Great effort and Ireland's best world cup performance wise
What a game for the casual viewers!
Ireland needed the set piece to work well and it didn't. Well targeted by Nz. Congrats to them
will you ever f off already and let people grieve!!!
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Im in pain!
What part of our set piece didn’t work?
Were you watching the game?
Not putting on Crowley is in my opinion a pretty monumental mistake. I also thought, JGP and Doris got very solidly outplayed by their counterparts.
It is our equal best world cup performance, another f'n 1/4 final defeat.
It is embarrassing at this stage, and not to be celebrated.
Bottom line is our best ever team couldn't get it done against what was being called the weakest NZ team in recent memory with a terrible coach with one foot out the door. Irish pundits all week saying ridiculous things like only 2 all blacks would make our team and how they won't be able to handle our physicality. Embarrassing.
First twenty minutes was a disaster, same against South Africa.
before the match , I was looking at New Zealand rugby forums and they were all hoping for Wayne Barnes to be the ref. I know why now. He gave crucial calls to the all blacks, especially at the start of the game.
Does anyone know how this QF result affects our rating are we still No 1?
The lineout
We just can't handle the occasion every tournament. We find some way of not performing. I think they need to start looking into more professional people involved in sports psychology and plan to peak in the world cup not a year or two before. I feel sick tonight. I genuinely thought we were good enough to win.
The lineout and we gave away 3 scrum penalties. Did you watch the game?
No one should care about that anymore we are out of the world cup.
The New Zealand coaches got the game plan absolutely spot on. They had to get everything 100% right to beat us which is unbelievable. New Zealand looked so fresh, Ireland looked like a team that had played South Africa & Scotland in previous weeks.
Think New Zealand have it in the bag, winner of the other 2 QF will have to go to the well 3 weeks in a row.
But absolutely heartbreaking for us, they left nothing in the tank.
After that offside performance, I’m done
Another glorious defeat. Am off to write a song
Anyone who thinks that Joe Schmidt's just one of the back room staff and isn't calling the shots is delusional.
Harsh in the extreme to criticise that team, we were excellent. All Blacks found a level they haven't got to in a long time to beat us. Ireland are comfortably within the top 4 teams in this WC, not getting too hung up on this QF thing.
Bang on I think. NZ are clinical in these type of matches, they got the basics right and just looked sharper. We had our chances and could have won the bloody thing.
Wow just wow a calamity of errors.
Our Lineouts. Shocking. Scrums shocking. The amount of turnovers.
I really have to question sexton kicking this game the times he kicked just didn't need it.
We just fell asleep defensively twice. Barrett chip and Jordan's try. You can't do that at this level.
To give the all blacks back possession with 9 mins to go via a knock on in midfield with ZERO pressure. Dear God.
Farrell should get the P45
O’Gara must be under consideration by the IRFU a at this stage given another WC failure
Zero chance farrell is gone unless he wants to be.
Who are you people? Rarely check in on boards anymore, now I remember why.
Great game. Hope NZ make it to the final and have a similar battle with SA or France, preferably France. Well played New Zealand.
Don't rely on a 38 year old out half
Hopefully justice will be done and our fantastic bandwagoners I mean supporters will get an award as the most loveable friendliest supporters in the whole world .Sure everybody loves us .
Agreed. Sexton was standing still receiving every ball.
Mo'unga wasnt
Should have kicked for three at start with sigh sigh
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