All Blacks vs England 2
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If Perofeta had passed inside or if Telea had more pace we'd be lauding DMac's counter attack to set up a brilliant try.
A step in the right direction for DMac last night
@KiwiMurph said in All Blacks vs England 2:
If Perofeta had passed inside or if Telea had more pace we'd be lauding DMac's counter attack to set up a brilliant try.
A step in the right direction for DMac last night
I was a well known hater for a long time, said he was the classic great Super player with no place in black. But I’ve completely come around. He no longer runs across field all game, he makes way less mistakes than RM / BB ever did and retains their ability to break a game open. Kicking game as good as anyone else’s (better probably), good in the air and a really brave / good defender
Keen to see more of him and Ratima together and clearly he’d be dynamite behind a pack going forward
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@Chris-B said in All Blacks vs England 2:
@Nepia "Don't it always seem to go, that you don't know what you've got till it's gone."
Told you guys a couple of years ago that Richie the Mo was probably the best first five in the world - Danny Boy (and World Rugby) have come around to my view.
https://rugbylad.ie/dan-carter-all-blacks-debate/
Frizz was a lot more effective than you guys thought. We rarely lost when he played.
If Richie is the best 10 in the world I'd expect him to make some more vital kicks in the last RWC...
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@Nepia said in All Blacks vs England 2:
Also you know the old saying correlation does not equal causation, but good you got your ex- Ta$man boy's back.
Coaches kept picking him, though - and it wasn't really a great mystery, why.
@Chris-B said in All Blacks vs England 2:
@Nepia said in All Blacks vs England 2:
Also you know the old saying correlation does not equal causation, but good you got your ex- Ta$man boy's back.
Coaches kept picking him, though - and it wasn't really a great mystery, why.
There's lots of mystery why, like with every player selected/not selected who is a contentious pick.
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Any one who is lauding frizzle needs to go back and watch the final. Finau was Kaino like compared to that limpest of efforts, 1 tackle, 1 miss, a couple of runs. Fucking pathetic.
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@Chris-B said in All Blacks vs England 2:
@Nepia said in All Blacks vs England 2:
Also you know the old saying correlation does not equal causation, but good you got your ex- Ta$man boy's back.
Coaches kept picking him, though - and it wasn't really a great mystery, why.
There's lots of mystery why, like with every player selected/not selected who is a contentious pick.
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@Victor-Meldrew said in All Blacks vs England 2:
We were anything but calm in the first 60 minutes. It was an error-strewn performance up with the worst of the the Ireland series.
Our lineout was appalling, but other than that we were not "error strewn".
We didn't drop a lot of ball forward (including taking all the high kicks they put up). Our scrum was stable. We didn't give away heaps of penalties. We didn't miss heaps of tackles and they made almost no line breaks.
We took some wrong options, but no-one ever gets them all right. We didn't make many yards with the forwards, but that isn't an error.
Every test has errors because of the pressure they are under, but in the key areas of not dropping ball or dropping tackles we were much improved over the start of the last few years.
Some people on this forum seem to think that not only should the ABs be the best, that they should be perfect too.
@Chester-Draws said in All Blacks vs England 2:
Some people on this forum seem to think that not only should the ABs be the best, that they should be perfect too.
Well yeah ...
Realistically Aura was built on the back winning matches by this margin.
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@nostrildamus He's not the best goalkicker in the world. That's why Jordie took the last shot.
@Chris-B said in All Blacks vs England 2:
@nostrildamus He's not the best goalkicker in the world. That's why Jordie took the last shot.
What last shot at goal did Jordie take?
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Any one who is lauding frizzle needs to go back and watch the final. Finau was Kaino like compared to that limpest of efforts, 1 tackle, 1 miss, a couple of runs. Fucking pathetic.
@Machpants Shannon got dudded by a crap yellow card after two minutes - so he probably played pretty cautiously thereafter.
The Boks didn't score any tries so I'm not worried about his tackle stats. After all, what attacking they did was probably aimed around wher our openside flanker would have been standing.
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Don't make me go back and watch the last RWC! But I honestly don't remember Richie M having the greatest tournament, or being clearly the world best 10.
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Don't make me go back and watch the last RWC! But I honestly don't remember Richie M having the greatest tournament, or being clearly the world best 10.
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@Chris-B said in All Blacks vs England 2:
@nostrildamus He's not the best goalkicker in the world. That's why Jordie took the last shot.
What last shot at goal did Jordie take?
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@nostrildamus You don't need to
Just take Dan's advice or look at World Rugby's team of the year.
@Chris-B said in All Blacks vs England 2:
World Rugby's team of the year.
you mean DREAM team of the year. They probably were dreaming.
https://www.world.rugby/tournaments/awards/past-winners/2023
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@Machpants Shannon got dudded by a crap yellow card after two minutes - so he probably played pretty cautiously thereafter.
