All Blacks v Ireland II
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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.
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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
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I've only read Irish media in the last few years since they've become good and others have started linking Kinsella articles. And I don't know what is their main stream.
But I've found it among the best rugby media. The 42 and Kinsella is clearly best in world, another was quite good - can't remember which, may have been pundit arena.
Ireland looks like good place to be if you are a broad sports fan. (Like Aussie they have 2 domestic sports leagues unaffected by external economics. Decent international and domestic rugby, premier league on same time zone with Irish players (and teams with long Irish connections like Liverpool and Celtic), plus international soccer in an interesting confederation.
Jealous.
In contrast. We now have domestic rugby reduced to 5 teams and only half our players. Soccer in a joke confederation, plus the blackcaps and the Warriors.
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Ok - I've watched the game twice now - without interruption.
All I've got to say is:
What the fuck was Henshaw playing at trying to hit Cane's shoulder/head with his head whilst pirouetting on the spot?
Can Zebo not run fast enough without being caught by some two-bit arm-swinging Kiwi winger?
Sexton's tackle is a penalty try all day, every day, and I'm glad there are some journalists in Ireland who actually agree with me
Tadgh Furlong. Tadgh fucking Furlong! Did you see him move and fend those three players in a row?
Paddy Jackson coming on the pitch is like being handed a Morris Minor in the middle of an F1 duel.
Beauden Barrett. Beauden fucking Barrett! If NZ had 14 other players like him, they'd be a pretty good team.
Why has Dane Coles turned into a hothead? And a snarly one at that?
van der Flier is The Business. Good luck Seanie.
How come NZ didn't play those two lock fellas in the Chicago game, yiz would have been much better?
How the holy, motherfucking fuck of a fuck did Ireland go from scoring 5 tries to 0 tries? To finish such a game with three fucking penalties, and turned down some kicks, is a shitballs return.
It may just be me, but I'm getting sick and tired of every player under the sun rushing in to obscure the view everytime there's an attempted maul over the line. You can't bloody see a thing. Either you're in the maul from the start, or else fuck off out of the way and stop trying to stick a hand into the mess afterwards whilst claiming that you stopped the ball single-handedly and making sure the camera can't see a damn thing.Tackles? What tackles?
I demand a third test. Cancel the Frogs immediately and get your asses back to Dublin - tell the Wallabies to wait till we've finished.
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@Billy-Tell said in Ireland II:
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.
I was fuming as well with peyper display. I'm normally pretty chilled watching the game, but this was unbelievable
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@munstergreen I think Gerry Thornley at the Irish Times is usually pretty good in his analysis. Liam Toland is a cock and don't get me started on Gavin Cumiskey
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@Crucial I thought that was one of the worst lack of gamesmanship I have seen in a long time, right as we were taking the conversion. Who the fuck does Best think he is? It's not cricket with a referral system. It was piss poor and another reason why I,'ll be supporting the convicts this weekend (which pains me no end)
