My girlfriend say the NZ anthem sounds like a child learning to talk...
"Goo goo ga ga ma ga boo"
My girlfriend say the NZ anthem sounds like a child learning to talk...
"Goo goo ga ga ma ga boo"
That's a club warning for your girlfriend, Plum. The only anthem we are allowed to make fun of is that gay flower one from Scotland, everything else is racism.
Camera angle in this game is going to take some getting used to.
Ireland making a few early errors.
Oh FFS another TMO check on an absolute nothing incident. Yeah it's high contact but what could the defender have done? He was watching the scrummie and then braced himself for impact as he suddenly found Beauden in his face.
Head on head from All Black 5 on Ireland 9, check that too and waste 5 more minutes.
Scottie B off...
That's a problem for the ABs
My word, how many times do they have to see this foul???
And now the TMO is completely overreacting.
All the NFL types in Soldier Field must be wondering what the fuss is about with Barrett
Ridiculous card. Could have been play on and not all this time wasted.
You back Moz?
Ireland eat a yellow
I thought for a second I dialed into the wrong game.
Anyway, who you okes backing.
I'll be sticking with New Zealand
Ireland hand their day
I don't really have a dog in this fight, KC.
Great clearance by GP.
Clarke with a nice break but couldn't get the pass to his own bloke. Obstruction helped him get through though. Kickable penalty Ireland.
Ireland with a chance to put 3 on the board.
NZ looking rusty
3-0 Ireland. Stadium is packed, damn.
3-0 Ireland
NZ have yet to stop looking rusty this season.
GP with another fine clearance.
Ambitious cross kick by Crowley drifts into touch.
Wow, NZ run the ball...after the Bok game I thought backline play wasn't a thing anymore
Red card. Fuck this, utter bullshit. At least it's only 20 minutes, and this is why we need the 20 minute red card. Because the officials are fucking retards.
Oh...no are they upgrading the yellow to red...
Game ruined!!!
Who the hell makes these calls!!!
Fcked up.
If Ireland can hold the ABs to 14 points in the next 20 minutes...they could still win
Any official giving a red card for that situation is a complete idiot with no ability to apply any manner of intelligent reasoning.
Jordie down and it looks bad.
That knee is swelling and blue already.
At this speed this game is going to run until 1am over here.
My word, Jodie is up and looks like he'll carry on
Ireland rumbling, beating plenty of tackles. All Blacks already starting with their cynical shit at the breakdowns.
Hopefully Jordie doesn't make whatever it is worse by carrying on.
Park is such an accurate kicker and good decision maker. He's so good for them
He's off now.
Jodie leaves the field
Ireland over a man down. Fast ball is where it's at when you're close and they kept up the pace there. GP doesn't fuck around.
Great play Ireland….these lads know how to pass and offload
Great try Ireland.
They know how to put constructive phases together. Slick...and with 14 men.
Abs against it
Is this a 20 minute red?
Magic work by Fainga'anuku to open that up, beat one, kept two other busy, offload and there's plenty of numbers on the other end.
Yep, 20 minute red, then replacement on.
Cost to coast for the ABs!
Game on!!!
First Gibson Park mistake…he was money till that charge down
Back to even numbers as some unassuming office worker called Henderson comes on.
Osborne with a great take. Nothing hoist from Crowley surrenders possession.
Osborne wins the aerial battle again but AB wins one on the ground.
Fabulous GP kick
Ireland steals the lineout. They're competing for everything out there. Another super clearance by GP.
And with a chance to leave the score but go for the corner with a lineout...
Not bad, the Irish retain their 3 point lead after the red card time is over.
AB lineout creaking, skew throw again.
What a ball by GP over the top out wide.
Good buildup by Ireland but Crowley's kick makes for an anticlimactic end to it.
Jordan now with a great take.
Entertaining stuff now after that stuttering start.
