All Blacks vs Scotland
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Will take that.
Random thoughts.
Made ourselves work harder than we needed.
Beaudy has lost his mojo.
ALB improved toward the end, but Rieko clear No.1 at 13.
Groot not as good as he's been.
Loosies were very very good.
Only possible surprising thing about Dalts being official POTD was it wasn't Ardie.
Telea looked alright.
Cap'n Sam looked to lose some composure tonight. I'll go there ... is he up to the captaincy? Remember the '19 SF ...
How did they not score?
Think both sides would have some concerns about the ref, but I couldn't really pin point specifics.
TJ's career is not over.
More random thoughts as they occur.
@booboo Sam came out of the sheds a little more vocal after a great period by Scotland. And Ardie was too. Also helps in the leadership stakes when your 90 test 1st 5 starts to play with a bit more purpose and not helter skelter
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The fact is Scotland played well for large parts of the game
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@booboo Sam came out of the sheds a little more vocal after a great period by Scotland. And Ardie was too. Also helps in the leadership stakes when your 90 test 1st 5 starts to play with a bit more purpose and not helter skelter
@ACT-Crusader said in All Blacks vs Scotland:
@booboo Sam came out of the sheds a little more vocal after a great period by Scotland. And Ardie was too. Also helps in the leadership stakes when your 90 test 1st 5 starts to play with a bit more purpose and not helter skelter
BB kept kicking and for very little reward.
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The fact is Scotland played well for large parts of the game
@BerniesCorner said in All Blacks vs Scotland:
The fact is Scotland played well for large parts of the game
We kind of helped with that though.
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@akan004 said in All Blacks vs Scotland:
Good try. Conversion is crucial.
Telea has been good. Threatening on attack and so bloody solid - almost mistake-free
@Victor-Meldrew said in All Blacks vs Scotland:
@akan004 said in All Blacks vs Scotland:
Good try. Conversion is crucial.
Telea has been good. Threatening on attack and so bloody solid - almost mistake-free
The Kiwi Mapimpi.
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Paps is a certainty now. There is no comparison
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The fact is Scotland played well for large parts of the game
@BerniesCorner said in All Blacks vs Scotland:
The fact is Scotland played well for large parts of the game
After we spotted them 14 points cheers midfield.
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The fact is Scotland played well for large parts of the game
@BerniesCorner said in All Blacks vs Scotland:
The fact is Scotland played well for large parts of the game
They sure did. I quite like how they play.
They have a very similar pattern at ruck time to the Boks. They are hard on the ball and if your cleaners are late they were dynamite.
Their attacking pattern have a lot of decoy runners and if you misread you will be burnt.
We got a real roll on in that 15-20 minute period and we nullified their ruck
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Their ball retention was fantastic
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YC
Dumb
That’s the match
You stupid fucking jocks
@MiketheSnow said in All Blacks vs Scotland:
YC
Dumb
That’s the match
You stupid fucking jocks
Watching Beaver on the Stan coverage. Gas he been possessed by Justin Marshall? Trying to convince us that it wasn't a deliberate knock on.
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@ACT-Crusader said in All Blacks vs Scotland:
@booboo Sam came out of the sheds a little more vocal after a great period by Scotland. And Ardie was too. Also helps in the leadership stakes when your 90 test 1st 5 starts to play with a bit more purpose and not helter skelter
BB kept kicking and for very little reward.
@nostrildamus said in All Blacks vs Scotland:
@ACT-Crusader said in All Blacks vs Scotland:
@booboo Sam came out of the sheds a little more vocal after a great period by Scotland. And Ardie was too. Also helps in the leadership stakes when your 90 test 1st 5 starts to play with a bit more purpose and not helter skelter
BB kept kicking and for very little reward.
But he started to take on the line which drew in defenders. He was making it too easy for them.
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@duke said in All Blacks vs Scotland:
That’s rough for Scotland. In the slow mo he didn’t appear to be even looking at the ball.
Amazing how well he batted the ball away without looking at it.
@booboo said in All Blacks vs Scotland:
@duke said in All Blacks vs Scotland:
That’s rough for Scotland. In the slow mo he didn’t appear to be even looking at the ball.
