If Ireland could take the dominant red card 20-minute phase early in the first half and marry it with the disappointing final 20 minutes at the end of the second half, the score might have looked a little more even than 26-13 to the All Blacks last Saturday.
Chicago offered the two sides of New Zealand, as well as the good and bad of Ireland, with the three tries in the last quarter representing the kind of sting in the tail that Ireland has managed to avoid over the last number of years.
“It’s just very difficult to wrestle back to momentu
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