All Blacks v France Test #2

kev

@no-quarter Akira hasn’t been selected because for all his talent he still wants to play like the game like he is 5 years old. Picking up the ball and running around the whole team to score a try. Not sure his approach would have helped today.

canefan

@donsteppa said in All Blacks v France Test #2:

Worst All Blacks performance in years. Worst captain’s performance too - a nothing.

How is Kieran Read going? If we lose him long-term we are poked

kiwiinmelb

That was horrible , thank fuck it’s over

African Monkey

@tim e must have a fantastic workrate though.....

Dice

TJP needs a break next week. TTT time.

Mokey

@donsteppa Have to say, I've seen nothing from Sam Whitelock last week or this to say yeah that guy is AB captain material. Especially this week. No leadership whatsoever.

Glad the French scored a try. And glad the crowd gave them a hearty cheer. Fucking awful AB performance.

Donsteppa

How fucking useless was Whitelock and his mates in trying to get back and defend against that try. Lazy useless fucks.

canefan

At least the French fans can go and watch their boys pump the Aussies. At Russia 2018

Virgil

Should have $100 deducted from their match fee for every turnover and penalty conceded tonight.
Fuck that was awful

hydro11

@donsteppa said in All Blacks v France Test #2:

How fucking useless was Whitelock and his mates in trying to get back and defend against that try. Lazy useless fucks.

Whitelock better have been injured with that effort.

canefan

@donsteppa said in All Blacks v France Test #2:

How fucking useless was Whitelock and his mates in trying to get back and defend against that try. Lazy useless fucks.

Double trainings this week boys!

Gunner

In better news, my club team won their top of the table clash 43-18 today and cemented #1 spot with a game in hand.

I’ll go to bed a happy man despite these fuckers efforts to ruin that.

KiwiMurph

@kev said in All Blacks v France Test #2:

@no-quarter Akira hasn’t been selected because for all his talent he still wants to play like the game like he is 5 years old. Picking up the ball and running around the whole team to score a try. Not sure his approach would have helped today.

Here is an idea. How about the coaches get him up to speed. Isnt that their job?

World class talent - nah lets pick some journeymen players instead. Performances like tonight is what you end up with.

Really not surprised by that performance when you look at the players out on the field. A lot of average out there.

taniwharugby

so why do they call the attempted tries by the French disallowed tries, when they werent legitimate tries?

Smithy saying that the disallowed tries so much more important....riiiight.

Tim

Don't worry guys, Shannon Frizell is available for next week.

Luke Whitelock
Ardie Savea
Fiftia
Liam Squire

All awful.

Gunner

@tim said in All Blacks v France Test #2:

Don't worry guys, Shannon Frizell is available for next week.

Luke Whitelock
Ardie Savea
Fiftia
Liam Squire

All awful.

What are you talking about? None of them were playing tonight were they?

MN5

@tim said in All Blacks v France Test #2:

Don't worry guys, Shannon Frizell is available for next week.

Luke Whitelock
Ardie Savea
Fiftia
Liam Squire

All awful.

Poor old Fifita doesn't even get a first name mention

kev

@tim you are missing Sam Cane. He wasn’t great tonight either.

hydro11

The difference between scoring 26 and scoring 50 was just a bit of patience. It seemed like our idea when they lost a man was to play the game as quickly as possible. We did lots of quick taps, most of which came to nothing. All tries were generally scored off of good attacking moves where we found line breaks.

However, we didn't have to score like that. All we had to do was keep the ball and exploit the space. Instead we tried to score off of every phase we had the ball. This meant our players got isolated and we knocked it on. France were able to dominate possession which is what you want when you are down a man. It is easier to attack down a man than defend. My message at halftime would have been to actually play the game at a slower pace.

canefan

@gunner said in All Blacks v France Test #2:

@tim said in All Blacks v France Test #2:

Don't worry guys, Shannon Frizell is available for next week.

Luke Whitelock
Ardie Savea
Fiftia
Liam Squire

All awful.

What are you talking about? None of them were playing tonight were they?

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All Blacks v France Test #2