France v All Blacks
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Rather meh performance. Hate those stupid little farking kicks.
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didn't quite agree with the tactics of constantly trying to kick it behind the defence, some of the cross kicks were fine, but the little chips in midfield, nah, no fan.
Also, both halfbacks were hassled too much, needed more protection from the forwards. Not a great game by the loose trio (except Todd) IMO -
Aaron Smith, who is in horrible form, needs to stop appealing for fucking penalties all the fucking time, and play the ball.
Shithouse captaincy from Read not to take the kick.
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Great game, probably my favourite test of the year. Well played France, on another day that result could have gone the other way.
@mariner4life said in France:
Great game, probably my favourite test of the year. Well played France, on another day that result could have gone the other way.
Yeah, but for a Goldenballs length of the field intercept...
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ABs seemed to have run out of puff this EOYT. That and and the incredibly infectious stupid penalties disease.
ABs seemed to have run out of puff this EOYT. That and and the incredibly infectious stupid penalties disease.
Yes, but it has been happening for a few years now. Increase the quantity, reduce the quality I'm afraid.
We got the W, that's it, season over. I think that's all the players really cared about. Get the w and fark off
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I can see why you don't kick the penalty when you've got them on the rack, but that wasn't one of those times. An easy kick, fuck points all in it, not long to go, all your reserves on and last match of a very long season. Not kicking it was stupid.
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Ball protection again very poor. Seems to be something which crops up from time to time -- we increasingly don't commit numbers and are quite challenged by sides which do. Don't think Crotty-ALB the answer. Very skillful, but lacking penetration. Anyone hear what injury caused BBBR to depart?
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As wrong this is going to sound, if that BB try went to scrutiny, he probably was offside.
Gotta feel for the frogs there, but can't fault anyone but them selves, with all those chances still 0 trys on the board. Very enyoable game so far tho
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I really respect Kaino, but I think they need to find a long-term replacement asap. He looks like he's falling apart. I'd rather see guys like him retire before they break down completely. And they need to try more guys than Dixon and Squire.
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Thought Barnes was fine myself one of his better tests.
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I really respect Kaino, but I think they need to find a long-term replacement asap. He looks like he's falling apart. I'd rather see guys like him retire before they break down completely. And they need to try more guys than Dixon and Squire.
@Stargazer said in France:
I really respect Kaino, but I think they need to find a long-term replacement asap. He looks like he's falling apart. I'd rather see guys like him retire before they break down completely. And they need to try more guys than Dixon and Squire.
Kaino has had a pretty good season, better than Read's through the SH tests, he hasn't had a great EOYT though but we don't know if that was due to his injury or if he hit a wall.
We'll find out next Super season I guess.
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I'm glad the season is over so I don't have to read some of your whinging any more. And yes I'm whinging about your whinging....
Up by 8 and not going for the kick - who cares. France didn't look likely in that last 15.
Too many penalties - did it really matter? No. France were turning their ball over anyway.
Too many chip kicks - watch what France were doing defensively and it was an excellent tactic. Just didn't execute it on every occasion.
I didn't mind the test. It was a decent contest. The ABs were put under pressure and some of our defence was superb. But equally some of the attack from France was good.
Well done ABs on a very successful season.
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Just watched that dominated scrum again. Fingers all pointed at Charlie, but crockett got fucked, bent at the engage, turned in and stood up under pressure, the rest disintegrated from there. Bad all round
Good point in the post match, people will say we didn't play well, but we actually had to play well to win that, just wasn't our silky attack that was highlighted, buth the good building blocks
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I can see why you don't kick the penalty when you've got them on the rack, but that wasn't one of those times. An easy kick, fuck points all in it, not long to go, all your reserves on and last match of a very long season. Not kicking it was stupid.
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@Stargazer said in France:
I really respect Kaino, but I think they need to find a long-term replacement asap. He looks like he's falling apart. I'd rather see guys like him retire before they break down completely. And they need to try more guys than Dixon and Squire.
Kaino has had a pretty good season, better than Read's through the SH tests, he hasn't had a great EOYT though but we don't know if that was due to his injury or if he hit a wall.
We'll find out next Super season I guess.
@Stargazer said in France:
I really respect Kaino, but I think they need to find a long-term replacement asap. He looks like he's falling apart. I'd rather see guys like him retire before they break down completely. And they need to try more guys than Dixon and Squire.
Kaino has had a pretty good season, better than Read's through the SH tests, he hasn't had a great EOYT though but we don't know if that was due to his injury or if he hit a wall.
We'll find out next Super season I guess.
I was just going to say that I also don't completely agree with the criticism of Read. He's been playing with an injury that requires surgery. We just don't know how much that's affecting his game. We won't see him in the first part of the SR season ..
