The IRISH RUGBY thread

[Tony Baloney]

Heartbreaking for Ireland. Had 20 seconds to hold on.

[seafoid]

Heartbreaking for Ireland. Had 20 seconds to hold on.

Pity about the sexton penalty with 7 minutes left

[Wildweasel74]

yeah all the class the irish supporters show for opposition kickers, kinda went out the window at the end lads tuh tuh, best team lost, i away like England in the rugby league yesterday. today was the day to beat the all-blacks without Carter, dont think now we ever beat them,as i thought Ireland were good today and the All-blacks quite ropey today

[Wildweasel74]

George Hook, still a w**ker

[CD]

George Hook, still a w**ker

Ha!  Laughing knuts off!!

[Wildweasel74]

Sexton in hindsight missed an easy enough penalty near the near to go 8 clear, it probably cost them the game

[rodney trotter]

Some match, very bad miss by Sexton. Deadly come back by the All Blacks. Sick to lose it like that.

[Tony Baloney]

Sexton in hindsight missed an easy enough penalty near the near to go 8 clear, it probably cost them the game

Sexton miss, stupidity from Toner, not keeping the scoreboard ticking over in second half and not closing it out with 20 mins left. The best teams are closers.

[trileacman]

Heaslip had a great game, serious engine on him. Kearney and O'Brien was at the top there too. D'Arcy defended very well too.

Bowe has been very average for the Guinness series as has O'Mahoney, which is worrying from a supposed player of the future. Toner is debatable if he can cut it at this level.

Murray for some of his faults, is still the top scrummie in Ireland by quite a distance, played a major role in the 1st half preformance.

[AQMP]

Only the All Blacks could have finished like that.

[gallsman]

Brilliant performance for 60 minutes but at the end of the day, not being able to hold the ball for 15 seconds so you can kick to touch to beat the All Blacks simply isn't good enough. Sexton missing that kick, as brilliant as he has been for Ireland, simply isn't good enough. Tommy Bowe missing tackle after tackle simply isn't good enough and not scoring in the second half certainly isn't good enough.

Utterly, utterly devastating but being valiant losers has never stood to us in the past. Challenge is to be able to up the game against all sides.

Credit to New Zealand though. Phenomenal team who even when far from their best you can simply never write off.

[seafoid]

Only the All Blacks could have finished like that.

Kilkenny up until recently were also masters at it

[Dinny Breen]

NZ won that, Ireland didn't lose it. Simply best team in the world, that's the aspiration and today was a great step forward.  f**king gutted mind!

[gallsman]

NZ won that, Ireland didn't lose it. Simply best team in the world, that's the aspiration and today was a great step forward.  f**king gutted mind!

"Has the potential to be" should have preceded that! Ireland have put in monster performances before (nothing as big as that though) and have failed to build on it. Have to hope it will be different this time.

[seafoid]

NZ won that, Ireland didn't lose it. Simply best team in the world, that's the aspiration and today was a great step forward.  f**king gutted mind!

"Has the potential to be" should have preceded that! Ireland have put in monster performances before (nothing as big as that though) and have failed to build on it. Have to hope it will be different this time.

It's not a bad start from Schmidt, in fairness, considering where they were last season.