Men's Rugby WR World Cup 2023

[rafalgorka 1,517]

Oh i love this match. This is rugby with a flow!

[OlympicIRL 5,532]

Somehow we are still in this match despite playing against ourselves with all our errors and a really clinical and sharp New Zealand team who mean business here. We need to be so much better in the second half to stand a chance.

[rafalgorka 1,517]

Bravo All Blacks!  @Wanderer

[hckošice 14,822]

That was one amazing match. Really exciting, almost as awesome as an ice hockey game baby

[Monzanator 4,499]

New Zealand hangs on 28-24. The Ireland World Cup misery lives on.

[Bohemia 1,411]

Very sad for Ireland who once again fail to go further than quarterfinals but damn that was amazing to watch!

[OlympicIRL 5,532]

Devastating 

[Agger 1,662]

I don't watch much rugby, but that certainly was quite a game!

[rafalgorka 1,517]

Now time for Flying Fijians!!! 💪

[mpjmcevoy 362]

2 hours ago, Bohemia said:

Very sad for Ireland who once again fail to go further than quarterfinals but damn that was amazing to watch!

Previously Ireland have choked, or just not been good enough.

 

This was nothing of the sort.

 

This was two great teams of the four great teams currently in existence taking absolute  lumps out of each other - Ireland going 13 down early and punching their way back, All blacks surviving 20 mins wth 14 men - in the end, a brilliant J Barrett hold up and the astonishing discipline of the NZ defence in the last phase - not sure any other team could have beaten Ireland today, not sure the All blacks could have been pushed harder than they were today - they were pretty much the top of their Game and still just about clinging on in the last phases i wasn't an unreachable black will, Ireland nearly made it through 3 times, but NZL found a way to hold the line.

 

This'll haunt Ireland, but we didn't die wondering - it's no fluke, we are in this league, but well done All Blacks.

 

This match was not quite as ;seismic; as the RSA match, which was frighteningly violent, but in another way it was equally astonishing. The standards in the World Cup generally are easily the greatest they've ever been - and i could probably watch any match featuring a combination of Ireland, France, New Zealand And South Africa all day at the moment.

 

 

Edited October 14, 2023 by mpjmcevoy