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@mariner4life said in Foster:

Did cheika throw that game too you looney conspiracy theorists??

The opposition are always shite when the ABs win. It's a totally new phenomenon which was only discovered when Foster was appointed coach.

Nope I recall us playing England a few decades ago when they toured they were definitely shite.

Hooroo

@mariner4life I love that people now don’t enjoy all black wins with great performances!!

Weeeaaakkkkk

Crucial

@Hooroo said in Foster:

@mariner4life I love that people now don’t enjoy all black wins with great performances!!

Weeeaaakkkkk

Bunch of miserable fuckers trying to find even more misery.
Despite anything you might think about Foster that game last night was well up there in AB performances. Was a modern equivalent of the famous wet game against Oz at Athletic Park.
3!!!!!! handling errors all game on a wet night !!
Had punchy forward play and flashy back play.
Just enjoy it.

ARHS

@Machpants said in Foster:

@mariner4life said in Foster:

Did cheika throw that game too you looney conspiracy theorists??

Flat track bullies bro, arg were shit.

Still enjoyed the game

Do you write for The Roar or Stuff?

Rancid Schnitzel

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Paekakboyz

Not to make light of it but I feel like we are in an "uncertain" relationship. Sometimes it's a shit show and sometimes things are amazing. I am stoked with the result but I'm not sure quite how we got there - which is the bit that makes me feel like the grinch!

canefan

The game plan was better. We played much better. Just need to back up next game to suggest this is real improvement and not a one off response

No Quarter

If we'd put Argentina away last week like we should have, despite that atrocious reffing performance where he seemed hell bent on penalising the fuck out of the team trying to play rugby, you'd have to concede that the new coaching set up has made a real difference.

I think it's clear we are moving in a better direction now. Last night was the most confident performance we've seen in a while. Yeah Argentina were probably unlikely to back up after last week, but a 50 point drubbing in the wet is pretty bloody impressive.

I also like that we are now rewarding form with consistent selections instead of always going back to the more "experienced" players. It's allowing the team to build solid combinations which will help when the heat is on.

Really looking forward to the next two games, it's a chance for this team to make a real statement.

Machpants

@canefan said in Foster:

The game plan was better. We played much better. Just need to back up next game to suggest this is real improvement and not a one off response

Both bleds need this level to make me feel maybe a corner has been turned under foster.
First can we beat a wounded Oz after a good performance, playing away?
Then, following that victory, can we keep our standards when complacency will be strong, Eden park hoodoo, just best them last week, etc.

3 good performances.

Chester Draws

@No-Quarter said in Foster:

I think it's clear we are moving in a better direction now. Last night was the most confident performance we've seen in a while. Yeah Argentina were probably unlikely to back up after last week, but a 50 point drubbing in the wet is pretty bloody impressive.

Yes we were better. Much better. But given the point we started from, that was inevitably going to happen.

We're now at the point of going into raptures over a home win against an Argentinian team that literally dropped the ball dozens of times. Normally that would be our starting point in terms of expectations.

I also like that we are now rewarding form with consistent selections instead of always going back to the more "experienced" players. It's allowing the team to build solid combinations which will help when the heat is on.

How can we be "rewarding form" when many of them were dreadful last week? And two games before that. We played Cody Taylor last week, for his great form?

Foster has a team, and he plays it until forced to make changes. There's no higher level thinking going on.

The only person who has displaced someone that wasn't forced, or blindingly obvious, is Frizzell. And Foster has always had a hard-on for him anyway.

Really looking forward to the next two games, it's a chance for this team to make a real statement.

Just as we were after Ellis Park.

I fully expect us to destroy Australia, because their style of play is easy for us. But then I thought we would destroy Argentina in both games too.

No Quarter

@Chester-Draws I'm not really interested in debating the hyperbolic statements you make. Nobody is in "raptures" after beating Argentina. But if you can't accept that a 50 point drubbing in the wet with just 3 handling errors all game is impressive, then there's no pleasing you. In fact even if we won the RWC I imagine you still won't be happy because it would paint Foster as a decent coach when that's surely not the case.

canefan

@Machpants said in Foster:

@canefan said in Foster:

The game plan was better. We played much better. Just need to back up next game to suggest this is real improvement and not a one off response

Both bleds need this level to make me feel maybe a corner has been turned under foster.
First can we beat a wounded Oz after a good performance, playing away?
Then, following that victory, can we keep our standards when complacency will be strong, Eden park hoodoo, just best them last week, etc.

3 good performances.

Even GH and Shag said 3 top performances on the trot was very difficult in the pro era. I want to see continued refinement of the game plan and execution

The Silver Fern

Foster, Robertson etc