What is for dis ref to stop pljay for kick not from precaais spot. Pljeese less wheestle blow ok ok?
Doris makes his presence felt straight away for a strong carry. McClosky almost gets the offload into space away.
That red card reminds me of Cane in the WC….no malice, just a reflex action in a tackle you weren’t expecting to make….utter nonsense.
Far to pedantic …the ref….almost every phase he finds something wrong
Waste of a free kick by Crowley, too deep. He's been pretty average.
That red card reminds me of Cane in the WC….no malice, just a reflex action in a tackle you weren’t expecting to make….utter nonsense.
Yep, shockingly poor judgement in fact.
Hehe, best spot tackle of the game comes after the whistle by O'Brien.
Half fizzling out now...feel like the last 30 will be good
So forearm to the head, nothing after we just had a red card. What a circus.
Lauaghable…that was much worse head contact.
"Far to pedantic …the ref….almost every phase he finds something wrong"
Frenchies
10-7 Ireland HT. Good contest, some entertaining rugby.
Is the ref French? Shit, he sounded almost Georgian or something to me.
How many players from Ab and Ireland would make the Bok squad?
I can't think of many.
He sounds French to me, I could be wrong
Nah he is French, just checked. Pierre Brousset.
How many players from Ab and Ireland would make the Bok squad?
JGP. Jordan. Ardie maybe.
Mils Muliaina also not impressed with the ref.
Cheers guys, enjoy the rest of the match...past my bedtime.
"JGP. Jordan. Ardie maybe."
Even if you double that number...it's crazy.
The Boks should be rolling all these teams
See ya Draad
Some of these hairstyles!!!
Nighty night Draad.
Ireland with all the momentum to start the half.
McCloskey at 12 for Ireland is so much more dynamic than DDA. Ireland's big achilles heel is flyhalf. Put a Sacha in there and they're gonna rock some shit.
Great steal Savea
Savea has to be the best loosie on the planet, what a jackal!
Neither side really getting their stuff together here. Always a mistake at the end of the line. Jordan lands that pass, big trouble, but he doesn't.
Jordan makes a rare mistake passing it behind Clark
Ireland got for 3 to double their lead...
long range...
Crowley misses
Crowley misses the penalty.
Something needs to happen. Game is feeling a bit boribg
Another terrible kick by Crowley.
Another penalty to Ireland, this one was already kickable, made even more so after some AB back chat costs them an extra 10m
Porter monstered, another promising buildup halted. This should be 3 points for Ireland. Looked like a legit counter ruck by NZ.
13-7 Ireland
Carter is no Kolbe. 5 Steps in half a second, end result no step at all.
ABs struggling to find any momentum
Stupid play for Barret there choosing to kick when the ABs were building so effectively
Aki on, McCloskey was good.
Game in the doldrums
Did you the cheers for Aki?
Lol DDA dreams of that kind of reception.
As a neutral I want the ABs to score next
Jeez, no one from any side can hold on to a crucial pass.
Did you the cheers for Aki?
Man, even just looking at the way McCloskey played I can't understand the hype around DDA.
Another TMO review. Big hit from Ringrose, legal. Surprisingly the officials agree. Miracles do happen.
Great jackal, Abs with the penalty and setting up an attacking lineout...
That hit on Bowdi...ouch
AB score. Tamatie Willemse. 14-13 NZ.
ABs score! They'll convert this!
14-13 ABs
That was a nice quick tap play
Game on!
If Jordan left that it was out on the full.
Barrett pulling down Lowe front on. Couldn't stop Esterhuizen.
Roigard with a cracking pass to Clarke.
Abs have a scrum on their own line...
They play it out but Low sweep excellently to clear the danger
Great try AB, lovely step and delay from Beauden opened it up. 21-13
That looked like the ABs of old.
13-21 Ireland need two scores now
LOL, Prendergast on for Ireland. Imagine being under the gun and that's who you have to take up the flyhalf position.