The Boks didn't score any tries so I'm not worried about his tackle stats. After all, what attacking they did was probably aimed around wher our openside flanker would have been standing.
@Chris-B said in All Blacks vs England 2:
@Machpants Shannon got dudded by a crap yellow card after two minutes - so he probably played pretty cautiously thereafter.
The Boks didn't score any tries so I'm not worried about his tackle stats. After all, what attacking they did was probably aimed around wher our openside flanker would have been standing.
Jeez that's really stretching it, boks didn't score so it's ok for a loose forward to have 1 successful tackle. Note cane and Ardie, 8 or 9. Barrett 10, Taylor 11.
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@Chris-B said in All Blacks vs England 2:
@Machpants Shannon got dudded by a crap yellow card after two minutes - so he probably played pretty cautiously thereafter.
The Boks didn't score any tries so I'm not worried about his tackle stats. After all, what attacking they did was probably aimed around wher our openside flanker would have been standing.
Jeez that's really stretching it, boks didn't score so it's ok for a loose forward to have 1 successful tackle. Note cane and Ardie, 8 or 9. Barrett 10, Taylor 11.
@Machpants said in All Blacks vs England 2:
@Chris-B said in All Blacks vs England 2:
@Machpants Shannon got dudded by a crap yellow card after two minutes - so he probably played pretty cautiously thereafter.
The Boks didn't score any tries so I'm not worried about his tackle stats. After all, what attacking they did was probably aimed around wher our openside flanker would have been standing.
Jeez that's really stretching it, boks didn't score so it's ok for a loose forward to have 1 successful tackle. Note cane and Ardie, 8 or 9. Barrett 10, Taylor 11.
yeh i am a bit confused, ok does he mean with Cane taken off, that means Shannon doesn't need to try to cover the empty gap where Cane would have been?
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@Chris-B said in All Blacks vs England 2:
@Machpants Shannon got dudded by a crap yellow card after two minutes - so he probably played pretty cautiously thereafter.
The Boks didn't score any tries so I'm not worried about his tackle stats. After all, what attacking they did was probably aimed around wher our openside flanker would have been standing.
Jeez that's really stretching it, boks didn't score so it's ok for a loose forward to have 1 successful tackle. Note cane and Ardie, 8 or 9. Barrett 10, Taylor 11.
@Machpants Or Big Brodie who made 6 in 71 minutes.
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@Machpants said in All Blacks vs England 2:
@Chris-B said in All Blacks vs England 2:
@Machpants Shannon got dudded by a crap yellow card after two minutes - so he probably played pretty cautiously thereafter.
The Boks didn't score any tries so I'm not worried about his tackle stats. After all, what attacking they did was probably aimed around wher our openside flanker would have been standing.
Jeez that's really stretching it, boks didn't score so it's ok for a loose forward to have 1 successful tackle. Note cane and Ardie, 8 or 9. Barrett 10, Taylor 11.
yeh i am a bit confused, ok does he mean with Cane taken off, that means Shannon doesn't need to try to cover the empty gap where Cane would have been?
@nostrildamus said in All Blacks vs England 2:
@Machpants said in All Blacks vs England 2:
@Chris-B said in All Blacks vs England 2:
@Machpants Shannon got dudded by a crap yellow card after two minutes - so he probably played pretty cautiously thereafter.
The Boks didn't score any tries so I'm not worried about his tackle stats. After all, what attacking they did was probably aimed around wher our openside flanker would have been standing.
Jeez that's really stretching it, boks didn't score so it's ok for a loose forward to have 1 successful tackle. Note cane and Ardie, 8 or 9. Barrett 10, Taylor 11.
yeh i am a bit confused, ok does he mean with Cane taken off, that means Shannon doesn't need to try to cover the empty gap where Cane would have been?
Exactly.
You play in the system. You tackle the guys who attack your part of the defensive line.
You don't run about like an idiot.
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@Machpants Shannon got dudded by a crap yellow card after two minutes - so he probably played pretty cautiously thereafter.
The Boks didn't score any tries so I'm not worried about his tackle stats. After all, what attacking they did was probably aimed around wher our openside flanker would have been standing.
@Chris-B said in All Blacks vs England 2:
@Machpants Shannon got dudded by a crap yellow card after two minutes - so he probably played pretty cautiously thereafter.
The Boks didn't score any tries so I'm not worried about his tackle stats. After all, what attacking they did was probably aimed around wher our openside flanker would have been standing.
I'm not sure if you are on the wind up but is there a reason you keep talking about players that aren't currently eligible for the ABs and didn't even play Super this year in a match thread?
