All Blacks 2024
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This team is just absolutely fucked mentally.
It's not so much this player, or that player but as a team they crumble under pressure and are unable to maintain consistency throughout the game.
They play like they don't want to lose, rather than that they want to win, there's some odd saying like "the dirve to win must overcome the fear of loosing" and this team is abjectily petrified of loosing to the point they freeze totally in the last 20 minutes NO MATTER WHO THEY PLAY.
The AB's used to be about excellence, about trying to play the perfect game and chasing perfection in each moment of the game.
This bunch of clowns is chasing their own shadows.
@Windows97 said in All Blacks vs Wallabies I:
It's not so much this player, or that player but as a team they crumble under pressure and are unable to maintain consistency throughout the game.
it's astonishing the difference between this mental toughness and that of the Crusaders, particularly under Robertson. Their whole hallmark was mental toughness and playing championship minutes. We are not seeing that with this AB side at all.
Maybe this is Clive without Martin; Razor without Sam?
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@Snowy said in All Blacks 2024:
@Chris said in All Blacks 2024:
@frugby said in All Blacks 2024:
@brodean said in All Blacks 2024:
Lomax and De Groot have the lowest metres per carry out of all props who have played meaningful minutes in the RC. Newell is pretty hopeless in this facet too.
They're great scrummagers and decent cleaners but they're hopeless with ball in hand. Early on in his career it seemed like this was a strong facet of Lomax but it ain't any more.
Of the starting tight five there isn't a single strong close in runner that can get the tight forwards going up the middle. Taylor makes most of his metres wider.
Metres per carry:
5.5 Tosi
3.6 Taylor
1.9 Darry
1.7 Tuipulotu
1.6 Tu'ungafasi
1.5 Vaa'i
1.3 Williams
1 Barrett
1 Aumua
0.7 Newell
0.5 De Groot
0.4 LomaxUnsurprisingly the 3 Blues tight forwards are strong in this facet but they are clearly out of favour.
There's a lack of variety in our game which makes us predictable. We went more up the middle against the Puma's at Eden Park and that was probably our best game of the year.
If you think the All Blacks problems lie in the tight five, I can't help you.
Think there is probably something also to be said for the fact that de Groot and Lomax's minutes come in the first half, where in theory the game is less open... and these stats are incredibly volatile, because one 15m run where a player gets put in a hole could affect this by up to a metre.
The tight 5 is the least of our worries, some of the props coming of the bench may also not have had any or very little carries due to what has been happening in the last 20 minutes.
That’s the twenty where we kick away the ball, drop it, or get a player or 2 sent off right?
yep
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@george33 said in All Blacks 2024:
@Chris is Chay Finaki joining ABs ? That's the noise
I have not heard that mate.
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@george33 said in All Blacks 2024:
@Chris is Chay Finaki joining ABs ? That's the noise
Well played sir you're right again. You cop a lot of flak on here, but at least you share what you hear.
Gee I wonder why Fihaki got called up......
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@george33 said in All Blacks vs Wallabies 2:
Rumour is Chay Fihaki is called in
Good. The squad was missing a Crusader or two.
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@george33 said in All Blacks vs Wallabies 2:
Rumour is Chay Fihaki is called in
Good. The squad was missing a Crusader or two.
@antipodean as the results say.
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@george33 said in All Blacks 2024:
@george33 so he has joined the squad confirmed
Good from you George
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@1kiwi said in All Blacks 2024:
What does Fihaki's call up mean for someone like Stevenson?
That you have to make an effort on both sides of the ball?
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@1kiwi said in All Blacks 2024:
What does Fihaki's call up mean for someone like Stevenson?
because he's got similar dimensions to Jordie (102kg over 192cm) and plays 12 unlike Stevenson?
