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
That penalty miss was shocking.
Sexton penalty was a pure and utter choke. I'll use the work choke as you seem to be very against the word bottle. Also that's not the definition. You have made that up. Good lad.
Reminiscent of Nelson being asked to take a forfeit note to the referee when Bart Simpson wasn't fit to play.
Sexton’s miss was just a miss. NZ missed 5 points from kicks I think. That’s rugby. Your trying to label us bottlers last night is embarrassing, and stupid.
Literally so many people think we bottled last night. Your attitude is embarrassing, oh great lads , so proud of the boys. Loser mentality.
So many dopes, yes… many delighted we lost..
I am devestated we lost. But I do think nerves got the better of the team last night. You don't. Probably best to leave it there.
Think management took their eyes off the ball , it was the Sexton occasion first, the match came second , should have been substituted early on .
Ireland were 13 0 down came back into it. Went 20 10 down came back into it. A brilliant piece of defense to get under the ball at the line stopped Ireland going ahead. They didn't bottle anything in the same as neither SA or France are bottling this game. Bottling would have been if Ireland had capitulated at 13 0 down
They were always chasing the game , never in control
Really bottled the start, nerves got the better of them.
Had NZ failed to stop the final try effort and Ireland won, would that reverse it? And you’d call NZ bottlers?…we will leave it, as it’s clear you have no grasp of what bottling actually is.
Leave it pal. Talking about what ifs in sport is such a pointless conversation.
The lads you're replying to are delighted Ireland lost. There's no point in replying to them. Ewan McKenna mentality.
I was devastated. Doesn't mean Ireland did **** it up last night.
Ahh f off with that
The smallest of margins & we were in practically in a World Cup final. Those lads owe nobody nothing.
Expecting a 38 year old to play virtually all the game in a WC was crazy. Crowley should definately be on for the last 10-15 minutes especiall as he plays a lot with Murray at Munster. Definately some players should have been rotated for the Scotland match. similar with O'Mahoney a warrior but should have been rested at some stage. you will not win a WC without player rotation.
On hype what about the Virgin Media commentator saying twice once about a NZ player in the first 10 minutes and the same about the NZ manager that ''this could be his last game''.
Looking at all the QF results, perhaps simply Northern hemisphere rugby isn't as good as it thinks it is.
That it's really , probably comes down to mentality as well. There has only ever been one winner.
Well this is not true at all
The SH team always have the benefit of having a Rugby Championship prior to the World Cup, the NH teams are trying to get themselves up to speed at the start of the season.
Switch around to have the competition after the 6 nations when the NH teams are battled hardened and see what the results are like then.
But it's irrelevant after we are knocked out. The No1 team is the team that wins the world cup.
In fairness, going 13 points down before firing any shot is bottling it at this stage of the tournament. Didn't see anything close to that in the France SA game. Quarter finals are typically tight, back and forth affairs. Wales in 2011, Argentina in 2015, NZ in 2019 and now 2023. Chasing a game and never in control at any stage. Last time we had a lead in a QF was 7 world cups ago. If that's not bottling it I'd hate to see what is.
I'm still gutted over the result. Thought Ireland might finally get past a quarter final. Someone else mentioned about game management here which I think I'd have to agree with. Why can't the players just stop for a minute, take a breath and think about what to do. It's like they panic.
Like, why in the hell did James Lowe kick the ball back up the field the second he called a mark? No Irish player was ready for it or in a good position at all and it led to the All Blacks first try. If he had waited even 5 seconds most of them could have been up by the 22 instead of 10 or 15m back. I just couldn't believe he did that
Done a stint in new Zealand before, if new Zealand were number 1 ranked team and went out at quarter finals there'd be no kiwis calling them heroic. A third of the team n the manager would be sent to pasture.
Oh god you aren't allowed to say bottling on here.
They don't owe anybody anything I agree. Heros they certainly are not.
But just you watch, they'll get a heroes welcome at Dublin airport tomorrow
Two razor thin defeats for Ireland and France. Both could easily have gone the other way. Just the reality of high level sport with teams of a similar standard. All on the day.
That would be embarrassing and something I'm sure the players would not like. Well I'd like to think they'd hate the idea of it anyway.
Another day, the ref would have correctly awarded the penalty that Pollard kicked to France. Another day, Barrett wouldn't have produced a miraculous piece of defending to deny Ireland.
Oh no wait actually, both teams bottled it and NH rugby is gone to shite!
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