It was a terrific, dominant display from Ireland last weekend to level the test series heading into the final game this weekend. Andy Farrell's side followed the win up with a victory over the Maori All Blacks on Tuesday and confidence levels will be high ahead the next game. One of the main talking points of Ireland v All Blacks was the altercation between Peter O'Mahony and the All Blacks captain Sam Cane, with the Munster flanker seeming to say " Who do you think you are? You're a shit Richie McCaw, pal "
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Speaking on The Build Up in association with Ladbrokes, former Ireland back row and teammate of Peter O'Mahony gave his thoughts on the incident from Ireland v All Blacks.
The Sam Cane versus Richie McCaw duel is going to be ridiculously good. Peter O'Mahony standing at the end of the game basically saying to Sam Cane that 'You're a shit Richie McCaw'.
Is that an insult or did he class him in the same sentence as Richie McCaw, you could probably take a positive out of that but like I thought that match was won at that stage and it's easy for Pete to come out and say something like that.
I hope Pete isn't like eating his own words come the end of the match because that'll be talked about in the dressing room. That'll fuel the New Zealand fire this week. The way you know, he tried to embarrass the New Zealand captain on home turf.
Stephen Ferris also suggested that O'Mahony knew what he was doing during Ireland v All Blacks 2nd test.
He said:
Pete's a smart guy, he knows the ref's mic was going to pick that up, he knows there's people in the crowd who can lip read, you know what I mean.
It was thrown out there and New Zealand might think it was disrespectful but I thought it was quite funny and I know a lot of the Ireland fans thought it was funny, but when you're winning by 12 or 13 points with a minute or two on the clock, it's easily enough said
It's going to be a different ball game altogether on Saturday morning at 8:05.
Stephen Ferris predicts the 3rd test winner
Ferris has said that he feels this weekend's game will be the tightest of all the tests so far, but thinks a narrow win for New Zealand could be the outcome.
Speaking ahead of Ireland v New Zealand, the Ulster legend said:
I've got to go with my head like, I just feel that Ireland will not go down without a fight but I just don't think they're going to win this test match.
I think it's going to be very tight, six to ten points you know, I've hardly got a score prediction right because when there's yellow cards and red cards flying about all over the game, it's so difficult to call matches and I wouldn't be surprised if there's another red card or yellow card this weekend again.
It's very tough to call but I'm going to go with a New Zealand win, but Ireland to come home and land in Dublin after beating Maori All Blacks, beating New Zealand in Dunedin, you know I think that's a really good four or five weeks down under.
Ireland v All Blacks kicks off at 8:05am on Saturday and with the Test series yet to be decided, it's destined to be a classic game between two of the world's best sides.
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