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<\/a> <\/p>\nAll Blacks<\/a> legend Justin Marshall says Ireland<\/a> should take a long, hard look at themselves rather than look for excuses after they were beaten 40-21 by New Zealand<\/a> in the third round of the Nations Championship<\/a> last weekend.<\/p>\n Defensively Ireland were all over the shop in the first half as they trailed 28-7 at half-time before restoring some pride to \u2018win\u2019 the second half.<\/p>\n The match could possibly have had a different outcome had Luke Jacobson\u2019s dangerous clearout at the ruck on 27 minutes been upgraded to a red, while Quinn Tupaea was perceived to be lucky not to get binned for a deliberate knock on.<\/p>\n New Zealand had surged into a commanding 14-0 lead when Jacobson\u2019s foul play was put on review, and there was only one team in it. And Marshall believes any Irish angst should be directed at putting their own house in order \u2013 they were turned over over 18 times and missed 35 tackles \u2013 rather than blame the officiating.<\/p>\n \u201cThey\u2019ve turned into a pack of whingers to be honest,\u201d the 81-cap blasted during an appearance on The Good, The Bad, The Rugby, ANZ.<\/p>\n \u201cThey feel like their performance wasn\u2019t up to standard but it is everyone else\u2019s fault.<\/p>\n \u201cThey\u2019ve been blaming a couple of decisions within the game, \u2018We were ripped off, the All Blacks cheated, they always get the favourable decisions going their way, particularly at Eden Park \u2026 there was this, and there was that\u2019.<\/p>\n \u201cIt was like, mate, we didn\u2019t make you drop the ball f***** ball 15 times.<\/p>\n \u201cDo you know how many tackles they fell off? They were falling off tackles like that. But they go straight towards, Quinn Tupaea, it should have been a yellow card, Jacobson should\u2019ve been a red.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s like, you know what guys, sort out your own s*** first, and don\u2019t blame everyone else.<\/p>\n \u201cLook at yourself in the mirror, Ireland, for goodness sake.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published: 4 hours ago | 22 July 2026 04:11 EDT Updated: 3 hours ago | 22 July 2026…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":538580,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[111,139,69,213],"class_list":["post-538579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538579","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=538579"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538579\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/538580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=538579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=538579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=538579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}