All Blacks edge out brave Ireland

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All Blacks edge out brave Ireland

Ireland come within nine minutes of a first win over New Zealand before the All Blacks claim a 34-23 victory in Hamilton.

[Burgs]

A great 65 minutes by the Irish against a pretty flat All Blacks.
In terms of the season I wouldn't read too much into this result except the Subiaco match is going to be a cracker!

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I think to be fair the AB's tried in the first half to play a game they were not comfortable with, it was quite amazing to see them step up a few gears at the end when needed. Out of the three tests this was the Irish best chance of a win, next week I don't expect the AB's to be so poor in the line-out again and by the following week the Irish will just about be on their knees at the end of an extremely long season when facing a much fresher Australian team coming off the back of two crushing defeats against the English...I fear the worst for my boys.

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A great 65 minutes by the Irish against a pretty flat All Blacks.
In terms of the season I wouldn't read too much into this result except the Subiaco match is going to be a cracker!

I reckon it will be Burgs... see how we go in Melbourne (yes I am going, did I tell everyone that?? I'm off to teh test match!!! ) but we will need a rock solid defence at Subi!!