Tony Ward there on Morning Ireland thinks we should shut up now, he doesn’t want us to get the reputation of being moaners. Darren Frehill summed it up nicely there when he said that’s Tony Ward and he thinks the rest of the world will think we are moaners.
Meanwhile, over on Newstalk, Quinny and Shane Coleman agreed that it wasn’t about winning and losing. It was about player safety. It’s a welfare issue.
Rare that Ward is the voice of reason. But he is right. Zip it now and wait your turn to give it back to them. Pissing and moaning about the NZ approach is pretty pointless when there was an hour on the field you could have fought fire with fire. Who gives a fuck if you finished with 12 players if you’d sent out a message you wouldn’t put up with their shit
The Irish fancy dans got roughhoused by the All Blacks and the usual suspects haven’t stopped emoting about it since. Social media have gone into meltdown.