This can’t be real!!

Anyone think Kearney is up for this !!!???

Relax DD and enjoy!!!

Opps needs an edit.

Stress out DD!!!

Nasty elbow by B Barrett.

Yellow card SHIRLEY!!!!!!!

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****. 🙁

Best knock on of the year

I am broken. Put DD on suicide watch.

That ain’t forward.

Arse!

That sucks

Sport is so cruel!!!

Bad luck DD – feel for you. Brilliant rugby match. What is it with the AB?!!!!!

Incredible

We can’t find our jumpers and your 9 kicks. Aaaargh! Two opportunities in two weeks.

Sexton penalty and Murray’s kick with a minute to go. To be fair, I don’t know how somebody can kick (a penalty) under that kind of pressure. O’Gara would have scored though. 😆

The groan from the crowd when Murray kicked it said it all.

****edy ****edy ****.

Absolutely amazing game! I have no strong feelings either way towards either team but I was tense the whole way through cheering Ireland on. How do NZ do virtually nothing of any note all game, get dominated by and awesome pack in the loose,miss lots of kicks…. and still win? 😯

Completely agree. He encouraged the attacking team to run the points in rather than rely on penalties. Another thing he did differently was to call advantage over quite quickly, even after small gains by the attacking side which kept the game flowing. Communicated well with everyone on the pitch and used the TMO properly when needs be. Not sure on the last kick but either way Ireland sadly wouln’d have won.

The crowd also made the game- must have been awesome to be there*

*until 80+ minutes

What you have to admire about the all blacks is that when 20 points down they just carried on playing high risk, high skill rugby.

Well, if I learned one thing from this game it’s that if you’re going to charge early then ignore the ref and kick the ball away. Stopping just gives him two goes at it.

What you have to admire about the all blacks is that when 20 points down they just carried on playing high risk, high skill rugby.

Indeed, it was amazing, from that penalty the ball went through forwards and backs hands, no mistakes, just forward to the tryline. Barrett proved he is the successor to Carter too.
Gutted for Ireland !

Well, that’s a new one for me. I actually feel sorry for the Irish rugby team! Some stellar stuff from some players who I thought were seriously on the wane. Darcy was very astute and brave. Heaslip, who I often accuse of ‘going missing’ in crunch games, was superb. Hard luck Ireland.

Best game of the AI by some distance. You have to admire NZ for winning the game when they really shouldn’t have. And the Irish for turning in a massive performance after last weeks debacle. Hoping that Wales smash Australia next week.

Latest transfer news is that Bradley Davis is off to Wasps and Ian Evans to Toulon. Welsh rugby will be dead by the end of next season.

Unavailable for next weeks game; Hook, Charteris and James. Not sure about North.
Cuthbert may be avaiable.