Black Ferns 2024

[Bovidae]

I've been impressed with Joseph. A good pass and she has some kicking ability (from playing 1st 5 too).

[Machpants]

Man ferns defensive line has turned to crap

[antipodean]

USA fumble the ball 30cm from the line.

[Machpants]

All USA second half, ferns looking unorganized

[Machpants]

Pretty much every ruck, defending players hands straight to deck, ref had ignored them all

[Machpants]

Nice try there, gift to ruby by Paul

[Machpants]

Grinding try by USA. Our lineout is shit, I think it would be a yellow if no try, hair a dozen penalties in a row

[antipodean]

Wow, that's some tired and woeful tackling there. Layla Sae running over/ through three Americans from 40m out to score.

[Machpants]

And again, they're run out of steam

[Machpants]

Jesus, straight onto her hands, gets the penalty

[Machpants]

57-5, good first quarter, the rest pretty average, and a few tries at the end where the USA ran out of steam

[Bovidae]

A similar scoreline to Canada over the USA so much tougher opponents to come.

I liked the loose forward combo including the injection of Olsen-Baker from the bench. A good debut from Vaipulu and King.

[Auckman]

Good first 30mins
Shit second half
Joseph & King went pretty good
Reserve forwards weren’t much chop except KOB in her first test in 2 years. Defensive system was shot in the second half.

Plenty to work on before the better Pac-4 teams

[Auckman]

@Machpants said in Black Ferns 2024:

Pretty much every ruck, defending players hands straight to deck, ref had ignored them all

Gets my goat. Same happened vs England. The refs in women’s rugby seem to be blind to NH-style cheating at the ruck. Especially England.

[Bovidae]

One change to the starting XV due to injury (Chryss Viliko for Kate Henwood). Canada will be a much tougher opponent (2nd vs 3rd).

[KiwiMurph]

Are there no TMOs in this series? Black Ferns score a clear as day try with the ref right there and get dudded.

[Bovidae]

@KiwiMurph The rest of the officials including the TMO are Aussies. The fix is on.

[Davesofthunder]

Canada currently hold the Utrecht Shield (Womens rugby's lineal world title) so they are making a good fist of defending it!

[Bovidae]

Joseph's kicking options have been poor.

[KiwiMurph]

The strange thing is they do have a TMO.

Canada hang on to win.

Deserved winners.