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A saffer not a dagger, sorry corne
Rugby World Cup quarter-finals expert tips: End the desperation
I presume you are a kiwi & that corne is a dagger, I’ll bet ye both are fierce proud of her national rugby teams. I’ll bet ye have both stuck it into opposing rugby fans after yer team has beaten them. I’ll bet ye have both had a crack off northern hemisphere rugby at one stage or another, could be construed as rude and arrogant! Win or lose I’ll come back on this forum on Saturday, whether to gloat or taste humble pie
Rugby World Cup quarter-finals expert tips: End the desperation
That guy writes for the sun, his demographic are soccer supporting working class folk who hate the whole idea of rugby being the bastion of the wealthy fee-paying private school boys. he’s playing to the crowd. I’m from limerick where rugby has always been a sport for all classes, like Wales, like new Zealand. Rugby is popular in Ireland as a whole now due to the successes of our national & provincial teams. We’ve got some d-head journos & some pseudonym forum writers that hate rugby or just want to stir it. As proper fans I’d ask you to see the respect opposition teams get in Ireland for games by normal fans, we don’t boo the haka over here
Rugby World Cup quarter-finals expert tips: End the desperation
You’ll have to give us examples of the Irish press being arrogant & rude towards the nz team. As far as I can see their being supportive & giving us a fighting chance while at the same time acknowledging how good nz are. Whereas say zinzan Brooke is already talking about how tough England are going to be in the semi. I don’t think he even realizes ire & aus are in the 1/4’s before that
Rugby World Cup quarter-finals expert tips: End the desperation
Just like that? The mind boggles that they’d choose a different version when if they performed kop the game needn’t even be played
The All Blacks' quarter-final line-up will balance stability and flair
By all the former players I presume you just mean luke Fitzgerald? Most Irish fans like Nigel Owens as a ref
The All Blacks' quarter-final line-up will balance stability and flair
Hey Paul, after fighting your own personal war, I’m loving the optimism for Ireland! You’re giving me confidence now ☘️☘️
Rugby World Cup quarter-finals expert tips: End the desperation
I’d say it’s more a case of tier 1 nations not playing the islander teams that often. Usually on the Nov tours they’d be the warm up games to the main ones, hence 2nd string sides, hence not a lot of interest. We badly need the 6ns teams to your the Pacific islands in the July window but there’s no money in that for the Europeans or the big 3 down south. It’d be great for the lions to incorporate tests against the pi teams on a tour to Australia. Play the 3 of them, 3 Aussie super teams & 3 tests, a good hard tour. Will never happen but at least play v a select pi team in the first game
Hands off our haka
Schmidt won’t change it up that much, it’ll basically be a full strength team v Japan & sew the group up. Even with all the reserves though Ireland will put 20+ on japan. I’d give Japan a fighting chance v Scotland & it’d be great for the tournament if they qualified but my head says Scotland by 15-20 aswell. The speed they play looks great until they come up against a proper pack & especially a proper rush defence, after 10 mins of getting busted they’ll be forced to kick
Rugby World Cup tipping Week 2: into the grind
Exactly, these lads are basically going by the premise that it’s better for these pi players to stay at home on the islands, play amateur rugby & turn down life changing professional contracts. how does this help the development of say the samoan national team? Maybe they’re all available to play test rugby but they wouldn’t be conditioned to play professional test rugby. This notion that European clubs are the ‘boogie-men’ kind of ignore the fact that these players actually make a great living, often life-changing for their families
Rugby World Cup tipping Week 2: into the grind
Mackenna hates rugby full stop. He’s always writing rubbish columns looking to make a name for himself by taking a controversial stance. He’ll be loving all the attention he’s getting now.
For the kiwi readers on here who want to know how the general Irish rugby fan views the haka I’d ask ye to look up on YouTube the Munster v all black game at thomond park in 2008. That was when Dougie & the kiwi boys playing for Munster did their own haka, the best atmosphere of any game I’ve ever been to.
Hands off our haka
Harry, that sounds a bit like Ireland, cheers!!