Amazing how well he batted the ball away without looking at it.
Yes from another angle it looked more ah cunning.
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Lienert-Brown fans: he is absolute shit. Should never be anywhere near international rugby. He's slow, he's a bum. Rieko is 100x the player. Deal with it.
@Tim said in All Blacks vs Scotland:
Lienert-Brown fans: he is absolute shit. Should never be anywhere near international rugby. He's slow, he's a bum. Rieko is 100x the player. Deal with it.
He was fine. Better than DH. But certainly not threatening the top XV right now. Hopefully he does put pressure on Reiko next year but I'm very comfortable with the incumbent midfield as it is.
Fyi there are 2 interviews on YouTube with J Barrett and R Ioane on the All Blacks channel. Definitely worth a watch, they've got good banter, a sign they could develop into a pretty decent combination.
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@Bones said in All Blacks vs Scotland:
@KiwiMurph said in All Blacks vs Scotland:
Perenara's best ever test. Amazing. What a return.
I know it was off the bench, but fuck he was ever present, on the button with his options and no fannying about. Where has this guy been? He was Christie on roids.
It does show you the value of form (and the NPC).
He had a wonderful NPC campaign and played really well for AB XV last week.
@KiwiMurph said in All Blacks vs Scotland:
@Bones said in All Blacks vs Scotland:
@KiwiMurph said in All Blacks vs Scotland:
Perenara's best ever test. Amazing. What a return.
I know it was off the bench, but fuck he was ever present, on the button with his options and no fannying about. Where has this guy been? He was Christie on roids.
It does show you the value of form (and the NPC).
He had a wonderful NPC campaign and played really well for AB XV last week.
With Fakatava almost probably out of RWC contention there is room for a more combative HB in the squad. Perenara knows that spot is up for grabs and played like it. Good on him.
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Pressure. In the last couple of years, we've been shit at handling it, played fast and loose and/or made stupid mistakes and lost momentum. But not today. Yeah, we played as poorly as we did against Ireland for much of the match, but we found a way through and that's a big improvement.
Starting off with a bang, we went to absolute mush from minutes 15 to 50. BB was fucking awful with decision making which was even worse, and Havili was shite - and ironically was shite at the things he was supposedly good at and less shite than expected at the things he was supposed to be shite at. Wither ALB? For such an intelligent and calm player, that was his worst game in Black. OK, he's been out for a while and Havili was equally crap, but he's the experienced player and should have taken control. 2/10.
Telea was great. Rock solid, took his chances and wasn't overawed. Clarke struggled and God knows what is going on in his head. He's got so much talent, is great under the high ball, has pace and difficult to bring down, so why doesn't he pin his ears back more often? His defence wasn't all that flash either. No, he was bloody awful.
Never, ever, start Christie again. He's great coming on for the last 20 but he seems to have actually gotten slower. The difference when TJP came on was huge - added a bit of mongrel as well.
Ardie and Paps were superb and Akira had a good first 20 but faded a bit when Scotland were dominating. Sam W was outstanding, I thought, making hit after hit and got his team back on track. He was absolutely immense in defence on the goal-line as well. Didn't see much of Scooter which may or may not be a good thing. The front row was a step down from last week but ramped up when the replacements came on. Both Sami T & Codie Taylor were great and as @bones has said, starting Sami & finishing with Taylor seems the best option.
Overall summary: Brilliant first 15 minutes, a totally shit 50 minutes and a final 15 minutes where the mojo made an appearance again. Not happy with the performance overall, but pretty pleased we found a way to tough it out, calm down, slowly take control and actually win. In a World Cup we need to do this a fair bit. Finally, in may ways it's good we played badly - they'll now go to Twickenham a bit pissed off with their performance
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Lienert-Brown fans: he is absolute shit. Should never be anywhere near international rugby. He's slow, he's a bum. Rieko is 100x the player. Deal with it.
@Tim said in All Blacks vs Scotland:
Lienert-Brown fans: he is absolute shit. Should never be anywhere near international rugby. He's slow, he's a bum. Rieko is 100x the player. Deal with it.
ALB was terrible at 13, but a decided improvement on DH at 12.
