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SA vs Ireland First Test 2024 - The World Champions vs The Best Team in the World

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    #332
    Former Former Former
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,116 ✭✭✭Former Former Former


    mental



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    #333
    AbusesToilets
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 14,776 ✭✭✭✭AbusesToilets


    This is why having a 2 test series is such a downer, can see us coming back next week and beating them.



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    #334
    A-Train
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 4,858 ✭✭✭A-Train


    Go on Lowe, it’s a pity



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    #335
    ArielAtom
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,600 ✭✭✭ArielAtom


    are Ireland been ridden here? Saffas being handed a win and celebrating piss poor ref



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    #336
    MisterAnarchy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 17,622 ✭✭✭✭MisterAnarchy


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122348080#Comment_122348080

    2 brain farts from him today and has handed South Africa the game on a plate.

    You wouldnt see both those errors at school boy level.

    This team and Leinster just dont have the mental toughness to win these sort of games, time and time again they fail.



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    #337
    SaoPaulo41
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,667 ✭✭✭SaoPaulo41


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122348102#Comment_122348102

    he is one of the only players who has the guts to do it.



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    #338
    The Iron Giant
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 14,311 ✭✭✭✭The Iron Giant


    James Lowe simultaneously our best and worst player today?



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    #339
    SaoPaulo41
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,667 ✭✭✭SaoPaulo41


    Crowley off the tee again sigh



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    #340
    fitz
    Hosted Moderators Posts: 9,584 ✭✭✭fitz


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122348099#Comment_122348099

    But he kicked the ball and it went dead after deflecting off a SA player. It's like charge down no?



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    #341
    [Deleted User]
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122348120#Comment_122348120

    Doris our best and it wasn't even close



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    #342
    Clegg
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,383 ✭✭✭✭Clegg


    We have every right to be bitter about this result.

    The levels of refereeing incompetence were all the charts.



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    #343
    Zaylee Little Tungsten
    Posts: 13,104 ✭✭✭✭ Zaylee Little Tungsten


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122348115#Comment_122348115

    I don't really blame him for the first one at all. I'd tell him to go for that every time. Our players infield were asleep.

    The second was obviously a very poor error.



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    #344
    The Iron Giant
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 14,311 ✭✭✭✭The Iron Giant


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122348127#Comment_122348127

    Fair. I was probably being a bit hyperbolic. But yeah, you're right



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    #345
    Rugbyf565
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,253 ✭✭✭Rugbyf565


    we win this game if Lowe’s try is given IMO, they shithoused their way to a win, that’s Rassies whole legacy—I hope Farrell doesn’t shake his hand after this tour



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    #346
    clsmooth
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,553 ✭✭✭clsmooth


    Hope no one tells Eben we’ll see him next week.



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    #347
    The Iron Giant
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 14,311 ✭✭✭✭The Iron Giant


    Saffers really were butthurt by Zombie in the World Cup weren't they?



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    #348
    Quazzie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 30,784 ✭✭✭✭Quazzie


    Its hard to know if that was a rugby match in the middle of a concert or a concert in the middle of a rugby match.



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    #349
    letsbefair
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 373 ✭✭letsbefair


    hope Casey is ok



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    #350
    blackwhite
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 9,998 ✭✭✭blackwhite


    Radio 1 claiming that Pearce was taking pleasure in ruling out Irish tries.

    Never heard a commentator making a claim like that about a ref before



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    #351
    AbusesToilets
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 14,776 ✭✭✭✭AbusesToilets


    Never want to see Pearce or Whitehouse near a game again. Abysmal. Genuinely stunningly poor.



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    #352
    letsbefair
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 373 ✭✭letsbefair


    All the ref and video ref calls seemed to kill us



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    #353
    clsmooth
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,553 ✭✭✭clsmooth


    Well deserved by SA. Ireland showed great heart to stay in it and a few marginal calls (as ever) go the other way and we could have stolen it. Most important thing is that Casey is ok.



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    #354
    Lost Ormond
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 5,465 Mod ✭✭✭✭Lost Ormond


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122348145#Comment_122348145

    As opposed to any amount of games up this side of world. Who cares about that stuff anyway?



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    #355
    [Deleted User]
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    Another ref whistles both teams off the park IMO, not sure what if anything can be read into that match.



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    #356
    A-Train
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 4,858 ✭✭✭A-Train


    A very frustrating match from a lot of different angles.
    SA are not a likeable team at all and Rassie is so sound. Pretty classless crowd today for the antics during Casey’s injury.

    Got nothing today and still in it.



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    #357
    jammiedodgers
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,443 ✭✭✭jammiedodgers


    Current state of refereeing is ruining matches tbh.



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    #358
    uptherebels
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,170 ✭✭✭uptherebels


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122348118#Comment_122348118

    Guts to do what?



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    #359
    KaneToad
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,206 ✭✭✭KaneToad


    For the earlier one where Lowe "kept it in" for the Kolbe try, is it not that the ball had passed the plane of touch since the player didn't land in play?

    If the player jumps to grab ball like that, does the player not have to land in the field of play for the ball to stay live? Lowe did the reverse, he jumped off the field to keep it live rather than jumped on field to keep it live.

    I thought I saw exactly this happen in the Irish u20 game and ref didn't let ball stay live (to Ireland's benefit) as the player jumped off pitch.



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    #360
    Quazzie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 30,784 ✭✭✭✭Quazzie


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122348156#Comment_122348156

    I've never watched a game where the music was so consistent and so loud. Perhaps it was just the audio on the TV picking it up more than usual, but it's overpowering at times.



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    #361
    The Iron Giant
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 14,311 ✭✭✭✭The Iron Giant


    Two schoolboy errors from Lowe gave away two unnecessary tries. Game was a bit of a weird one. Seemed totally disjointed in the last period. Whitehouse is still comes one of the worst TMOs going. By and large, South Africa were much better on the day. Oh and RG Snyman is a filthy cűnt.



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