Ireland v All Blacks II: the Greenwash or the Blacklash?

[I R Geech]

It looked like the Irish fella was trying to use his neck to hurt your lad's arm.

[Spy]

These dumb tackles...

[morepork]

Get these commentators off. Red card for commentary team.

[Len]

Stop tackling high you dumb cunts!

[morepork]

Stop tackling high you dumb cunts!

What the fuck are they smoking. They know the spotlight is on FFS.

[dk4]

wtf is the ref smoking.

[morepork]

wtf is the ref smoking.

Craic.

Hahahahahahahahah

[Spy]

Terrific try

[dk4]

magicccc

[Spy]

Get out of it Best

[morepork]

Fuck yes.

[morepork]

"was dat forward?"

jesus christ.

[Len]

"was dat forward?"

jesus christ.

Best. Suck it up princess.

[Len]

20 mins @ 14 and you don't score. You don't deserve to win.

[morepork]

Be nice.

They have done a great job of drawing us into a dog fight, but the defence has been great.

[Len]

Ardie Savea is the future of the 7 jersey IMO.

[morepork]

Ardie Savea is the future of the 7 jersey IMO.

He is the only loose forward that has really cowboyed up to the Irish three.

[morepork]

Fekitoa. Jesus.

[Mr Mwenda]

Normal service resumed.

[Spy]

Bloody good contest. I think maybe we've been living in something of a fool's paradise this year, playing against an utterly abject South Africa and an Australian side that only began to come right toward the end of the RC. Ireland have given us a proper tickle up in 2 matches.

[dk4]

absolutely true. SH is on a dip for the moment.

Some q's
-Whats going on with Cole? he is not at his usual best
-Good return from Whitelock and Retallick. Suspect they were not ready for 80min.
-Savea & Kane very good. Unbelievable energy from Save but he must make sure he nails the first tackle
-Read is also not at his best. Did he had a good super season?
-Perenara is better then Smith. Very very good.and gutsy. A thinner version of Weepu.
-Both Cruden and Barrett tackled very well. Very good in attack and defense.
-ALB good in defense and attack
-Fekitoa makes mistakes but he has skills.

[dk4]

The BBC post for the game is utter shite.
They raise an issue about BB try without mentioning that Sexton almost took BBs neck home with him.

[Mr Mwenda]

Wasn't it on sky?

[morepork]

I'll take it. Next up is France. Oz just rolled them but France have some tasty counter attack going on, foiled only by Spedding playing with blinkers on like a big clysdale with an erection. At the conclusion of the game, all the Fijian boys from both teams got together for a group prayer. 8 of them. I assume it was for Isireli Temo (see thread here: http://www.rugbyrebels.co/board/viewtop ... =28&t=1304). Nice touch.

[jared_7]

Geeze that was absolutely painful, half the Irish pub were asking the owners to turn the commentary down it was so embarrassing. Refereeing wise I thought both sides had plenty to complain about which is not a great sign, thought Smith was hard done by to be a straight yellow and was astonished that a) Barrett's try was awarded for grounding and b) the tackler wasn't given a yellow for two arms targeting the neck and rolling. I think a) was given to avoid b), but that just may be me being cynical.

Anyway, moving on I thought Ireland were great, its probably the lowest possession we have had in a long while. Second half was 80-20 or something ridiculous. Thought A Savea was tops and Barrett was outstanding, whilst A Smith's troubles off the field have definitely stopped his on-field exploits in their tracks, unfortunately,