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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Smurfy" data-source="post: 1134616" data-attributes="member: 85743"><p>Surprised at some of the NZ negativity.  Tbh their first half attacking structure frightened the crap out of me as an Irish fan.  They seemed to have stolen a lot from the Irish playbook with short, fast passes, use of decoy runners and wrap arounds, with Dmac's pace bringing a whole new dimension to their play.  It's hard to know just how poor Argentina were because of the the way NZ exploded out of the blocks.  The only way to close that pace of play down is to somehow slow their ball down, which will not be easy given how rejuvenated their backrow looked.  Cane in particular looks like a new player.</p></blockquote><p></p>