Bledisloe Three: Sydney, 31 October

[Crucial]

@NTA said in Bledisloe Three: Sydney, 31 October:

@Crucial or that he bangs off another midfield kick gifting the opposition territory.

Raining here since before dawn all day. Thunderstorms tomorrow. Saturday looking like afternoon thunderstorm then clear for kick off.

Sunset is officially 7:23PM on Saturday, so really it's a twilight game. Weird, TBH.

The guy has a big upside though. Just need to work out how to use it well.
Absolute beast with a few metres of steam up. Really sucks in defenders

[NTA]

@Crucial said in Bledisloe Three: Sydney, 31 October:

The guy has a big upside though. Just need to work out how to use it well.
Absolute beast with a few metres of steam up. Really sucks in defenders

Decent hands, too. Should give him 2 or 3 crashes, then skip him as a dummy runner or put a faster man on his shoulder.

[Derpus]

@Crucial He regularly plays 80 minutes for the Reds so.... don't really agree.

I think he's being benched because he's too easy to rile up and throw off his game. Plus AAA does more meat and potatoes.

[NTA]

@Derpus said in Bledisloe Three: Sydney, 31 October:

I think he's being benched because he's too easy to rile up

Disagree with that. It's just that he was mostly ineffective last time out, so new things need to be tried.

RWC in 2 years, let's look at the optimal in terms of combination and individual performance.

For example, if AAA is starting again of beer tempted to put Faingaa back at 2 because Brumbies

[Crucial]

@Derpus said in Bledisloe Three: Sydney, 31 October:

@Crucial He regularly plays 80 minutes for the Reds so.... don't really agree.

I think he's being benched because he's too easy to rile up and throw off his game. Plus AAA does more meat and potatoes.

I'm not saying that he becomes useless, he can still scrum well and do basics. Just that he can only do the wrecking ball stuff for so long before fading.
Do you use it at the start or the end?

[mariner4life]

Tupou is a huge talent. I imagine, given the noises made by Rennie around re-earning your spot, he's benched because his error count is too high. For every good thing he does, there is at least 1 turnover.

[nostrildamus]

@Victor-Meldrew said in Bledisloe Three: Sydney, 31 October:

@Machpants

Thank God for that. I thought @nostrildamus was referring to some non-alcoholic abomination pretending to taste like single malt whisky.

(Fond memories of malt syrup - my dad used to let me lick the spoon when he made his carboys of beer.)

The old malt drink from childhood? No. Zero alc-Malt whisk(e)y? No. Abomination? Probably. Nearly 0% Malt beer. From Arabia. With pineapple.
I have no shame, and probably no taste. It was just an experiment in cheapness and there is a nice bottle of honey mead to try tonight.

[pakman]

@nostrildamus said in Bledisloe Three: Sydney, 31 October:

@Victor-Meldrew said in Bledisloe Three: Sydney, 31 October:

@Machpants

Thank God for that. I thought @nostrildamus was referring to some non-alcoholic abomination pretending to taste like single malt whisky.

(Fond memories of malt syrup - my dad used to let me lick the spoon when he made his carboys of beer.)

The old malt drink from childhood? No. Zero alc-Malt whisk(e)y? No. Abomination? Probably. Nearly 0% Malt beer. From Arabia. With pineapple.
I have no shame, and probably no taste. It was just an experiment in cheapness and there is a nice bottle of honey mead to try tonight.

[Duluth]

Team has been released:

1 Karl Tu'inukuafe (14)
2 Dane Coles (71)
3 Ofa Tuungafasi (37)
4 Patrick Tuipulotu (32)
5 Samuel Whitelock (118)
6 Shannon Frizell (11)
7 Sam Cane (70) - captain
8 Hoskins Sotutu (2)
9 Aaron Smith (94)
10 Richie Mo'unga (19)
11 Caleb Clarke (2)
12 Jack Goodhue (15)
13 Anton Lienert-Brown (45)
14 Jordie Barrett (19)
15 Beauden Barrett (85)

16 Codie Taylor (52)
17 Alex Hodgman (1)
18 Tyrel Lomax (2)
19 Scott Barrett (37)
20 Dalton Papalii (3)
21 TJ Perenara (66)
22 Ngani Laumape (13)
23 Rieko Ioane (31)

[Machpants]

Team as oiled

[Gunner]

@bayimports got the good sauce once again.

[Hooroo]

@Machpants said in Bledisloe Three: Sydney, 31 October:

Team as oiled

It really is the savouriest Oil!!

[mariner4life]

so the big surprise is a specialist 12 on the bench?

Really mixing it up these guys aye

[Kiwiwomble]

@mariner4life starting utilities and benching specialists....

[Crucial]

@mariner4life said in Bledisloe Three: Sydney, 31 October:

so the big surprise is a specialist 12 on the bench?

Foster possibly sees him as a wing

[Gunner]

@mariner4life said in Bledisloe Three: Sydney, 31 October:

so the big surprise is a specialist 12 on the bench?

Really mixing it up these guys aye

Suppose they could afford to with 3 13’s, 2 10’s and 2 15’s the 23...

[mariner4life]

@Kiwiwomble said in Bledisloe Three: Sydney, 31 October:

@mariner4life starting utilities and benching specialists....

much innovation, many creativity

[Bovidae]

Stats and facts

• Halfback Aaron Smith will play his 95th Test on Saturday and move onto the top ten list of most capped All Blacks of all time.

• Outside back Jordie Barrett has scored 89 points in his 19 Tests (13 tries, nine cons, two pens) and when he reaches 100 points, he and brother Beauden will be the first pair of brothers in the world to have each scored 100 points in international rugby for their national team.

• In the last Bledisloe Cup Test in Auckland, Captain Sam Cane scored his 70th point (14 tries) in his 70th Test match.

• The All Blacks and Australia will be playing their 169th Test against each other. New Zealand has won 116 of those matches, Australia 44 with eight draws. The All Blacks have held the Bledisloe Cup since 2003.

[Gunner]

Fuck i wish they’d play the ‘not so long ago best wing in the world’ Rieko on the wing ahead of ‘not a winger’ Jordie

[Hooroo]

@Gunner said in Bledisloe Three: Sydney, 31 October:

Fuck i wish they’d play the ‘not so long ago best wing in the world’ Rieko on the wing ahead of ‘not a winger’ Jordie

He must still be paying the price of his showboating error?