All Blacks vs England I
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@DaGrubster said in All Blacks vs England I:
@mikedogz said in All Blacks vs England I:
Razor is on the trophy march already!!!
Hillary Shield.
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Haven't seen all the match yet but some of those long Barrett kicks I saw were literally match savers.
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When will we see the headlines about Razor trying to get Fozzie out of his Japanese contract…..?!
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@chucknz said in All Blacks vs England I:
@Tim you must be gutted that we won, seems to be the result blues fans are wanting
nope, we can be Blues fans AND AB supporters
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@Frank said in All Blacks vs England I:
Finau has been promoted too early. Everyone waits for the "smashed 'em bro" moment, forgetting his workrate isn't great.
Unfortunately the English forward pack isn't made up of only shit Australian first fives.
@Tim said in All Blacks vs England I:
@Frank said in All Blacks vs England I:
Finau has been promoted too early. Everyone waits for the "smashed 'em bro" moment, forgetting his workrate isn't great.
Unfortunately the English forward pack isn't made up of only shit Australian first fives.
This has always been my issue with him. JC and Kano regularly buried forwards even bigger than they were. Finau has ( from what I’ve seen ) made a dubious reputation of smashing first fives in vulnerable passing positions.
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Finau has been promoted too early. Everyone waits for the "smashed 'em bro" moment, forgetting his workrate isn't great. I'd pick Blackadder ahead of him.
Perofeta deserves another start. Looked silky out there.
Our scrum was excellent.
Telea gets involved, but lacks top end pace and power. I'd replace him with Clarke.
DMac has to be persisted with, but God damn he did some wayward pointless kicks.
It was Beauden Barrettesque.Vaii got involved well, but I still noticed him fold in contact a couple of times. He ran at gaps.
Our loose forwards were outplayed and we were lucky to win.
(and we still can't cope with the rush defense)@Frank said in All Blacks vs England I:
Telea gets involved, but lacks top end pace and power. I'd replace him with Clarke.
He looked
a bitlost at times tonight.DMac has to be persisted with, but God damn he did some wayward pointless kicks.
It was Beauden Barrettesque.
Was he executing the game-plan well or badly?
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@Tim said in All Blacks vs England I:
@Frank said in All Blacks vs England I:
Finau has been promoted too early. Everyone waits for the "smashed 'em bro" moment, forgetting his workrate isn't great.
Unfortunately the English forward pack isn't made up of only shit Australian first fives.
This has always been my issue with him. JC and Kano regularly buried forwards even bigger than they were. Finau has ( from what I’ve seen ) made a dubious reputation of smashing first fives in vulnerable passing positions.
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Bloody hard taskmasters on here. England are a bloody good team across the park.
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if only we had a big 6 who could tackle and carry and has form! If only!
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if only we had a big 6 who could tackle and carry and has form! If only!
@nostrildamus said in All Blacks vs England I:
if only we had a big 6 who could tackle and carry and has form! If only!
Sititi
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if only we had a big 6 who could tackle and carry and has form! If only!
@nostrildamus Imagine if he had out played the current bum twice in four weeks? That would be a miracle.
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if only we had a big 6 who could tackle and carry and has form! If only!
@nostrildamus said in All Blacks vs England I:
if only we had a big 6 who could tackle and carry and has form! If only!
Yes I seem to remember seeing one in the super final.
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clears throat, takes deep breath
Blackadder may not be much of a lineout option, but he'd be a better pick at six.
Might have to move Barrett or Vaai there.
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@Tim said in All Blacks vs England I:
Blackadder may not be much of a lineout option, but he'd be a better pick at six.
He was used very effectively as a front of lineout option by Foster. (in the one or two games he played).
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@nostrildamus said in All Blacks vs England I:
if only we had a big 6 who could tackle and carry and has form! If only!
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@BerniesCorner said in All Blacks vs England I:
@nostrildamus said in All Blacks vs England I:
if only we had a big 6 who could tackle and carry and has form! If only!
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He's young, let him earn his stripes at his specialist position, I mean he's played 6 right but mostly at 8 for the Chiefs?
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Looked like a continuation of the Fozzie era to me.
No noticeable changes in game plan really, except for our first try, where we worked bloody hard in closer before sending it wide.
Unfortunately there was way too much of going sideways, ruck, sideways again, ruck, sideways once more, then kick aimlessly away and let England chew up easy metres on the counter attack.
Thought both wingers were busy, and did the best with the shitty ball they were getting.
TJ was great, sucks he’s injured again, as now we’re stuck with Christie. Positive is now there is no option, Ratima will get game time.
Thought both locks got stuck in, Papalii was hitting anything that moved, Aumua good when he got on, the rest of the pack a bit meh.
Perofeta went better than expected.
And fuck that ref made some very interesting calls / non calls.
Take the win (could have very easily been a loss), hope to start seeing some innovation with the game plan and improvement in physicality from here on in.
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Looked like a continuation of the Fozzie era to me.
No noticeable changes in game plan really, except for our first try, where we worked bloody hard in closer before sending it wide.
Unfortunately there was way too much of going sideways, ruck, sideways again, ruck, sideways once more, then kick aimlessly away and let England chew up easy metres on the counter attack.
Thought both wingers were busy, and did the best with the shitty ball they were getting.
TJ was great, sucks he’s injured again, as now we’re stuck with Christie. Positive is now there is no option, Ratima will get game time.
Thought both locks got stuck in, Papalii was hitting anything that moved, Aumua good when he got on, the rest of the pack a bit meh.
Perofeta went better than expected.
And fuck that ref made some very interesting calls / non calls.
Take the win (could have very easily been a loss), hope to start seeing some innovation with the game plan and improvement in physicality from here on in.
@Gunner said in All Blacks vs England I:
Looked like a continuation of the Fozzie era to me.
No noticeable changes in game plan really, except for our first try, where we worked bloody hard in closer before sending it wide.
Unfortunately there was way too much of going sideways, ruck, sideways again, ruck, sideways once more, then kick aimlessly away and let England chew up easy metres on the counter attack.
Thought both wingers were busy, and did the best with the shitty ball they were getting.
TJ was great, sucks he’s injured again, as now we’re stuck with Christie. Positive is now there is no option, Ratima will get game time.
Thought both locks got stuck in, Papalii was hitting anything that moved, Aumua good when he got on, the rest of the pack a bit meh.
Perofeta went better than expected.
And fuck that ref made some very interesting calls / non calls.
Take the win (could have very easily been a loss), hope to start seeing some innovation with the game plan and improvement in physicality from here on in.
Well said.
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People are talking nonsense here if they think there's no difference to the Foster era from tonights game.
Also the blatant disregard of the quality of the English team, this is a really good England team who beat Ireland 2 games ago and were about to beat France in France if not for a penalty right on full time.
To beat them first up with a brand new coaching setup and all the noise that would have come with it is extremely impressive.
I'm also amazed at some people here genuinely asking for Plummer over Dmac.
