RWC QF: All Blacks v Ireland
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@Nepia said in RWC QF: All Blacks v Ireland:
@gt12 said in RWC QF: All Blacks v Ireland:
@antipodean said in RWC QF: All Blacks v Ireland:
@game_film said in RWC QF: All Blacks v Ireland:
Put 40 in the book next week. Semis are usually tense but this will be over real quick.
Not so sure. I think it will be a flat performance because emotionally and physically they'll have expended an enormous amount tonight.
It's a good draw for us, but we have to take advantage.
I think it's a good draw for both sides. Fiji and England aren't going to trouble the Boks or France.
I'm definitely more happy about us facing the argies than more than likely England
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@Victor-Meldrew said in RWC QF: All Blacks v Ireland:
@kev said in RWC QF: All Blacks v Ireland:
one of the most significant factors they identified was scrum penalties
Lomax owned Porter. Made him look like a shit Ofa Tuʻungafasi....
Was hilarious watching him look confused everytime he was rightly penalised.
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Aged well
Key to Ireland beating New Zealand? Get rid of ball within 20 seconds
“If you are held down by the weight of the past, you won’t be able to do anything.” You would be forgiven for assuming that this statement was made by an Ireland player, given our terrible record at the Rugby World Cup.
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Just checking in. Still wearing my jersey, presentation tracksuit, socks, shoes at hat. Has Sexcunt stopped mouthing off yet?
I'm still pumped. Voice is shot. Drank 6 bottles of out of date Speights and the only thing that would make this night better would be to see more pictures of Sexcunt and O'Whiny cracking the shits.
Still can't help but feel Barnes was BSing those calls at the end.Some real positives to take out are their second try came with a man down and I still believe that penalty try was total BS. Scrambling D was phenomenal. In the last 5, Barnes just wouldn't penalise the Mics until there was just no more excuses not to.
FUCK YESSSSSSSS!!!!!!
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@Victor-Meldrew said in RWC QF: All Blacks v Ireland:
He's a top bloke.
Yeah, I was disappointed by that as I wanted to revel in Ireland losing some more.
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@DaGrubster said in RWC QF: All Blacks v Ireland:
Yes, the great challenge for us will be getting up for a semi against the Argies after we emptied the tank for this one.
We were in a similar position in 2019 and got blown away.
The Argies will look to spoil everything next week and will be very dissapointEd with themselves if an actual game of rugby breaks out.
They will be very tough and I think that will be close.
So the key for this week is a bigger rest time? I'd be tempted to give them an extra day or two.
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Sam canes best game ever. He gets a lot of shit thrown his way both from kiwis but also other teams supporters but he was superb. Such dominant tackling.
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Holy shit, is Foster actually a supercoach??
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No. Physically, we are in pretty good shaped compared to other sides I think.
I meant more mentally - this game against Ireland would have seen us spend a lot of emotional energy beating Ireland and also leading up to the game. We wanted it. They embarrassed us last year.
It’s like 2019. We were outstanding in the qtr final and nowhere in the semi final.
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No
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@Machpants said in RWC QF: All Blacks v Ireland:
overconfident
There was a moment against Scotland last week when Ireland emptied their bench and they just looked super confident.
I first thought oh shit, as they just looked, err, kind of like we used to. Confident in their team and systems.
But then I thought France 07 ... and maybe they had started believing their own press. Maybe it was hope on my part ...
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@Billy-Tell Haha he has about 6 supporters in the world, all on this site, and me being one of them.
Onya Sammy!
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For me best AB game bar none
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@sparky said in RWC QF: All Blacks v Ireland:
Let’s be honest, there wasn’t much in that. It really could have gone either way. Huge defence at the end.
But it didn’t.
Aura's back baby
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What can I say except well done New Zealand.
My heart goes out to our wonderful Ireland team but they didn’t have enough against a simply superlative NZ team.
Congrats guys.
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We did it. Sunday dinner with the in-laws tomorrow should be tasty. Hopefully by then I can hear all about how they were cheated!
Sam Cane take a bow you. Nobody would have begrudged you talking some shit after that to the totally anonymous Irish back row. But you just shake their hands and wish then well.
You're a better man than any of us here on the fern that's for sure!
