Respect to Alan Quinlan from a SA fan. Very respectable and composed man. Love his comments and insights.

I literally watch this show to see Matt Williams get it wrong every time. 16 percenter 😂😂

As a kiwi I just have so much respect for Quinlan’s views. Obviously he was very disappointed with the result, but still prepared to give credit and be gracious to NZ.

Oh dear God, didn't you...Matt Williams state that the French would Beat the Boks..."EASILLY"?? Wrong yet again...Eat your Biased Comments Now!!!!

Matt Williams should watch the Nigel Owens explanation of the Kwagga penalty. The rule doesn’t say you can’t put your hand on the ground. Very informative video Matt can learn something

I think Matt gets interviewed for the entertainment factor, not for technical analysis.

Do only Saffas and Kiwis watch Irish rugby podcasts? 😂

When Matt speaks..... i can feel his co-presenters disagreeing with him by just the look on their faces.

Not a penalty to France Matt...Nigel Owens explained it nicely. You may put your hand on the ground, just not in the process of scraping the ball towards you.

“I am not criticising the ref” proceeds to criticise the ref

I agree with Matt. Winning world cups are extremely hard. Bokke and AB's won 3 each, thank you very much. Go BOKKE.

When Rassie complained about the system he got banned, no one even supported him.

Getting so nervous with Matt saying SA will beat Eng in every facet of play....that is what he said Fra will do with SA...and he is ALWAYS wrong.

A few weeks ago Pratt Williams was the one ranting that the off-field officials were taking the game away from the ref, now its the opposite. Never ceases to amaze me that he still tolerated on the show, the bar must really be very low for commentators ....

Matt told us that this NZ team was the weakest did he not, few weeks ago?

Alan Quinlan is class

I'm only here to see Matt's hate towards SA, I'm sure it hurts him more that the Boks are through than that Ireland have failed.

Mark what now about Boks? Or you haven't recovered from Ireland loss? You know what guys, Ireland and France can still make it to the Rugby world cup final. How? They just need to buy tickets.

Stats mean nothing in a knockout. There are moments in games which makes the difference between BIG MATCH TEMPERAMENT and PANIC

I love all of Matt's various requests to change the rules of the game. We can call them the "Lets try and make sure the Springboks don't win Rules". So, so bitter. He is a worse pundit that he was a coach. And that is quite amazing.

Matt Williams blatant bias against the springboks is a bit sad. There were a few refereeing inconsistencies against both teams. That game switched when Ramos managed to kick his penalty 10m behind the mark. Bet he’ll be sucking on lemons if they win the World Cup

Nigel Owen's explains that penalty from Kwagga Smith and says it's legal, so you can take Matt's view on it, or the most experienced and well respected referee's view of it

I think the irish are being unduly harsh on themselves. The two teams played excellent rugby. Ireland were just on the wrong side of those tiny margins. AB are sensational when it comes to tactics. They played nothing short of sensational to pip a great irish side.

The Rugby Championship in SH is high octane, week after week, NZ and SA are use to playing with the same intensity every week, they will be up for the semis...and finals if they make it!!

Stephen Larkem charged down a Louis Koen conversation once in a test.

Now I’m worried. Matt picked England to lose. He’s always wrong. Go Boks.

I think Ireland are fantastic and they should definitely be in the semi finals ,🍀🍀🇿🇦🇿🇦

I love you guys ... especially Matt Williams' commentary on using the technology to minimize/eliminate the injustice of refereeing errors

Ireland did not lose that game for just one thing! They were tactically took out of their comfort zone, could not adept to game AB's threw at them. Stats means nothing when you don't take the opportunities coming your way, ie. 20 minutes of yellow cards against 14 men.

As Allan alluded to about the All Blacks pedigree but moreover character. To have the last 2 years results that the AB’s have had and to now be in a position to win another World Cup is truly incredible and again comes back to the character, trust and desire to win.

Does anybody know how to filter out KZfaq content that contains Matt Williams. Asking a friend please😂

Matt - what about the clear red card against PSDT. Straight head charge. Why didnt you raise that Matt. Blinded by your prejudice. A toxic mix of arrogance and conscious bias.

Matt Williams is so biased - what about a the decisions that went Ireland or Frances way? Don’t this count? Also he is always complaining about how long a game last it stopped for every issue the game would never end

Is that where it's at now? Talking about line out spacing when analysing Ireland's loss. Also if Porter scrummed in anymore he would have ended up on NZs side.

