball, should have ended there, Barnes called away and BR quickly pulled away, so often players keep going when they have won it...the discipline in those 30 odd phases was something rarely seen by this AB side.
I think a couple of those ruck no calls were marginal
Retallick over the ball - he was quick to call no hands
Ardie over the ball - did Ardie fully detach as the tackler?
T. Williams offside - close but pulled away after one extra long go at it.
Ioane neck roll - looked to have started around the shoulders and then go higher@ACT-Crusader the Ardie one was close and he didn't let go, was cleaned out and pleading with the AR, I think BR one was pretty clean, but Barnes saw different and BR let it go...
Obviously Cane was asked about the comment from POM too, he fended it off, he'd already go the best response to it.
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@pakman said in RWC QF: All Blacks v Ireland:
I’m not going. ABs have never lost a RWC game I didn’t attend.
I tell a lie: I didn't go to 99 third place play off, but that doesn't count in my books.
I want to the semi and the 3rd place game in 99
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Maybe this is the opposite of the 2007 RWC campaign. Rather than over thinking it about whether individual players can get through three knockout games in a row, just get stuck in and fire up for each game at a time.
Injuries, attrition, and tiredness being factors that each team that makes the Final just has to deal with.
@Donsteppa said in RWC QF: All Blacks v Ireland:
Maybe this is the opposite of the 2007 RWC campaign. Rather than over thinking it about whether individual players can get through three knockout games in a row, just get stuck in and fire up for each game at a time.
Injuries, attrition, and tiredness being factors that each team that makes the Final just has to deal with.
Really good point. Seen that in successful business teams where planning got screwed and they had to just stay focussed on the basics. Imagine the military do this every day.
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Aside from the pronunciation of Savea I really like the World feed main commentator (Rupert Cox?). He does a great job.
@KiwiMurph said in RWC QF: All Blacks v Ireland:
Aside from the pronunciation of Savea I really like the World feed main commentator (Rupert Cox?). He does a great job.
With all the moolah going around, why hasn't someone hired Andrew Cotter ?
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@pakman said in RWC QF: All Blacks v Ireland:
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@stodders said in RWC QF: All Blacks v Ireland:
They backed their "cut and paste" attack to pry open the ABs defence.
That was quite the telling comment from Foz.
As if, in actual fact, they have fuck all variation, and once you figure it out, you can defend it all day.
I noticed this in my drunken haze at the ground. It was all very methodical.
Boks guy was commenting on same at pub last night, and how slow Sexton was. Perhaps after the 30th phase a pop kick might have been worth a shot? Definition of insanity and all?
They were 4 points down
Their cut and paste wasn't working. Roll the die? Pretty tame ending for them.
You're thinking droppy earlier in the match? Thought you meant that last phase, whereupon a droppy would have lost it foe them by 1.
No, just think after, say, 30 phases, a chip kick would have been worth a shot. Might have even worked.
I can imagine the outcry if BB or RM did a chip kick in the same situation and it didn't come off. I can see why Ireland didn't try one.
@Crazy-Horse said in RWC QF: All Blacks v Ireland:
I can imagine the outcry if BB or RM did a chip kick in the same situation and it didn't come off. I can see why Ireland didn't try one.
Clearly the Irish team are avid readers of the Fern
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@MajorRage there were many Irish passes that looked a little forwards.
Who's the pillock who always says SavAYa?
and TamEYEti WilliamsYes there was. The most annoying one not called was about 5 seconds before Smith got carded
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@MajorRage
I agree it is a shit question, but he must have expected it. He cant disavow the sledge, so he should have owned up to it.
If he’d said ‘yeah, that one came back to bite me a bit, he was excellent today when it really counted for his team’ then I’d have a pretty different opinion of him. I imagine a Dane Coles or Gregan or Fitzpatrick would say something similar.
It’s fair that he might not have been in the right head space but perhaps that’s the point, he was happy to be a bully when we lost with quite a few things going against us.
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Good Christ. How did this not get pinged?
https://www.facebook.com/reel/647579057365109?s=yWDuG2&fs=e&mibextid=Nif5oz
Obviously you have the Ardie steal, but that neck roll on JB! Barnes was definitely partying like it was 2007.
