All Blacks v Argentina II
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Am I right in thinking Ratima has gone backwards this year for the ABs, or are his workons just more obvious?
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@nostrildamus said in All Blacks v Argentina II:
Am I right in thinking Ratima has gone backwards this year for the ABs, or are his workons just more obvious?
I believe he's been going backwards for a year or so. Christie played much better than RC has to date this test season. And I hate to have to say that
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Issue One: Poor discipline. You can't concede three YCs and expect to win.
Issue Two: Lack of leadership. We really lack someone who can impose their will on proceedings when things turn to custard. We had plenty of leaders in previous eras.
Issue three: The game plan. Too much aimless kicking. Not enough retaining the ball, not enough line breaks or even attempted line breaks.
Issue four: Dreadful aerial work. We must be the worst of the top ten Rugby sides in the world in the air. We have been for some time and nothing gets done about it.
All this speaks of a somewhat arrogant, complacent coaching set up. Improvement and more ferocity is needed and fast.
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@antipodean said in All Blacks v Argentina II:
These stats are not good viewing. How the score is that close beggars belief.
Thats the stat i was looking for - 40 missed tackles. Thats whats bizzarre. I reckon at least 10 of them were on their 12, that bastard ran like an animal the whole game (pretty sure he was on for 80). We dont have anyone like that.
AB backline looks like a bunch of middle managers, 'composed, communicators' etc but noone who puts their hand up and wants to hurt some people when they carry and defend
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Solutions:
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No more Beauden Barrett at 10. He lacks composure and authority. I'd pick DMac or Ruben Love there for the rest of the season.
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No more Sevu Reece. Time to move forward with genuine pace like Leroy Carter or Caleb Tangitau.
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Bring in a recent ex-referee (ideally from the UK and Ireland) to work with the squad and explain to them clearly why certain actions are always going to result in a YC with a non-Kiwi ref.
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Bring in someone from an AFL background to work on the squad's aerial work. Someone like Mick Byrne but 20 years younger.
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Shake up the leadership group. Fast track Wallace Sititi and Cam Roigard to senior positions. I also want to see Dalton Papalii back in the squad for both his playing and leadership abilities. Jim the Difference needs to be in the 23. Some more experienced guys need to concentrate on playing well enough to stay in the AB jersey.
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Something rotten in the selecting, coaching, and preparation.
Farming out selection to each assistant is a pussy head coach move. Man up Razor, this is your team.
This idea of selection by each assistant only works if the team has a clear approach to play that is agreed upon and acted upon from top to bottom. This team does not have that.
Change is needed - if it isn' players, sack some coaches. If Hansen is the main man in the backs, turn them all over to him and hold him responsible; equally the same goes for Holland. The proof of the pudding is in the eating, as they say, and it tastes like shit.
You've got guys playing significantly worse in the Black jersey than they were a month ago in Super (or European) rugby. That's on coaching and preparation and I doubt that these guys can figure out why because they dumped the previous admin on mass, so there is little institutional knowledge to provide guidance on where things are going wrong.
Assuming that a coach won't get sacked, then the coaches have to show that they have the balls to dump senior players right now. If they believe they have the right game plan and can prepare players appropriately, dump these guys for poor performances and reward those who come in and play accurately.
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@sparky said in All Blacks v Argentina II:
Solutions:
- Bring in a recent ex-referee (ideally from the UK and Ireland) to work with the squad and explain to them clearly why certain actions are always going to result in a YC with a British or Irish ref.
Berry is an Aussie
And a Martian would have ruled all three YCs the same way
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Other than to appease the marketing men and to keep his other family members happy, why on earth are we persisting with Beauden Barrett in the All Blacks 10 jersey?
I can't remember the last time he played well in the 10 jersey for the ABs. Certainly not this year and not last year either.
Other options at First Five are available.
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I know.
And my point was I've seen a lot of go unpunished in Super games between two NZ Super sides with Kiwi refs.
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@Donsteppa said in All Blacks v Argentina II:
Is it bad that I saw the Favourite Comedians thread title pop up, and instantly thought "Scott Robertson"....
Yes. The word "Favourite" was in the title.
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On the backs:
Beauden has to go, but I've resigned myself to the fact that he won't. He's been consistently outperformed by McKenzie and keeps being selected ahead of him. This is just one more incidence of that, why should we expect the response to be different this time? Love should be on the bench.
Ratima's kicking is crap, rest of his game is okay. That works okay-ish (if somewhat limiting) with McKenzie who can kick, but will not work with BB who can't. Roigard can kick, he is a requirement with Beauden and would take pressure of McKenzie to do everything, which would help him a lot too. We are too conservative. Fakatava should be in the squad when we have so many injuries, he might make mistakes but at least he can spark something.
Jordie has been rocks and diamonds all season - he's probably shown enough to be persisted with, but both Jim and Tupaea have had very good seasons.
Reece should go. He's too small, too slow, gets too excited and is too dumb and a card waiting to happen. I hope that he's only there because of Tangitau and Clarke being injured, but I doubt it.
Rieko has gone from looking like a wing playing centre to looking like a centre playing wing.
Proctor probably both the least deserving and the most likely to get the chop. -
My backline assuming fitness for Boks
9. Roigard (but will be Christie)
10. Love
11. Clarke
12. Jordie.
13 Ioane (wing cover) stop gap 13
14 Carter
15. JordanBench backs - Preston, Tupaea. DMac
Beauden dropped, Proctor dropped.
Jason Holland fired.
Love brings new chemistry and energy to a stale backline.
If squad rules don't allow more changes, secretly kneecap a couple of players to bring a semi fit Tangitau in.
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@His-Bobness said in All Blacks v Argentina II:
@Jet Too many cheerleaders and former players in the NZ media and not enough actual journalists.
That Breakdown show is a national disgrace and everyone involved in it should be ashamed. Utterly ashamed.
Week after week, a panel of uncritical, naive cheerleaders are wheeled out to compete about who can read out talking points their pals in the All Blacks coaching set up have given them in the most gormless manner.
Week after week, they talk up the current All Balcks as if they are a mixture between the Harlem Globetrotters and the 1924-5 Invincibles.
The Aotearoa Rugby pod is little better. The same with the NZ Rugby press.
It's high time the coaches and the senior player got used to a bit of criticism again.
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@sparky said in All Blacks v Argentina II:
@His-Bobness said in All Blacks v Argentina II:
@Jet Too many cheerleaders and former players in the NZ media and not enough actual journalists.
That Breakdown show is a national disgrace and everyone involved in it should be ashamed. Utterly ashamed.
Week after week, a panel of uncritical, naive cheerleaders are wheeled out to compete about who can read out talking points their pals in the All Blacks coaching set up have given them in the most gormless manner.
Week after week, they talk up the current All Balcks as if they are a mixture between the Harlem Globetrotters and the 1924-5 Invincibles.
The Aotearoa Rugby pod is little better. The same with the NZ Rugby press.
It's high time the coaches and the senior player got used to a bit of criticism again.
If only Ma'a would stop playing and start criticising...
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Morning.
Still frustrated about this. I'd taken the win for granted. We got wasted. Ref was fine.
Please Razor make the tough calls
Roigard-DMac-Jordan-JB-Proctor-Clarke-Love just do it.
Savea or Sititi(C)
Forwards are fine. Get SB firing on all cylinders.
