All Blacks players Aaron Smith & Rieko Ioane | Forward's coach Jason Ryan | Press Conference

All Blacks players Aaron Smith & Rieko Ioane alongside forward's coach Jason Ryan spoke to the media ahead of their clash with Ireland this weekend.
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[@cpfp496]

As an Ireland fan of a certain vintage, I was so used to watching Ireland lose in the bad old days that the All Blacks were my second team - unstoppable, unfathomable talent and came across as our kind of people. Much as I dream of an Ireland win on Saturday, this one's going to be like watching two of my favourite brothers scrapping. May whoever wins buy the beers.

[@stevebell395]

Ur gone see them get well beat this week so ur be good

[@rodeo4786]

Well said quietly hope it's us buying the beers. Enjoy

[@estherroberts3537]

A win-win

[@robinlholland1]

Your comment is the epitome of sport. Winner buys the beers

[@tclrsons9272]

Fully agree, as Ireland have been my second favorite team since 99ish. And yet O Gara is still my no1 1st five 🙌. It's going to be one hell of a tense morning with the friends here in Taranaki NZ

[@JohnBooysen-fg6dv]

Got all my support boys from 🇿🇦,I believe u can do the job. BOOOOOOMFAHHHHHHH

[@dariankrieger4813]

John ek weeti so mooi nie ek is nervous ek sal moet deal met ñ bad result vir 4 jaar😂

[@markwatson9849]

I love it how the OTB reporters keep asking about "revenge." None of the AB's have ever said that was a motivation.

[@peterviiga2180]

Exactly 💯

[@kieranthompson8103]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/nYK5en1-nJZ-f5Y 8:15 onwards.

[@Richiv77]

That's where you're wrong, Beauden and Dan Coles previously mentioned that they are still hurting from the series loss and would like to get one back on them. That reeks of revenge.

[@HeeniKeke]

Win or lose, kiwis are proud of our team. We can’t win every game and aren’t arrogant enough to think we can. The team puts all their heart and skills into the 80mins and that’s all we can ask. Go ABs!

[@rchw8052]

Well said and very true.

[@duanekuru4157]

I've read a lot of forums this week and of course followed the ABs religiously like most Kiwis. But I'm not obsessed with winning. If the All Blacks play excellent rugby that's enough. It's clear both sides are putting everything into it. I have a lot of confidence NZ will do well. But no one wins every game. And it may be that Ireland plays better on the day. If they do and get the result one thing clear is they will deserve it. Ill be cheering for the ABs.

[@ThePhilcam]

Wow that’s not an attitude that kiwis would have had 20 years ago or perhaps even 10.

[@lauriecarter8931]

Kapai bro !! C'mon All Blacks win or lose.

[@wedgburymusic4886]

Two fantastic teams with great respect for one another. What a game its going to be on Saturday evening. Cmon Ireland!

[@bobalobba]

All the best to both teams. It's going to be emotional.

[@matakitaki1]

How can you not love this game. Play hard be humble.

[@noname-wq3lc]

Definitely say of the two camps NZ seem more relaxed where Ireland seem all uptight and more tense. I like how NZ are joking around where Ireland are so serious.

[@kylerein2034]

Aaron Smith what a legend best number 9 to ever do it, go the All Blacks

[@petermolloy6959]

Is it just me or is the humility of the ABs much more frightening than Bok arrogance?

[@allancaples4887]

As ready and good as Ireland are they won't be prepared for a WC ABs team.

[@markrutherford6010]

The boys look focused. They are right it is best team on the day. Fritzell,Degroot,Lomax,Retallick are back. We are ready to go!!

[@minecraftvideos170]

Jordie will be massive too

[@zuko9675]

Go All Blacks, win or lose! At the best Ireland.

[@Silvius.2]

Reporters really thinking AB are broken if they lost some games? how many gamrs Kiwis lost and winn against springboks. At right time loosing makes you stronger.

[@TommySavage101]

Some tough questions there, they look like they are feeling it. IRRRRELAND IRRRRELAND IRRRRELAND 🇮🇪 🇮🇪 🇮🇪

[@Christsfireignitors]

May our Lord God Almighty bless Ardie, Caleb, Ioane, Frizell, Samasoni, Mark, Arron, Nepo, and the whole of the All Blacks team playing on Saturday night in France. May our Lord give you strength, speed, power and confidence to play your Absolutely Best performance for this game. May our Lord give you favour, grace and victory in the mighty name of Jesus Christ’s our Lord and all the AB fans, said, Amen.

