Japan vs All Blacks
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Well our defense isn't great, which was probably to be expected, but we're scoring at will.
Ref let that maul go for a long time though after it was shunted back twice.
@no-quarter yep, when they just let mauls keep going it's frustrating.
It's why players resort to illegal pull downs because the legal stop method doesn't get enforced.
This ref has been pretty poor all around to be honest. Don't like focusing on a ref but it has been notable unfortunately.
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Got a Hurricanes look about the way they are playing..!.
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Disgraceful that an All Black team concedes three tries to what looks like a glorified pub team. Vaea Fifita and Milner Skidder look like they are trying to avoid making tackles. Terrible, terrible levels of commitment in defence.
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@machpants said in Japan vs All Blacks:
Ref is just so bad, awful
Looks like he must be the next most senior official available after all Gallagher Premiership, Green King IPA Championship, Pro 14, Top 14, local club senior, senior reserve, Under 21s, Under 19s, Presidents Grades and all secondary school fixtures have had first dibs on available refs.
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Officials trying their very hardest to keep the Japanese in it:
Try 1. Pushes Jordie over with his arms.
Try 2. Knock on and offside
Try 3. No clear and obvious evidence of the try. (Balance if probabilities... maybe ... but uou shouldn't be awarding that).
Otherwise OK. A few passes pushed and minor errors letting us down.
PS. The jersey looks grey
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This is a scratch team, it's to be expected that they'll score against a team not immersed in ABs routines after a week together. It's perfectly acceptable too, at least the ABs coaches and nzru think it is. This was always going to happen. So NZ c/D is twice as good as Japan a, a team that has beaten the boks, other tier 1 teams, drew and closer losses too.
If Jordie and the ref weren't so shit, it would be 38-7, No problem with that.
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Officials trying their very hardest to keep the Japanese in it:
Try 1. Pushes Jordie over with his arms.
Try 2. Knock on and offside
Try 3. No clear and obvious evidence of the try. (Balance if probabilities... maybe ... but uou shouldn't be awarding that).
Otherwise OK. A few passes pushed and minor errors letting us down.
PS. The jersey looks grey
@booboo said in Japan vs All Blacks:
Officials trying their very hardest to keep the Japanese in it:
Try 1. Pushes Jordie over with his arms.
Try 2. Knock on and offside
Try 3. No clear and obvious evidence of the try. (Balance if probabilities... maybe ... but uou shouldn't be awarding that).
Otherwise OK. A few passes pushed and minor errors letting us down.
PS. The jersey looks grey
Add in a few dodgy calls against ABs.
The "deliberate" knock on v Ngani? FFS
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Rugby can get fucked. This ref is a disgrace. How the hell they can justify ignoring the shove in Jordies back or the knock on into an offside player leading to the 2nd try where he was allowed an eternity to ground the ball is beyond me.
Jordie just needs to calm the fuck down and play to be error free rather than trying to pull off miracle plays.
Whitelock and Fifita anonymous.
Dalton to be the new Kaino hopefully.
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Officiating doing its best to keep the game on a level pegging,.
Been impressed with Papalii even though yes there was missed tackle but that was because we short of defenders on that side.
Hemapo going very well too.. -
I'm old enough to remember when the All Blacks were famous for ferocious defending and not give tries away. Tackling was what they did. Those times seem a very long time ago.
@sparky said in Japan vs All Blacks:
I'm old enough to remember when the All Blacks were famous for ferocious defending and not give tries away. Tackling was what they did. Those times seem a very long time ago.
So you are above the age of three?
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Yeah not a good look by Papalii in the lead up to that 2nd try, couple of mistakes there but otherwise looking bloody solid.
Naholo and NMS are shit. At least NMS is good comedy value whenever he tries to show his massive step...and just ends up going straight.
Barrett... What the fuck?
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Hope McLeod still has Wayne Smith phone number...
@taniwharugby And Graham Henry's.
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@stargazer said in Japan vs All Blacks:
It looks like Bridge is coming on for the second half.
For NMS and not Barrett?