The Nzers are blow yards…’Sititi has exceptional pace’….but Doris closes him from behind. Hard to say which side I dislike more
Ireland with and attacking scrum right on the AB 22. They need something from this
Ag, and now Ireland knock it.
NZ scrum inside their own 22.
These scrums have been boring as hell.
The Bok scrum so much better than these girls
They didn't get anything from that.
Prendergast promptly tosses a pass into AB hands.
Ireland falling apart now, so many mistakes
Looks like another SH win is on the cards
Ireland look a bit gassed….we would have taken the points not kicked for touch
Aki looking gormless
Yeah, the Irish wilting in the Chicago fog
Well on the bright side for Ireland, this is not a WC quarter.
Roigard moers the final nail in the coffin.
The All Blacks embarking on a Grand Slam tour says the NZ blowhard commentator….the thrashing by the Boks not mentioned once
Nobody will be happier with this win than Razor. He needed it badly.
Are the rumours of Ireland's demise true?
"The All Blacks embarking on a Grand Slam tour says the NZ blowhard commentator….the thrashing by the Boks not mentioned once"
They repressed that memory
Ardie takes Ireland for a walk with a little help from his friends.
Osborne and Crowley let NZ back in this game with some unnecessary mistakes.
Thanks for the games chaps.
I'm out.
De Allende is my player of the weekend. At least an 8.5
Ireland just becoming a parody now as another pass goes astray.
De Allende is my player of the weekend. At least an 8.5
Exactly what 365 gave him. Cheers Plummie.
AB almost gets another but there were multiple forward passes. End of game.
Cheers guys.
Finally the ref gets told it’s a forward pass. And once again the AB commentator says the Grand Slam hopes are still alive. Man they are annoying.
Cheers guys…a flat second half.
The Sexonless Irish must get beaten by the Boks.
Well that was quite a boring couple of hours, wasn’t it ?
Moz, it was Ireland vs NZ. Why the fuck would the NZ commentators bring up the whipping the ABs got in Wellington??
Did the Bok commentators mention the Boks conceding 38 unanswered points to the Aussies in SA during the Japan game?
I suspect not……
They didn’t Moolaa, but they also didn’t, mention a Grand Slam tour. Surely every YE tour starts as a potential grand slam tour for the Boks and ABs.
Plum your comment has been noticed.
Travel to NZ and say that..................
You would not understand a word of it but stupid enough to criticise...........
"M?ori has a lot of short, open syllables, and many words are made up of one or two simple syllables."
Moz a grand slam is vs the 4 home nations which the ABs haven’t had a crack at since 2010 so that’s why they bring it up!
Mozzietard got schooled! Again.
Fair enough Moolaa, my mistake I wasn’t aware of the schedule and as Beeno says I’ve been schooled. Good luck with the Grand Slam, winning it will add to the edge of the NZ series next year.
Did you go to the game Moz? I was there and the first half was really a drag. It was good to see the ABs play well in the final 20 and they did show signs of being fluid in some parts of the game in the first half but the stop start and the problems with the TMO and the big screen were really disappointing.
I was surrounded by Irish supporters and they were a good bunch.
Well Chicago is an Irish city JW….unfortunately I had a commitment in Florida and had to leave on Tuesday. Eleven family members and friends were at the game.
Plum
"M?ori has a lot of short, open syllables, and many words are made up of one or two simple syllables."
We don't understand Afrikaans but that does not give us the right to insult it.
I am sure that our Maori girls would love to get hold of your girlfriend:
Plum is not Afrikaans.
Chat GPT:
Tapahia to mahunga ki nga pakihiwi ka kati to kaki
Tapahia to mahunga > Cut off your head
ki nga pakihiwi > to the shoulders
ka kati to Kaki > and your waist/hips will close
In essence, it’s metaphorical rather than literal. Most whakataukl
like this convey lessons about preparation, decisiveness, or consequences. This one is often interpreted as:
If you tackle a problem decisively at its source (head/leadership), the rest will fall into place naturally.
