All Blacks vs Ireland
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@Billy-Tell said in All Blacks vs Ireland:
Watching highlights of that quarter final again and New Zealand players scored some great tries. Lester, Bundee, Ardie, Jameson, Will.
We know what Ireland will bring but on paper their bench seems lacking impact imo. Healy was world class back in the day. He’s now 37 and there because no one else has really stepped up.
In what could be a complete turnaround for this AB side, if we are close on the scoreboard at 60 minutes, the bench could win this one for us!
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@nostrildamus said in All Blacks vs Ireland:
@kiwiinmelb said in All Blacks vs Ireland:
Never go into an AB game with no belief bit I suspect its going to require our best performance under the Razor era thus far
Ireland or France.
France hands All Blacks historic Rugby World Cup defeat
New Zealand records its first loss in a men's Rugby World Cup pool match, going down 27-13 to host nation France in the tournament opener.
Both will require our best but only thinking about Ireland atm
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@DaGrubster There's definitely potential to develop a good bench for "impact". Tu'ungafasi, Tosi, and Tuipulotu are all good options, and next year bench hooker should be between Taukei’aho and Aumua. Add in a ball carrying loose forward, a running halfback, and a kicking game from a 10 or 15, and that's pretty solid.
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@MajorRage said in All Blacks vs Ireland:
Chatting with Irish at work they were happy to see Williams still playing after the England game.
Hopefully he can bounce back to make them eat their words.
The ABs seem to think he had some tough calls against him - but we shall see. And I hope he watches his elbow!
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Tbh it’s been a very very long time (probably since the Wallabies of 2010-2011) where I’ve had such an overwhelming desire to see the ABs take the opposition players heads off
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https://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/360480457/ireland-turn-heat-scott-robertsons-all-blacks-rematch-world-cup-quarterfinal
That's pretty aggressive questioning. -
@KiwiInLondon Man I’m sooo hoping we see a 2004 France-esq performance; I honestly think we’re building into it. Would be great to see a bunch of the newer guys step up and own it on the ultimate stage.
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@scribe said in All Blacks vs Ireland:
@KiwiInLondon Man I’m sooo hoping we see a 2004 France-esq performance; I honestly think we’re building into it. Would be great to see a bunch of the newer guys step up and own it on the ultimate stage.
I was at that game. Magnifique
From the Guardian:
"The New Zealand front five more than matched their French counterparts, leaving the All Black back row of Richie McCaw, Jerry Collins and Rodney So'oialo to run riot. The celebrated French trio of Olivier Magne, Serge Betsen and Imanol Harinordoquy were utterly eclipsed and overpowered."Wow.
