Bledisloe One: Wellington, October 11
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I am not whelmed at all by the backline, particularly the wings.
I said Reece/Bridge was the least whelming of the possible wing combinations ... I was wrong.
12 is our best 13
13 is our best 11
14 is our best 15I'll accept the loosies ... But not my preferred.
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get fucked
our 3rd best 8. picking two 7s.
the best fullback shunted to the wing in order to select the 2nd best fullback
neither of the two wingers are really the best in the countryand it's one of the last physically imposing back 3s i have ever seen
this is a shit team selected by fuckheads.
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This is the sort of team I expected Foster to pick. Playing it safe and not rewarding form at all, apart from maybe Ioane at centre. Are the All Blacks really going to innovate themselves by picking the same old crop?
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He went the conservative route that I had been expecting. I had thought it would be the same backline as the semi, but I guess given that Jordie was in that 22 and ALB will be available off the bench he is not taking too many risks. Like I said in another thread he does not have many tests to play with , he has to win early to have any hopes of getting his contract renewed.
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This is the sort of team I expected Foster to pick. Playing it safe and not rewarding form at all, apart from maybe Ioane at centre. Are the All Blacks really going to innovate themselves by picking the same old crop?
@Canes4life said in Bledisloe One: Wellington, October 11:
This is the sort of team I expected Foster to pick. Playing it safe and not rewarding form at all, apart from maybe Ioane at centre. Are the All Blacks really going to innovate themselves by picking the same old crop?
innovate?? innovate?? when was the last time the ABs were about innovation? The ABs now are all about continuity of intellectual capital.
If fucking SBarrett was fit he would have started, and it would have looked even more like last year.
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This is the sort of team I expected Foster to pick. Playing it safe and not rewarding form at all, apart from maybe Ioane at centre. Are the All Blacks really going to innovate themselves by picking the same old crop?
@Canes4life I don't even think it's safe. Goodhue isn't a 12. Jordie is a great fullback and the one time he played fullback for the AB's it was only against Italy.
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@Canes4life I don't even think it's safe. Goodhue isn't a 12. Jordie is a great fullback and the one time he played fullback for the AB's it was only against Italy.
@Yeetyaah said in Bledisloe One: Wellington, October 11:
@Canes4life I don't even think it's safe. Goodhue isn't a 12. Jordie is a great fullback and the one time he played fullback for the AB's it was only against Italy.
Wing vs Italy, but yeah
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What did we expect with them just passing the buck to Foster instead of taking the applications for the top job seriously?
It was a bullshit decision to appoint him head coach and he'll provide plenty of bullshit selections like this where he picks favourites over form.
Wallabies coach is significantly better than ours.
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@Canes4life said in Bledisloe One: Wellington, October 11:
This is the sort of team I expected Foster to pick. Playing it safe and not rewarding form at all, apart from maybe Ioane at centre. Are the All Blacks really going to innovate themselves by picking the same old crop?
innovate?? innovate?? when was the last time the ABs were about innovation? The ABs now are all about continuity of intellectual capital.
If fucking SBarrett was fit he would have started, and it would have looked even more like last year.
@mariner4life #IVOTEFORSCOTTROBERTSON
The All Blacks need a shake up.
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When you look at this team, you can see that we’ve really fallen off a cliff in the last few years (say, since 2015).
We’ve got some oldies hanging on, some newbies not being given the chance, and a mish-mash of quality to make up a very 1999 fit-in-all-the-best players back line - except they aren’t even necessarily the best players.
And, for someone who said he’d pick specialists, how many players are not playing in their absolute specialist positions? What a farce.
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Makes sense now why the Crusaders persisted with Goodhue at 12 a Foster plan by the looks of it.
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@Yeetyaah said in Bledisloe One: Wellington, October 11:
@Canes4life I don't even think it's safe. Goodhue isn't a 12. Jordie is a great fullback and the one time he played fullback for the AB's it was only against Italy.
Wing vs Italy, but yeah
@Machpants said in Bledisloe One: Wellington, October 11:
@Yeetyaah said in Bledisloe One: Wellington, October 11:
@Canes4life I don't even think it's safe. Goodhue isn't a 12. Jordie is a great fullback and the one time he played fullback for the AB's it was only against Italy.
Wing vs Italy, but yeah
And even though he got tries he was a fish out of water with DMac having to spend most of the game coaching him where to go.
Waiting for these coaches to justify how this team is in line with their promises of 'form'. It is seriously, bafflingly fucked.
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@Yeetyaah said in Bledisloe One: Wellington, October 11:
@Chris nah not when Mana man ALB is a 12. Fuck knows what happened there.
Someone thought is was good idea Foster picked him at 12
Must be some message down the line Goodhue is now a 12.
Then if that’s not the case someone else is running the show not Foster otherwise DMac would be there too.