[@glennwoods2462]

Only a zombie thinks the NZ All Black's are easy to beat.... A zombie with a big mouth.....

[@korocam9137]

A lot of over confident, arrogant Irish fans here, pride comes before a fall.

[@Anjuli72]

Knees all calm when he speaks the truth, but when he tries to sound confident......😉 come on Ireland

[@Mysterx1440]

Did you google that ?

[@Silvius.2]

what thinking should be good without rotation.... letting players sitting arround and if important they integrated in seconds. rotation in group phase its important also all knows how friends doing. Every kiwi and AB fan knowing what an black jersey means.... Means Kiwi Aotearoa living and proud be an New Zealander. Means giving all for your land and history - future.

[@BrownprideAotearoa]

Lol nothing to worry about, you guys have definatly got this no win or lose just push forward and onwards like you always have, france and boks all going down, give ireland their little moment in history cos come saturday night ireland will be sent home with a 20p margin to the greatest team in history, GO! the AB's yeehaa!❤

[@garrymack]

As a Kiwi, if Ireland win Saturday I hope they go all the way. But kiwi fans have seen this movie before. Red hot favourites '07 and '95 ABs bottled it despite all the plaudits.. 95 we had frigging lomu.. Who is favourite means nothing

[@JohnWick-nm6vo]

This kiwi team is not even as good as those previous mentioned, also the world has got smaller and other countries have gotten better.

[@garrymack]

@@JohnWick-nm6vo I'm talking about Ireland.. and Ireland being favourites.

[@hwy1983]

Good grief! Surely you are aware that player and team confidence is a significant factor in how any rugby team plays. So going into a World Cup knock-out game you make certain you've said all you can to undermine the confidence of "your team." Not unusual in our fans but definitely unwelcome feedback for a player who might need some support. Do us a favor and comment on our opponents through the rest of the RWC. Please.

[@garrymack]

@hwy1983 Sorry just to be clear, I was saying NZ have been huge favourites before and it meant nothing. Ireland are coming in as favourites this time. Kiwis know by now favouritism means nothing.

[@JohnWick-nm6vo]

Then judge them on current playing form as you should @@garrymack

[@TheShepTV]

It amazes me just how terrible the acoustics are in the press room

[@Silvius.2]

Jayson and joe,its great in AB team .... So mutch nice development we see in NZ team. This its not over.... enjoy rugby in france till the end and flying like fijian home. why no one predict final about AllBlacks against Fiji?

[@Mysterx1440]

Fiji not much chance, good luck to them though. Bula Vinaka

[@poerava]

I was quietly hoping Jason would get through an interview without saying ‘to be fair’. It wasn’t to be so 🤦‍♀️ Oh well

[@tommartin7333]

There's an awful lot of leg twitching going on there.Careful it will make you tired by Saturday.

[@peterviiga2180]

Nah kiwi laid back attitude your never understand bud. We're sweet as...ready to go !

[@peterviiga2180]

​@@JohnHarrisonMurray exactly 💯

[@eyeofrage7025]

Why you keep gazing down there bro ? 😂

[@ninjajunior4422]

​@@eyeofrage7025the bro must be looking at the middle leg 👀🤣🤣

[@gagd233]

Stop objectifying our kiwi boys bits you pervert

[@arthurclover5990]

Ireland is too strong we have to admit that so this AB team is not the standard they used to be, time has changes and everyone is up there

[@wayneaye3700]

They've admitted many times they're strong What r u talking about????

[@Baz502]

All Blacks have done it, they have won the rugby world cup

[@davidwalker2402]

History won’t win world cups. This promises to be a great rugby game. I think we will see the future of rugby on display next Saturday and may the best team win…

[@wikidwiki6090]

Lot of Irish becoming over cocky like the Poms and the Poms now playing like the Irish true DNA bloody ironic..

[@kizombeiro8130]

Fitzpatrick had the right attitude. The new age attitude of focusing on pleasure has had the most disappointing results for the ABs ever. Neither Nuggs or Reiko truly believe it as can be seen through their body language when pressed on the subject.

[@blairansellfraser]

I wouldn’t use these two as a yardstick anyway. I would be more interested in how Whitelock and Retallick are traveling. Regardless, I sense the AB’s lack the ability to dominate up front…that and a world class 7 (I consider Savea an 8, Cane a 6, Papalii a big Prop).

