All Blacks v France II
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Does Brennan have a temper like his old man Trevor?
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It's not a French D team as some have written. Barassi and Depoortere were the incumbents for the 13 jersey in 2025 and 2024. Barré has played this year in the 6N while Halagahu had been in former squads and so had Colombe. Abadie is one of the best lineout specialist in France, as is Bochaton who is a big, athletic loose forward, capable of playing lock. However, they will miss Alexandre Fischer who had a hell of a game last Saturday.
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@Daffy-Jaffy Looks like a smaller, more mobile pack. Interesting. France trying to damage the ABs with individual speed.
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@ACT-Crusader said in All Blacks v France 2:
10- Dagg
12- Ardie
13- MessamThe greatest 10-12-13 that never was
8- Hayman
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@booboo said in All Blacks v France 2:
@ACT-Crusader said in All Blacks v France 2:
10- Dagg
12- Ardie
13- MessamThe greatest 10-12-13 that never was
8- Hayman
could be a good idea for a thread....
The 'where they should have played 15'
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Very glad Ioane on the wing.
Backline exciting.
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@BerniesCorner said in All Blacks v France 2:
I thought the backline last week looked capable of breaking down defences through good passing.
I thought our passing looked noticeably faster than prevoius years. It looked good
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Main thing for Proctor is to sure up his defence.
Another try like Frances first score last week would not be a good look
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I played centre and wing in my younger days obviously at lower levels.
But I used to think the most demoralising thing to happen to you in those positions is being beaten on the outside.
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@kiwiinmelb said in All Blacks v France 2:
I played centre and wing in my younger days obviously at lower levels.
But I used to think the most demoralising thing to happen to you in those positions is being beaten on the outside.
Attissogbe at 20 looks like he's going to be a special player so maybe forgivable however you'd have to say that Rieko probably makes that tackle.
There may have been a couple of times where Rieko got beaten in the last five years but I seem to remember him recovering and catching them in the end.
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@brodean said in All Blacks v France 2:
@kiwiinmelb said in All Blacks v France 2:
I played centre and wing in my younger days obviously at lower levels.
But I used to think the most demoralising thing to happen to you in those positions is being beaten on the outside.
Attissogbe at 20 looks like he's going to be a special player so maybe forgivable however you'd have to say that Rieko probably makes that tackle.
There may have been a couple of times where Rieko got beaten in the last five years but I seem to remember him recovering and catching them in the end.
I’d need to watch it again, only watched it the once, but he also seemed to be moving up from the inside almost inviting a guy with pace to go on his outside
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So what's the consenus on this team? I'm surprised at the apathy here at us nearly getting tipped up by the French B team.
I don't think this a strong All Black squad, I think four years of Ryan as forwards coach and the same problems in the loosies (if anything we've gone backwards there) is pretty damning.
I can see us relying on individual brilliance, from newish players like Roigard, to paper over these cracks.
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