The IRISH RUGBY thread

[Captain Obvious]

Teams to win series in New Zealand:
1937 South Africa
1971 B&I Lions
1986 Australia
1994 France
2022 Ireland

Consecutive New Zealand home losses:
1937 v South Africa,
1949 v Australia,
1994 v France,
1998 v South Africa/Australia,
2022 v Ireland

Monumental result .

Can ireland maintain this for World Cup ?
That aside , the achievement stands in its own right as historic.

Have no doubt the Irish players and management would swap these two wins against New Zealand for a good World cup whereby they reach the latter stages of it.

[bennydorano]

Teams to win series in New Zealand:
1937 South Africa
1971 B&I Lions
1986 Australia
1994 France
2022 Ireland

Consecutive New Zealand home losses:
1937 v South Africa,
1949 v Australia,
1994 v France,
1998 v South Africa/Australia,
2022 v Ireland

Monumental result .

Can ireland maintain this for World Cup ?
That aside , the achievement stands in its own right as historic.

Have no doubt the Irish players and management would swap these two wins against New Zealand for a good World cup whereby they reach the latter stages of it.

Now, probably yes, but in 20 or 30 years time this team will likely still be being eulogised & a World Cup semi appearance in 2023 might be a quiz question and nothing more.

[Captain Scarlet]

That was an awesome display and we genuinely rattled the Kiwis on their home turf. I'd say there will be a massive inquest there now and they will get their shit together come the next WC.

You can 100% admire and appreciate what Ireland did over the past month without going OTT. I think that anyone who doesn't jump on the hype train can be labelled a begrudger but the rugby media and fraternity can be a total pain to the point of taking away the good of following the team.

There was debate over what you would prefer...winning the series of making a WC semi-final and many preferred the series win. You can only play the games ahead of you, but we need to build on this.

[Itchy]

England just about hold on to beat Australia. Didn't see it all but seemed to be a bit below NZ-Ire standard wise

Have England declared  that win as their greatest since 1966, I hope so the begrudging cnuts

[quit yo jibbajabba]

England just about hold on to beat Australia. Didn't see it all but seemed to be a bit below NZ-Ire standard wise

Have England declared  that win as their greatest since 1966, I hope so the begrudging cnuts

Ewan?! That you?!

[Captain Obvious]

That was an awesome display and we genuinely rattled the Kiwis on their home turf. I'd say there will be a massive inquest there now and they will get their shit together come the next WC.

You can 100% admire and appreciate what Ireland did over the past month without going OTT. I think that anyone who doesn't jump on the hype train can be labelled a begrudger but the rugby media and fraternity can be a total pain to the point of taking away the good of following the team.

There was debate over what you would prefer...winning the series of making a WC semi-final and many preferred the series win. You can only play the games ahead of you, but we need to build on this.

Who was having this debate?

[pbat]

If New Zealand are beat in the two rugby championship games in SA coming up Foster will be out on his ear and Joe Schmidt in.

[Captain Scarlet]

Brian O'Driscoll on Off The Ball and then a few more on Twitter. A few sports journos were on about it.
I'm in a couple of WhatsApp groups with lads who'd be more into rugby and they all said a series win over WC.

[nrico2006]

Surely the world cup trumps a test win.

How many foreigners started today?

[Milltown Row2]

Surely the world cup trumps a test win.

How many foreigners started today?

Are we talking rugby or soccer?

[pbat]

Lowe, Aki, Gibson-Park, Treadwell, Hanson and Bealham I think, Carberry born in New Zealand but moved here at 7 so wouldn't count him as "foreign"

[quit yo jibbajabba]

But apart from those 7?!


😃

[J70]

Not a rugby enthusiast so not very knowledgeable, but have Ireland not been riding high a few times now in the lead up to a World Cup, only to flop completely once the real stuff begins?

[RedHand88]

Not a rugby enthusiast so not very knowledgeable, but have Ireland not been riding high a few times now in the lead up to a World Cup, only to flop completely once the real stuff begins?

Nail. Head. On it.

[RedHand88]

Surely the world cup trumps a test win.

How many foreigners started today?

9 different nationalities between the 2 teams today.