NZ have played 11 games in 4 months, Ireland had played 20 games over 16 months, playing for their clubs in between, so no off season for the players in over a year, last game was against SA in July, many see that as an advantage to NZ.
@ That’s roughly 2 more games per month the NZL players have played compared to their Irish counterparts…and yet Ireland are the “tired” ones…make that make sense!
Kia ora guys, luv yer show, especially when some bugger comments: "Don't forget, folks, when Alan Quinlan or Matt Williams is speaking, put your speed to 1.25 and it's perfect!" - absolutely hilarious - iuv you guys, keep it up and good luck this weekend.
Kiwi here. My heart can’t handle another tight game so I won’t watch it live. I’ll wait for the score and either celebrate a win or cry into my beer. Once I’ve recovered I’ll watch the replay. If I had to put my house on it I’d pick Ireland for a tight win due home advantage and ABs missing Taylor and Barrett. That said I wouldn’t be surprised with an AB victory either. Hopefully a good test with no cards and a TMO not trying to take over proceedings.
As an ABs supporter I think the Irish have too much cohesiveness and decisive execution. I don’t think lack of game time will affect them. I hope the ABs learn from their mistakes from last week, cut the errors they may have a chance.
Ah lads. I missed yer voices. Looking forward to a month of ye talking absolute rhubarb about rugby based on total conjecture and crystal balling. Its a pleasure.
The games inbetween the RWC are good practise runs for ABs and Boks who are the big Title holders of most of the RW C which , and and ultimately comes next world Cup, these x 2 Southern Hemisphere giants will battle is out in the final for the crown and not fade away on their way to the finals. WRC...ONLY Championship that matters and bears accolades. LETS GO🎉🎉🎉FROM SAFFA😂😂😂
Honestly do you think someone slagging you during a game would matter a jot. Reko was just classless after a game but that's on him. I'd prefer to see OMahony plough someone in a tackle than wast time mouthing, but fat chance of that
Matt I disagree with you on the Haka, there is nothing wrong the English did. Teams should be allowed to react in any way they want as long as it is respectful.
Ireland need to give a response and win the game… they got knocked out of QF by the all blacks AGAIN.. if they fold they shouldn’t be talked about so highly. Let’s see if they can handle the pressure.
The W C is every 4 years. I like to think A-LOT goes on in between. If a team doesn’t win the WC, it does not make them a bad team, it just means they have to improve, etc etc. Give up on Ireland losing at the quarters, they are improving, learning, growing and hopefully will pull it off one day, again hopefully in my lifetime. Go Ireland!!
Focus on the negative then,I'm over the moon after that win against England and now with our tails up we go again to create history and beat Ireland on their home turf 😋 can't wait ✊️
"If Ireland played like they did in the second test against SA can New Zealand live with them or compete with them". "If NZ are even as half as ill discipline at making errors as they did at Twinckenham, Ireland will win". By all accounts, England were the better team last week and still lost to an ill discipline AB side. NZ scored three trys. The ABs almost beat SA in SA in the RC. All the stats were against them and they had players sent to the bin. But they were games NZ could have won. Have Ireland really improved out of sight, or do they just have a game plan that's workable for them and challenges defences? In the SA series they worked the same game that was implemented in the quarters. They lost one and won one. NZ were behind on most stats in the quarters, played with a man down for 20mins and still won. If NZ are playing that badly and still beating or just losing to top tier teams, that would indicate that NZ aren't playing well more than anything, and the rest are benefitting from their form slump.
ireland are not our ABs biggest rival SA are. ABs and SA go way back the only rivalry between ABs and ireland is southernhemisphere vs northern nothing more
Ireland have been sh1te for 100+ years we are nobody's biggest rivals. Tho with the rise of irish rugby we are competitive now v SH and tho not greatest rivals we certainly seem to be getting into the bokke's heads. Our biggest rivals are England but even they look elsewhere for their biggest rivalry.. I love all the bitterness in some quarters towards ireland , it means we've arrived.
Ireland, South Africa, and New Zealand should have a series against each other in 2025 that will be a great series to watch...😏🍻🙂🍻🤪🤙Wales ,Japan and Samoa should have a series set up to
When the Boks went against Ireland having just played Wales ( b team ) .. lol there was none of this , stop making excuses ! The best team on the day will win !
Good video. On Haka. Haka were used in internationals a few decades B4 any singing nat anthems. The 1888 NZ Natives def did pre-match Haka. The 1st Nat Anthem was the last game (32nd) of the 1905/6 "Originals," a spontaneous reply to the pre-match Haka by the Welsh crowd. Get rid of Haka, tradition would say get rid of national anthems 1st.
