Wales v All Blacks

[mariner4life]

@canefan said in Wales v All Blacks:

Love makes a great pickup at 17 mins and makes 50m on a touchfinder. A rare occurrence this season

He and DMac had some huge kicks, wonder if they might have been beneficial at a few points this year?

[canefan]

@mariner4life said in Wales v All Blacks:

@canefan said in Wales v All Blacks:

Love makes a great pickup at 17 mins and makes 50m on a touchfinder. A rare occurrence this season

He and DMac had some huge kicks, wonder if they might have been beneficial at a few points this year?

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[canefan]

We are offered a penalty kick but choose to run it, turn it over, and come up empty. The give away a free kick. I'd like us to get back into the habit of taking kicks early to create scoreboard pressure

[canefan]

Reuben Love scores after Wallace sets the stage. Lovely bit of footwork and strolls over. Could have done with a bit more of that this year. I wonder how he, CC and WJ would have gone vs (insert team here)

[canefan]

Love misses a high ball but WJ cleans up. A minute or two later Wales have coasted through our defence to score in the corner

[canefan]

Davidson seems to be doing a solid job so far. Clear communication, the game is flowing

[canefan]

Massive effort by Williams to score a try against 3 or 4 defenders. Good physical play

[canefan]

Love gets charged down, we lose another contestable (did Wales have players blocking our player from making a play on the ball?) and the Welsh backs outflank us again to score in the corner. Can we stop anyone right now?

[canefan]

For a couple of minutes we get very narrow, according to Marshall it's 13 phases and CC storms over for the score. That's more like it. Not given after Kirifi knocks it on in the ruck. The way we set that up was very good though, I like the direct play. If the Welsh player was responsible for the knock on, would that have been a YC last weekend? Not that I want him to get a YC, but Cody got pinged for something similar

[canefan]

Davidson makes a reasonable decision to deny WJ a try at 48 mins. I thought her process was very logical. She's having a good game, I hope her AR takes note!

[canefan]

Very nice passage of play from the forwards at 51 mins, highlighted by a rampaging run from Samsoni and a massive clean from Parker, DMac with the cross kick (the right area of the field to try one) and Rieko scores in the corner.

Where has this narrow forward dominated play been all season?

[taniwharugby]

@African-Monkey he's never been a big carrier (in terms of metres) despite his size, he usually tackles and hits rucks, but like other players, Razor seems to have how he wants players to play, seemingly away from thier natural strengths.

[booboo]

@Nepia said in Wales v All Blacks:

I thought the ref was fine

We've certainly had worse.

I didn't blow up at any of her calls in play, so am interested how our Welsh posters saw her given my lack of indignation.

She was bullied out of awarding Jordan's try though.

She'll do plenty more tests.

[canefan]

@booboo said in Wales v All Blacks:

@Nepia said in Wales v All Blacks:

I thought the ref was fine

We've certainly had worse.

I didn't blow up at any of her calls in play, so sm iInterested how our Welsh posters saw her given my lack of indignation.

She was bullied out of awarding Jordan's try though.

She'll do plenty more tests.

I thought WJ was held up

[African Monkey]

@canefan said in Wales v All Blacks:

@booboo said in Wales v All Blacks:

@Nepia said in Wales v All Blacks:

I thought the ref was fine

We've certainly had worse.

I didn't blow up at any of her calls in play, so sm iInterested how our Welsh posters saw her given my lack of indignation.

She was bullied out of awarding Jordan's try though.

She'll do plenty more tests.

I thought WJ was held up

Same, and I felt like she realised she was wrong in awarding it in the first place.

[junior]

@mariner4life said in Wales v All Blacks:

@canefan said in Wales v All Blacks:

Love makes a great pickup at 17 mins and makes 50m on a touchfinder. A rare occurrence this season

He and DMac had some huge kicks, wonder if they might have been beneficial at a few points this year?

Especially with a dominant line out more than capable of stealing opposition ball...

[booboo]

@Old-Alleynians said in Wales v All Blacks:

@Grooter
I have also heard that Love had a training ground disagreement with Hansen.

Just on Love's early subbing. Piney on ZB reporting he rolled an ankle.

Wecan all wind the indignation down just a little. Not to off, but down a bit.

[booboo]

@canefan said in Wales v All Blacks:

@booboo said in Wales v All Blacks:

@Nepia said in Wales v All Blacks:

I thought the ref was fine

We've certainly had worse.

I didn't blow up at any of her calls in play, so sm iInterested how our Welsh posters saw her given my lack of indignation.

She was bullied out of awarding Jordan's try though.

She'll do plenty more tests.

I thought WJ was held up

Don't agree. She was talked out of trusting the evidence of her own eyes by an inconclusive super slomo.

[hikastags]

@mariner4life said in Wales v All Blacks:

@canefan said in Wales v All Blacks:

Love makes a great pickup at 17 mins and makes 50m on a touchfinder. A rare occurrence this season

He and DMac had some huge kicks, wonder if they might have been beneficial at a few points this year?

Helps that some of the NH stadiums don't meet World Rugby's minimum required width.

E.g. Stade de France width is 67.60m, Allianz Stadium in Italy is 65m (believe Principality Stadium is 68m)

All our main stadiums in NZ are at the max of 70m so a lot of our kicks look bigger than normal up there.

[antipodean]

@MN5 said in Wales v All Blacks:

Marshall has been picked on enough

Still room in that barrel