The Wrap: Why the All Blacks are ahead of the game in Japan
Our best players did nothing through 2019 through both injury & form but now seem to be waking up again. As an Irish fan we’ve a pig of a draw in the quarters, and we’ve a very poor record there, but the team is taking shape. I honestly think Schmidt is timing the run to perfection, a very clever man. I wouldn’t overly fear sa in the 1/4s at all, we’ll have a big enough pack and our kicking game could destroy their back 3, le roux & mapimpi very shaky under a high ball
Rugby World Cup 2019 preview series: Ireland
I think neither Schmidt or especially Hansen has shown their hand at all yet. What makes kiwi coaches great is that it’s ingrained in them, we’ll set a game plan, others will follow and catch up, we’ll evolve. Ireland won the grand slam & beat the all blacks in 2018, for Schmidt after that, he’s main goal is the WC. England jarred him with their physicality & kicking game in the 6ns. The warm up game, England once again looked great, but we missed 34 tackles. England were after 2 tough games against Wales whereas we’d a runout v Italy then spent over a week in heavy training in Portugal the week before the game. Have Eddie Jones & rassie shown their hand a bit early?
Rugby World Cup 2019 preview series: Ireland
The pro14 wouldn’t be the equivalent of super rugby, it would be more like the Currie cup or npc. The equivalent of super rugby would be the Heineken cup. I’d love to see a match between the crusaders and saracens
Time for a world club championship?
The cheetahs have never come 3rd in the pro14, they came 3rd in one of the conferences. They were competitive at home but usually got hammered away. Then in the quarterfinal they got hammered. The king’s are woeful, a mile behind the Italian teams
Time for a world club championship?
I think every rugby fan appreciates the rich heritage of the all blacks, I always find them a joy to watch. The great thing about rugby though is the different styles in different countries. I know tman has no respect for nh rugby & that’s fair enough. It mightn’t be always fluid, but it’s tough, hard & teams often playing the conditions. What’s the point of everyone being nz-lite?
A lot to learn for the Wallabies from this weekend's Six Nations action
Watch out for tadgh beirne this weekend though, he’s a bit special
A lot to learn for the Wallabies from this weekend's Six Nations action
You are no NZ fan!! Usually if something is said ‘mildly’ criticising them it’s met with outrage….where did you buy that thick skin?
A lot to learn for the Wallabies from this weekend's Six Nations action
It was your head coach that came out with all this rubbish!! Irish fans know we’re in for a hell of a quarter final no matter who we face & that we have a terrible record there
A lot to learn for the Wallabies from this weekend's Six Nations action
To be fair I believe it was Hansen came out with that
A lot to learn for the Wallabies from this weekend's Six Nations action
I’m sure they will need trys to progress in the wc, but defences are tough up here as you’ve seen with the way nz struggle to deal with the rush defence over the last few years. Ye had a couple of shoot outs with sa last year that could of gone both ways, don’t think yer all that far ahead of them. Then ye came north, I know games that mean nothing to ye, and were lucky to beat England and v Ireland, bar a blocked kick didn’t really look like scoring a try. I’m just going on recent form here, ye did whitewash France last summer but that doesn’t look quite as impressive now
A lot to learn for the Wallabies from this weekend's Six Nations action
Yeah but it was a three game series away from home. I would have thought winning it was a pretty good achievement. I know Ireland haven’t achieved anything in NZ historically but you can’t deny the recent games between them haven’t been tight, win or lose. Look the wc will sort it all out, as it should, if I was betting I’d back nz, but you can’t say their current team is anything as intimidating as the ’15 one
A lot to learn for the Wallabies from this weekend's Six Nations action
So what you’re saying is that the ai’s mean nothing much whereas the June internationals are more an indicator of the state of rugby? I’d love to hear your rationale for that!
A lot to learn for the Wallabies from this weekend's Six Nations action
While union in Australia has imploded, the game in Ireland is going from strength to strength. In some random red-neck Aussie writers viewpoint the average Irish fan is somehow a moron,yet we turn out and support our teams, I’d say per head of population there’s probably more Irish supporters in Japan than any other nation. Now the way we play might turn some of you average Australian supporters off the game but to be fair most of ye are fair weather fans who don’t turn up anyway. If we’re lucky enough to beat nz tmrw by 9-7, us with 3 drop-goals to an absolute worldie of a try from nz, then every Irish fan will be delirious. Our players will play the way our kiwi coach wants them to, he’s a well respected man up here. Why exactly would we take on nz at their game?
Why I'm going for the most boring team at the World Cup