All Blacks v Ireland II
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I spent the first half furious with Peyper, the first 20 of the second half furious at our own players discipline.
The A smith card was ridiculous, the reffing of the ruck turnovers was ridiculous. Realising this ABs should have changed their approach and contested more rucks, but then Peyper ....... When we did contest we got nothing or penalised for our troubles. It was very strange.
But. Ref blaming cry babying gets us no where. Need to learn from this and break the perception.
Irish pack are awesome.
Although I registered that both Henshaw and Sexton went off, didn't really think about them as a combo on the spine, and their attacking cohesiveness.
Very annoyed in real time with Barrett's dickheadery with trying to run that try too close to the posts. Although in hindsight should have been a 10 point try or opposition down to 14, could have accidentally paid off if Peyper didn't get annoyed with his own TMO ......
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@Rapido said in Ireland II:
Very annoyed in real time with Barrett's dickheadery with trying to run that try too close to the posts. Although in hindsight should have been a 10 point try or opposition down to 14, could have accidentally paid off if Peyper didn't get annoyed with his own TMO ......
HE ran close to increases kicking percentage.
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@broughie said in Ireland II:
@Rapido said in Ireland II:
Very annoyed in real time with Barrett's dickheadery with trying to run that try too close to the posts. Although in hindsight should have been a 10 point try or opposition down to 14, could have accidentally paid off if Peyper didn't get annoyed with his own TMO ......
HE ran close to increases kicking percentage.
No shit. But it wasn't on. And when he realised it wasn't on, instead of just diving he kept trying to get behind.
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Thought it was ok. On replay the irishsr played it with his palms 'up'. Normally it's a slap down.
In normal time it looked dodgy though!
That refereeing performance by peyper is second only to a Wayne Barnes classic against the ABs. Dreadful.
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Cane's tackle on Henshaw is clearly shoulder to shoulder at the same time (or possibly slightly after) the head clash. Shit luck for Henshaw...he'll be hurting.
However, the Irish fans are culpable for Cane's actions. I distinctly remember 50,000 people pre- game inciting Cane. They said "....shoulder to shoulder, we'll answer Ireland's call."
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@booboo said in Ireland II:
@Tordah said in Ireland II:
None so blind as those who will not see.
Freeeeeee Nelson Man De La!!😁
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Definiteitely big head clash first which means what happens next is severely compromised. When two players come together as quickly as that, the collision happens before anything else can.
Shouldn't be acted upon imo
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I'm just watching a replay, I'm at the 57 minute mark, and i just want to say, Peyper is fucking us, there are 2 sets of rules being played here. The leeway given to Ireland at the ruck is criminal, while every single little thing by us is blown.
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@SimonAdd_2 said in Ireland II:
@rotated said in Ireland II:
@SimonAdd_2 said in Ireland II:
@booboo said in Ireland II:
@SimonAdd_2 said in Ireland II:
Just saw this slow-mo of the Cane high tackle on YouTube. At the time in the match I thought it was more of a head-clash and a penalty only was a fair call, but the second angle here looks really ugly.
I expect a citing for both Cane and Fekitoa.
Quick! tweet Brett Gosper.
Tweet Brian Moore.
We need a hashtag and arm bands.
Who is it you think you're talking to? I'm a neutral here, I have no axe to grind.
I posted the video because it shows an angle that wasn't shown on TV (at least on my feed) and it changed my perception on what I thought was a borderline penalty to a pretty clear yellow at least.
And from your defensive reaction, I think you see it too.
I for one welcome your neutral opinion Simon.
Do you think you can dig up any neutral videos of the Sexton hit on Barrett?
Glad you asked.
Definitely above the shoulders, not particularly dangerous but should have been a penalty at least.
Not remotely in the same league as Cane or Fekitoa's though.
That was a clear yellow. Swinging arm round the temples.
I don't think Barrett grounded it but should have been a yellow and penalty try.
Fekitoa deserved yellow. Canes was a head clash that made it look bad on slo mo.
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@mariner4life said in Ireland II:
I'm just watching a replay, I'm at the 57 minute mark, and i just want to say, Peyper is fucking us, there are 2 sets of rules being played here. The leeway given to Ireland at the ruck is criminal, while every single little thing by us is blown.
It's up there with Wayne Barnes finest that's for sure
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That was an excellent test - I was pretty worried until we scored the third try. Ireland were dominating for most of the middle 60 minutes of that match and only some great defending kept them out.
Was surprised and quite relieved they took the three points just before halftime - I would have packed another scrum, looked at least for another penalty and another man in the bin.
Lots of stupid penalties given away by the ABs, especially in the second half - every time we had a chance to build some momentum and clear the line someone would do something stupid and back under the pump we'd go.
Fekitoa's tackle was an absolute shocker - different day, different ref and he could have got a red for that.
Thought the Irish played really well - nullified a lot of our strengths. Their lineout was well drilled, loosies had the better of ours, they grabbed most of the 50-50 high balls.
Our scrum seemed to have a slight edge and we took our handful of chances better.
Been a very valuable series, bearing in mind the Lions next year. They've sent us home with plenty to think about.
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@Chris-B. said in Ireland II:
Been a very valuable series, bearing in mind the Lions next year. They've sent us home with plenty to think about.
Plenty for Gatland and co to think about to. Unless the 6N goes spectacularly wrong you are going to have both Irish and English pundits, players and administrators believing they should make up the core of the team - while Gats still has to look after his own guys.
Ideal scenario is Wales win the 6N narrowly (they do have IRE and ENG at home) so they think they deserve a bulk of the first XV and we just let the Home Union administrators beat the Lions before they even get out here.
As you said very good for us too as us the edgeiness should still carry through to the Lions series.
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@Chris-B. said in Ireland II:
That was an excellent test - I was pretty worried until we scored the third try. Ireland were dominating for most of the middle 60 minutes of that match and only some great defending kept them out.
Was surprised and quite relieved they took the three points just before halftime - I would have packed another scrum, looked at least for another penalty and another man in the bin.
I said exactly the same thing at the time. Another scrum and a penalty would have been almost guaranteed plus the strong possibility of another card (especially with peyper in this mood) was relieved when they didn't
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Interesting game. Ireland willing but our defense was excellent, and just kept whacking them. Their back row are all very effective carriers.
For us we just couldn't turn half chances in to points. Nearly every time we got the ball we created opportunity, but would turn it over and be back defending again.
Score line reflected Ireland's effort, but flattered their effectiveness.