[@Silvius.2]

hopefully ireland thinking must saving best players for halve final and further.... playing saves for no injuries🤷‍♂️. And AB go all in.... irish still having in head not going further, this time they having confidence winning quarter final? thats why want playing save. already see france at final?

[@darrilynbradley9624]

Let's go lreland.

[@CrudupZopf-ns4dr]

Caleb Clark either in the first lineup or off the bench

[@Cobba290]

No chance

[@korocam9137]

He’ll be watching from the stands.

[@Olivierstreet]

Sleeper Irish fan

[@CaseyKCRichards]

This coach Dan Long in the advertisement irritates me. - would you I hire a guy that passes the gym every day?

[@bobsyourunclefannysyouraun6997]

Smith is a great player,but that loane guy is a game changer. Big fan. C’mon Ireland 🇮🇪

[@johndonovan2911]

Revenge question was pretty cringe

[@dariankrieger4813]

They are a good team but panic when they come under pressure they crack.It's the confidence that Ireland has that will be a factor before they even touch the ball. This team have to start believing in their abilities other wise they are doomed.I have watched them fail 1995,1999,2003,2007 and 2019 but this time around they really wear the underdog label.I don't see them coming out on top to fragile at the moment.

[@philchris3854]

Trash 🗑️

[@actiaint]

yeah - I think we need some more aggression and less humility for sure. But I think they know that come whistle time.

[@Middle-Earth007]

The aggression and intensity will be there from the All Blacks come kickoff. This All Blacks game will be far different to what viewers have experienced at the world cup so far. From this interview one can see they've held things back. Cannot wait till kickoff.

[@taniac1860]

Darian, I think the lesson you should take from your own post is, the AB’s have been overwhelming favourites at so many world cups, that rankings, odds and favourites tag mean nothing and they know it. It’s called experience. There’s a difference between confidence and over confidence. I certainly wouldn’t judge their humility as a lack of confidence, they know the meaning of “pride comes before a fall”.

[@tommcg7564]

Kei te pai koe rieko? You look a bit perplexed

[@jdk1147]

Lots more pressure on Ireland whether they are nr one or not. They have to get past their ceiling of getting past the quarters. Then all of them in a place they have never been before. They are a good team but they have a lot to lose. The ABs can beat them and have enough experience for the next rounds too. It's going to be a great game. No one in Ireland can give them advice of how to deal with it... let the best team win.

[@treatyman25]

There will be 23 lads to give advice in the next World Cup!!

[@CouncilofOneElectronic]

Mike Catt (Ireland Attack coach) won a world cup with England in 2003. So one of their coaches knows how to deal with it.

[@jdk1147]

@@CouncilofOneElectronic jip but he is english and how they did it... no one from Ireland.

[@jdk1147]

@@treatyman25 it's only the quarters now.... don't jump the gun. Pride comes before a fall.

[@Darren_S]

​@@CouncilofOneElectronicWasn't Mike Catt the guy who got trampled and humiliated by Lomu in the 95 WC?

[@KIWINZ2024]

Man you irish are cocky. Good though can finally make some money on the abs coming in as underdogs

[@ciaranbrk]

We really aren’t we are confident we back ourselves against anyone but we know how good no can be we know if we don’t show up we could get thumped.

[@sljones9103]

The cocky fans are football fans jumping on the rugby bandwagon they haven't got a clue about rugby

[@tiocfaidharla3200]

I don't agree as most of the Irish fans grew up watching us get hammered by new Zealand

[@HeeniKeke]

Agree about the Irish being cocky and arrogant….haven’t seen much sportsmanship at all…Ireland are the ones who have everything to prove since they are ranked number 1 in world, RWC favourites and 17 consecutive wins. ABs have nothing to prove…they will just turn up and play their great game

[@tiocfaidharla3200]

@@HeeniKeke the all blacks have always something to prove especially when the rate of domestic abuse goes up in new Zealand when they lose

[@michaelkinsella8904]

Ireland by 40.

[@Frankabagnale33]

They are nervous wrecks and when they get asked directly or indirectly about the series loss to Ireland, their knees seem to start quivering

[@Orca322]

What a load of rubbish 😂

[@kylerein2034]

Rubbish, but keep telling yourself that in order to sleep better at night

[@Frankabagnale33]

@@kylerein2034 lol in truth, I am looking forward to what will be a very competitive test match. Ireland is excellent, so are New Zealand AB. Over half the team have never lost to NZ so that’s their mentality. Neither team of top athletes is assuming anything, they know it’s going to be tight.