Like how Alan referred to them not being the 2011 or 2015 AB’s…..correct far from it. That team lost 4 games in 4 years 😂. This is an AB’s team being rebuilt. The AB, between 2016 and 2023 were struggling to find replacements for some of the best we have seen. There is a new bunch coming Siti is the first of them and over the next few years they will slowly replace those in that squad.
Ireland always talks about the lost aura of the All Blacks, Please consider the fact that every team in the world knows they have to play their best game to beat them.
The Irish always make pre match excuses just incase 😂 This time it’s the Irish have had “lack of match practice” but when they went to SA they never mentioned the Boks playing their first real game against a tier 1 team. Instead they said the Irish team is tired. Keep up the excuses lads. You’re the best in the world at it.
It's the Kiwis who are making the pre match excuses because you have 2 players injured. Guess what? Ireland are missing their 1st choice hooker and tight head.
Ireland deserve their number 1 ranking. They are a better team than the All Blacks. I'm from Aotearoa, and I love watching the clinical way Ireland play. They are a fierce team. But..go the All Blacks
Ask Alan a question and he just starts mumbling on naming out players talking pure garbage…… he then starts answering different questions. Kill me now.
Nooooo! Pleeeeeze nooo not the aura. Please Ireland you put the aura there in the first place. Time to get over it 😅😅😅 yes whatever happens we promise we will still respect you in the morning!😊😊❤❤
Only Championship that bears weiggt and accolades.....wait for it.drumroll😂😂😂😂..RWC🎉🎉🎉The games onbetween bears no weight...inbetween games are merely practice runs for these giants on their way to RWC FINAL 2027...and do not fade along the way...Let's go🎉🎉🎉🎉
Why is it when NZL played a lot of games they are “battle hardened “ but when Ireland played a lot of games heading down to SA they are “tired”?
NZ have played 11 games in 4 months, Ireland had played 20 games over 16 months, playing for their clubs in between, so no off season for the players in over a year, last game was against SA in July, many see that as an advantage to NZ.
@ That’s roughly 2 more games per month the NZL players have played compared to their Irish counterparts…and yet Ireland are the “tired” ones…make that make sense!
Spot on !!! Excuses !!! Already !!
Exactly! Also they never mentioned the Boks may be rusty for their first tier 1 game since the World Cup final.
@@SixolileKoyana what?
Kia ora guys, luv yer show, especially when some bugger comments: "Don't forget, folks, when Alan Quinlan or Matt Williams is speaking, put your speed to 1.25 and it's perfect!" - absolutely hilarious - iuv you guys, keep it up and good luck this weekend.
Don't forget, folks, when Alan Quinlan or Matt Williams is speaking, put your speed to 1.25 and it's perfect!
Quinnie reminds me of that priest with the boring voice from that father ted episode.
@@PB22559 LOL! He does sound like him!
I never thought I'd say this but Matt Williams gave a pretty accurate assessment in his opening salvo. Well done from SA
Because he pandered to SA's ego saying they're the best team in the world?
Kiwi here. My heart can’t handle another tight game so I won’t watch it live. I’ll wait for the score and either celebrate a win or cry into my beer. Once I’ve recovered I’ll watch the replay.
If I had to put my house on it I’d pick Ireland for a tight win due home advantage and ABs missing Taylor and Barrett. That said I wouldn’t be surprised with an AB victory either.
Hopefully a good test with no cards and a TMO not trying to take over proceedings.
Dude I thought I was the only one doing that, these tight games sure are a hard watch.
You guys are weak fake fans omg. Grow a pair.
Ireland are missing their 1st choice hooker and tight head so no excuses for Taylor and BB being out.
As an ABs supporter I think the Irish have too much cohesiveness and decisive execution. I don’t think lack of game time will affect them. I hope the ABs learn from their mistakes from last week, cut the errors they may have a chance.
ALL BLACKS BABY NEVER FOLD.
BRING ON THE AVIVA
Ah lads. I missed yer voices. Looking forward to a month of ye talking absolute rhubarb about rugby based on total conjecture and crystal balling.
Its a pleasure.
So happy to please you.
From as Saffa, NZ to win by 12.
The games inbetween the RWC are good practise runs for ABs and Boks who are the big Title holders of most of the RW C which , and and ultimately comes next world Cup, these x 2 Southern Hemisphere giants will battle is out in the final for the crown and not fade away on their way to the finals. WRC...ONLY Championship that matters and bears accolades. LETS GO🎉🎉🎉FROM SAFFA😂😂😂
@@RozWentworthyes😊😊😊😊
12+
@@JACKSLATER-d3r yes!
