For the weekend that’s in it.
January 20th, 1973.
Snatching a draw from jaws of yet another defeat to the all-conquering All Blacks.
When some of the goys played twice a week such was the demands of the amateur game at the time.
Paul MacWeeney reported:
The All Blacks can kick themselves all the way back to New Zealand for allowing Ireland to snatch a draw, with two penalty goals and a try to a goal and a try, six minutes from the end at Lansdowne Road on Saturday.
Completley inflexable thinking cost Kirkpatrick and his team the glittering prize of becoming the first from their country to beat all four HOME countries on a single tour, and assuming that the captain is the final arbiter of policy once play has started,
Kirkpatrick, one of the greatest forwards of history, must shoulder much of the blame for not ending with a margain of at least 10 points.
Harsh.
Meanwhile..
Earlier that week,
The “good leg“.
Ireland v New Zealand (RTÉ Sport)
Like the cover on the programme.
Are they still using the Haka for self gain and insulting indigenous Maori who hunted and killed by countries they now play a gentlemanly game against?
Axel Foley was 43 stone.
You might want to write that paragraph in a manner that native English speakers can understand
Earlier that week??
is that Denis Hickies dad?
T’was his uncle
+1 for the knowledge
His uncle didn’t play against New Zealand in ’73 though, so I’m not sure why it’s even mentioned in this article.
Denis Hickie wasn’t even born in 1973.
Goys are playing for us now?? Oy vay!
New Zealand will stuff us in Chicago. Might be a different story at Aviva a few weeks later, methinks
We usually do best in our first game against them though. Towards the end of previous series, they’ve put up cricket scores against us, historically.