Fun fact- Apart from the penalty try all the tries scored in the ire v nz 1/4 final were scored by New Zealanders 😂

Yeah poor Matt Williams and kirwan need to have some time together, pretty much like an AA, jokes aside, I'm still nervous about England, they are due a massive game and have been sitting way under the radar.

You know Ireland are a good team when you have so many Kiwis fans still bitter about losing the series last year. You just about got this one, be Happy.

Thank you for the entertainment Mr Williams😅😂❤

Id take a series win in New Zealand over a semi final. Wasn't done down there in how long?

Wasn’t Barrett’s hand that stopped the try it was his lower torso.

Either Nz and SA will be grand. They won't need to go to well. They will cruse through. Will make good finale. But for competition it's not finale most folk wanted. Was at two matches weekend. Never experienced a collective devastation at a stadium or an event. Was god awful.

The video footage from the French TV producer during the game was incredibly one sided zooming in on South Africa mistakes painting a picture that skews in Frances favour but they conveniently didn't show the ruck head contact on Pieter Steph du Toit that was so bad the team Dr had to call for an HIA.....no one talking about that 👍🏻

On cue Marky Mark. There were penalties not given on both sides, calm down senior.

If Herring was on the field the result would have been different. He's a clinical finisher

Sorry Matt, THE SYSTEM, is exactly what you have been happy with because you benefitted from it. When RASSIE wanted to change the system for the better, YOU ALL wanted Rassie to be banned. You treated Rassie as the problem. What makes you criticizing the system better and more acceptable than Rassie? Every single person were supposed to support Rassie and demanded consistent refereeing. You didn't. What you are actually saying, referees can be biased against SA and make blatant mistakes against us but NOT against France or Ireland.

Dude! The guy with the gray hair is soooo salty! Lmao

Alan is great. Respect.

What about the fact that you guys played for 20 min with 15 man and The AB’s with 14

Matt, learn the laws of rugby, Owens even confirmed it, the law doesn't say you may not have your hands on the ground, the law says you may not go past the ball. The law also states you need to support your body weight. Which Kwagga did

Matt williams where is bokke apology

Sorry my friend. That penalty at the end near the French line came off a French player and 5 springboks asked for a review and we should have got a scrum on the line... that's a 7 pointer and yes the Springboks will smash Nz in the final

Matt Williams would do well to go listen to Nigel Owens on that. He makes it clear on his whistle watch show that putting a hand on the ground is not automatically a penalty it depends if you are using it to support your body weight or if you are placing beyond the ball.

Joe Schmidt did a job on his old team. Whadda guy.

NZ in the decades of being ranked 1 never bleeted like this lot being number one rofl 🤣🤣🤣 some growing up to be done

when a team after 120 yrs of domination lose a couple of games everyone loses their minds 🤣🤣🤣

Argentina world cup warm up match they also played a second natch v springboks, this was not part of the rugby championship

MATT WILLIAMS.. thought france was gonna beat south africa so easy??

Matt Williams, please come braai with us in SA? We'd love to have you...

Matt Williams has conceded that you could have 15 penalties at every breakdown but the TMO must come in whenever they spot one? Surely we would never get through a game in that case?

There is a lot of criticism against Matt Williams here. I am afraid I am going to pile in but will try to explain why I think he talks nonsense all the time not sure why they keep bringing him back when you have the likes of Andy Dunn and others. 1. AFTER Leinster lost to LA Rochelle in 2002. Williams writes that they were very lucky to win. Lo and behold they lose again in 2023 and Rog said something about disrespect from Leinster can't blame him 2. Mark before the world cup. South African players will not perform in the world cup because they haven't rested as they played super rugby and went straight to France and top14 rugby. Boks haven't won the title and may not win but the players don't strike me as run down. 3. After Boks lost to the ABs in the championship. Williams again, The Boks game is not good enough and when the Boks come up against the Big boys their game plan hits the wall. Boks have subsequently beaten France and ABs after that match. Maybe he does not consider these two big boys in the rugby world. I know this is punditry, but can we really take him serious as a pundit?

