{"id":562958,"date":"2026-07-22T18:24:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-22T18:24:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/562958\/"},"modified":"2026-07-22T18:24:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T18:24:09","slug":"former-all-black-stars-say-overrated-ireland-a-pack-of-whingers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/562958\/","title":{"rendered":"Former All-Black stars say overrated Ireland &#8216;a pack of whingers&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former All Black Justin Marshall says Irish rugby is turning into a &#8220;pack of whingers&#8221; that blames everyone else for defeat.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Revelllng in the victory for The Good, The Bad, and The Rugby podcast, Marshall took aim at Ireland and former captain Peter O&#8217;Mahony, who was critical of match referee Nic Berry on Virgin Media TV.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">&#8220;They\u2019ve been blaming a couple of decisions within the game, going &#8216;we were ripped off, the All Blacks cheated, they always get the favourable decisions at Eden Park, there was this and that&#8217;,&#8221; Marshall said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">&#8220;They\u2019ve also turned into a pack of whingers, to be honest. They feel like their performance wasn\u2019t up to standard, but it\u2019s everyone else\u2019s fault.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">&#8220;Mate, we didn\u2019t make you drop the ball f*****g 15 times. Do you know how many tackles they fell off?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">&#8220;You know what guys? Sort out your own s**t first.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"\"> Murray Mexted was another former New Zealand international to go in heavy on Ireland following the game, suggesting the visitors are overrated, particularly by themselves.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Speaking on the DSPN podcast, Mexted said. &#8220;This is an Irish team that really rate themselves big time in the global game, and I think they overrate themselves a bit actually, to be frank. And that was probably exposed on the weekend.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">&#8220;Are they as good as they were two or three years ago? I don\u2019t think so. I think they are a team that\u2019s a very, very good rugby team, but where\u2019s the X-factor in that team?&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former All Black Justin Marshall says Irish rugby is turning into a &#8220;pack of whingers&#8221; that blames everyone&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":562959,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":["post-562958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562958","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=562958"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562958\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/562959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=562958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=562958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=562958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}