Ireland v NZ - Chicago Showdown & Dublin Duel
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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?
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If we had to lose to anyone this year, I'm ok with the Irish.
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@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.
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@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.
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Well that went all right.
Wonder how the Dublin game will go?
Commiserations New Zealand. Great game.
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@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!
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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.
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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.
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@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.
Congrats bro!!
The Dublin game will be a whitewash, given this was supposed to be the walkover!
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Congrats to the Irish. Can't stand them but they played awesome and kicked our ass fair and square this week.
I hope we touch them up in Dublin.I fear we're going to get flooded with NH posters this week. (Not directed at you Pot Hale, you can bask in this win around here for the next couple of weeks).
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@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.
You must be delighted. You don't have to be as calm!
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@Mokey said in Ireland v NZ - Chicago Showdown:
Gah, that stings. Sunk by a hideously shit first half. I hope Hansen makes them watch the first half over and over.
I hope Hansen watches it over and over too - locks play locks, blindside flankers who eat people play on the blindside and then the bogan mullet can come on and cut up tiring defences.
