Ireland v NZ - Chicago Showdown & Dublin Duel

[No Quarter]

Ireland with a chance to put the game to bed before half time. Incredible stuff.

[Crash]

Our defence is non- existent

[taniwharugby]

@No-Quarter Id say its done, we dont have the game right now to score 3 times...that said, who knows what half time will bring

[ACT Crusader]

@Nepia didn't even realise Kaino was on the field until the play he was unable to stop Stander on the line....

[taniwharugby]

2nd time we've now been caught like that...pathetic

[No Quarter]

@taniwharugby said in Ireland v NZ - Chicago Showdown:

2nd time we've now been caught like that...pathetic

2nd time Kaino has been caught like that. Very un-Kaino like performance, playing him at lock has backfired.

[taniwharugby]

Ireland playing well and we are so far off our game...isnt really a contest right now

[Donsteppa]

@Nepia said in Ireland v NZ - Chicago Showdown:

@Donsteppa One of them is playing lock.

Are you sure? We'd better take a census at halftime.

[Gunner]

TJP, Cruden and Barrett on at half time please.

[Donsteppa]

Nice of Sam Cane to do something.

Liam Squire successfully auditioning to be the new suitcase.

[taniwharugby]

@Donsteppa said in Ireland v NZ - Chicago Showdown:

Nice of Sam Cane to do something.

Liam Squire successfully auditioning to be the new suitcase.

TBF to Cane, hardly any of them have done anytrhing.

[SammyC]

Irish forwards all over us, arrogant to think we could get away with Kaino at lock.

Read needs to get involved more, lead from the front

[Donsteppa]

@taniwharugby said in Ireland v NZ - Chicago Showdown:

@Donsteppa said in Ireland v NZ - Chicago Showdown:

Nice of Sam Cane to do something.

Liam Squire successfully auditioning to be the new suitcase.

TBF to Cane, hardly any of them have done anytrhing.

You wish to be fair at this point of the game?

[taniwharugby]

@Donsteppa why not...only fair the Irish get to win a game against us too

[Crash]

@SammyC
They all need to get involved more - start playing some fucken rugby would be a start

[Donsteppa]

@SammyC said in Ireland v NZ - Chicago Showdown:

Irish forwards all over us, arrogant to think we could get away with Kaino at lock.

Read needs to get involved more, lead from the front

We've been arrogant enough to play without a goal kicker all year, so Kaino seemed like a logical extension.

[Donsteppa]

@taniwharugby said in Ireland v NZ - Chicago Showdown:

@Donsteppa why not...only fair the Irish get to win a game against us too

There's a difference between fairness and sacrilege.

[Chris B.]

@ACT-Crusader said in Ireland v NZ - Chicago Showdown:

I guarantee we will win.

Not sure we've got the cavalry on the bench this time.

We're getting outplayed pretty badly and I'm not sure we've got many who can come on and turn that around.

I noted Marshy's comment in the build-up about how you don't need to be tall in the lineout these days and I thought, "Really? I wonder why it is that Retallick and Whitelock are both a lot more than 2 metres tall."

[dejo]

Wow. Ireland are bringing all the pain from 2013, and bringing it from on deep. Not sure we have the brains, talent, or bench to come back from here.

[A Former User]

So Eddie Jones was right - we do have weaknesses.