"I started a joke, that started the whole world ......" | Ireland v New Zealand.

Scotland one of the few (the only?) major nation to still not have beaten NZ. There, that’s my Kiwi arrogance shining through 😛

The vast majority of us are happy there’s another major rivalry now. Especially given how Australia have fallen away.

If you look at the final phase there is a point were he is standing still in the middle giving off 'out on his feet' vibes, but at the very end before the turnover he is running around the ruck trying to get the ball and keep it moving.

He was tired no doubt, but I think you want experience on the field all day long given the situation we were in.

It's notable that it was callow youth in the shape of McCarthy that failed to emphatically clear Whitelock out of the final ruck.

Another one to turn the knife after an unprecedented journey for this Irish team. 🙄 Tiresome really.

We have won everything there is to win at rugby at provincial and country level several times, except this competition.

We haven't yet gotten the easy route to a semi final or final some teams get. We have met worthy winners early in knockout games in games that would be worthy of any final.

That's the luck of the draw.

I'm certainly not going to turn a knife in the back of otherwise high achievers. Some people would be well advised to try and keep their dignity and sense of perspective in defeat. They won't of course.

Who is not allowing this?

There are detailed discussions here about what happened in the game from all sorts of vantage points.

Ireland were slight favourites with the bookies, who create odds to try and tempt people to give them money. That's all odds are.

Many people, myself included were of the opinion that it was a 50/50 match and it was. It came down to an arm under the ball basically as the difference between the two.

Wrong and a complete misrepresentation again.

I said that NZ not winning since 2015 AND losing things they had never lost before , home Series and losing for the first time to different teams was evidence that a negative reaction to the team did not have much effect on that teams performance AND that it was more likely to be down to bringing people like Joe Schimdt in.

Now get lost with your pathetic conspiracy theories.

The semi final will be interesting, South Africa haven't won the world Cup this decade, they will be well up for ending that drought.

Keep digging them holes buckety. Poor you, not allowed to express yourself by misrepresenting what was said. 😁