All Blacks v Argentina II
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@Chris said in All Blacks v Argentina II:
We are obviously looking to build parts of our game and this week is another chance to do that," said All Blacks head coach Ian Foster. "This year's Rugby Championship is extremely tight and that makes this weekend's test an exciting opportunity.
Yeah, really exciting. In the context of the ABs, that word now means throwing objects at the tv and swearing a lot. I don't want it to be that kind of exciting.
@Stargazer or exciting wondering what level of rugby we will see this week....
The embarrassing rugby from the 1st half of test 3 v Ireland, the brainless from the 2nd half last week, the good stuff from Ireland 1 or Ellis Park, or will we find a new kind of exciting....
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it wold honestly be one thing if he'd come out and said "we're doing something different...but a big change is going to mean some pain"
but he seems to think we can thrash everyone every week...and is surprised when we dont...but then he tries the same thing again thinking it will work this time...and it doesnt and hes surprised....but he tries it again because surely he cant be wrong and it must eventually work
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He’s very much enjoying getting fucked over
"It's important we embrace those moments," he says of their poor finish in Christchurch.
No it is not, it is imprtant you find out what went wrong and change it. But for him it is more of the same, just betterer
Foster says his message to the public is that they've been pretty ruthless and hard on themselves behind the scenes.
"We believe in things we're working on now. Things were going good but didn't translate to the result we wanted," he says.Ruthless, yeah right. Dropping Taylor wan’t ruthless, after that performance it was a bare minimum. Ruthless is dropping Capt Cane, ruthless is chucking Havili, ruthless is ditching your underperforming assisstants last year.
I am glad they are owning the training field and team meetings tho, well done
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Have just had a gander at the weather forecast for Hamilton on Saturday night. Looks like a roughly 90% chance of rain at kickoff, and a 70-80% chance of it sticking around throughout the game. Tactical play, which Aaron Smith and Richie Mo'unga are talking about now, is going to be more important than last week.
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We are obviously looking to build parts of our game and this week is another chance to do that," said All Blacks head coach Ian Foster. "This year's Rugby Championship is extremely tight and that makes this weekend's test an exciting opportunity.
@Chris said in All Blacks v Argentina II:
We are obviously looking to build parts of our game and this week is another chance to do that," said All Blacks head coach Ian Foster. "This year's Rugby Championship is extremely tight and that makes this weekend's test an exciting opportunity.
They're not building anything. They are mining.
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@Tim thats a stretch, the 1st half of the 3rd Irish test was the worst for many years for me....so only a month, not a long time!
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@taniwharugby It's interesting to see Hinton go from a Mr Positive type reporter to a doomer.
@Tim said in All Blacks v Argentina II:
@taniwharugby It's interesting to see Hinton go from a Mr Positive type reporter to a doomer.
Woken up ? Maybe
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@Chris said in All Blacks v Argentina II:
We are obviously looking to build parts of our game and this week is another chance to do that," said All Blacks head coach Ian Foster. "This year's Rugby Championship is extremely tight and that makes this weekend's test an exciting opportunity.
They're not building anything. They are mining.
@JC said in All Blacks v Argentina II:
@Chris said in All Blacks v Argentina II:
We are obviously looking to build parts of our game and this week is another chance to do that," said All Blacks head coach Ian Foster. "This year's Rugby Championship is extremely tight and that makes this weekend's test an exciting opportunity.
They're not building anything. They are mining.
Undermining?
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@ nzrugbydatabase twitter says this is first time since 1997 we've named the same starting xv 3 times in a row.. I found that stat crazy.. what was the tweaks between i.e the 2015 world cup quater and final team?
@FakatavaAllBlack said in All Blacks v Argentina II:
@ nzrugbydatabase twitter says this is first time since 1997 we've named the same starting xv 3 times in a row.. I found that stat crazy.. what was the tweaks between i.e the 2015 world cup quater and final team?
Injury and Jo moody in was one
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still make me made Ben smith wasn't even in the 23 for the knock out stages but bridge started
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@ nzrugbydatabase twitter says this is first time since 1997 we've named the same starting xv 3 times in a row.. I found that stat crazy.. what was the tweaks between i.e the 2015 world cup quater and final team?
@FakatavaAllBlack said in All Blacks v Argentina II:
@ nzrugbydatabase twitter says this is first time since 1997 we've named the same starting xv 3 times in a row.. I found that stat crazy.. what was the tweaks between i.e the 2015 world cup quater and final team?
This tweet, I assume?
https://twitter.com/nzrugbydatabase/status/1565138805098627072
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I know David Havili is a good player but I just never thought he would have such a firm grip of the all blacks 12 jersey...
@FakatavaAllBlack without doing anything spectacular to deserve it
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I know David Havili is a good player but I just never thought he would have such a firm grip of the all blacks 12 jersey...
@FakatavaAllBlack He's been solid without being spectacular, but is still the best option. Tupaea misses some of his skillset (kicking game, for example) and had a mare against Ireland. RTS hasn't played enough rugby. Jordie is a fullback. There's just no one who clearly offers more (until ALB returns from injury).
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@FakatavaAllBlack He's been solid without being spectacular, but is still the best option. Tupaea misses some of his skillset (kicking game, for example) and had a mare against Ireland. RTS hasn't played enough rugby. Jordie is a fullback. There's just no one who clearly offers more (until ALB returns from injury).
@Stargazer said in All Blacks v Argentina II:
@FakatavaAllBlack He's been solid without being spectacular, but is still the best option. Tupaea misses some of his skillset (kicking game, for example) and had a mare against Ireland. RTS hasn't played enough rugby. Jordie is a fullback. There's just no one who clearly offers more (until ALB returns from injury).
i know you're probably right but that bugs me, if someone isn't up for playing then we shouldn't pick them in the squad, he would be learning more about rugby running with Auckland
