November 8, 2024 • 7 mins
Ireland’s winning streak has been broken.
The All Blacks have knocked them from the number one spot, breaking their 19 game unbeaten streak at home.
Ireland was unable to keep up, falling behind and losing the match 23-13.
Irish Rugby Commentator Michael Corcoran joined Piney to give his thoughts on the match.
“Ireland put themselves in a good position early in the second half of the match, but New Zealand just closed it out really well.
“New Zealand had really good ball carriers, Ireland found it difficult to cope with that, and just couldn’t cope with the pace.”
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Speaker 1 (00:06):
You're listening to the Weekend Sport podcast with Jason Fyne
from Newstalk c B.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
Let's get you back to Ireland though to Dublin, I
think even still to a Viva stadium where at TIA
Radio rugby commentator Michael Corkran joins us. Michael, thanks for
staying up so I like and joining us across New Zealand.
What was your assessment of the Irish performance in the
taste match?
Speaker 3 (00:28):
Jason is good at talk to you again, Matt.
Speaker 4 (00:30):
I thought I thought Aran were pretty poor and looked
really rusty and undercooked. I had expressed that concern during
the course of the week. You know, it's the first
or first game together since since June July, since the
trip to South Africa. But having said that, there are
quite a few of the players in the in the
certain team as well have been out injured and haven't
(00:52):
played actually any footy so far this season that I'm
not I say that just as a background, but it
certainly isn't an excuse.
Speaker 3 (01:00):
I thought they were.
Speaker 4 (01:00):
They were really poor, med a lot of hunting ours
get way and off a lot of penalties during the
course of the match. I'm not trying to take away
from what New Zealand did and achieved. I thought they
were excellent. Their game, game control, game management was really
good and I think Ireland were slightly flattered by the
final score because if you think, you know, New Zealand
had plenty of opportunities to kick penalties.
Speaker 3 (01:22):
And they didn't. They went for the corner.
Speaker 4 (01:24):
One of the penalties came back off of the of
the upright and I think Arland were kind of slightly
fortunate to have only lost the game by what is
the ten points twenty three thirteen. I think they were
kind of fortunate enough. I mean New Zealand could have
scored certainly another maybe nine points, that's the reality about it,
and it could have been a heavier look to the
score line. So like New Zealand certainly deserved to win.
(01:46):
I thought they were I thought they were really good.
It was a bit of a strange match, to be fair,
but yeah, you know, Ireland put themselves in a good
position early in the second half of the match, but
New Zealand just closed it out really well. Their bench
had a good impact. I didn't gave away a lot
of penalties. You could say that came from a lot
of the pressure from New Zealand, but Newisalan had a
really good but all carriers are in front of difficult
(02:08):
to cope with that and just couldn't cope with the
pace And that's game pace and that comes from you. You
can be as fit as you want, but if you
don't play matches, and you haven't played matches, you're lacking
match sharpness.
Speaker 3 (02:19):
That's the reality about it.
Speaker 4 (02:20):
And Aren't looked like a team that hadn't played haven't
played a game for a while. New Zealand looked like
a team that have played matches over the last two
weekends and ultimately for me, that was a difference between
the two sides tonight.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
Yeah, great summary. It's it's an uncontrollable though for Ireland,
isn't it? You know they it's just the nature of
the rugby calendar. How do you mitigate the market? How
do you yeah, how do you capitalize on the fact
that you're fresh? Perhaps, you know, could Island have been
better in terms of you know, the freshness? I thought
that were good, you know that very physical, very vigorous
(02:54):
in the first twenty thirty minutes. Do you get the
feeling which just the last twenty where things started to,
you know, fall off a cliff a little bit for them.
Speaker 4 (03:02):
Yeah, I think they were a build under the pump
at that stage, to be fair. I mean, you know,
it was tight enough at halftime. I don't think it
was a whole up between the two teams in the
first half. And again just the lack of match sharpness.
Lack of match sharpness there. And you know, I thought
New Zealand deserved to be ahead a halftime. I thought,
(03:23):
as you said, gave themselves a chance with that. Josh
vander Fleer tried to start the second half to kick
the penalty.
Speaker 3 (03:29):
But the response to.