France will beat South Africa..."EEEAAASSSSY" (Matt Williams)

alan i like the way you analyze, you should go for coaching

Ireland this is why us kiwis have no respect towards you. You disrespect our captain and you make all these excuses for loosing. I could say what if Will Jordan caught that cross kick he would have scored a try but you don't talk about that cross kick out to Will Jordan. It's simple Ireland played their best but they we're put under too much pressure by the All Blacks causing them to make mistakes and give away penalties.

We won with a 7-1 and beat France with a 5-3😂😂😂😂😂

England's first big test match is this weekend so they only needed to win up to now not needing to show all their cards so could we see the real England Saturday like in the 2019 semi final?

Why is it that Matt Williams goes on a lengthy diatribe on justice having not been served because of one particular incident ( hand on the ground at a ruck). There were many injustices on both sides not just one. As he has suggested the ref did a fantastic job in a very difficult game - if we rely on technology to knit pick every issue we will never get a game out of first gear let alone second. Matt needs to take off his selective vision glasses and start having a balanced view of things. The Springboks were unjustifiably denied a penalty when Faf threw a pass into a French forward who was directly inline with Pollard. Just to clarify - a hand on the ground does not mean an automatic penalty to the opposition so long as you are not using that hand to reach beyond the ball and scoop it up or support your body weight. The referee deemed the player as not using his hand placement beside the ball as doing either of those. However, television evidence shows Pollard directly inline with the French player who was obstructing the pass from Faf to Pollard, so that was the true injustice... But you would find many more serving both sides to a similar extent... so again why harp on one over the countless others Matt??

World rugby just confirmed France should have had a yellow card and Boks should have had a offside penalty when Faf pass hit the French player. So French are clearly bias, the calls balance itself out in the end, Boks would have had an extra 3 points too

Matt Williams tears is so satisfying

In as much as Matt says Kolbes block was planned even those 2 tries which came from kicks were well planned based on Frances lack of ability of dealing with balls in the air. The rest he said was hog wash.

I watch this show because Matt Williams is HILARIOUS!!😂 He's so nonsense.🤣🤣🤣

Now that I see Mat giving us the nod I’m all of a sudden very nervous…

What makes Matt a better judge of a penalty (or not) than Nigel Owen, who after reviewing exactly that event said it wasn’t a penalty…? Does he even look elsewhere online before he spouts forth (yet again)?

Nigel owens said hand can be on the ground if the ref still believes you were still supporting your own body weight

Why don't they use the overhead camera to help decide scrum penalties ☘️🏉☘️🏉

These Irish podcast are so hilarious and absolutely entertaining. I'm so glad I came across them a couple weeks back. Comedy hour at its best. Did anyone see the one where the guy produced graphs and stats? Pure comedy genius! They're basically 'cut and paste' of each other, but with different sad, miserable, self righteous and condescending Presenters. All trying to find more silver linings and different areas where the Irish team were hard done by, a week after the horse had bolted. Talk about glutton for punishment. The pain and hurt in their faces and anger in their voice...compulsory viewing. Confidence is one thing, but the arrogance and entitlement shown from the Irish media and rugby public pre-tournament and quarters, it's next level. That's probably why so many Kiwi's and Saffa's are commenting on these Irish podcast, righting some wrongs. Not sure where the Irish supporters are, probably getting ready for the URC or watching the other 50 million sports that are more popular than rugby and have a bigger following. Dismissing the Southern Hemisphere Rugby Superpowers pre-tournament as if they were inconsequential, dads army and second rate pretenders...we weren't having that. I look forward to more content. Our teams have a semi-final to play, hopefully we can get through them and go to the big dance, but if we don't, then thats life. Future trivia question: Q. Which former Irish rugby team member, progressed past the quarter final? A. Joe Scheimdt.

Should be called the “southern hemisphere” World Cup to be fair!

nah, Porter was coming across, all the time, his problem is that most northern hemisphere referees were allowing him to do it hence why he never changed ... hard luck

NZ is a better side man to man. Ireland don't have the World Cup pedigree. Poor management and tactics.

I wonder what are the odds that England thought to themselves after the last world cup that nothing in between mattered so why turn up for anything but finals. If you read their squad sheet its not like they dont have the talent, just zero effort.

16:40 "Ireland could dominate for the next five years" is what was said by a pundit ahead of the match between Ireland and New Zealand. This is a golden generation of Irish players. But the age of "domination" of any sport is over, let alone rugby. You win you can when you can, now.

I dont think a scrum infringement is worth 3pts. More short arm penalties for scrum offences pls, not all but most.

