Rugby Union 21/22/23 Discussion | RWC time!
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Massive try in the context of the series.
Yes!!!
Feck me. What a finish. Straight off the bench too.
Thanks. I'll feckin take it
AB’s seriously need to look at their discipline. Great work by the Irish forwards.
What a crucial steal. We needed that.
Tadhg Beirne is pure quality and so consistent. Remember him from the Scarlets.
Come on Ireland!
Well done Ireland. History made.
Deserved series win for the Irish.
ABs passed on 2 penalties right in front, decision making really poor.
Unbelievable
Fantastic series win, we'll never play an AB's team as bad but you got to beat whats in front of you.
Next hurdle: Winning the World Cup?
Next hurdle: Winning the World Cup?
O’ Mahony in tears. There’s something in my eye!
1 down, 2 to go. Super Saturday.
Winning a knockout game would be nice for a start. I think there are a few teams still ahead of them (France, South Africa, maybe England will be better then) and unfortunately they will surely have to beat one of them to make it out of the quarters.
Not a huge follower of rugby but aren’t Ireland beating NZ pretty regularly these days?
Up late, just seen score. Excellent result, not many NH sides get a series win in NZ.
See a lot of social media talk about a yellow for Porter and inconsistency… anyone, right decision?
See a lot of social media talk about a yellow for Porter and inconsistency… anyone, right decision?
There's the incident. It's obviously subjective, but the key factor is that Porter was absorbing the contact rather than driving through it.
I know it’s not taken into account but it also looks a lot less bad when he has his arms wrapped like that.
A series win in NZ is usually tougher than winning the World Cup. Amazing achievement.
I've just watched last week's and it looks a lot worse. He didn't even really tackle him. It looked like first contact was head on head. Whether they should both be reds based on the law is another thing but it was more dangerous.
https://www.skysports.com/watch/video/12648618/taavao-red-card-for-head-clash-on-ringrose
I don’t think there was malice in either incident. But the first one was loads more dangerous IMO. As you, say the head clash was the primary point of contact. They took 100% of the collision through their heads. Which is horrendous. The fact that Porter wasn’t hurt at all tells you something.
A fully deserved series win for Ireland. The only downside for the rest of the world is NZR might have to consider sacking Ian Foster. In the Graham Henry/Steve Hansen era, the All Blacks would come out breathing fire after a loss. This is the 3rd time the Kiwis have lost consecutive tests under Ian Foster.
Yeah, I know they want to stop as many HtH as possible but yellow seems ok to me
Australia vs England at the Sydney Cricket Ground is on soon.
Great try Australia!
Danny Care’s England career brutally (re)ended on the 30 minute mark 
England ahead. Great try and brave call at the end of the half to kick to touch.
Danny Care’s England career brutally (re)ended on the 30 minute mark
Steward having a good game so far
Shit. We're in trouble now after Marcus Smith pounced on a lost Wallabies lineout to score a try.
Yeah he’s the answer at FB….plus he’s so huge he just stretched over smaller backs in those 1 on 1s near the line
get in!
England win!
Deserved over the series I feel.
Ireland
England
Wales and Scotland bring it in for a clean sweep to the Northern Hemisphere!?
Unlucky mate
England win the series. Eddie leaves Australia as the winning coach again. Mistakes proving costly. The Rennie embodies the old saying 2 steps forward, 3 steps back.
England played better test match footy; no frills, few mistakes, force your opponent into mistakes and capitalise on them.
Yeah it was deserved. Not been overly impressed by us, but other than 20 mins at the end of the first test I don’t think there’s been any time Aus have particularly looked the better side.
Love an NH sweep but can’t see Wales pulling it off.
Commiserations @Xaviesta. How did you rate your guys? I wasn’t overly impressed, but your injury list is a pretty legitimate excuse
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