On the tour from hell it’s important that the Ireland players do well. They may have misinterpreted this rather too well and done the hell bit well.
It is acknowledged the rugby world over that playing the All Blacks is a generally tough assignment. Playing them in their own backyard even tougher and when you play them for all but the first 15 minutes with 14 players, hell just gets hotter.
Add in a 10 minute spell with just 13 players on the pitch and you begin to wonder had the Irish players been practising sado masochism. Certainly if your thing is being whipped then those Irish boys took a hell of a whipping.
I had messed up recording this game which inadvertently proved a godsend as I had only 60 minutes of play to fast forward when I got back from my outdoor activities on Saturday afternoon.
The French too were in victim mode being on the end of a bit of a whipping themselves though they had little in . . .
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