England vs All Blacks
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@victor-meldrew said in England Vs All Blacks:
@crucial said in England Vs All Blacks:
The last two posts are doing a good job of eroding my confidence
I think a close, hard game will be what Hansen is looking for. Nothing gained from walloping England - much better to get some experience of grinding out wins to prepare for RWC2019
Fuck that. Wallop them.
It is their B-side after all
@mikethesnow said in England Vs All Blacks:
Fuck that. Wallop them.
You sound like my Welsh mate Emyr.
Quite convinced he regards the All Blacks as some sort of surrogate Welsh Rugby Team..
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@crucial said in England Vs All Blacks:
The last two posts are doing a good job of eroding my confidence
I think a close, hard game will be what Hansen is looking for. Nothing gained from walloping England - much better to get some experience of grinding out wins to prepare for RWC2019
@victor-meldrew said in England Vs All Blacks:
I think a close, hard game will be what Hansen is looking for. Nothing gained from walloping England - much better to get some experience of grinding out wins to prepare for RWC2019
So a repeat of the 2014 game.
In that game it was impact off the bench from the likes of Faumuina and Tuipulotu in wet conditions that proved to be the difference. This time around the AB scrum won't be weakened when subs are made.
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Steven Harris, Ashwin and I will be reviewing & previewing the All Blacks, Maori All Blacks and Black Ferns games on Wednesday evening at 8pm
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We don't often smash England at Twickenham.
In recent times, we usually get at least one yellow card!
I think we will be up for this game - I think they will be as well!
@chris-b Yup but England really should have been beaten at the weekend as the Springboks lineout fell apart for some reason.
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@chris-b Yup but England really should have been beaten at the weekend as the Springboks lineout fell apart for some reason.
@drivingmaul Great to see you on TSF, Paul. Welcome.
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@rocky-rockbottom said in England Vs All Blacks:
would be funny if AB's took them on at their own game. No frills or cross kicks, just kicked it to the corners, play it tight, smash their forwards with scrum after scrum, knacker them, bang over a few penalties, forwards rumble over for one try, NZ win 19-0. Ok, we've beaten you at your own game, so what's your plan B for RWC next year?
I'm not going to lie, but i got a little bit hard reading that.
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@chris-b Yup but England really should have been beaten at the weekend as the Springboks lineout fell apart for some reason.
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The citing officiers have elected not to look into the Owen Farrell tackle so he is free to paly against the ABs:
@sparky said in England Vs All Blacks:
The citing officiers have elected not to look into the Owen Farrell tackle so he is free to paly against the ABs:
I think i speak for the whole rugby world when i say i am so sick of England getting a free ride from both the officials and citing officers...
(i agree with this citing decision)
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@sparky said in England Vs All Blacks:
The citing officiers have elected not to look into the Owen Farrell tackle so he is free to paly against the ABs:
I think i speak for the whole rugby world when i say i am so sick of England getting a free ride from both the officials and citing officers...
(i agree with this citing decision)
@mariner4life said in England Vs All Blacks:
@sparky said in England Vs All Blacks:
The citing officiers have elected not to look into the Owen Farrell tackle so he is free to paly against the ABs:
I think i speak for the whole rugby world when i say i am so sick of England getting a free ride from both the officials and citing officers...
(i agree with this citing decision)
Ah yes, the Illuminati-like influence of the RFU. Citing Commissioner for this one was Keith Brown. Bloody one-eyed pom-favouring, er... kiwi.
Right decision re citing, I thought, didn't meet the test for a red card. Wrong decision by ref, should have been a penalty for no attempt to wrap arms, with a possible yellow (although card was purely academic at that stage).
Personally I enjoyed the 2nd half, but the first half set the bar pretty low. Looking forward to next week, I just have a sneaky feeling that England will win. (Caveat, I predicted a Hillary presidency and a Remain vote for Brexit).
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@drivingmaul Great to see you on TSF, Paul. Welcome.
@akan004 said in England Vs All Blacks:
@drivingmaul Great to see you on TSF, Paul. Welcome.
agreed, welcome to the Fern
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The citing officiers have elected not to look into the Owen Farrell tackle so he is free to paly against the ABs:
@sparky said in England Vs All Blacks:
The citing officiers have elected not to look into the Owen Farrell tackle so he is free to paly against the ABs:
I don’t think it was worthy of any more than a yc.
But bloody hell, imagine if an All Black did something like that against the poms his week and was not penalised, carded or cited.
The media circus would be out of control calling for said All Black to be hung, drawn and quartered. -
@akan004 said in England Vs All Blacks:
@drivingmaul Great to see you on TSF, Paul. Welcome.
agreed, welcome to the Fern
@nzzp THank you
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@drivingmaul Similar story to us at Loftus.
I think we'll win, but I'll be surprised if it's by more than 10 unless cards play a role.
@chris-b I think it will be by at least a couple of scores, England (and I'm English) didn't even get a try
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@drivingmaul Great to see you on TSF, Paul. Welcome.
@akan004 Thank you
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@chris-b I think it will be by at least a couple of scores, England (and I'm English) didn't even get a try
@drivingmaul said in England Vs All Blacks:
@chris-b I think it will be by at least a couple of scores, England (and I'm English) didn't even get a try
England will struggle to win if they don't score at least a couple of tries. Anything is possible though, happened in Wellington all those years ago before the 2003 RWC when Johhny knocked over 5/5 penalties in a swirling wind (man that guy was a freak).
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@chris-b I think it will be by at least a couple of scores, England (and I'm English) didn't even get a try
@drivingmaul I bet you guys do against us, though.
Main difference in comparing those results is that Faf and Willie le Roux were outstanding for the Saffas against us, but watching from the sidelines against you guys.
Will be interesting. Looking forward to this game.
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@drivingmaul I bet you guys do against us, though.
Main difference in comparing those results is that Faf and Willie le Roux were outstanding for the Saffas against us, but watching from the sidelines against you guys.
Will be interesting. Looking forward to this game.
@chris-b said in England Vs All Blacks:
Will be interesting. Looking forward to this game.
Interesting, yes, but I am dreading it.
Jerome "deal" Garces, with Bonkers Jonkers as TMO, probably means that the wife will leave the room within the first couple of minutes (when I start my tirade about morons ruining my lifelong passion for rugby, etc). Shouting at a tele on your own isn't as much fun and the cat and puppy leave as soon as they hear the Haka these days. I expect it to be close and tense.
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@mikethesnow everyone's an AB supporter when it's England test week.
Welcome to the bandwagon. Plenty of room for you all
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@nzzp There's only an up tick! I can't down tick this comment
@drivingmaul said in England Vs All Blacks:
@nzzp There's only an up tick! I can't down tick this comment
Something for the mods to work on I suppose...
