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21st November 2016
09:55am GMT

While SportsJOE gave two Irish players 9/10 ratings - to Jamie Heaslip and Tadhg Furlong - NZ Herald handed one to Sean O'Brien and declared:
'Every bit Beauden Barrett's equal as man of the match. Stupendous amount of running, decent defence. If only he had held the ball with the tryline begging.'
Heaslip, who 'kept hammering away', got an 8 while there were some positive words about Josh van der Flier. The flanker was on as an early sub for CJ Stander and in getting an 8 was described as having a "brilliant" match.
There was acclamation for Furlong too. Of course there was...
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Rattue described Furlong as "magnificent" but did not make much of Rory Best yap, yap, yapping away to referee Jaco Peyper all game.
He did not make much of the Irish bench either. Iain Henderson had 'not much going on' while Paddy Jackson was "aimless" and wasted the dominance of the Irish forwards.
Hard to please but they expect the best of the best in New Zealand.
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