England v All Blacks
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@hikastags said in England Vs All Blacks:
@jimmyb said in England Vs All Blacks:
@hikastags said in England Vs All Blacks:
Who do you think should be the coach? Serious question.
You guys make me laugh. #2 in the world and acting like it’s the end of the world. It can be far worse believe me.Jamie Jo or Vern Cotter. Even if one got added in as an assistant.
#2 in the world but we are definitely mediocre right now.
Oh yes two coaches with shit super rugby campaigns and average tier 2 international results. Yes please!
Blues won it last year and had a fair few injuries this year. At least he has international experience and an identity for how he likes to play, unlike Razor.
Yes the one year everyone was fighting for the scraps while the crusaders sorted themselves out. His style is loosing, ask Scotland
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@jimmyb said in England Vs All Blacks:
The issues with this team were obvious in the semi final loss against England in 2019 and they’re almost identical to what they are now. Absolutely nothing has changed. Literally nothing
I think this is important.
We have a leadership team because we want them to lead the side, discipline, install All blacks standards and uphold the legacy. They are their because of their experience and mental strength when times are tough and things arent going our way.
Over the last 6 years, the all Blacks have endured many ‘firsts’ and created unwanted history.
Quite frequently it has been a turbulent time and i just wonder if some of our leadership team have been too scarred by record losses they have been involved in. We have seen us go into our shell when the game gets tough, we have seen us give up against the boks, they were part of losing 2 world cups.
These kind of losses impact players and families lives because it affects a nation - look at the Irish series and the foster sack debacle. For any player that would have been difficult to deal with.
The old saying is ‘what doesnt kill you makes you stronger’ but in our case, im not so sure. i just wonder if the experience we are clinging onto within the team is the wrong experience due to players dealing with the pressures of being the first AB team to lose a series against Ireland, first to lose to Argentina etc etc and its having a negative impact on the side and the younger players in the team.
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@game_film said in England Vs All Blacks:
@MN5 I think Beauden is smart enough to go out on his own terms. I reckon he calls it when he lands back home.
4 tries short of Howletts record and a few caps shy of Whitelocks cap record. Im not sure.
Him and Savea should have been in the Willie Le Roux role now. Showing the nippers where their skin folds should be, knocking the late nights on the head when they see it getting out of hand and maybe give them the odd cameo.
We cannot continue to build a team around this pair.
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@rewa267 said in England Vs All Blacks:
All Blacks have responded well from loses this year. Lost to Argentina destroyed SA at Eden Park. Lost to SA smashed the Wallabies next week. Wales should prepare for black lash
Yeah but Wales are so poor they’re hardly a gauge. If the ABs lose that one every single member of the touring party should go full Keith Murdoch and never show their faces again.
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Blues won it last year and had a fair few injuries this year. At least he has international experience and an identity for how he likes to play, unlike Razor.
Yes the one year everyone was fighting for the scraps while the crusaders sorted themselves out. His style is loosing, ask Scotland
He has far more talented players to work with here than in Scotland.
He bought a forward focused game and mongrel to the Blues which they'd been lacking for decades. Ironically, the All Blacks don't have mongrel and lack a hard edge.
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@rewa267 said in England Vs All Blacks:
All Blacks have responded well from loses this year. Lost to Argentina destroyed SA at Eden Park. Lost to SA smashed the Wallabies next week. Wales should prepare for black lash
Wales are currently struggling to put away Japan.
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@hikastags said in England Vs All Blacks:
Blues won it last year and had a fair few injuries this year. At least he has international experience and an identity for how he likes to play, unlike Razor.
Yes the one year everyone was fighting for the scraps while the crusaders sorted themselves out. His style is loosing, ask Scotland
He has far more talented players to work with here than in Scotland.
He bought a forward focused game and mongrel to the Blues which they'd been lacking for decades. Ironically, the All Blacks don't have mongrel and lack a hard edge.
