All Blacks vs England 2

BerniesCorner

MOMs: DMac BB Ratima

nostrildamus

Let's hear no more BS about Beauden Barrett being finished he won that game.

Ratima looked good.

Yes. And Ratima looked very good.

Damo

I dunno what the England captain was on about there at the end. Even if it wasn't a PK (which it was) it was still held up over the line with time up.

Rancid Schnitzel

That was 2016 Beauden. Nice to see him back after all these years.

KiwiMurph

The semi final performance from Ratima should have shown he deserves faith.

He's a talent

MiketheSnow

Well played NZ

As in the first test it was there for England but when it mattered they didn't capitalise on territory or possession.

NZ had the far better bench and it counted

Great teams find a way to win

Kirwan

@Tim said in All Blacks vs England 2:

Let's hear no more BS about Beauden Barrett being finished. He won that game.

Ratima looked good.

He was magnificent. He was the difference tonight, got us into the right areas and magic on attack.

kiwiinmelb

@Nepia said in All Blacks vs England 2:

Phew, I think I care more about Eden Park record than world cups. I was there for the try from the end of the world.

It’s funny , my first two test matches live were both losses at eden park ,

One to the Aussies and one to the frogs in the 70s

ACT Crusader

Great lift in the second half.

England played well for good portions of the game.

Nice to see our bench make the impact.

Beaudie’s much maligned kicking game gave us a some territory (finally)

African Monkey

Good finish. Obviously the credit all goes to the reserves, but for all the criticism that the starters are gonna get, they did their jobs at blunting things out there before the bench came on and struck.

BerniesCorner

Need to find a 6
Ratima starts
Impressed with Vaai too

stodders

@antipodean Vern Cotter? I’ll get my coat

chimoaus

Ratima and Roigard. The double Rs will serve us well going forward.

Frank

Papalii was immense.
Honorable metions to Ratima, DMac and BB.

Tim

Super Rugby coaching doesn't mean much at international level. These guys look out of their depth. Forwards poor for a lot of the game.

I would say McKenzie is a poor game manager, but there wasn't much of a game plan to manage.

Chris

@Tim said in All Blacks vs England 2:

Let's hear no more BS about Beauden Barrett being finished. He won that game.

Ratima looked good.

Yeah Fair call he made a big difference.

Kirwan

@BerniesCorner said in All Blacks vs England 2:

Need to find a 6
Ratima starts
Impressed with Vaai too

Just start Vaai, Finau is a non entity

KiwiMurph

The whole bench was good for a 2nd week in a row

BerniesCorner

I was seriously bogging there

MN5

@BerniesCorner said in All Blacks vs England 2:

Need to find a 6
Ratima starts
Impressed with Vaai too

I thought Finau was the hitman to end all hitmen ?

Maybe he’ll do a Frizell and have a blinder every 20 tests.

The Silver Fern

All Blacks vs England 2