IRELAND AWOKE ON Monday morning to the national women’s rugby team’s greatest victory in many years, shocking reigning world champions New Zealand in the WXV1 tournament in Vancouver.
The game was tied at 17-17 at half-time thanks to a brace of tries from Ireland’s Aoife Wafer along with a touchdown from Neve Jones, while an Erin King try gave Ireland a final-quarter lead that was then pilfered by the Black Ferns.
Ireland would not be denied, however, laying siege to the New Zealand line in the closing stages, with King touching down to tie the game at 27-27. It then fell to Dannah O’Brien to kick the winning kick, seeing her conversion kiss the inside of the post before dropping gloriously over the bar.
You can watch highlights of the game below, courtesy of the IRFU.
Brilliant, that was some performance against the World Champions. Such a great turn around in standards in such a short time. Well done to the squad and management.
Wow. Now that will get everyone’s attention. Superb !
Scott Bemand and his back room team has transformed this team .. he has put the winning mentality back in and the belief that team is so much better than it has been over the last few years .. Great result against New Zealand and hopefully many more of this performance to come from this team .. To go from Tier 3 To tier 1 and beat the world champions again on the road .. Magnificent..
@John O Grady: well he’s actually cut away a lot of the previous squad to be honest. Kept a core group and added to it with fresh new faces and it’s paying dividends.
Brilliant result, but what’ is the WXV tournament?
@The Firestarter: Google it lol
Great news,congratulations ladies !!
Some great bluff plays from the base of the scrum and the back of the lineout. Well done, especially to Aoife Wafer. We could use a few of those moves down in Munster atm
Wow amazing win what a few hours for irish sport