Ire v NZ - Dublin

[hellovating]

Irish team announced later.



New Zealand: Ben Smith, Israel Dagg, Malakai Fekitoa, Anton Lienert-Brown, Julian Savea, Beauden Barrett, Aaron Smith, Kieran Read (captain), Sam Cane, Liam Squire, Sam Whitelock, Brodie Retallick, Owen Franks, Dane Coles, Joe Moody

Replacements: Codie Taylor, Wyatt Crockett, Charlie Faumuina, Scott Barrett, Ardie Savea, TJ Perenara, Aaron Cruden, Waisake Naholo

[hellovating]

Ireland: Rob Kearney, Andrew Trimble, Rob Henshaw, Jared Payne, Simon Zebo, Johnny Sexton, Conor Murray; Jack McGrath, Rory Best (capt), Tadhg Furlong, Devin Toner, Donnacha Ryan, CJ Stander, Sean O’Brien, Jamie Heaslip.

Replacements: Sean Cronin, Cian Healy, Finlay Bealham, Iain Henderson, Josh van der Flier, Kieran Marmion, Paddy Jackson, Garry Ringrose.

[mcshinnertheligind]

Strong bench that.

[scuzzaman]

Best of luck to Ireland.

Hansen didn't do any respecting in his interview today so I think we're going to take this one, but without that monkey on yer back it's going to be a hard game for both sides.

Maaaarvelous.

[francoisfou]

If your boys give 'em another beating, I'm a chinaman!

Good luck,

WunHungLo

[16th man]

So much of this game is going to come down to if Peyper will be as strong on the AB's breakdown nonsense.

[morepork]

I doubt they'll be relying on the ref to win.

[morepork]

Come on. He bounced off Reid.

[16th man]

I doubt they'll be relying on the ref to win.

For starters there's one. That's a dismal decision, that's a shoulder charge to the head. Definite yellow, possible red.

[Mellsblue]

How that's not a yellow is beyond me.

[morepork]

How that's not a yellow is beyond me.

Because it wasn't high.

[morepork]

I doubt they'll be relying on the ref to win.

For starters there's one. That's a dismal decision, that's a shoulder charge to the head. Definite yellow, possible red.

Utter bullshit.

[16th man]

How that's not a yellow is beyond me.

Because it wasn't high.

Seriously?

[Mellsblue]

So, shoulder into head isn't high?

[Len]

He fell into it FFS. His arms were wrapped.

[Mr Mwenda]

Missed the foul the commentators are talking about. What happened? Who went off?

[morepork]

I wasn't shoulder into head. It was head into head.


Try Barrett.

[Mellsblue]

He fell in to it? Henshaw was up right. Regardless, the onus is on the tackler not to go high. I have no dog in this fight and it should have been yellow.

[morepork]

No. It shoudn't have.

[Mellsblue]

So Len says its high and mp says its not. That's the problem with black tinted spectacles, they're opaque.

[Len]

He fell in to it? Henshaw was up right. Regardless, the onus is on the tackler not to go high. I have no dog in this fight and it should have been yellow.

He was being tackled by Read and spun down mate. Unlucky. Penalty/yellow. The call was penalty.

[Len]

So Len says its high and mp says its not. That's the problem with black tinted spectacles, they're opaque.

He got shouldered in the head. But only because he fell into it. Canes body position wasn't high though. It was unlucky.

[morepork]

Smith was asking for that.

[Len]

He fell into that too. Just kidding. That was high as fuck.

[Mellsblue]

This is a bloody good test match.