All Blacks v Ireland II
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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)
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Nah. I can understand Best coming out. With the uncertainty in last year about big screen replays and refs changing their mind as long as the conversion isn't taken yet.
It's a mess, but it's a mess of the officials own making and precedents. I guess Best has set a new precedent though.
Wound have been funny though if Peyper judged it an early charge .....
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@Pot-Hale said in Ireland II:
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.
I'd be up for a third test, for sure!
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@Rapido said in Ireland II:
Nah. I can understand Best coming out. With the uncertainty in last year about big screen replays and refs changing their mind as long as the conversion isn't taken yet.
It's a mess, but it's a mess of the officials own making and precedents. I guess Best has set a new precedent though.
Wound have been funny though if Peyper judged it an early charge .....
In fairness, it wasn't "right as NZ were taking the conversion". Best had already started to walk out towards the ref as Barrett started to walk back up the pitch with the tee to set it down for where he wanted to take the kick. Best then stopped, the camera cuts away and then back to a wide shot and Best is being urged to ask the question by the team so he keeps going towards Pepyer albeit it appears reluctantly.
If there was a question about a forward pass, then I'd have done the same. Barrett was still settling the ball on the tee and I suspect knew what Best was going to ask. Barrett converted anyway so hey ho.
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I'll just put this bit in here for my Idol of the Week award.
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@Pot-Hale
That was pretty bad ass. Embedded:
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@Kiwidom said in Ireland II:
@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
I've always said that Cumiskey to getting a girl pregnant.
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@Milk good from EOS, good analysis, rational thought. I'm giving the usually excellent journo the benefit of the doubt that he is only drawing discussion on the ref rantings that have been going on.
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I watched the game again last night, mostly without interruption, from the point of Barrett's try to the game clincher (from about 15 mins to 66 mins).
We got severely smacked in the possession stakes, especially early in the third quarter, thanks to some dumb exit plays and being panicky with the ball. I heard the comms say it was 88% possession to the irish in the first 10-12 mins of the 2nd half.
There was a definite sense in the third quarter that we were not contesting at ruck and maul time, to avoid sanction. I'm not sure what the penalty count was in that quarter but other than Fekitoa's idiocy (about 48 mins in) our discipline improved substantially from the second quarter.
When Jackson kicked a penalty to take it to 14-9 (about 58 mins or so), there was an avalanche of subs. Ireland replaced tight forwards and we brought on TJP and AC for AS and JS. AC straight away did his short kickoff which BBBR brilliantly retrieved by getting his feet over the Irish 10m line and reaching back for it. We actually played really well from here in the eight minutes or so leading up to the game clincher, with some improved passing interchanges and the Dagg to Cruden dropped pass opportunity being a sign that the Irish intensity had dropped.
In hindsight, we were in control of the final 22 mins of the match. It certainly petered out after Fekitoa's 2nd try.
The tactical change to sub the inside backs (though Barrett was outstanding at 10), plus the improvement in our discipline, plus the continued powerhouse defence, had a big bearing on the game.
It was an Irish comms feed through YouTube (very basic graphics). I thought the commentators (who didn't mention each other by name) were a little pro-Irish but were mostly talking up the intensity and speed of the game. I though the brutality of the tackling was very 6 Nations.
