Bledisloe 2
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Still too many points left out there. Definitely an improvement on last week but the Wobs were also a step back. ABs during the first two YCs were so poor.
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Papalii gets his first proper run of the year, and has an excellent game. Back to his outstanding test form of last year.
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Great to get the win and set ourselves up to win the RC.
Im not usually a downer, but I thought we lacked a little fluency which sounds strange when you put 40 on. Defensively I thought our pack stood up and then our backs did pretty well too.
One of the worst disciplined games I’ve seen from Oz. They just didn’t adjust to the ref and showed a real lack of composure to settle into the match. Slipper seemed rattled and they didn’t really have anyone else with much experience in the starting lineup to take some pressure off him.
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Great to get the win and set ourselves up to win the RC.
Im not usually a downer, but I thought we lacked a little fluency which sounds strange when you put 40 on. Defensively I thought our pack stood up and then our backs did pretty well too.
One of the worst disciplined games I’ve seen from Oz. They just didn’t adjust to the ref and showed a real lack of composure to settle into the match. Slipper seemed rattled and they didn’t really have anyone else with much experience in the starting lineup to take some pressure off him.
@ACT-Crusader We left some points out there, but defence was so much better this week.
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Samu and Valentini make this Wallaby team look much better. Once they get Kerevi back they won't stay at 9 in the world rankings for long.
@antipodean said in Bledisloe 2:
Samu and Valentini make this Wallaby team look much better. Once they get Kerevi back they won't stay at 9 in the world rankings for long.
They aren’t that good to be fair. Plenty of heart and effort and we didn’t deal with that well last week but abilities wise they aren’t very good. Lots of good but not excellent players in that team.
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@antipodean said in Bledisloe 2:
Samu and Valentini make this Wallaby team look much better. Once they get Kerevi back they won't stay at 9 in the world rankings for long.
They aren’t that good to be fair. Plenty of heart and effort and we didn’t deal with that well last week but abilities wise they aren’t very good. Lots of good but not excellent players in that team.
@Crucial said in Bledisloe 2:
@antipodean said in Bledisloe 2:
Samu and Valentini make this Wallaby team look much better. Once they get Kerevi back they won't stay at 9 in the world rankings for long.
They aren’t that good to be fair. Plenty of heart and effort and we didn’t deal with that well last week but abilities wise they aren’t very good. Lots of good but not excellent players in that team.
Disagree on Valentini. He is a very good player. Tonight they all got beat up.
Was nice to see Retallick shifting bodies with a bit of venom.
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Jordie fucking awesome. If we see anyone but Samisoni at 2 and jordie at 12 for the big games going forward, in going to be very annoyed
@Machpants said in Bledisloe 2:
Jordie fucking awesome. If we see anyone but Samisoni at 2 and jordie at 12 for the big games going forward, in going to be very annoyed
And it’s not like we are short of options in the back 3 anyway
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Shittings, that was awesome! Randoms:
Dalton's defense
BBBR's everything
Lomax and DeGroot
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NZ have evidently needed an injection of new blood for quite a while.
They hung on to incumbents in a few too many positions and got found out.
Samisoni, De Groot, Lomax are revelations.
Jordie at 12 has finally been tried and proven to be the answer. Its that simple.
Papalii was still motoring in 80th minute. Very combative in the tight.
Jury still out on left wing, centre and blindside flanker. Cover at lock needs minutes.
11 Ioane
12 Jordie
13
14 Reece
15 Jordan.Beaudy is one of my all-time favourite Allblacks but for me starts at 10 or is on bench.
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@canefan said in Bledisloe 2:
Foster said they've been working on JB to 12 in behind the scenes
Oh Foster you really are a muppet.
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@canefan said in Bledisloe 2:
Foster said they've been working on JB to 12 in behind the scenes
Oh Foster you really are a muppet.
@Canes4life said in Bledisloe 2:
@canefan said in Bledisloe 2:
Foster said they've been working on JB to 12 in behind the scenes
Oh Foster you really are a muppet.
It was a throwaway comment he couldn't resist making
