Ireland v NZ - Chicago Showdown & Dublin Duel

[LagerLout]

I want to be happy for Ireland, but to be honest I'm just pissed off by our performance. Some terrible play, terrible decisions and terrible handling. Well played Ireland you deserved it by playing some focussed, classy Rugby.

[Mokey]

Rubbish passing at times. Poor defence, even for a makeshift team. Hate to say it, but Ireland deserve this.

[Stargazer]

@taniwharugby A bonus point in a EYO test? It's not a tournament.

[taniwharugby]

@Stargazer said in Ireland v NZ - Chicago Showdown:

@taniwharugby A bonus point in a EYO test? It's not a tournament.

geez you are lightning arent you!

[booboo]

Congrats to the Paddies.

Well played.

[Rapido]

Well done Ireland.

Pleased for them, and actually quite a good and dramatic game to do it in with plenty of momentum swings.

[kiwiinmelb]

well done ireland , pretty weird time for us to give up that record after breaking the other record

[Tim]

Congrats Ireland. Well out played us today.

[dingo]

Lucky the 18th win was last game, not this game.

[Donsteppa]

I'm looking forwarded to all the sightseeing photos from Rome this week.

[SimonAdd_2]

Beautiful from the Irish. 111 years, but there's a first time for everything.

Does this mean England are the no. 1 team in the world?

[taniwharugby]

If we had to lose to anyone this year, I'm ok with the Irish.

[Unite]

Well done Ireland, congratulations! Deserved winners!

[Rapido]

And they'll be dancing in the streets of Nicosia, as well.

[Donsteppa]

@taniwharugby said in Ireland v NZ - Chicago Showdown:

If we had to lose to anyone this year, I'm ok with the Irish.

Still like contemplating which limb to be cut off.

[Kirwan]

@SimonAdd_2 said in Ireland v NZ - Chicago Showdown:

Beautiful from the Irish. 111 years, but there's a first time for everything.

Does this mean England are the no. 1 team in the world?

Did I miss the Poms beating the ABs? So no.

[Derm McCrum]

Well that went all right.

Wonder how the Dublin game will go?

Commiserations New Zealand. Great game.

[Donsteppa]

@Pot-Hale said in Ireland v NZ - Chicago Showdown:

Well that went all right.

Wonder how the Dublin game will go?

Commiserations New Zealand. Great game.

Yep, a well deserved win to Ireland. Enjoy the night!

[nzzp]

Wow, well done Ireland.

Well coached, well executed, you brought your A game and deserved the win. Congratulations.

All Blacks almost did enough - lacked cohesion and accuracy, partly due to the quality defence that Ireland brought to the table. Joe Schmidt should take a bow, that is one quality coaching performance. and the attacking mindset got them over the line.

I don't feel that upset to be honest. A little sad to lose the unbeaten record against the Irish, but it had to happen. So well played.

That said, it felt like a bit of a perfect storm. Bad discipline, poor handling, key injuries, not responding to the ref - all leads to a loss. Lucky it wasn't by more to be fair.

Well done Ireland, well played and well deserved.

[akan004]

I made a point yesterday on the Maori thread that our receiver in general play is way too flat. Julian dropped the pass at around the 67-68 minute mark because of this when the pass went sightly behind him. The same thing happened when Squire fired the pass forward to Coles in the last ten minutes. I have seen so many tries called back due to the pass being forward as a result of this flat alignment. This annoys me no end.