Why are Ireland writing off the All Blacks? Didn’t they learn from the WC quarter final that kind of arrogance is playing with fire?
The pressure is on Ireland … they need to win this game. We will see if they can handle the pressure just like the quarters.
No one is writing them off. You're making it all up in your pea brain.
I’m halfway through the video and all they are doing is *not* writing off the ABs, what video are you watching mate
@@AngusRobert I'm not talking about the commentators who I agree with, I'm talking about the Irish supporters they're saying have written off the ABs.
@@PB22559 So the commentators are being dishonest when they say the Irish fans have written off the ABs?
❤surprised to see POM on thebench even, thought it would have been Baird, still, we need him to make a 'friendly' remark to Rieko and Cane
He shouldn't be in the squad imo, past it and just taking up space.
POM is such a lovely guy, I’m sure R and C will love him.
Honestly do you think someone slagging you during a game would matter a jot. Reko was just classless after a game but that's on him. I'd prefer to see OMahony plough someone in a tackle than wast time mouthing, but fat chance of that
Matt I disagree with you on the Haka, there is nothing wrong the English did. Teams should be allowed to react in any way they want as long as it is respectful.
South African here, can you please point me to the people or person writing off the All Blacks?
Im an ABs fan, and i like these gentlemen.
In fairness to Matt, he was actually making a lot of sense here.
Its making me look around suspiciously at my surroundings, something feels off.
A broken clock is right twice a day
Ireland will definitely be issuing a cease and desist notice on young Wallace but the danger is that will free up Ardie.
😂 they’d be the first to do so if they manage that. Plus Ireland aren’t exactly known for enforcers 😂
Ireland need to give a response and win the game… they got knocked out of QF by the all blacks AGAIN.. if they fold they shouldn’t be talked about so highly. Let’s see if they can handle the pressure.
The W C is every 4 years. I like to think A-LOT goes on in between. If a team doesn’t win the WC, it does not make them a bad team, it just means they have to improve, etc etc. Give up on Ireland losing at the quarters, they are improving, learning, growing and hopefully will pull it off one day, again hopefully in my lifetime. Go Ireland!!
That’s fair!
Total 50/50 game. Can’t wait ☘️
As an ABs supporter, I'm not over the moon. 😢 Razor and co are under the pump, mark my words.
Focus on the negative then,I'm over the moon after that win against England and now with our tails up we go again to create history and beat Ireland on their home turf 😋 can't wait ✊️
The host was just looking to provoke a controversial answer out of these two pundits. Well done to them for giving thoughtful responses.
Thoughtful!? Williams says the ABs are written off. Fck no
"If Ireland played like they did in the second test against SA can New Zealand live with them or compete with them". "If NZ are even as half as ill discipline at making errors as they did at Twinckenham, Ireland will win".
By all accounts, England were the better team last week and still lost to an ill discipline AB side. NZ scored three trys. The ABs almost beat SA in SA in the RC. All the stats were against them and they had players sent to the bin. But they were games NZ could have won.
Have Ireland really improved out of sight, or do they just have a game plan that's workable for them and challenges defences? In the SA series they worked the same game that was implemented in the quarters. They lost one and won one. NZ were behind on most stats in the quarters, played with a man down for 20mins and still won.
If NZ are playing that badly and still beating or just losing to top tier teams, that would indicate that NZ aren't playing well more than anything, and the rest are benefitting from their form slump.
Matt , no one is writing NZ off , only you with your Times paper article 😂
ireland are not our ABs biggest rival SA are. ABs and SA go way back the only rivalry between ABs and ireland is southernhemisphere vs northern nothing more
Ireland have been sh1te for 100+ years we are nobody's biggest rivals. Tho with the rise of irish rugby we are competitive now v SH and tho not greatest rivals we certainly seem to be getting into the bokke's heads.
Our biggest rivals are England but even they look elsewhere for their biggest rivalry.. I love all the bitterness in some quarters towards ireland , it means we've arrived.
ireland & Pumas beat the greatest is bloody amazing to see I reckon for rugby 🏉 I believe in them but do they believe in themselves hail yeeer
"Everyone is writing off NZ" Who tf is that???
Ireland, South Africa, and New Zealand should have a series against each other in 2025 that will be a great series to watch...😏🍻🙂🍻🤪🤙Wales ,Japan and Samoa should have a series set up to
Scrums will be crucial this match. The All Blacks scrum will be too much for Irrland. New Zealand to win by 12 💪💪
👍👍Agreed 🇿🇦 🇿🇦
When the Boks went against Ireland having just played Wales ( b team ) .. lol there was none of this , stop making excuses ! The best team on the day will win !
