Akira must be feeling great right now. Poor guy.

The judge clearly hates the ABs since he wants SF to remain in the team.

Is there a point in playing Whitelock until the 80th minute when they are clearly going to lose? Razor sure loves to run him into the ground and leave the ABs with a burnt out player.

@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.

@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.

@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.

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?

Aussie based Ferners, Stan is now showing the SRA U20 games too. I didn't expect that. Well done Stan.

"Retallick lucky he didnt break Hanigans neck "

Clown going nuts in the PC.

@Old-Samurai-Jack Why did he put himself in that position though? 2 minutes to go, game in the bag, the Irish player moves his head ever so slightly the other way and it's direct contact. Unnecessary.

Agree about the whinging, they are worse than the saffas.

Lol eat shit Maro.

SB could be in trouble for this. Dumb.

@akan004 said in All Blacks v Ireland - 1st Test:

Piss poor D.

Lol I take that back

Piss poor D.

Is that really high?

Our D is still very average.

@Bones said in All Blacks v Ireland - 1st Test:

Fuck me Beauds. Get fucked

He always goes for the low percentage play when on advantage.

@Stargazer said in All Blacks v Ireland - 1st Test:

@akan004 said in All Blacks v Ireland - 1st Test:

@Tim said in All Blacks v Ireland - 1st Test:

Another update out of the All Blacks: Hurricanes prop Tyrel Lomax has joined the squad as injury cover for Nepo Laulala (sore neck).

Those clowns never fail to disappoint. Lomax lol.

Who else is there with test experience? Owen Franks and ...?

Experience counts for nothing when the player is shit. Take a punt and select someone new. Jager and Newell are much better TH props.

@Tim said in All Blacks v Ireland - 1st Test:

Another update out of the All Blacks: Hurricanes prop Tyrel Lomax has joined the squad as injury cover for Nepo Laulala (sore neck).

Those clowns never fail to disappoint. Lomax lol.