Speaker 4 (03:30):
New Zealand was really good and as you I mean,
you would expect that, you know. I mean people were
talking during the course of the week about Cody Taylor
not playing, Bud Barrett not playing.
Speaker 3 (03:41):
What a big lass they are, and they were.
Speaker 4 (03:43):
But you know, the people like Jamie McKenzie was outstanding,
I thought, and they totally really well. Luckily I don't
have a vote from out of the match. I thought
Artie Save was brilliant. I mean, I just think he's immense.
He certainly would have got my vote. That's the reality
about it. While as the t t was excellent. I'm
not leaving out Sam Kine, like if I don't even
(04:04):
mention his name, it's almost disrespectful to him. I thought,
I thought the New Zealand back row was way better
than the Irish one, and that that was a big
factor as well too. And it's just it's just a
lack of match sharpness, a bit of fatigue in terms
of the amount of tackles they had to make. I
think Ireland made certainly over twice as many tackles they missed,
(04:26):
an offlader of tackles.
Speaker 3 (04:27):
I think I read some of that, Harry.
Speaker 4 (04:30):
I'm trying to unwind after the match and I'm kind
of trying to keep up with the statistics, but I
think Ireland missed thirty tackles during the course of the game.
They gave away huge amount of penalties, and that's a
very un ireland Like performance, if you understand what I mean.
They normally don't miss. The tackle completion rates quite high
and they rarely they gave away throughout the course of
(04:51):
this season. Twenty twenty four calendar year, gave away an
average of ten penalties per game, and by halftime tonight
they'd given away seven. So I would I would, I
would say it's it's it's well up into the into
the teams, that the final count was just an error
strewn performance. Again, I'm not taking away from New Zealand
(05:11):
at all, but I mean you're asking me a question
about Ireland way where they said poor and trying to
try and explain to you why. But I thought New
Zealand were excellent to fully deserve the victory.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
So if we look at the calendar year, Michael, the
Six Nations, Ireland won the Six Nations with four wins
and a defeat. They squared the series with the world
champions South Africans, So you know, good performances in the republic.
Where are we in the life cycle of this current
Irish sie for example, how many of these players will
still be around at the nixt World Cup.
Speaker 4 (05:42):
Well, the interesting thing is that there are seventeen of
the twenty three that played were involved tonight or at
the last World Cup. From an Ireland point of view,
there's only ten of the twenty three for the old.
Speaker 3 (05:53):
Blocks, So there are.
Speaker 4 (05:58):
You know, there are a few, quite a few of
them actually will not be around next time. So Peter
Amani was on the bench tonight so was Connor, Murray
is Key and Heally. Between the three of them, I
think they have a combined age of almost one hundred
and ten. I mean, certainly o'manny and Murray will be
gone by by the end of the season because that
they're they've just signed a one year contract extension. Minustan
(06:20):
is Keen Healey's contact is up as well, so that
there will be there will be a sort of natural turnover,
but it's not it's not going to come at this
time of the year like like our cycle is kind
of slightly different to yours, if you understand in terms
of the where the calendar is structured. So we probably
see you know, probably most of those players will be involved,
(06:45):
excuse me, during the course of the sixth Nations Championship.
But then because of the British and Irish lines toward
too to Australia, you know that that's an Ireland I
think they're playing Romania and Georgia or maybe Romanian Portigal
or Portigal involvement some way as well. So that will
that will be a kind of natural handover of the
baton if you and a Samma mean in terms of
(07:05):
a new generation of players, coming through, but certainly you know,
for for o'many, for Murray, for Key and Heally, tonight will.
Speaker 3 (07:13):
Be the last time that they've faced.
Speaker 4 (07:15):
It's the hockey, and you know they've had some good
memories in the past, but obviously not a good one tonight.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
All right, Michael, I really appreciate your standing up on
how it's called a past midnight there you probably eyeing
up a ginner s or two and you you absolutely
deserve it. Thanks for joining us across news you with
your assessment.
Speaker 4 (07:31):
Friends, No whe is Jason, I can tell you it's
a hot cup of Barris tea and I'm already at
home kind of chilling out, trying to one mind and
and trying to take me in mind off the match.