Good video. On Haka. Haka were used in internationals a few decades B4 any singing nat anthems. The 1888 NZ Natives def did pre-match Haka. The 1st Nat Anthem was the last game (32nd) of the 1905/6 "Originals," a spontaneous reply to the pre-match Haka by the Welsh crowd. Get rid of Haka, tradition would say get rid of national anthems 1st.
Ireland gonna strangle them outta the game and score some quick tries …. Good luck every one from New Zealand
McAvoy sneaking in his prediction at the end :D Given the way he was interviewing I thought for sure he would have picked the team he didn't pick!
DMac going to be under massive pressure from the Leinster defence. Ireland by a score.
Like how Alan referred to them not being the 2011 or 2015 AB’s…..correct far from it. That team lost 4 games in 4 years 😂. This is an AB’s team being rebuilt. The AB, between 2016 and 2023 were struggling to find replacements for some of the best we have seen. There is a new bunch coming Siti is the first of them and over the next few years they will slowly replace those in that squad.
Alan Quinlan doing another podcast…. Yipeeee
😮🔫
Ireland always talks about the lost aura of the All Blacks, Please consider the fact that every team in the world knows they have to play their best game to beat them.
My very honest opinion is 60/40 50/50 or 40/60. Or, who knows?.?
Who is writing off NZ?
Abs to win 😀
In before Matt Williams gets some horrid abuse 😅
The Irish always make pre match excuses just incase 😂 This time it’s the Irish have had “lack of match practice” but when they went to SA they never mentioned the Boks playing their first real game against a tier 1 team. Instead they said the Irish team is tired. Keep up the excuses lads. You’re the best in the world at it.
It's the Kiwis who are making the pre match excuses because you have 2 players injured. Guess what? Ireland are missing their 1st choice hooker and tight head.
If Porter goes down early they Ireland are in serious trouble , no way Healy could play for nearly the whole game
from the BOKS go IRELAND!!!!!!!!
Like damien comin on later. Just a real player.. trys stuff n hard to defend when tired.
Where does Matt get this stuff, everyone is writing of the ABs , Who, have not heard anyone write them off, such crap
Go all blacks even without Barrett beat the paddies ,and boks go back rightfully to world number 1
Ireland deserve their number 1 ranking. They are a better team than the All Blacks. I'm from Aotearoa, and I love watching the clinical way Ireland play. They are a fierce team. But..go the All Blacks
Ask Alan a question and he just starts mumbling on naming out players talking pure garbage…… he then starts answering different questions. Kill me now.
He spoke roughly from 5:40 all the way till 9:25
Nooooo! Pleeeeeze nooo not the aura. Please Ireland you put the aura there in the first place. Time to get over it 😅😅😅 yes whatever happens we promise we will still respect you in the morning!😊😊❤❤
South Africa beating nz 4 times in a row is against the spirit of the game
Here's Matties again
the one guy in a studio with a mic has the worst sound...
Only Championship that bears weiggt and accolades.....wait for it.drumroll😂😂😂😂..RWC🎉🎉🎉The games onbetween bears no weight...inbetween games are merely practice runs for these giants on their way to RWC FINAL 2027...and do not fade along the way...Let's go🎉🎉🎉🎉
Any words for the Springboks?
Umm this is about NZ v Ireland 😂.
boks lost to ireland, they arent much. Gifted a tmo win at the world bup no one thinks they are world champs
Win a World cup quarter final chokers.😂😂😂😂😂@@Edgycoo
@@williepeters1374 im not irish
@@Edgycoo Jealous
Will have to be best. If not nz get it
ALL BLACKS WINNING STREAK WILL CLIMB IN TILL THE NEXT RWC 😂
Who’s writing off the ABs ? Not Irish fans not Irish players , the dopey press 😂
Ireland 5-2 is against the spirit of the game
whoever wins on Friday will have been assisted by the referee.
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Tackling is against the spirit of the game
abs by 50
Just dont c nz playin there best yet. If do
It takes time n is.
Matt knows nothing about rugby....IRE to win by 12.
Quinn: “Never in a million years can you write off a New Zealand team”
Yet that’s exactly what Ireland did at the WC 😂
No they didn't. It was a tight game that turned on a 'held up' and ended on a dubious peno. Could have gone either way.
Whatever ye do lads, don't ruin the podcast and talk about America politics , like the indo.
Ireland by 20 points