Ireland v NZ - Chicago Showdown & Dublin Duel
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@nzzp said in Ireland v NZ - Chicago Showdown:
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.
Well said and my thoughts exactly
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@taniwharugby no jokes, this is serious stuff!
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That must feel like winning a WC for Ireland, that win was more then a century in the making. What a result. You can't take anything away from them, they held off an awesome onslaught from the men in black in the 2nd 40.
The ABs will get shit piled on them by all and sundry. There will be talk of arrogance, complancy, you name it, but at the end of the day all that happened is that they were outplayed on the day. The loss hurts but that 2nd 40 was the most exciting stuff I've watched in a while.
I'm immensly proud of our achievements this year after losing the core of our team to retirement. The 18 wins on the trot was a great ride and unlikely to be beaten any time soon. So go easy lads, one loss doesn't change any of that.
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It is only right and proper to congratulate Pot Hale.
Well done mate, Ireland were magnificent.
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@Kirwan it was a shitload more effective than Gats getting on the troll
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Oh and well done Ireland
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@No-Quarter Yeah man, it's annoying to lose but the team have done us proud all year (bar 80 minutes in Chicago). Clearly Chicago was our bridge too far.
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@mariner4life said in Ireland v NZ - Chicago Showdown:
@Kirwan it was a shitload more effective than Gats getting on the troll
Gatland hardly covers himself in glory in his day job either.
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@No-Quarter did you not read the thread? Bitterness and recriminations started by about minute 20
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@Nepia said in Ireland v NZ - Chicago Showdown:
@No-Quarter Yeah man, it's annoying to lose but the team have done us proud all year (bar 80 minutes in Chicago). Clearly Chicago was our bridge too far.
yep, thats the thing, this team is extraordinary, no 2 ways about it, but a perfect storm of things happened, including the Irish playing thier nuts off, and they won.
Given we were supposed to walk this and then be tested in Dublin, I would be surprised if we dont clean them up there now.
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@taniwharugby said in Ireland v NZ - Chicago Showdown:
@Nepia said in Ireland v NZ - Chicago Showdown:
@No-Quarter Yeah man, it's annoying to lose but the team have done us proud all year (bar 80 minutes in Chicago). Clearly Chicago was our bridge too far.
yep, thats the thing, this team is extraordinary, no 2 ways about it, but a perfect storm of things happened, including the Irish playing thier nuts off, and they won.
Given we were supposed to walk this and then be tested in Dublin, I would be surprised if we dont clean them up there now.
Yep, I hope we beat them like a psycho treats his red head step son.
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To be fair, the ABs did lose a crap load of experience from 2015 and while they rebuild that experienced squad, this sort of game was going to happen. They come up against a motivated, well coached quality side and have a bunch of players who aren't delivering what they are capable of soon enough in the game and the team can't change approach quickly enough.
Losing = learning experience. The ABs have just been lucky that they haven't had as many "learning experiences" this year.
That plus the perfect storm of Ireland playing really well, and I think some poor selections means they lost.
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I'm happy the guys didn't embarass us and turned on some class midway through the second half. I felt the captain should have stepped up and played a bit of field position to pressurise the Irish. In fact, that's what they did to us. They had the cooler heads at the end, which shows that this team has really grown up.
