All Blacks vs England I

[KiwiMurph]

Taylor bringing his Crusaders form to the ABs. He has been excellent

[booboo]

@antipodean said in All Blacks vs England I:

Why are we still fucking playing? Get the ball out you idiots.

Any other time in the game we'd have hoofed it down there, but we had possession so they try to score.

Anyway, flattering to England, but they're doing enough to be even, even though they shouldn't be.

[Darth Sader]

Telea’s non-chase of the high ball has been ratshit

[KiwiMurph]

I'm not sure Rieko is the 13 you want if you want to play this style

If you want to play direct Vern ball then yep.

[Mattasaurus]

I'll be surprised to see TJ come back on from halftime

[Frank]

They can look at ALB to 13 and putting Reiko at 11.

[Tim]

@KiwiMurph We've looked a lot better when playing directly.

[antipodean]

Pity we don't have access to real time stats. Some more carries and cleans by our loose forwards would help.

[booboo]

And First World problems ...

... am forced to watch this on my phone. Which is bad enough.

But the kicker is the display on Stan means the clock gets cut off by the top menu bar on my phone, and I don't know how to get rid of it.

[nostrildamus]

@KiwiMurph said in All Blacks vs England I:

I'm not sure Rieko is the 13 you want if you want to play this style

If you want to play direct Vern ball then yep.

It would have been nice to see Proctor on in the second half but I understand why they were more conservative for this test.

[Kirwan]

Perofeta has gone better than I expected, and TJ has gone exactly how I expected. Time to get Christie on and get some smarter decisions going on out there. Both their passes are slow, but Christie is actually quick.

Loose forward trio is not working, Dalton is tackling well, savea is going missing as usual when up against a combative pack and Finau is MIA.

Locks are going great though.

And DMac is awesome under the high ball

[booboo]

@KiwiMurph said in All Blacks vs England I:

@Canes4life said in All Blacks vs England I:

Lol everyone talking about TJ and his service. Don’t you guys remember we have Christie on the bench.

So we shouldn't criticise Perenara's service?

Course not. He's a Hurricane.

[Kirwan]

Oh and Jordie has been very good at 12 too

[fcc]

Is papalii playing?

[Kirwan]

@fcc said in All Blacks vs England I:

Is papalii playing?

Yes, he’s the only flanker tackling

[antipodean]

@fcc said in All Blacks vs England I:

Is papalii playing?

Busy doing Savea's work

[fcc]

The Rueben Thorne of the team then

[ACT Crusader]

@KiwiMurph said in All Blacks vs England I:

I'm not sure Rieko is the 13 you want if you want to play this style

If you want to play direct Vern ball then yep.

Our pattern looks more like late Henry era (thanks Wayne). We could do with Ioane at 12 and then use Jordie’s passing out wider.

[Tim]

@Kirwan Carried better than the others too.

Savea is doing fuck all on defence and at the ruck.

[Tim]

Christie on.