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Rugby Union Weekly

Ireland stun All Blacks and England deliver down under

Rugby Union Weekly

BBC

Sports, Rugby, News, Sports News

4.65.3K Ratings

🗓️ 16 July 2022

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Chris, Ugo and Matt Dawson bring you reaction to Ireland's sensational series win over the All Blacks. Andy Farrell's side had to withstand a fierce second half comeback, but held firm to inflict a first home series defeat on New Zealand since 1994. England also wrapped up their series against Australia with a hard fought win in Sydney. Freddie Steward joins the pod to reflect on the win which caps a brilliant year for the England and Leicester full back.

Transcript

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0:00.0

BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts. Five lives, rugby union weekly.

0:11.0

Robby Unwikli, bonus pod time after Ireland and England at the time of broadcasting

0:16.0

Hugo have wrapped up series wins. Normally we would start on the England games. That's

0:21.0

the one we've just commentated on. But big stories and Wellington, would you say?

0:25.0

They're not sticking away from England. They've dogged it out in Sydney. It was a good old

0:28.5

series win, but Ireland have made some real history there. It's fair to start with by talking

0:33.0

about the number one team in the world rugby at the moment. Ireland are absolutely fly,

0:36.5

not just history for them and record smash for Ireland, but also for Johnny Sexton, a thousand

0:42.0

international points. He was great, but from a team perspective, so impressive New Zealand

0:47.5

not lost the home series since 1994, but it's the manner which they dismantled New Zealand,

0:52.5

New Zealand just couldn't cope with the pace of the game, the variety of the game. When you

0:57.7

look at the four tries that Ireland scored today, start with Josh Vandaflia after four minutes.

1:02.7

Every single try was a team try of Vandaflia, Hugo Keenan, Robbie Henshaw and then herring

1:08.3

at the end. They were stylistically absolutely brilliant to watch was a thing of beauty and

1:15.3

32, 22. That perhaps doesn't quite tell the pitchers because from the majority of that

1:20.9

game, Ireland were in absolute control. When they're at their best, they are the best and

1:27.5

at the top of my sheet, I've got Ireland the best one they play the game. It's two great

1:31.9

performance versus results. Ireland know when they play and get that level of fluency into

1:36.2

their game, they are an absolute demon for any team to come across.

1:40.7

We're going to chat more on the Potter Monday aren't we about this of state of the game,

1:43.5

state of play after these three weekends and you look at teams who are happy without the

1:47.0

ball, a South Africa, maybe a France, maybe now in England and look at a team who love

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