Akira must be feeling great right now. Poor guy.

@booboo said in Ireland II:

Interesting contrast in reaction to the two results, Chicago and Dublin.

Winners, losers, magnanimity and shit loss.

The Irish have been terrible losers today. All the kiwis who were happy for Ireland and their fans after the Chicago loss should hopefully now realise that others won't ever reciprocate that level of magnanimity towards us. I hope we will never ever see another day where an AB loss is accepted and even celebrated by many AB fans.

@pukunui said in All Blacks v BI Lions Test #3:

Fucking disgrace. I thought it couldn't get any worse than last weeks deciding penalty but that was a complete farce.

Fully expect WR to stay completely silent.

Has anybody ever seen a referee change his mind about a penalty from a non foul related incident? First time in history I reckon.

@taniwharugby said in When should Foster go?:

think the point is he was kicking for the 5m lineout, that is the difficult part, but given how far out he was kicking from, he shouldnt have been going for that lower % play...irony is, if he had gone for say 10-15m out, he woulda put it into the 5m....

I know he has said that he is happy to take the risk and go for extra metres and if it doesn't come off then he can live with it. That's fine if we are in the lead or at least are in the game, however this was a crucial time in the game where we were well behind and needed to score. It was definitely not the time to take a risk. This team lacks rugby IQ and Mounga displayed that perfectly with that kick.

I thought the big work on after the semi was to improve our physicality. We looked even less physical than last year.

@Stargazer Do you actually believe they didn't have to take a piss during the 8 hour journey?

"Retallick lucky he didnt break Hanigans neck "

Clown going nuts in the PC.

SBW will have a field day running at Sexton and Farrell, Teo is unlucky to be benched. Can't believe AWJ has retained his position as well.

I blame this year's shithouse performances on Labour. We never play well when those fluffybunnies are in power.

Clarke has done more in 10 minutes than Bridge has the whole game.

Paine: I can't wait to see you at the GABBA.

Ashwin: I can't wait to see you in India, it will be your last series.

That's a quality comeback from Ashwin.

Not sure why Smith is shaking his head for. It's clearly out.

Probably should have kept Sants on. Pitch was offering a bit of spin.

@Chester-Draws Downvote

Another short ball when 90% of them have been dispatched to the boundary.

Hardly any variation. Southee aside, very few slow balls have been bowled.

17 new cases. Not good.

Ireland will be touring NZ in 2022 and will play us 3 times. Good that we will be playing some lead up games against our potential QF opponents.

@mofitzy_ Yeah Ireland without Sexton and probably Murray won't be the same team as they were a few years ago. We have an ok draw, a much better draw than SA. They have an incredibly tough quarters no matter how they perform in their group. Looks like their RWC luck has finally run out.

@mariner4life Probably Fitzy.