Ireland 2018 | The Kings of Rugby

What an incredible year Ireland had! A Six Nations Grand Slam, a Series victory in Australia for the first time in 39 years, and defeating New Zealand for the second time in their history.
Here is all the highlights from Ireland's year! Enjoy!
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[@harrymc4339]

That France game should be in a top 10 ways to have a heart attack

[@lloydpalmer4236]

😂

[@C.A.E_S]

😔😔😔

[@Oscar-nw5us]

Your forgetting the as an Irish person part

[@joekly1982]

Really needed this after the disappointment that was the World Cup

[@damiencallaghan9389]

Joe Schmidt has his AUTO coming out "Ordinary Joe" He has to do the usual BS of Book Signings and Talk Shows JUST IN TIME FOR THE XMAS MARKET which is very handy He better give us some proper answers.......

[@misaelharry6613]

instablaster...

[@johnmc3862]

@@damiencallaghan9389 What? Joe did amazing thing for Irish rugby. No Joe Schmidt no Andy Farrell.

[@jammingwithjonno3567]

One of my worst years as an England fan but one of my favourite years as a Rugby fan.

[@inco9943]

What a year for irish rugby - hoping 2020 brings more this!

[@smcquill8]

When coronavirus was unheard of 😔

[@colmancooney9213]

Great video. I really enjoyed that. Thanks

[@aranoneill9914]

POV 3 years later we conquered the all blacks again and we got the books in our rwc pool

[@wearethechampions2528]

Well deserved boys💥👏

[@datschildish7186]

So enjoyable to watch when they were in peak performance they need to bring the sting back to it they’ve slowed down a lot now hope for better in 6nations 2020

[@pancholom]

They were very good yesterday vs Wales. Nowhere near the 2018 level, but pretty promising.

[@colmcronin7306]

Oh poor children of the pre-time. They will have plenty time to get it right in 2021. Hopefully....

[@aoibhint8111]

At least we did well in the Scotland, Ireland match for the 2020 autumn national’s

[@precision2190]

@@aoibhint8111 not looking promising now because of the recent Wales match

[@oisinmccarthy8717]

@@precision2190 and france😬

[@sammurray9644]

How far back we've come :(

[@bornagainulsterman4537]

Myself - an established supporter of the Irish national rugby union team since 2009.

[@HGN03]

Peak Stockdale 🤩

[@videovibes56]

thank you for the video

[@charliefox5138]

Class vid mate keep it up

[@jimmccormack7507]

The best of the best

[@Jcserve-pr8uc]

Respect

[@hazelhazel8518]

We are good again!

[@Trajan2401]

WERE

[@WookJnr]

@@Trajan2401 AGAIN

[@robertpirsig5011]

Could have shown more clips of the NZ game. Some class jackels and tackles into tounch in that game.

[@petermcelwee6653]

Great year for Leinster n Ireland, pity it didnt last

[@davidodwyer9871]

The song👌👌👌

[@greenblood5640]

And then came 2019

[@kylehannon8271]

Team of us stronger togeather like stone in the irish sea

[@kylehannon8271]

Come on ireland i belive in winning always while we go play away cuz its winning at home is eazy, i play my card away on my own stupit way still become winner, my god saved my ass any way,

[@HockeyJock310589]

1 win short of a perfect year....almost

[@jammingwithjonno3567]

Only New Zealand and England have ever had an unbeaten calendar year.

[@karlosdeevs]

@@jammingwithjonno3567 if i ain't mistaken, England's 2003 & 2016 years delivered. While out of NZ's famous batch, they surprisingly haven't done it in the last 6 yrs. 2012 and 2013 were the last times, but would you be able to name their other successes in the 00s and early 10s?

[@jammingwithjonno3567]

@@karlosdeevs The only unbeaten calendar year England had was in 2016. England lost to France in a World Cup warm up game in 2003. The only unbeaten year New Zealand had was 2013. New Zealand lost to England in 2012 which I think was in the Autumn Internationals. This is only in the professional age mind.

[@jammingwithjonno3567]

@@karlosdeevs I think England also lost to Babas in 2003 as well.

[@jeffrey89095]

@@jammingwithjonno3567 this is a rugby stat that isn't true. Ireland went unbeaten in 2008, they drew 1 game.

[@geansai333]

2018: 3 scoring passes from aki, 2 from ringrose = 5. That's more scoring passes from irish centres than all of 2019-2020-2021

[@NukaRoach]

Good video...kings in the heading though....doubt it very much

[@joebarrett3757]

Know

[@finn4012]

I don’t think there’ll ever be a year like it again for Irish rugby

[@zimzimma5688]

We're in one!

[@joedennehy386]

They were kings, deservedly so. But when you are number one everyone is gunning for you. The weight of expectation got to them. They prefer to be plucky underdogs. They will learn how to handle the pressure

[@countycricklewood]

How the Lions needed Gary Ringrose

[@conormarren777]

what exactly happened to Ireland? Schmidt's departure. probabl no. 1. SHouldn't have announced retirement. Rob Kearney's departure? Conor Murray suffering after neck injury? Rpry Best gone?

[@Hic_Rhodus]

It was a strange thing.... the more success they got with Schmidt's rigorous technical approach... the more they began to reduce everything to the blunt core aspects of that method alone. That was based on (a) suffocating the opposition by endlessly holding on to the ball and playing ruck after ruck after ruck, and (b) leading from the start, winning by small margins, and never falling behind on the scoreboard. The more they doubled down on that approach, the more they lost the other, more fluid, aspects of their back-line game (e.g. talented players like Earls and Ringrose, etc, played more and more peripheral roles). You can't do that in rugby... because it is a game with too many variables. When England and Jones came to Dublin in early 2019 with a game-plan devised specifically to counteract that narrow ruck-minded approach... and succeeded in simply crushing Ireland backwards on the early gain-line ruck encounters... Ireland looked absolutely lost. Stop Plan A... and they had absolutely no Plan B, except to kick the ball back to the opposition. After one or two months of that, both Schmidt and the players for some reason went into open denial... and refused to admit that their approach had gone past its sell-by-date and needed significant updating. Perhaps they thought it was too late to change... But by the time they got to the World Cup, not only had they been "found out" tactically... but after two full years of nothing else, the players had completely lost confidence in the idea they could do anything else. They had no idea of how to play fluid open attacking rugby, if and when games started to go against them. That's what happened against Japan. And then, against NZ, when a completely rattled Ireland panicked from the start and the ABs went 2 tries up early on, it was already over.

[@jonathantucker9626]

35,000 views only 300ish like what up with that haha 😄

[@cianhalpenny1143]

Do for 2022 as well

[@extraoffload626]

Maybe if we won the Six Nations but France just pipped us

[@cianhalpenny1143]

@@extraoffload626 Do conquerer of the all blacks then

[@marcusjr2342]

Awful shame the World Cup wasn’t that year

[@joebarrett3757]

Anyone oboe last song ?

[@gracebutton8005]

It's called hero's tonight by janji

[@chrisryan464]

Next stop France !

[@VIXDOGG315]

😂

[@ryandurkin6762]

What a joke of a title Ireland have only won 3 grand slams in their history us welsh have won 4 since 2005 alone.

[@joshhoare8162]

we know wales are one of the best rugby teams - hes saying we were the kings of 2018 just that year alone . hes not saying we are the best in the world

[@coilinflaherty355]

Hey now😎we're all buddies here🤝