’I am sure that our Maori girls would love to get hold of your girlfriend:’
Does the Maori girls mean the literal meaning or metaphorical one?
Do people really get this upset at someone making a joke about their language? We have to hear stuff like "Afrikaans sounds like talking Dutch with a dick in your mouth" and so on. Who cares.
'Afrikaans sounds like talking Dutch with a dick in your mouth'
First time I hear that one Pakie :)
It's not even a very good one MP, because we all know nothing sounds more like speaking Dutch with a dick in your mouth than Dutch itself.
"We don't understand Afrikaans but that does not give us the right to insult it."
What it sounds like and what it means aren't the same think B&R.
...and what it means to you is yet another thing.
"ka kati to Kaki " tell me that doesn't sound like a child coming to terms with "Ks" and vowels...
Here's an Afrikaans word "Onverantwoordelikheidsgevoelensgebrekigheid” and i promise you it sounds like somebody having a stroke.
So calm down.
PS Tell your girls to bring guns, and very big dogs. They'll need them.
True that Pakie:) And Plum your Girlfriend sounds dangerous, don’t piss her off:)
I know very well what it means..
PS Tell your girls to bring guns, and very big dogs. They'll need them.
It sounds as though you have to live in your own prison anyway.
I guess what goes around - Comes around.
Ka hauhake koe i tu i rui ai
Wanna cry?
Just win, howzit ... first half lasted 55 minutes.
Third consecutive win over Irish.
Irland has a problem - for many ears over the past ten years at least Ireland's team came from Leinster, However when Leinster is weak - like the case was thus far this year in the URC - it is a danger signal as to Ireland 's team strength. The fact is that in the test on Satirday it was shown up to be the fact that should be borne in mind. Lemster this year is in position 7 on the log they have the same log points than the Lions - 11 poimts Due to the fact that Leinster is nimber 7 on the log and not number 8 - is the fact that Leinster has minus 10 points and the Lions minus 12 points differences,
What is interesting is that Munster by sme distance is on URC level is very good this year while the Bulls and S ha rks have problems in he number 10 and 12 osition and that neutralize the the Bulls and Sharks in the URC snd yjodr 3 podotopmd sr where the Sprin gboks are strong with players from the Stormers is strong, wirg giid foreibn ex-Stremer players,
Looking at the test aganst the AB's I am afraid Ireland will have problems in their math against th Springboks and even in the 6-Nations next year.
Leinster drop a game or two and suddenly they're weak.
Mike, they're still the best side in the comp.
"Wanna cry?"
Jy weet waar sy knoppies sit. :-)
Hy's van knoppies gemaak.
Plum,
Like I said - Come over here and start mouthing off.
No, you come here
No, you both meet at Allianzzz Twickers, no hometown advantage for any of you suckers.
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Actually went and looked up whether one is able to study stem fields in the Mauri language.
Found out that they are actually developing the language to make it possible. Unlike in SA where English and Afrikaans have to be used because the locals can't be bothered to keep up.
Good job Mauris
Perhaps B&R will come to Joburg and discuss it with me some more ;)
Hi Bobbok, life us good, thanks for asking??
yes, first 55 mins very frustrating with lots of promising moves negated by mistakes & ref. When things clicked for the ABs it was a joy to see!
my son & I were surrounded by Irish fans but they were great sports & clapped when the ABs did something special. Overall the atmosphere was great!
Good luck to the Boks in the coming games. They are the team to beat these days & are a joy to watch.
Greetings JW. Glad to see you are still alive and finding from somewhere the motivation to support the hapless wee abs!
Always remember Wellington where the wobbly wee abs meet their Waterloo!
I hear the Scotts think they can take your guys. Probably wishful thinking?
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Late night game, might stay awake for the whole thing if it's good.