Wallabies vs All Blacks 3 (Perth)

[No Quarter]

@tim said in Wallabies vs All Blacks 3 (Perth):

@act-crusader said in Wallabies vs All Blacks 3 (Perth):

Blackadder is better closer in

Not sure of that given Blackadder's defence today. Solid player but inexperienced.

Not better than Akira, but better than Blackadder wide, I.E. trying to play to his strengths. Akira is better than the rest of the loosies regardless of what role he is playing.

[Bovidae]

Coles (when fit) will be the hooker joining the squad.

[Tim]

@bovidae said in Wallabies vs All Blacks 3 (Perth):

when fit

[Machpants]

@bovidae said in Wallabies vs All Blacks 3 (Perth):

Coles (when fit) will be the hooker joining the squad.

After 2 weeks quarantine

[Bovidae]

@machpants said in Wallabies vs All Blacks 3 (Perth):

@bovidae said in Wallabies vs All Blacks 3 (Perth):

Coles (when fit) will be the hooker joining the squad.

After 2 weeks quarantine

I certainly wasn't implying he would be available immediately, just that they can't just bring over a new player to join the squad unless a MIQ spot in NZ is found for when they return. Foster might need to find a Kiwi hooker in Aust in an emergency.

[Machpants]

@bovidae said in Wallabies vs All Blacks 3 (Perth):

@machpants said in Wallabies vs All Blacks 3 (Perth):

@bovidae said in Wallabies vs All Blacks 3 (Perth):

Coles (when fit) will be the hooker joining the squad.

After 2 weeks quarantine

I certainly wasn't implying he would be available immediately, just that they can't just bring over a new player to join the squad unless a MIQ spot in NZ is found for when they return. Foster might need to find a Kiwi hooker in Aust in an emergency.

I think in an emergency Coles stays in NZ, and hooker #5 joins ABs. Unless the theoretical kiwi hooker in Oz is in QLD or WA, they still have 2 weeks quarantine. That's the real challenge of this tour, juggling injury replacements.

[Dan54]

@antipodean said in Wallabies vs All Blacks 3 (Perth):

@nostrildamus said in Wallabies vs All Blacks 3 (Perth):

What was the general feeling on BB and DMac?

Beaudy did some lovely things and will be better for the run. Given the general kicking display I'm loathe to rip into him about that - it looked like everyone had some issues there for some reason.

DMac did nothing bad and nothing great.

Have they swapped to adidas balls, same thing happened in TT , noone kicked any good in Aus.
Really enjoyed the game, that was a bloody impressive performance, whole team went well. Agree with Akira MOTM, Brodie was in beast mode, both wings were bloody good, as were insides etc. I have to say I was real impressed with ALB too, shit he does some good stuff both in defence and with ball in hand, a real good 13!

[Tim]

Anyone else notice early on that Oz were taking players out in front of the rucks, like in the last game. Seemed to lose their appetite for that pretty quick. Probably due to their forwards making negative metres.

[Nevorian]

@no-quarter said in Wallabies vs All Blacks 3 (Perth):

@kirwan said in Wallabies vs All Blacks 3 (Perth):

@no-quarter said in Wallabies vs All Blacks 3 (Perth):

Nobody has kicked well from the tee today

Good point. Conditions look fine?

Yeah DMac has miss timed them as well, weird as he's really consistent

The conditions were perfect no breeze to speak of

[Machpants]

@dan54 said in Wallabies vs All Blacks 3 (Perth):

@antipodean said in Wallabies vs All Blacks 3 (Perth):

@nostrildamus said in Wallabies vs All Blacks 3 (Perth):

What was the general feeling on BB and DMac?

Beaudy did some lovely things and will be better for the run. Given the general kicking display I'm loathe to rip into him about that - it looked like everyone had some issues there for some reason.

DMac did nothing bad and nothing great.

Have they swapped to adidas balls, same thing happened in TT , noone kicked any good in Aus.

Opposite, NZ use Adidas balls, this game (and everything outside NZ) use Gilbert

[Nevorian]

Surely they would have been training with the right ball for the last couple of weeks

[Frank]

I think Jordie, after his probable suspension, should start ahead of D Mac.

[canefan]

@frank said in Wallabies vs All Blacks 3 (Perth):

I think Jordie, after his probable suspension, should start ahead of D Mac.

Hopefully the RC is all Jordie has to suffer. What a terrible call

[Nevorian]

From what I can recall no one had a bad day today apart from some of the kicking.

Akira was huge and is really growing into his role, He will be looking forward to testing himself against the boks ins couple of weeks

All of the forwards really got into their work especially when we were down to 14

Weber looked ok but seemed to tire

Looked like we leaked a couple of tries so a bit of work to do around the fringes, out wide defence pretty good

Ref did seem to be shit but penalty count was probably in our favour

[Rancid Schnitzel]

Just a few comments.
The Jordie red was utterly fűcking retarded. Absolutely ridiculous decision.
Akira had already arrived but now he's surely here to stay.
Reiko is an excellent winger and should stay there.
BBBR is returning to beastmode.
Jordan was pretty damn good and IMHO has the best kicking game out of all the backs. Damn!
Weber was very solid.
BB looked very good, but those kicks!!!! Wtf man?
Havili is growing on me. Can't fault him.
Nick White looks like some absolutely fucking ridiculous comic book character and I don't think there is a sane person alive who would disagree.

[sparky]

Two games against Australia a year is more than enough these days. I'd rather see the ABs play against Japan more often than these multiple one-sided games against Aussie.

[Rancid Schnitzel]

Oh yeah Kerevi is a very good player but those penalties were for junior level shit. Teach the man the rules of the game.

[Tim]

That Swinton guy has looked like a right chump in these games.

[canefan]

@rancid-schnitzel Mrs CF doesn't watch a lot of rugby these days. Saw White and the first thing she said was "who's the guy with the stupid moustache? "

[Tim]

@canefan Should have started though, he's quality.