All Blacks v Ireland II
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@Pot-Hale said in Ireland II:
Eh I call bullshit on that. There are plenty of good sports journalists operating in Ireland across a number of sports. Just because you're getting embarrassed by the actions of a few eejits (on a par with plenty of other countries) doesn't mean you have to go to the other extreme and throw everyone under the bus.
As for public comments sections, well everyone's got an opinion. Just like me in this one.
Our high profile rugby and soccer journalism is atrocious. Murray Kinsella is terrific but the masses aren't reading through pages of statistics and bar charts to better their knowledge of the game.
They are reading the one eyed, bitter and often silly ramblings of the many hacks employed by the Times, the Independent and the Examiner. They're listening to the shocking commentary of clowns like Nugent, Sheehan or that incredibly one eyed Northern fella on Sky and getting their analysis from fools like George Hook, Eamon Dunphy and Trevor Francis.
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I am not surprised by this reaction at all. You never beat the Irish they are always the victims of some injustice it seems. But if they beat you, oh you better be a good loser take it in your stride and accept it or you will never hear the end of it.
Source: Wife is Irish.
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@mooshld said in Ireland II:
I am not surprised by this reaction at all. You never beat the
Irishwives, they are always the victims of some injustice it seems. But if they beat you, oh you better be a good loser take it in your stride and accept it or you will never hear the end of it.Source: Wife
is Irish.Fixed
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Ah now there are more level headed reactions in fairness:
Analysis: Ireland's failure to convert costs them dearly against the All Blacks
Joe Schmidt’s men couldn’t turn their big chances into the tries they needed.
Ireland left frustrated and tryless as All Blacks edge brutal battle in Dublin
Beauden Barrett was involved in all three of the Kiwi’s tries at the Aviva Stadium.
Barrett-inspired defeat a missed opportunity for wasteful Ireland
Amid the all the darkness, Beauden Barrett's black magic won the match on Saturday.
I'd also point out that there cannot be any question that NZ have a discipline issue at the moment. 12-4 was the penalty count in Chicago. 14-4 in Dublin. 3 yellow cards across both Tests to 0. 2 citings to 0. And the citing commissioner apparently referred 12 incidents in the game on Saturday back to the teams. 11 of those to NZ. While I don't like the whinging and the moaning it's pretty clear there is a discipline issue there that can't be ignored.
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I forgot to mention the hypocrisy.
Heaslip gets a straight red for kneeing McCaw in the head. Not a dirty player. O'Driscoll gets a yellow for stomping against the Italians. Not a dirty player. Sexton mouthing off after scoring he's just intense not arrogant.
Then there is the fans. So respectful at kicks for goal. But scream so loud at lineouts the hooker can't hear the call and try and put off the opposition for every up and under.
You rape the islands for players. Don't mind our project player policy. Or our offering of caps to any one with an Irish granny who looks a decent prospect. That's not a new thing either they tried it with Lawrence Dallaglio in 95
Now the all black's were too aggressive. From a country that has idolised the thuggish Munster pack for years. Please.
My hatiest team to watch and not for the team, who still like decent blokes, for the media and fans.
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@molloyjh said in Ireland II:
Ah now there are more level headed reactions in fairness:
Analysis: Ireland's failure to convert costs them dearly against the All Blacks
Joe Schmidt’s men couldn’t turn their big chances into the tries they needed.
Ireland left frustrated and tryless as All Blacks edge brutal battle in Dublin
Beauden Barrett was involved in all three of the Kiwi’s tries at the Aviva Stadium.
Barrett-inspired defeat a missed opportunity for wasteful Ireland
Amid the all the darkness, Beauden Barrett's black magic won the match on Saturday.
I'd also point out that there cannot be any question that NZ have a discipline issue at the moment. 12-4 was the penalty count in Chicago. 14-4 in Dublin. 3 yellow cards across both Tests to 0. 2 citings to 0. And the citing commissioner apparently referred 12 incidents in the game on Saturday back to the teams. 11 of those to NZ. While I don't like the whinging and the moaning it's pretty clear there is a discipline issue there that can't be ignored.
What do you mean by "the citing commissioner apparently referred 12 incidents in the game on Saturday back to the teams"
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@Billy-Tell said in Ireland II:
I'm a bit dark about the Irish media and fans response. Should have known better. Having lived in Ireland, they are perennial whingers, bitter and twisted, when they lose. It's like NZ in the 90s when we would lose in a RWC. They simply never just say "we got beat by a better side", there is always the "we woz robbed" element, which they have combined with the "All Blacks are malicious thugs" element. Their list of referees against whom they hold a grudge is 210 pages long, and even comes with an index for handy reference.
I might actually be tempted to support the clown and his criminal element this weekend, at least the Australians offer something on attack
Steady on.
