As the dust settles and the blood dries on Croke Park, Ireland can say they only conceeded 22 points to the supreme overlords of rubgy, 7 of those shouldn't have stood because well...it shouldn't. In a dreadful assortment of officials, Ireland got rough deal most of the time with the referee's eyesight and intellect being called into question by Eddie Butler on countless occasions.
Ireland could have got to 10 points if not for Marcus Horan's fine pass to an old lady in the crowd instead of a short simple one to a not-half-going-to-fucking-score David Wallace a few feet away. The whole of Ireland(except for the plebs watching SPL) called their innocent televisions all sorts of names but despite this and Ireland's attempts, the All Black returned to their celestial plain victorious and knowing that if they really wanted to, they could have played rugby using us as the ball.
Big thumbs up to Drico who played to his Leinster best(about 25% of Munster best) and to Tomás O'Leary who made his real debut with lots of promise.
Thumbs down to Rodge who was crap in his kicking and took NZ's abuse like a bitch.
Roll on Argentina!
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