Changes could have happened for Tonga game if not for Sexton being banned and selfish

Matt or Nigel Owens...mmm i one of them is right

who would have thought only KIWIS would score tries in this game Ireland vs New Zealand tu meke bros

Ireland was playing with one shoe during those 37 phases

It's bullshit to say the loss was by the width of Jordie Barrett's hand. The Kelleher try stop was at 70 minutes. If converted, then Ireland would go ahead 3pts with 7 minutes to go. Enough time for the ABs to snatch victory. As for the 2 cross kicks, both were well covered by cover defenders. As for scrum penalties, if Porter is told by the ref to adjust and refuses to, then don't cry when the ref penalizes him again. And again. And again. As for line-outs, Ireland is called for this all the time by refs. It's happened in other test matches. And they still need to be told.

Ireland - may have been deluded by the media and fan hype and forgot who they were playing; the ABS 'gave' them the style that won them the silverware in their cupboard! NZ / Aus have been playing that style from 2008! The only way to beat us is to surprise us with something we don't expect! We don't expect to play against ourselves...and the series in NZ taught us that! Everything changed after that!!! Kudos to Ireland for that! It made us stop and review our game to change... to have the ability to beat our own Attack and Defense. That's why we lost several games...trying new things and BLOODING new players at the same time! Very difficult and Win always expected! But we were Tweaking the style we play! What Ireland has to do is to IMPROVE the style every game they play to have several styles available. Most thought it was the 'same' ABs they met last time.....there's the result. That game took effort to win, but it did not bust the ABs (Matt's wrong AGAIN) It was because Ireland game to our house and smacked us! Good to see Ireland / Wales playing exciting rugby (NZ influence / Coaching) France always play with emotion and sometimes cost them dearly. WE need more games like those for the sport....especially with the Americas and European teams coming through. Chin up Ireland> Regroup and Grow your game!! You have 4-years to Learn or Not! Personally, I think you may have been lucky the ABs paid you too much respect!

Difference is New Zealand believe they have to earn the right to win the World Cup and Ireland just assumed they would win it…. That’s the difference between extreme variety of experiences with New Zealand and recent inflated experience with Irelands latest form… it was a mental war won by New Zealand and that’s what separates the great from the good..

Oh my goodness Matt Williams is a comdeian😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

Matt, haven't heard anyone else complaining about the scrums . Why do the losing teams always moan about the refs. Will you be supporting South Africa tomorrow????

These guys just won’t let the loss go 🤦‍♂️

Funny when Ireland kicked the ball out the ruck in the Autumn series Matt had no problem. Yes Matt, Ireland should have lost against the Springboks last year.

Matt, Matt, Matt. This is sad. You want rugby to be refereed as if it is chess. Agree, referees need to get it right, but to call a different result on the basis of one mistake that you picked up is a gross simplification of a complex set of factors and possible outcomes. Or are you suggesting that you have counted every ref mistake, on each side, with complete insight in what would have happened or flowed from there onwards and then, in that magnificent rugby brain of yours can compute a conclusion that the result should have been different? Matt, please share either your algorithm or the stuff you smoke so that us mortals can follow your arguments.

Alan Quinlan is the best virgin media have for another World Cup cycle… AGAIN

Mr Williams... More technology?? No thanks!! Like Nigel Owens said, "there is a difference between having your hand on the ground and not supporting your body weight" Still a 50/50 call I would say. I guess same would be for the non-penalty when de Klerk passed the ball against an offside player. NZ referees tend to be less strict around the ruck to let the game flow. Got to do your analysis on referees.

Matt “sad old man” Williams is so predictable. He had to say something negative about SA.. talking about justice.. where was the justice when Ireland collapsed the mail with Bundee Ali lifting Kitshoff’s leg and the ref and TMO missed it. .. big Props to Alan for not even responding to it… he says He is not blaming the referee. .. so pathetic.

Is Matt Williams Irish....he keeps on talking about 'we'

I keep hearing how Ireland got close they should've won with the opposition down to 14 players for 20 minutes and conceding a penalty try

It took nz 24 yrs to win their 2nd w/c ireland must learn from this loss & use it in the 2027 rwc or will find themselves in the same position in 4 years time.

Before my fellow Saffas start dumping on Mat remember he was one of few people that gave Rassie the benefit of the doubt back in 2021 when THAT video was leaked… just saying. Water under the bridge may be a better way forward…