All Blacks v France II

[sparky]

Ho, ho. I guess we need to be happy with the win. Weird French selection gifted us this one, a great forward effort in the first half guaranteed it.

But too much sloppiness in the backline and in attack. We need to be much more clinical.

[SouthernMann]

I like the big French fullback

[Darth Sader]

Good win, but I’m definitely only back to a semi

[Duluth]

Player of the match poll up early:
https://www.forum.thesilverfern.com/topic/7444/all-blacks-motm-v-france-ii

[sparky]

Have we lost the second half again?

[stodders]

@sparky 14-14

[Grooter]

Proud of Jims cameo tonight. Vaa'i, Patrick, Holland, Rieko, Roigard excellent

[ACT Crusader]

@sparky said in All Blacks v France 2:

Have we lost the second half again?

No. Even.

[KiwiMurph]

I like Ratima but he's an enormous step down from Roigard.

[kiwiinmelb]

Remember the fun days when we used to completely bury teams in the last quarter

[Darth Sader]

Who gets the moral victory here?

[Bones]

Thought all the newbies were really good, liking the pressure being applied before and after halftime, but fuck fix the last 20 minutes.

[sparky]

@kiwiinmelb said in All Blacks v France 2:

Remember the fun days when we used to completely bury teams in the last quarter

It's a big jump now from our first XV to the guys picked to come off the bench, I'm afraid.

[sparky]

@Darth-Sader said in All Blacks v France 2:

Who gets the moral victory here?

The England Cricket team of course.

[stodders]

@kiwiinmelb now you do it in the first half to get the job done

[nostrildamus]

You know, if they moved JB to 10 and had QT and Big Jim at 12 I wouldn't mind that much at all. And I don't recall great memories of JB as a makeshift first five.

[Kruse]

"regain the Dave Gallagher Cup"
... as if the other side ever gave a sliver of a shit about that

[Steven Harris]

I’m really not sure given Reiko is no longer viewed as a centre if he warrants a place as a winger moving forward
The lack of vision to link with anyone is concerning can be very thankful their are injuries around the squad and someone like Tangitau is injured
Not trying to be troll regarding Reiko but I do wonder if there.s better options

[Darth Sader]

@Kruse said in All Blacks v France 2:

"regain the Dave Gallagher Cup"
... as if the other side ever gave a sliver of a shit about that

Shit… since 2018

[sparky]

@Steven-Harris

I think he'll be an impact/bench player eventually. But we still need him as a starter given the current number of injuries to three-quarters.