He’s not the answer, none of the present coaches in NZ will do any better
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@rewa267 said in England Vs All Blacks:
@Victor-Meldrew problem is razor being burnt from experience players lack of discipline Cody Taylor this week. Ardie last week.
That's his problem and no-one else's. It's his job and what he's paid to sort out
Pre Foster South Africa were way more ill disciplined.
Not sure what SA discipline history has to do with Foster
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@Steven-Harris said in England Vs All Blacks:
@jimmyb you are
correct
The discipline is as bad as it was under the back end of Hansen,Foster and now Robinson and it has’nt improved under the later
The aimless high kick and cross kick game still a major problem under all 3 coachesI think a lot of it comes down to BB being immune to being dropped - aimless, low percentage kicking has been his bread and butter for years now.
The bigger problem of the above is that our forwards win enough ball to expect the backs to progress the game or even score - these moments are not that common and when they are duly wasted on yet another feckless BB kick you have to wonder what it takes to roll the dice on some of the younger options
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@Mattasaurus yes our forwards can go the distance with anyone.
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That was shit, and it started with Robertson’s shit selections and tactics.
Proctor has shown absolutely nothing in his many chances at centre, where Tupaea and LF have done well as a combo in their short time together. Breaking that up and selecting Proctor again was a huge mistake.
We went from playing at depth and finding space last week, to the flat footed shit, passing to someone else who is flat footed.
The last 10 of the first half cost us that game.
Beauden Barrett, not once but twice, fucking TWICE missing touch from penalties which put us deep inside their 22. Changed the whole game. Even if we don’t score, England are pinned in their own end and can’t kick 2x drop kicks. That’s inexcusable, he should have been pulled off straight after the 2nd one.
And why the fuck are we taking taps from penalties 40m out? We were struggling to make metres as it was, brainless stuff.
Garbage.
Edit: it’s been pointed out that Roigard missed one of those kicks for touch.
Regardless of who it was, the team paid heavily for them. Unacceptable.
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@rewa267 said in England Vs All Blacks:
@Grooter it’s another loss where it could have been a career defining win for Razor. But it is also some what predictable in the Razor era to drop the hardest game and the most important game of the tour
The most worrying sign about the Robertson era is that we play worst in what are known to be important games.........
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@rewa267 said in England Vs All Blacks:
@Grooter it’s another loss where it could have been a career defining win for Razor. But it is also some what predictable in the Razor era to drop the hardest game and the most important game of the tour
Even if we turned it around and pipped them at the death it would still rubber-stamp the current trend.
We go life and death with everyone.
We dont grab a game by the scruff of the neck and fucking win it. Like Lions test 1 in 2017.
We brutalised them.The current team does not impose itself on anyone.
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@sparky said in England Vs All Blacks:
@rewa267 said in England Vs All Blacks:
@Grooter it’s another loss where it could have been a career defining win for Razor. But it is also some what predictable in the Razor era to drop the hardest game and the most important game of the tour
The most worrying sign about the Robertson era is that we play worst in what are known to be important games.........
Eden Park against Boks?
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Again we start well and dominate the 1st half then it all goes to pot in the 3rd Quarter!!!
It doesn’t work taking BB off from 10 and putting Dmac in, BB needs to stay, dmac at the back, put Jordan on the wing, frees him up to play off BB or Dmac, crap use of the bench this week and it showed, Razor had it right last week, went against what worked.
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@stodders said in England Vs All Blacks:
@sparky said in England Vs All Blacks:
@rewa267 said in England Vs All Blacks:
@Grooter it’s another loss where it could have been a career defining win for Razor. But it is also some what predictable in the Razor era to drop the hardest game and the most important game of the tour
The most worrying sign about the Robertson era is that we play worst in what are known to be important games.........
Eden Park against Boks?
That's the one exception, aided by a really strange team selection by Rassie for that game. Not picking the likes of Snyman, Esterhuizen, Sasha, Willemse etc did help us keep our Eden Park record intact.
