Rugby world cup post mortem

The lineout

The lineout and we gave away 3 scrum penalties. Did you watch the game?

Another glorious defeat. Am off to write a song

Harsh in the extreme to criticise that team, we were excellent. All Blacks found a level they haven't got to in a long time to beat us. Ireland are comfortably within the top 4 teams in this WC, not getting too hung up on this QF thing.

Wow just wow a calamity of errors.

Our Lineouts. Shocking. Scrums shocking. The amount of turnovers.

I really have to question sexton kicking this game the times he kicked just didn't need it.

We just fell asleep defensively twice. Barrett chip and Jordan's try. You can't do that at this level.

To give the all blacks back possession with 9 mins to go via a knock on in midfield with ZERO pressure. Dear God.

Who are you people? Rarely check in on boards anymore, now I remember why.

Agreed. Sexton was standing still receiving every ball.

Mo'unga wasnt

This was a cracking game. Could have easily gone the other way. Just like the SA game.

NZ were excellent. They produced a couple MOM to create some excellent tries.

Ireland were also good. But some weakness in our set piece cost us in the end.

They were nearer in '91 than now. Def should have taken 3 at the start, it was NZ and not Namibia or someone, next thing 13-0 down and game nearly over, poorish missed penalty too, that was 6 points and the match winning difference, hindsight but still. One of the worst NZ teams ever against possibly the greatest Ireland team ever, think losing to SA would have been a better result. Like the soccer world cups often the team that starts poorish and keeps improving goes further than the ones that blow out the lights early on, same in the hurling with Limerick this year. The draw was a disaster so maybe in 4yrs a worse team will go further but by then who knows what Wales/Scotland/OZ etc will be like, possibly much stronger, but who knows. In fairness they died with the boots on but a massive opportunity missed. Also would Argentina have then caught them off guard in the semi, maybe not but would be like something that could have happened the way things go..

I am very doubtful after tonight. I just don't think we will ever do it. We will fcuk it up somehow. It's a bitter pill to swallow for Irish rugby tonight. We will be the laughing stock for the worldwide media but we deserve it until we win a QF in a World Cup.

Lol of all the reasons we lost that game, Sexton wasn't it. Some clowns in this thread who've never popped up before but I've no doubt they'd be polluting the ticket thread looking if we had got to a semi or final.

On the game: they played at 100% of their potential, we played at 90% and that's the difference. We weren't clinical enough in the periods vs 14 & we made some errors, the Doris knock on, at crucial times. A malfunctioning line out, yet again, was also another tick in the negative column. I'm heartened by the fact that for the first time in a long time an Irish team showed up in a QF and were within a kick at the business end. Make no mistake, NZ will know they were in a game.

We'll get there, no doubt. It's just going to take a little longer.

Thats sport for you.

Sometimes the best team has an off-day and loses. It happens in all sports.

TRC is just doing his usual.

Loves it when an Irish side loses.