All Blacks great blasts Ireland as a ‘pack of whingers’ who should stop ‘blaming everyone else’
Ireland players during All Blacks defeat and former New Zealand scrum-half Justin Marshall.
Former All Blacks star Justin Marshall has taken aim at Ireland over their complaints about some of the decisions which did not go their way at the weekend.
Some Irish pundits and fans were left unhappy over a couple of big calls which did not go their way during the Nations Championship clash.
In the first half, with New Zealand 14-0 ahead, Luke Jacobson was yellow-carded for a dangerous clearout on Josh van der Flier.
It went to the bunker for a review, but it was not upgraded to a 20-minute red card, which meant that Jacobson was able to return.
No yellow card for Tupaea
They were also left frustrated when Quinn Tupaea was not sin-binned, with the referee stating that there wasn’t an obvious line break opportunity after penalising the centre for a deliberate knock-on.
“I’m going to throw myself under the bus here, but I like doing that. They’ve turned into a pack of whingers, to be honest,” Marshall said on the GBRANZ podcast.
“Just more recently [they’ve turned into whingers]. They feel like their performance wasn’t up to standard, but it’s everyone else’s fault.
“They’ve been blaming a couple of decisions within the game to go, ‘we were ripped off, the All Blacks cheated, they always get the favourable decisions go their way, particularly at Eden Park’.
“There was this and there was that but, mate, we didn’t make you drop the ball f*****g 15 times. You know how many tackles they fell off?
“But they go straight towards, ‘Quinn Tupaea, it should have been a yellow card and Jacobson should have been red.’
“You know what guys, sort out your own s*** first and don’t blame everyone else.”
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Ireland’s errors
Ireland did reduce the arrears to 14-7 when Jacobson was off the field but then proceeded to hand the All Blacks an easy try while the hosts were still down to 14 men.
That restored New Zealand’s 14-point buffer and Dave Rennie’s men would go on to record a comfortable 40-21 success at Eden Park.
“They’re moaning about Jacobson, but at the stage Jacobson was in the bin, they tried to run out of their own half. They were clunky like they were all night because the All Blacks put their pod system under pressure and stuffed up their block play. Will Jordan picks it up, and they give the All Blacks seven points.
“You can’t blame anyone else for that apart from yourselves; you’ve just given that away, off the back of scoring a try yourself and the All Blacks down a man.
“You throw it along the ground and Will Jordan basically will never, ever score an easier try in his life. It’s your fault so stop trying to look for excuses everywhere else, just look yourself in the mirror Ireland.”