But it's going to take another hour two to chill out,
I have to say to be fair. Congratulations again, fully deserve.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
One good Man, Thanks so much, Michael. Always enjoyed chatting
Michael good only mate for in Ireland. I called them
match tonight, good assessment of it.
Speaker 1 (07:56):
For more from Weekend Sport with Jason Fine, listen live
to News Talks it'd be weekends from midday or follow
the podcast on I had radio
You're listening to the Weekend Sport podcast with Jason Fyne
from Newstalk c B.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
Let's get you back to Ireland though to Dublin, I
think even still to a Viva stadium where at TIA
Radio rugby commentator Michael Corkran joins us. Michael, thanks for
staying up so I like and joining us across New Zealand.
What was your assessment of the Irish performance in the
taste match?
Speaker 3 (00:28):
Jason is good at talk to you again, Matt.
Speaker 4 (00:30):
I thought I thought Aran were pretty poor and looked
really rusty and undercooked. I had expressed that concern during
the course of the week. You know, it's the first
or first game together since since June July, since the
trip to South Africa. But having said that, there are
quite a few of the players in the in the
certain team as well have been out injured and haven't
(00:52):
played actually any footy so far this season that I'm
not I say that just as a background, but it
certainly isn't an excuse.
Speaker 3 (01:00):
I thought they were.
Speaker 4 (01:00):
They were really poor, med a lot of hunting ours
get way and off a lot of penalties during the
course of the match. I'm not trying to take away
from what New Zealand did and achieved. I thought they
were excellent. Their game, game control, game management was really
good and I think Ireland were slightly flattered by the
final score because if you think, you know, New Zealand
had plenty of opportunities to kick penalties.
Speaker 3 (01:22):
And they didn't. They went for the corner.
Speaker 4 (01:24):
One of the penalties came back off of the of
the upright and I think Arland were kind of slightly
fortunate to have only lost the game by what is
the ten points twenty three thirteen. I think they were
kind of fortunate enough. I mean New Zealand could have
scored certainly another maybe nine points, that's the reality about it,
and it could have been a heavier look to the
score line. So like New Zealand certainly deserved to win.
(01:46):
I thought they were I thought they were really good.
It was a bit of a strange match, to be fair,
but yeah, you know, Ireland put themselves in a good
position early in the second half of the match, but
New Zealand just closed it out really well. Their bench
had a good impact. I didn't gave away a lot
of penalties. You could say that came from a lot
of the pressure from New Zealand, but Newisalan had a
really good but all carriers are in front of difficult
(02:08):
to cope with that and just couldn't cope with the
pace And that's game pace and that comes from you. You
can be as fit as you want, but if you
don't play matches, and you haven't played matches, you're lacking
match sharpness.
Speaker 3 (02:19):
That's the reality about it.
Speaker 4 (02:20):
And Aren't looked like a team that hadn't played haven't
played a game for a while. New Zealand looked like
a team that have played matches over the last two
weekends and ultimately for me, that was a difference between
the two sides tonight.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
Yeah, great summary. It's it's an uncontrollable though for Ireland,
isn't it? You know they it's just the nature of
the rugby calendar. How do you mitigate the market? How
do you yeah, how do you capitalize on the fact
that you're fresh? Perhaps, you know, could Island have been
better in terms of you know, the freshness? I thought
that were good, you know that very physical, very vigorous
(02:54):
in the first twenty thirty minutes. Do you get the
feeling which just the last twenty where things started to,
you know, fall off a cliff a little bit for them.
Speaker 4 (03:02):
Yeah, I think they were a build under the pump
at that stage, to be fair. I mean, you know,
it was tight enough at halftime. I don't think it
was a whole up between the two teams in the
first half. And again just the lack of match sharpness.
Lack of match sharpness there. And you know, I thought
New Zealand deserved to be ahead a halftime. I thought,
(03:23):
as you said, gave themselves a chance with that. Josh
vander Fleer tried to start the second half to kick
the penalty.
Speaker 3 (03:29):
But the response to.
Speaker 4 (03:30):
New Zealand was really good and as you I mean,
you would expect that, you know. I mean people were
talking during the course of the week about Cody Taylor
not playing, Bud Barrett not playing.
Speaker 3 (03:41):
What a big lass they are, and they were.
