RWC: All Blacks v Ireland (QF2)

[MajorPom]

@bayimports said in RWC: All Blacks v Ireland (QF2):

So supposedly a source close to the team have passed on to a mate (and so on)...so take with a grain of salt*.. Anyway they believe that unless injury occurs the team was announced internally yesterday.

1. Moody 2. Taylor 3. Laulala 4. Brodie 5. Whitelock 6. Savea 7. Cane 8. Read

2. Smith 10. Mounga 11. Bridge 12. ALB 13. Goodhue 14. Reece 15. B Barrett

3. Coles 17. Ta’avao 18. (only one couldnt remember) 19. S Barrett 20. Todd

4. TJ 22. SBW 23. J. Barrett

Lets see later in the week, but a few talking points for sure.

• to their credit, they did predict the first team exactly, but I still have no idea who the source is. However sharing for the fun of it anyway

Risky game to play two hookers. And give Aaron or Ben a debut there.

[Bones]

@MajorRage said in RWC: All Blacks v Ireland (QF2):

@bayimports said in RWC: All Blacks v Ireland (QF2):

So supposedly a source close to the team have passed on to a mate (and so on)...so take with a grain of salt*.. Anyway they believe that unless injury occurs the team was announced internally yesterday.

1. Moody 2. Taylor 3. Laulala 4. Brodie 5. Whitelock 6. Savea 7. Cane 8. Read

2. Smith 10. Mounga 11. Bridge 12. ALB 13. Goodhue 14. Reece 15. B Barrett

3. Coles 17. Ta’avao 18. (only one couldnt remember) 19. S Barrett 20. Todd

4. TJ 22. SBW 23. J. Barrett

Lets see later in the week, but a few talking points for sure.

• to their credit, they did predict the first team exactly, but I still have no idea who the source is. However sharing for the fun of it anyway

Risky game to play two hookers. And give Aaron or Ben a debut there.

I was curious as to how good Coles would be at tighthead. Guess we'll find out.

Mobile pack anyway.

[bayimports]

For those that are held up on numbers, its interesting.. if I go to edit mode

Smith is 9 and Coles in 16

So either a bug, or one of you funny buggers has a great edit feature

[MajorPom]

@bayimports said in RWC: All Blacks v Ireland (QF2):

For those that are held up on numbers, its interesting.. if I go to edit mode

Smith is 9 and Coles in 16

So either a bug, or one of you funny buggers has a great edit feature

Can't take your team seriously anyway ... it's not like your @SouthernMan

[Duluth]

@bayimports said in RWC: All Blacks v Ireland (QF2):

For those that are held up on numbers, its interesting.. if I go to edit mode

Smith is 9 and Coles in 16

So either a bug, or one of you funny buggers has a great edit feature

Remove the dots after the numbers and it’ll work

The software thinks you’re adding an ordered list and gets confused

[bayimports]

@Duluth said in RWC: All Blacks v Ireland (QF2):

@bayimports said in RWC: All Blacks v Ireland (QF2):

For those that are held up on numbers, its interesting.. if I go to edit mode

Smith is 9 and Coles in 16

So either a bug, or one of you funny buggers has a great edit feature

Remove the dots after the numbers and it’ll work

The software thinks you’re adding an ordered list and gets confused

noted..tricky! cheers mate

[chimoaus]

Looks like a strong team, only wish ALB and Goodhue had the Italy game as a hit out, no doubt they have been training a lot together. I would also have BFA instead of the Giraffe. I guess the Giraffe being able to play the entire backline helps.

[KiwiMurph]

I'd rather see ALB at 13 and Crotty in the 23.

[No Quarter]

I'd also rather Pat T on the bench, he's a physical beast and can add a real point of difference in the final 20

[Chris B.]

@bayimports Won't surprise me if that's the team.

The team The Herald released reckoning it was the team to play Italy had Goodhue at centre - and it looked very much a shadow No. 1 side.

I'm slightly surprised that Jordie makes the bench ahead of Ben Smith - not many changes they could make to field less caps in the backs - BFA, Crotty and Rieko all on the outer - they could have picked Brad Weber, I guess.

We'll see for sure on Thursday.

[Bones]

Yeah if Jordie Mac is selected it may point to one of Barrett or Mo'unga having a slight injury impacting goal-kicking?

[Machpants]

@Chris-B yeah that's gotta be our rawist backline in a world cup knock out for a few tournaments

[Chris B.]

@Bones Or maybe if one of Richie or Beaudy get hurt they think Jordie has the best skillset to carry on with the two play-makers thing.

@Machpants Hansen has almost entirely abandoned his "experience wins" mantra for this RWC.

Just another drum that was convenient to beat at the time?

[Bones]

@Machpants said in RWC: All Blacks v Ireland (QF2):

@Chris-B yeah that's gotta be our rawist backline in a world cup knock out for a few tournaments

I imagine losing circa 300 caps would do that.

[Victor Meldrew]

@nzzp said in RWC: All Blacks v Ireland (QF2):

Not an ambush, but we played really poorly. We weren't allowed to play well, but we really didn't cope with the rush defence, and our forwards were really really passive.

In other words, we were crap.

[Bovidae]

@KiwiMurph said in RWC: All Blacks v Ireland (QF2):

I'd rather see ALB at 13 and Crotty in the 23.

I would have stuck with the Crotty-ALB combo and had SBW on the bench again. Goodhue still looked rusty as against Namibia.

[kiwiinmelb]

@Bovidae said in RWC: All Blacks v Ireland (QF2):

@KiwiMurph said in RWC: All Blacks v Ireland (QF2):

I'd rather see ALB at 13 and Crotty in the 23.

I would have stuck with the Crotty-ALB combo and had SBW on the bench again. Goodhue still looked rusty as against Namibia.

I thought that is how they would go , wasnt sure goodhue was back to his best in time either , maybe the coaches know more

[kiwiinmelb]

@bayimports said in RWC: All Blacks v Ireland (QF2):

So supposedly a source close to the team have passed on to a mate (and so on)...so take with a grain of salt*.. Anyway they believe that unless injury occurs the team was announced internally yesterday.

1 Moody 2 Taylor 3 Laulala 4 Brodie 5 Whitelock 6 Savea 7 Cane 8 Read
9 Smith 10 Mounga 11 Bridge 12 ALB 13 Goodhue 14 Reece 15 B Barrett

16 Coles 17 Ta’avao 18 (only one couldnt remember) 19 S Barrett 20 Todd
21 TJ 22 SBW 23 J. Barrett

Lets see later in the week, but a few talking points for sure.

• to their credit, they did predict the first team exactly, but I still have no idea who the source is. However sharing for the fun of it anyway

Someone told me Jordie was getting plenty of love as they trotted out for training , so that adds up if true

[Bones]

@Bovidae said in RWC: All Blacks v Ireland (QF2):

@KiwiMurph said in RWC: All Blacks v Ireland (QF2):

I'd rather see ALB at 13 and Crotty in the 23.

I would have stuck with the Crotty-ALB combo and had SBW on the bench again. Goodhue still looked rusty as against Namibia.

I prefer SBW to start, which also provides a bit less disruption off the bench should injury occur.

[JC]

Talking of Nigel Owens, any UK Ferners caught his Citroen ad? When I first saw it I wondered why the guy was so familiar, then It clicked.