All Blacks vs Ireland

[fermain]

9 changes from last week, and boy do we need something outta this game... can't see it making much difference tbh...

IRELAND: Rob Kearney (UCD/Leinster); Fergus McFadden (Old Belvedere/Leinster), Brian O'Driscoll (UCD/Leinster) (capt), Gordon D'Arcy (Lansdowne/Leinster), Andrew Trimble (Ballymena/Ulster); Jonathan Sexton (St. Mary's College/Leinster), Conor Murray (Garryowen/Munster); Cian Healy (Clontarf/Leinster), Rory Best (Banbridge/Ulster), Mike Ross (Clontarf/Leinster), Dan Tuohy (Ballymena/Ulster), Donnacha Ryan (Shannon/Munster), Kevin McLaughlin (St. Mary's College/Leinster), Sean O'Brien (Clontarf/Leinster), Jamie Heaslip (Naas/Leinster).

Replacements: Sean Cronin (St. Mary's College/Leinster), Declan Fitzpatrick (Dungannon/Ulster), Donncha O'Callaghan (Cork Constitution/Munster), Peter O'Mahony (Cork Constitution/Munster), Eoin Reddan (Lansdowne/Leinster), Ronan O'Gara (Cork Constitution/Munster), Simon Zebo (Cork Constitution/Munster).

Referee: Nigel Owens (Wales)
Assistant Referees: Romain Poite, Pascal Gauzere (both France)
Television Match Official: Matt Goddard (Australia)

[againstthehead]

any streams?

[moondance]

http://onlinefoxsports.com/New+Zealand+ ... d-2686.htm

[fermain]

great wee dummy nicely setup by Murray. Great try.

[Joony-k]

Bit of nerves perhaps from trimble to drop that first high ball.

[fermain]

poor discipline within DCs kicking range will lose us this game. 3 already. Ireland 10 NZ 9

[Snipe Watson]

Ireland have their A game, the All Blacks have their C game and there's still only a 1 point lead.........

[fermain]

our A game from this team... don't forget we have usual 1st team players out too.

[fermain]

not a bad 1st half IMO, but still could be improved upon.

[againstthehead]

who would have thought lol?

[breakdown]

Not watching, we will lose anyway...

[Dave]

Ireland have their A game, the All Blacks have their C game and there's still only a 1 point lead.........

Ireland are making NZ look like they are playing their C game with ferocity in the contact area and not giving them a chance to run like last week with contestable kicking from the ruck by Ireland. Great 1st half effort were NZ have already threatened our try line.

[Loki]

my stream's given up on me. Ireland's workrate has been huge but it looks like the ABs are just going to start pulling away. the lads'll be wrecked come about 60 minutes.

[Snipe Watson]

Get Sky

[ColinM]

Good match, unfortunately will probably come down to use of the bench.


Mike Ross is doing all he can to highlight how good Fitzpatrick was last week, TH side of the scrum in reverse all game