Speaker 4 (03:43):
But you know, the people like Jamie McKenzie was outstanding,
I thought, and they totally really well. Luckily I don't
have a vote from out of the match. I thought
Artie Save was brilliant. I mean, I just think he's immense.
He certainly would have got my vote. That's the reality
about it. While as the t t was excellent. I'm
not leaving out Sam Kine, like if I don't even
(04:04):
mention his name, it's almost disrespectful to him. I thought,
I thought the New Zealand back row was way better
than the Irish one, and that that was a big
factor as well too. And it's just it's just a
lack of match sharpness, a bit of fatigue in terms
of the amount of tackles they had to make. I
think Ireland made certainly over twice as many tackles they missed,
(04:26):
an offlader of tackles.
Speaker 3 (04:27):
I think I read some of that, Harry.
Speaker 4 (04:30):
I'm trying to unwind after the match and I'm kind
of trying to keep up with the statistics, but I
think Ireland missed thirty tackles during the course of the game.
They gave away huge amount of penalties, and that's a
very un ireland Like performance, if you understand what I mean.
They normally don't miss. The tackle completion rates quite high
and they rarely they gave away throughout the course of
(04:51):
this season. Twenty twenty four calendar year, gave away an
average of ten penalties per game, and by halftime tonight
they'd given away seven. So I would I would, I
would say it's it's it's well up into the into
the teams, that the final count was just an error
strewn performance. Again, I'm not taking away from New Zealand
(05:11):
at all, but I mean you're asking me a question
about Ireland way where they said poor and trying to
try and explain to you why. But I thought New
Zealand were excellent to fully deserve the victory.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
So if we look at the calendar year, Michael, the
Six Nations, Ireland won the Six Nations with four wins
and a defeat. They squared the series with the world
champions South Africans, So you know, good performances in the republic.
Where are we in the life cycle of this current
Irish sie for example, how many of these players will
still be around at the nixt World Cup.
Speaker 4 (05:42):
Well, the interesting thing is that there are seventeen of
the twenty three that played were involved tonight or at
the last World Cup. From an Ireland point of view,
there's only ten of the twenty three for the old.
Speaker 3 (05:53):
Blocks, So there are.
Speaker 4 (05:58):
You know, there are a few, quite a few of
them actually will not be around next time. So Peter
Amani was on the bench tonight so was Connor, Murray
is Key and Heally. Between the three of them, I
think they have a combined age of almost one hundred
and ten. I mean, certainly o'manny and Murray will be
gone by by the end of the season because that
they're they've just signed a one year contract extension. Minustan
(06:20):
is Keen Healey's contact is up as well, so that
there will be there will be a sort of natural turnover,
but it's not it's not going to come at this
time of the year like like our cycle is kind
of slightly different to yours, if you understand in terms
of the where the calendar is structured. So we probably
see you know, probably most of those players will be involved,
(06:45):
excuse me, during the course of the sixth Nations Championship.
But then because of the British and Irish lines toward
too to Australia, you know that that's an Ireland I
think they're playing Romania and Georgia or maybe Romanian Portigal
or Portigal involvement some way as well. So that will
that will be a kind of natural handover of the
baton if you and a Samma mean in terms of
(07:05):
a new generation of players, coming through, but certainly you know,
for for o'many, for Murray, for Key and Heally, tonight will.
Speaker 3 (07:13):
Be the last time that they've faced.
Speaker 4 (07:15):
It's the hockey, and you know they've had some good
memories in the past, but obviously not a good one tonight.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
All right, Michael, I really appreciate your standing up on
how it's called a past midnight there you probably eyeing
up a ginner s or two and you you absolutely
deserve it. Thanks for joining us across news you with
your assessment.
Speaker 4 (07:31):
Friends, No whe is Jason, I can tell you it's
a hot cup of Barris tea and I'm already at
home kind of chilling out, trying to one mind and
and trying to take me in mind off the match.
But it's going to take another hour two to chill out,
I have to say to be fair. Congratulations again, fully deserve.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
One good Man, Thanks so much, Michael. Always enjoyed chatting
Michael good only mate for in Ireland. I called them
match tonight, good assessment of it.
Speaker 1 (07:56):
For more from Weekend Sport with Jason Fine, listen live
to News Talks it'd be weekends from midday or follow
the podcast on I had radio
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