All Blacks v Springboks

Victor Meldrew

@akan004 said in All Blacks v Springboks:

The neutrals are going to be partying big time now.

Keep a count of "All Black Aura" articles in the next week....

booboo

Could be the night Barrett's lacklustre goalkicking gets shown up if it stays tight. I pretty much expect us to pull away later on though.

Well ...

Stargazer

@tordah said in All Blacks v Springboks:

@anonymous said in All Blacks v Springboks:

The only positive from Crotty was that he didn't go off injured

Judging on tonight's game I would count that as a negative
ALB & Goodhue worked a lot better

Crotty & Goodhue work a lot better, too.

mariner4life

Beaudem Barrett fucking sucks

And so do his deadshit brothers

Mokey

Seriously disappointed with Barretts B and J tonight. BB's kicking was fucking awful, even worse considering he was on his home ground, and several of those kicks were an international goalkicker's bread and butter. JB was a bit woeful at the back, and that shockingly bad quick throw in should give him nightmares for a week.

The Boks played well, but fuck man, we gifted them points. And flushed away our own.

Stargazer

@mariner4life said in All Blacks v Springboks:

Beaudem Barrett fucking sucks

And so do his deadshit brothers

Dammit, Scott played well.

booboo

@akan004 said in All Blacks v Springboks:

We really can't afford to let them score first after half time.

Mmm

Derm McCrum

@akan004 said in All Blacks v Springboks:

@derm-mccrum said in All Blacks v Springboks:

@akan004 said in All Blacks v Springboks:

@mimic we should have won this easily, as good as they were...

Eh no.

Eh yes

You’re dreaming if you think that NZ should have won the game easily.

African Monkey

@rocky-rockbottom It happens. Yeah Barrett's goalkicking and not attempting a droppie was awful and you'll get the usual people screaming Mo'unga's name for the next while, but I think everyone needs to calm down a bit. It's not the end of the world and we can take plenty of learnings from this test and not be so complacent next time. We don't take losing well that's for sure. Well done SA great to see them give it to us it'll be a great test in Pretoria.

Rapido

Last year with the Poite/Garces deal I was so disappointed to not find out how Beauden would go kicking a clutch goal on an off night.

I'm as disappointed here, with them not setting for a drop goal. We need to find this stuff out.

If we go all the way to a final, history shows DGs win you 1 or a couple of those knockout games.

Whatever are we prepping for? The EOYT Barbarians fixture?

One dimensional kids.

antipodean

Why are people saying "if we'd started Mo'unga"? Did they not watch his first test start?

Anonymous

@tordah said in All Blacks v Springboks:

@anonymous said in All Blacks v Springboks:

The only positive from Crotty was that he didn't go off injured

Judging on tonight's game I would count that as a negative
ALB & Goodhue worked a lot better

Yeah, but from his perspective it's a significant improvement not going off in the first 10 minutes :smiling_face_with_open_mouth_cold_sweat:

shark

@tordah said in All Blacks v Springboks:

@shark said in All Blacks v Springboks:

Yeah absolutely re Goodhue. He adds the punch that ALB just can't from centre (I think ALB is a 12 all day). Crotty was ok. ALB was persona non grata.

I think ALB was better than Crotty (who offered nothing IMO), just overshadowed his decent game with that silly and unnecessary intercept to that dwarf

That was the only ALB carry I can remember. Did he do ANYTHING else!!!???

akan004

@derm-mccrum said in All Blacks v Springboks:

@akan004 said in All Blacks v Springboks:

@derm-mccrum said in All Blacks v Springboks:

@akan004 said in All Blacks v Springboks:

@mimic we should have won this easily, as good as they were...

Eh no.

Eh yes

You’re dreaming if you think that NZ should have won the game easily.

Two intercepts and so many missed conversions. Not dreaming at all.

jegga

Just checking ,has anyone who isn’t a crusaders fan said Mounga would have won us the game ?

chimoaus

Congrats to the Boks, not many teams score that many points vs the ABs. Whilst we gifted them tries they still had players in positions to take advantage. ABs could have easily won but Boks D at death was up to the challenge.

I don’t mind this loss, I think this loss will help the coaches more than if we had won 57-0. I think it shows just how good Goodhue is and shows J Barret May not be good enough to push B Smith to the wing.

I look forward to the return match.

Rebound

@derm-mccrum how they dominates the game should've easily won by way more than 10 points. The Boks should've have more yellows for persistent infringing. If it was the ABs getting away with so many conspiracies would've been abound about refs helping them

Rebound

The All Blacks were clearly not there mentally. Pretty much like Chicago. Clearly Hansen is playing games with everyone

mimic

@antipodean said in All Blacks v Springboks:

Why are people saying "if we'd started Mo'unga"? Did they not watch his first test start?

Yeah.. He kicked 7/8

Donsteppa

@antipodean said in All Blacks v Springboks:

Why are people saying "if we'd started Mo'unga"? Did they not watch his first test start?

I watched him kick the ball between the posts.

The Silver Fern

All Blacks v Springboks