All Blacks v Ireland part III - July 16 8.05am Ireland time

N.Z fans and media are up in arms over the series. You'd swear they have a right to be the best. It's sport! Like every sport, there's purple patches and lows. Look at Barca or Man U! Like every other generation, there's bound to be teams improving and evolving, it's natural.

We piss n moan ourselves and so do most nations. I would not say that Ireland are brilliant. I'd say that N.Z are average and we're going to learn more next month. Sports are competitive and there's nothing guaranteed. Referees are poor (imo) and results could vary on the appointment of a referee.

The idea that the Porter incident decided the series is just rugby. If the decision had gone the other way, maybe the result changes. Maybe not! Over 3 test matches, Ireland were clearly the better team!

@Dubinusa….Ireland were clearly the better team in the first test after being thrashed by 42 points????

How often do NZ dominate games these days? They almost always have purple patches, and score from broken play.

Ireland can absolutely dominate NZ and only win by 10 points, if NZ dominate a game they will end up winning to 20-30. I don't think things have changed much in that regard.

Yes there are… this is the first time the northern hemisphere has dominated world rugby…about time… how long has it been? 150 years? The six nations has now well and truly over taken the rugby championship as the bench mark of world rugby… if South Africa and Japan join it and possibly Argentina… Nz and Australia will be left with just the South Pacific islands as competition.

South Africa will almost certainly join the 6 nations in the next few years, but Argentina unless they base themselves in Spain or something, I can't see them joining.

Japan have no business joining the 6 nations, South Africa and Argentina are at least in a near enough time zone, Japan are 9 hours out from UTC.

It wasn't the exact same. Completely different dynamics.

Would I have complained if it was red? Slight grumble, but not really.

It's been a tough few years for N.Z. 1st England dominate them and send them packing at the world cup. Then last year's record! Which I thought was damn good but, others thought was poor and now a series lost at home. N.Z welcome to our world!

Is Schmidt going in as a DOR or as an assistant coach according to the rumors?

Well it turns out none of the rumours were true, and the All Blacks are to continue as they were.

Schmidt has come in as a selector, but has a secondary role analysing the opposition and assisting with strategy. He's not part of the coaching setup, though.

That will be the case sometimes, and I’ve already acknowledged you can’t remove this stuff from the game entirely. However there are loads of cases where tacklers can get lower and don’t.

There isn’t a red card problem. There’s a player behaviour problem.

Selecting Shannon Frizell and Sevu Reece for the SA tour is certainly a choice.

No dickheads allowed apparently.