Cian Tracey

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Indo Sport · Ireland outclassed, All Blacks dominate & a fussy referee | Eden Park reaction · 18 Jul 2026 podcast

They need refereeing decisions to go their way.

They also need pretty much all of their main players on board.

And when you look at the amount of like starting players that Ireland were missing from this tour, like you just go through them in the back line, Matt Hanson, Tommy O'Brien,

Jack Crowley, you go up front, the three loose heads, Andrew Porter, Paddy McCarty, Jack Boyle, Ryan Baird in the background, their captain, Caelan Dorris.

Like that is a lot of top quality players to be without.

So I can imagine people would probably be panicking back home in terms of like, oh, have Ireland really fallen this far off?

But I think we have to remember that they're missing a lot of top quality players.

I think when

The dust settles on this.

I think Andy Farrell will have learned a lot about certain guys on this tour.

I think he'll have learned a lot about certain guys tonight because I mentioned the uncharacteristic errors.

And I wonder, did the occasion get to some guys?

Because I know it was only a once-off game, but it felt like, even from early in the day here, Will, in Auckland, it felt like a big World Cup game.

And obviously the World Cup was coming next year and Ireland are going to have to get better at dealing with these occasions for sure.

Yeah, like I suppose you look at the year as a whole and they've had a defeat in each window.

Obviously, the one back in November against South Africa was particularly damaging in the job that they did at the scrum.

I thought the set piece by and large was much improved tonight, particularly the

um the line out you look at the defeat to to france in the six nations which was like an awful performance really you'd have to say uh from ireland and then again tonight but in the midst of it they have played some good stuff as well will and i know look that england team maybe you know they're in a bit of a model themselves at the moment but like that performance at twickenham i don't think we we can't say that ireland didn't go up a deer a gear that day to

to win in the manner that they did in Twickenham.

They're not, but the performance that Ireland delivered that day, you can't deny that it was an exceptional Ireland performance in a notoriously difficult...

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