[@kylerein2034]

@@Frankabagnale33 enjoy the game, best team wins on the night, much respect to both teams

[@Frankabagnale33]

@@kylerein2034 You too, enjoy it buddy!

[@kizombeiro8130]

Nuggs is well nervous

[@philchris3854]

No he very calm

[@gagd233]

He plays best when he has nerves. I don't want to see him relaxed before a massive game like this one

[@charliebannon5489]

As a psychologist, I've never seen such a nervous interview from the All Blacks. They're so unconvincing, don't believe in themselves and are talking like they've already lost the match four days before kick off. You can see a very different and confident attitude from the Irish. I think the Irish have this won. We might as well start preparing for 2027

[@peterviiga2180]

Where did ya get your paper...from a weetbix cereal 😂

[@ciaranbrk]

@@peterviiga2180it’s in the body language the shoulder shrugs . the shakes of their heads after they finish a sentence the know they don’t believe

[@bombasticbadassbrigade3552]

Body language doesn't lie. They look like they don't wan to be there. Jason Ryan knows he will be coaching next year and he is the only one looking genuinely relaxed.

[@Anjuli72]

Exactly... The knee rattle gives it away!

[@peterviiga2180]

​@@bombasticbadassbrigade3552you heard Aaron...he can't wait....they're itching to get in the field 😉

[@SAnd-pd1ou]

Ireland win this easy. These guys look scared

[@Cobba290]

They’re just raring to go

[@philchris3854]

Shut your hole sandman

[@toiletsmithy3630]

They look motivated

[@lauriecarter8931]

Cocky Nut .

[@gymerdatw-uk7iu]

ahhhh my guy .. eat those words

[@masta12ful]

Nothing quite like interviewing...LOSERS!!!!.....HAVE A GREAT FLIGHT HOME GUYS!!!!

[@philchris3854]

Hey mustard 😂

[@meref9973]

Are you talking about your team? 😂😂😂

[@brandonstclair898]

Not sure of the confusion. Ireland going to beat up the ABs Saturday, it’s not rocket science.

[@rodeo4786]

You underestimate this side beat up Ireland are in for a fight beat up fkotta here

[@philchris3854]

I heard the ref Wayne Barnes doesn't like Johnny Sexton 😂

[@Taniwhadragon]

Well your def not a rocket scientist..Kia Kaha

[@gymerdatw-uk7iu]

Lol they sure beat up the Abs :) back home they go

[@paulnash5500]

The number one team in the world 😂 Is this the start of the mind games. It wont work and yes Ireland are the number one side in the world and will continue to be. Sure the Irish planted Joe Schmidt into the NZ management team... seriously 😮😊

[@peterviiga2180]

Well you are no 1....only answering the question!! Have to cringe when the journalist implied revenge ...come on...Aaron answered it perfectly...no, its not revenge! It's a challenge. Go the MIGHTY BLACKS Autumn

[@SAnd-pd1ou]

Who cares about Joe Schmitt😂

[@philchris3854]

I feel ur scared about this game. Because you keep commenting. Ireland are going home because rugby 🏉 is a No1 sport and we are extremely talented in our DNA🎉🎉😮

[@RushNZ_]

ABS GONNA BE HARD TO STOP WHEN RAZOR ROBERTSON TAKES OVER 😂😂😂 NOW IS THE ONE ONLY CHANCE FOR IRELAND TO BEAT THE THE ABS AT A WORLD CUP

[@Endeavour02]

Your delusional if you think razor can do better. He walks out with majority of the ABs each week with the crusaders and loses his fair share of super games. International rugby is a level up again. Just stick to supporting the crusaders if you can’t support the ABs win or lose.

[@jasonwall5012]

Why are you shouting? 🤔 is it to get your point across?.

[@RushNZ_]

@@Endeavour02you must be a bitter chiefs supporter you’ll get a chance to beat the crusaders next year now that razors gone 😂

[@seymorbutts1027]

Read the body language.... they know they will be on the plane home with Fiji monday.

[@garrymack]

😂 whatever you're on I want some.

[@garrymack]

Plane or gallows?

[@klaus1292]

I don't see it, AB is calm and the media is playing right into the AB hands 😂

[@stevebell395]

U don't no what ur talking bout

[@klaus1292]

@@stevebell395 neither do you