Match thread

Victor Meldrew

@sparky

Ireland now have the new record for most cards by any side in a Test.

sparky

Another Yellow Card.

Grant Williams off.

sparky

If you were playing the Matt Carley drinking game, you'd be under the table now.

Saffa defence is so impressive.

JayCee

I've lost count the number of cards ....

sparky

@akan004 They defend their goal line like they are defending their homeland. The All Blacks not so much.

sparky

80 minutes up. Boks will win.

JayCee

Ireland have improved since Chicago

Victor Meldrew

Boks are such a smart team.

Bones

Ireland making BB look like DC.

Bones

What a bizarrely passionate yet fucking retarded couple of minutes from Ireland.

I get the feeling that Rassie doesn't like the Irish fans.

Victor Meldrew

Imagine Carley reffing TJP....

sparky

All over.

Ireland 13 South Africa 24

Man of Mach: The ref of course.

If that game was a Friends Episode, it'd would be The One With All The Cards.

Bones

That was tasty. The more the comms got behind Ireland the easier it was to support the 1st and 2nd best team in the world and their amazing virtue.

The Irishman

Can't say I enjoyed that game, but the physicality and passion from both teams was impressive. Christ that scrum is frightening.

ACT Crusader

@JayCee said in Bokke vs Ireland:

Ireland have improved since Chicago

Really?

Their 10 was even worst today than I’ve seen all season. The harbour bridge passing was terrible.

ACT Crusader

@sparky said in Bokke vs Ireland:

Ireland finishing the stronger side, but probably don't have the time to win.

The time or the attack.

Victor Meldrew

@The-Irishman said in Bokke vs Ireland:

Can't say I enjoyed that game, but the physicality and passion from both teams was impressive. Christ that scrum is frightening.

Superb fight by the Irish after some appalling discipline,

As a neutral, that was an outstanding game to watch

Smuts

@Bones I knew there was a reason we weren’t converting our pressure into points. Go support the Bulls or Leinster you keyboard curse. Away with your bad juju from Rugby’s equivalent of Mother Theresa, Florence Nightingale and that guy who chose not to patent the polio vaccine

Bones

@Smuts said in Bokke vs Ireland:

@Bones I knew there was a reason we weren’t converting our pressure into points. Go support the Bulls or Leinster you keyboard curse. Away with your bad juju from Rugby’s equivalent of Mother Theresa, Florence Nightingale and that guy who chose not to patent the polio vaccine

You're a fucking inanimate object!

Darth Sader

Carley’s arm must have been tired after that effort

OomPB

Great win by the Springboks. Thought SMZ struggle a bit after the tackle but a great try made up for it. Rugby are win by the Forwards and the Boks was superb. Thought the high kicks were silly after they were down to 12. Its been a great year for the Springboks, we were spoiled.

@sparky said in Bokke vs Ireland:

Ireland have been a really dirty, negative team for such a long time. Good to see them getting their deserved.

Never had a a beef with the Irish but today they were lucky. Missed the first 38 mins but after that Ireland were offside every ruck, their scrum couldn’t stay up…honestly if the ref used yellow cards consistently they would have been lucky to have 10 on the field. Match that with their constant bleating (those NZers in their team seem to be the worst) they make themselves a hard team to like.

nostrildamus

@kev said in Bokke vs Ireland:

Match that with their constant bleating (those NZers in their team seem to be the worst) they make themselves a hard team to like.

That reads like it is the Kiwis who are worse than the Irish!

Smuts

@Bones so potent I’m a contradiction in terms

Nepia

Cardfest 2025 - watched the extended highlights so was interesting enough, not sure how I would have fared with the whole match including stoppages.

Bovidae

Further proof of the luck of wearing green. 😉

Bovidae

Also, it was great to see Porter being shown as a fraud in the scrum.

MN5

@Nepia said in Bokke vs Ireland:

Cardfest 2025 - watched the extended highlights so was interesting enough, not sure how I would have fared with the whole match including stoppages.

You've sat through some pretty crap movies. I'd back you to have watched the whole thing.

Loads of whinging online from Irish fans claiming they have the moral high ground, Boks cheated etc.

They're worse than the English.

MiketheSnow

@pakman said in Bokke vs Ireland:

@Jet said in Bokke vs Ireland:

@pakman said in Bokke vs Ireland:

@Jet said in Bokke vs Ireland:

Tommie O Brien failed his HIA from the hit he didnt get carded for.

Moodie should have seen yellow for shoulder to head.

he was the ball carrier.....

I know the rules, BUT if safety were the priority there would also be a potential sanction for reckless play by carrier.

Nonsense

Arm was tucked

That was all on the tackler

MiketheSnow

How did Crowley escape a second YC

He knocked that ball dead like a league player

Penalty try
YC
His second
So RC

JayCee

@ACT-Crusader said in Bokke vs Ireland:

@JayCee said in Bokke vs Ireland:

Ireland have improved since Chicago

Really?

Their 10 was even worst today than I’ve seen all season. The harbour bridge passing was terrible.

I don't think we would have beaten that version of Ireland, especially because they didn't fade in the final 20.

Nepia

@MN5 said in Bokke vs Ireland:

@Nepia said in Bokke vs Ireland:

Cardfest 2025 - watched the extended highlights so was interesting enough, not sure how I would have fared with the whole match including stoppages.

You've sat through some pretty crap movies. I'd back you to have watched the whole thing.

Loads of whinging online from Irish fans claiming they have the moral high ground, Boks cheated etc.

They're worse than the English.

Yeah true, I've watched multiple Zac Snyder movies, the prequels and Rise of Skywalker, and Wicked, so I can endure crap. I just don't really have the time to watch multiple full games anymore sadly.

PN

Honestly ireland deserved every card. Flopping at the scrum, hands in the truck. Sacking the maul. So cynical. Don't fall into the narrative if the game being 'weird'. Ireland were playing negative rugby and ran into a ref that was prepared to ref what he sees