Japan vs All Blacks
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Fantastic to have Dane Coles back. The All Blacks have fortunate to have two superbs Hookers in Codie Taylor and Dane Coles to choose from.
Richie Mo'unga, Ofa T and TTT all looked sharp. Strong backup options. All three will be part of the RWC squad if fit.
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@sparky said in Japan vs All Blacks:
Laumape will be first-choice All Black second five for the World Cup game against Namibia
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Had there ever been so few comments after an ABs test?
I agree with both (edit the two before act) above, but thought TTT was poor for most of the first half - his passes inaccurate. Ginger boy seemed much faster getting the ball out.
Ref was an utter disgrace
Jordie needs a season with the canes to sort himself out
Has the obligatory ab pakeha Canterbury ten even played super rugby? Part of a small group with more ab time than super time, which means he'll crash and burn for the rest of his career if he follows the pattern.
England are toast, we should play mostly these second stringers, to make it fair. Another week together will help the defence too
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@mrdenmore said in Japan vs All Blacks:
Has anyone had such a sudden fall from grace as Jordie Barrett?
Rodney So'oialo?
Jordie will be back. Young yet.
2nd season blues
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Would Richie be an AB if Lima stayed ?
Was that a blessing in disguise ?
@kiwiinmelb said in Japan vs All Blacks:
Would Richie be an AB if Lima stayed ?
Oh yeah.
Huge step up from Lima
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How is Bridge not in the All Blacks proper? He’s faster than NMS, smarter than Waholo and not burdened down by expectations like Jordie.
@mrdenmore said in Japan vs All Blacks:
How is Bridge not in the All Blacks proper?
Because Steve stopped reading my emails....
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Jordie’s confidence is absolutely shot. Everything he’s trying is not coming off. Last game in black surely.
@mrdenmore said in Japan vs All Blacks:
Jordie’s confidence is absolutely shot. Everything he’s trying is not coming off. Last game in black surely.
At his age? Fuck we're hard markers
He'll be back
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Japan getting some pretty favourable decisions go their way.
@no-quarter said in Japan vs All Blacks:
Japan getting some pretty favourable decisions go their way.
Quoted as 100% correct
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@mrdenmore said in Japan vs All Blacks:
Jordie’s confidence is absolutely shot. Everything he’s trying is not coming off. Last game in black surely.
At his age? Fuck we're hard markers
He'll be back
@booboo I think he's been brought into the ABs squad too early and should have been given time to develop in SR first, like most other players. I've no doubt he'll be one of the contenders for both the RWC and the post-RWC squad. He's a puppy. Let him grow (not in height though).
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Yet another utter mysterious ruling sees a try that was clearly forced against Patrick Tuipolotu's chest awarded miles after the tackled player should have released it.
@higgins said in Japan vs All Blacks:
Yet another utter mysterious ruling sees a try that was clearly forced against Patrick Tuipolotu's chest awarded miles after the tackled player should have released it.
Actually in-goal you can hold the ball, dive on it and do pretty much anything you can't so in field.
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Got to be happy with that from this team.
tries from Japan can be put down to our mistakes and not poor d. We played way to hectic in our 22 and didn't execute exits which gave up possession in first half. Interesting because stats say we had no line-breaks conceded at half, only in back end of game when it opened up.
As for reserves I'll pass judgement when they play a proper test, by the time they came on game was all over the place but they'll learn from it.
I know this may seem strange to some but the guy I thought was strong was Whitelock, carried hard, cleaned and tackled, thought he was outstanding. -
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@frank said in Japan vs All Blacks:
Richie might be better than Beauden. Can't make my mind up.
Richie needs to carve up some Tier 1 nation's before we come to that conclusion. Making every post a winner so far and pushing Beauden hard though. Good that Beauden finally has some competition.
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@machpants said in Japan vs All Blacks:
I'm pretty confused about the refs penalties for not releasing
Quoted for relevance
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Piss taking now.
Not sure why people are stressing so much about the defence. Most of these guys will probably never start another test.
@rancid-schnitzel said in Japan vs All Blacks:
Piss taking now.
Not sure why people are stressing so much about the defence. Most of these guys will probably never start another test.
Bollocks
