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RWC Discussion thread: Ireland are bulbous and ready to dominate
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<blockquote data-quote="Leonormous Boozer" data-source="post: 724031" data-attributes="member: 45598"><p>2007 was embarrassing, a stale coaching team ****ing up in a major way. 2011 we both exceeded and fell short of expectations, beating Australia and losing to Wales but they were expected to reach a QF and they did. Apart from that they've won every game they have been expected to apart from Wales in '11 Argentina in 1999 and in hindsight both those sides were better than the Ireland sides at the time. Overall they have fallen short of expectations twice, the same amount of times NZ have and never exceeded them. It's nothing to do with choking but rather just not being a very good team, "dark horses" doesn't really mean anything more than a team who won't contend but they could spring a surprise or challenge a bigger side.</p><p></p><p>Ireland have never peaked in a World cup year either, if you look at their peaks in the last 12 years they've been in '04, '06, '09 and now '14 and '15. a semi final will be reached this year and going deeper than that is not unforeseeable. If NZ are avoided this world cup is entirely in Ireland's own hands, a huge ask but certainly possible.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Leonormous Boozer, post: 724031, member: 45598"] 2007 was embarrassing, a stale coaching team ****ing up in a major way. 2011 we both exceeded and fell short of expectations, beating Australia and losing to Wales but they were expected to reach a QF and they did. Apart from that they've won every game they have been expected to apart from Wales in '11 Argentina in 1999 and in hindsight both those sides were better than the Ireland sides at the time. Overall they have fallen short of expectations twice, the same amount of times NZ have and never exceeded them. It's nothing to do with choking but rather just not being a very good team, "dark horses" doesn't really mean anything more than a team who won't contend but they could spring a surprise or challenge a bigger side. Ireland have never peaked in a World cup year either, if you look at their peaks in the last 12 years they've been in '04, '06, '09 and now '14 and '15. a semi final will be reached this year and going deeper than that is not unforeseeable. If NZ are avoided this world cup is entirely in Ireland's own hands, a huge ask but certainly possible. [/QUOTE]
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