I'm not sure the cretin element is actual Irish rugby fans or the hangers on that come out of the woodwork when Ireland win but the dickhead seems to run strong in their fanbase. Its been pointed out loads of times what fuckwits "the swarm" are over at planet rugby, how pathetic the Irish behaviour was when exited in the q final in 2007 and the preciousness during the "golden generation" years when we routinely reamed them and thats without even mentioning BOD accusing Mealamu and Umaga of having WMDs .
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@Crucial must be like getting a letter from your kids teacher...Dear Crucial, Today Aaron pushed poor Rory while he was standing innocently beside the ruck, please speak to him and ask him not to do it again. You know we take agreed ion very seriously here at Rugby School.
Your sincerely Mr. C. Itingguy -
I've read about the citing commissioner thing now. Apparently he decided there were 12 incidents in the game he needed to look at. 11 from NZ and one from Ireland. The one from Ireland was the forearm smash on Cane that resulted in his injury. No mention whatsoever why Sexton swinging around BBs neck wasn't worth a look.
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Kinsella has now done another analysis piece. This time on BB
Analysis: Beauden Barrett's moments of magic light up a brutal Test in Dublin
The 25-year-old World Rugby player of the year was superb on Saturday.
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I thought this was a surprisingly balanced and insightful piece
Ireland nurse wounds after New Zealand prevail in bruising encounter
Ireland were beaten 21-9 by New Zealand in Dublin in a bruising match that posed questions for World Rugby, the sport’s governing body
Last week, the notion was mooted that the threshold for a high tackle in age-group rugby be lowered to the waist. That is the kind of measure the senior game needs if World Rugby is serious about the campaign against concussion. For as long as high shots to the upper body are coached, practised and celebrated, there will be unavoidable head-high tackles. To celebrate the one and condemn the other with the ultimate sanctions is a hypocrisy no sport should countenance.
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NZ do have a discipline problem because we don't have the ball. Best way to fix that would be bigger/better pack and to contest more rucks, although that sort of change would need to be weighed up with pros and cons.
In the penalty count accross the 2 games: our discipline was actually poor in Chicago, the only penalty there I had an issue with was the very first in that match - A Smith being penalised for coming around when the ball plopped out of a ruck and Murray (I think) just left it there.
Very similar to what Smith was carded for in game 2. Both wrong.
there were also some inconsistency with sheparding at kickoffs, but our kick offs were mostly crap anyway and their's were good. No big deal.
In this game I didn't realty have an issue with our discipline, I thought Peyper had a shocker. Canes collision counter towards the first card, including the Smith 'foul'. I think it was 4 consecutive penalties plus maybe a penalty advantage. 1 of those was harsh, 1 was wrong, the advantage was for a collapsed maul (haven't seen it replayed as Smith for carded I think almost straight after) but at the time I was yelling at the tv as Irish knees had touched ground earlier in the maul.
I think Read was then lucky not to be carded, but I also think that situation only occurred because NZ were a man down for an erroneous card (even though that scrum was analysed earlier in thread and Heaslip detached and reattached, in that situation ref doesn't have benefit of videos and trying to work out which of the 3 illegal almost simulaneous things happened first) . Read could have gone. Probably should have if Peyper hadn't 'reset' his internal count.
Sometimes when I watch a match and then come on here to the thread, you have to wade through a few pages of the in-match thread with Kearns like venting at the ref, and I'm bemused at all the stuff I never noticed. This time I was affirmatively nodding .....
But Fekitoa made me lose my shit, and momentarily hit the FF button. Dumbest foul in a long time, from so many perspectives ( game situation, ref situation)
But, like the lessons from Cardiff. Need to work out a way to put this back in control. If in first half Peyper was just blowing a homer, then I have no answers. If he's blowing that way because memories of our discipline in Chicago are fresh Etc then that's a fault of ours we can actually do something about. By second half when a first half homer kept penalties piling up and then you compound it with a stupid head high (like Chicago) then we get what we deserve. We're putting something retrievable back beyond our control.
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Our discipline was terrible in Chicago, indefensible, and a major contributor to our defeat.
In Dublin, I was fuming by the end. I just felt we got nothing at ruck-time all game from Peyper. I haven't rewatched the match, but did Ireland concede a single ruck penalty aside from a holding on I can recall? We certainly got pinged at least 3 times in the 2nd half at the ruck. I'm a bit like Hansen I just want consistency, and I felt we didn't get that at the tackle ball/ruck. That is actually my major gripe with his display, not our YCs and the Irish non-YCs.
The good news is we have Wayne Barnes this week.
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@booboo said in Ireland II:
@Billy-Tell said in Ireland II:
The good news is we have Wayne Barnes this week.
Oh good.
C'mon, you know you love his headmaster approach, mixed with a dose of conviviality ("well done Kieran, bien joué Pascal") spiced up with some schoolboy French "lâchez sept", a no interference approach to the breakdown, and his ability to find an arcane law written in small print from 1906 to pull out at a crucial moment.
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@Milk said in Ireland II:
Speaking of Barnes, here is having some banter with Haskell:
Banter
Bonhomie
Chumminess
Chinwag
"tête-à-tête"
