"I started a joke, that started the whole world ......" | Ireland v New Zealand.

Touché

Ah Bollix.. dissapointing finish to a world cup that promised so much.

Lost an enthralling 50/50 game by 1 score. Nothing to be embarrassed by but still utterly devastating.. always going to be a few what if's..

Nz value for the win. Hope they go on and win it now.

Ireland need a few new players

Half back. Need to see what Doak can do as JGP is not the answer. Other options are gunne, murphy and foley as casey is not the answer.

Crowley wasn't given a minute tonight which was poor by farrell. He needs to get his head no along with h byrne and Prendergast.

Ireland also need to look at the young props. Porter is potentially brilliant but kilkoyne isn't putting pressure on. him

That's true, but this ranked number 1 rubbish really came back to bite us when we were so confident to beat NZ

Crowley.

The < 150 post clowns are out in force tonight.

Who gives a **** what you think.

You know one of those scenes in a war movie where someone is just walking around aimlessly staring into the distance totally not tuned in?

That's me right now on the internet.

Most teams that have broken curses have had to assemble a team oustanding enough to overcome the mental baggage such a curse brings red Sox and Cubs come to might.

Mayo arguably have never put out a team out and out better on paper than their finals opponent.. same with the Bills. Contrary to what people were saying we were not that out and out on paper before tonight that people suggested.

That said with rankings the top 5 in the world presuming England get their act together looks locked in for while ..nasty draws a far less likely

Who was so confident?

This is the thing we could be stuck in a "who's our best 10" doom loop for a while ..either if it's Crowley or Sam or who ever they won't have matured into a world class 10 in 4 years.

You and the Missus!!!

Read the posts on here over the last week. You can count on one hand how many thought NZ could win and countless posts saying NZ are a spent force, we're battle hardened and they will be undercooked, we'll physically have too much for them, people making a combined team where only 1 or 2 all blacks make it in. It was nothing but unrestrained confidence and you could say arrogance.

Forgetting sport, our country allows anyone with an Irish granny to get a passport. I don't think it's tenuous either. My brother lives in London with his Irish wife. Their kids are thus very Irish in lots of ways. Their kids kids will be entitled to passports and entitled to play for Ireland in sport. That is only right. You can't compare that to lads landing in a country they've never been to and know nothing of in their 20s and playing for that country 3 years later. Only right that rule has been changed.

Who was over-confident on beating the NZ? Maybe people that don’t follow rugby and came along for the ride.

regardless of what world rankings say it’s was clear to anyone that NZ, SA, France and Ireland were playing the best rugby and any of these teams could beat each other on the night as there isn’t much between any of the teams.