The IRISH RUGBY thread

[Blowitupref]

Ah well Quarter final heart break continues for us.  to be fair the best team won on the night.

[RedHand88]

Some dicks on here, you think they were glad they were beat.

We are.

[clarshack]

Hard to beat a traditional team in any sport.

[5times5times]

Bottlers the whole lot of them.

[Rudi]

Brilliant performance by Ireland,  the breakdown won it for New Zealand, there defence was excellent. The better team won, Jordie Barrett held up Kelleher over the line. Fantastic game.

[gallsman]

Ah well. That's that. A few dips in form right at the wrong time.

New Zealand defence unreal. The three Barretts unreal all night.

[Wildweasel74]

Too many scrum penalties, misfunctioning line out first half, Ireland still played well enough. The holding up over the line the difference.

[weareros]

Had a man advantage for 20 minutes so got what we deserved. Beaten by a more skillful team who always looked dangerous in attack, even if a pale shadow of past All-Black teams. Poor by Ireland.

[J70]

I'm far from a rugby expert, but no disgrace or embarrassment in that defeat for me. Ferocious effort from NZ, but Ireland matched them, just made a few more mistakes than the All Blacks.

[Harold Disgracey]

Well done New Zealand, we weren't at it tonight and they were, as usual Wayne Barnes was Wayne Barnes.

[markl121]

Class

[gallsman]

Well done New Zealand, we weren't at it tonight and they were, as usual Wayne Barnes was Wayne Barnes.

Barnes was fine. Ireland can have no external complaints or excuses.

[AustinPowers]

Thank feck for that!

Now we'll finally get  a bit of peace.

[clarshack]

Between the soccer and rugby world cups it's another glorious failure tbh.

When is the International Rules back?

[Nanderson]

Well done New Zealand, we weren't at it tonight and they were, as usual Wayne Barnes was Wayne Barnes.

I don't have any gripe with Barnes for once. Although I would have liked more space for our line outs compared to theirs but I thought he was generous in a few breakdowns for Ireland where New Zealand looked to have hands over the ball but he allowed a fraction more of a second to allow Ireland to support the ruck.