All Blacks vs Pumas II

Bones

@bones said in All Blacks vs Pumas II:

Hell of an effort from Vaa'i to go 80, but the only time I've "seen" him is when he's dotting down. Struggling with if that's a good thing or not.

He's not much of a presence eh.

8 tackles made, none missed

Third highest run getter of the forwards (39) off 9 runs, with 7 passes as well, and 2 defenders beaten (1 clean break).

He’s been doing pretty well I thought (without being a BBBR or Whitelock).

Chur! Good thing then.

Machpants

Bladder missed 5 tackles, against a pretty lame Argentina, despite the sky team bigging him up, he's not a keeper at this level

Tim

@gt12 Yeah, I thought he was good tonight.

Kruse

@sparky said in All Blacks vs Pumas II:

Number One in the World!!!!!

Only if World Rugby ranking system counts this as having Home Advantage for Argentina.
I don't think they will... I think the Aussie commentators, surprisingly, are full of shit.

Machpants

@kruse said in All Blacks vs Pumas II:

@sparky said in All Blacks vs Pumas II:

Number One in the World!!!!!

Only if World Rugby ranking system counts this as having Home Advantage for Argentina.
I don't think they will... I think the Aussie commentators, surprisingly, are full of shit.

Yeah, nah

1 South Africa 90.95 (-1.54)
2 New Zealand 90.70 (+0.38)
3 (↑5) Australia 85.65 (+1.54)
4 (↓3) England 85.44
5 (↓4) Ireland 84.85

Kirwan

@machpants said in All Blacks vs Pumas II:

Bladder missed 5 tackles, against a pretty lame Argentina, despite the sky team bigging him up, he's not a keeper at this level

Yeah that is really poor. Ended on four penalties too.

Anonymous

@sparky said in All Blacks vs Pumas II:

Number One in the World!!!!!

WTF was that music from SKY while TJ was just saying that

sparky

@machpants said in All Blacks vs Pumas II:

@kruse said in All Blacks vs Pumas II:

@sparky said in All Blacks vs Pumas II:

Number One in the World!!!!!

Only if World Rugby ranking system counts this as having Home Advantage for Argentina.
I don't think they will... I think the Aussie commentators, surprisingly, are full of shit.

Yeah, nah

1 South Africa 90.95 (-1.54)
2 New Zealand 90.70 (+0.38)
3 (↑5) Australia 85.65 (+1.54)
4 (↓3) England 85.44
5 (↓4) Ireland 84.85

Roll on the 100th game against the Old Foe then.

Kruse

@machpants said in All Blacks vs Pumas II:

@kruse said in All Blacks vs Pumas II:

@sparky said in All Blacks vs Pumas II:

Number One in the World!!!!!

Only if World Rugby ranking system counts this as having Home Advantage for Argentina.
I don't think they will... I think the Aussie commentators, surprisingly, are full of shit.

Yeah, nah

1 South Africa 90.95 (-1.54)
2 New Zealand 90.70 (+0.38)
3 (↑5) Australia 85.65 (+1.54)
4 (↓3) England 85.44
5 (↓4) Ireland 84.85

Yeah - exactly. If this was counted as Argies having Home-Advantage - NZ would have had (+0.83) - taking us to #1.

Edit - and I think everybody is, or should be, happier with counting this as a "No Home Advantage" game.
The taking of #1 should rightly come down to next weeks game.

gt12

@tim said in All Blacks vs Pumas II:

@gt12 Yeah, I thought he was good tonight.

I’m not sure he’s an international lock (he looks a lock/6 to me or a Barrett replacement) but he probably outplayed Tuips over the game (Patty started well but went a bit missing).

Btw, they’ve updated the stats and apparently Vaa’ii had 10 made, none missed.

antipodean

Samisoni goes from strength to strength. Good to see Sotutu back and his skill. Jordie surely cements his status as best fullback. DMac played a very good understated role. With more time and confidence he'll be a decent third option. Rieko just looks amazing at centre, getting the ball more often and his pace makes a big difference on attack.

Nepia

Let's not completely throw the baby out with the bathwater with Blackadder. If he can improve his accuracy he'll be a useful squad option going forward.

sparky

@machpants said in All Blacks vs Pumas II:

@kruse said in All Blacks vs Pumas II:

@sparky said in All Blacks vs Pumas II:

Number One in the World!!!!!

Only if World Rugby ranking system counts this as having Home Advantage for Argentina.
I don't think they will... I think the Aussie commentators, surprisingly, are full of shit.

Yeah, nah

1 South Africa 90.95 (-1.54)
2 New Zealand 90.70 (+0.38)
3 (↑5) Australia 85.65 (+1.54)

Wrong order but a familiar looking top 3. That metallic sound is Stephen Jones' angry jaw-dropping.

Machpants

@nepia said in All Blacks vs Pumas II:

Let's not completely throw the baby out with the bathwater with Blackadder. If he can improve his accuracy he'll be a useful squad option going forward.

Sure, but I'd prefer big red

ACT Crusader

@kirwan said in All Blacks vs Pumas II:

Argies are good at spoiling not much else.

I can see that spoiling approach frustrating the Aussies. Their defensive system is pretty sound. We looked good when we got our offload game going. That will be key for the Aussies.

Kirwan

@nepia said in All Blacks vs Pumas II:

Let's not completely throw the baby out with the bathwater with Blackadder. If he can improve his accuracy he'll be a useful squad option going forward.

He might go better at seven, but at 6 he’s behind Akira and Jacobson by a long way.

At Seven, a few there too.

Would have ahead of Frizzell obviously.

Nepia

@machpants said in All Blacks vs Pumas II:

@nepia said in All Blacks vs Pumas II:

Let's not completely throw the baby out with the bathwater with Blackadder. If he can improve his accuracy he'll be a useful squad option going forward.

Sure, but I'd prefer big red

I'd like to see big red given a shot too, until tonight I thought he'd likely take Hoskins spot.

Nepia

@kirwan said in All Blacks vs Pumas II:

@nepia said in All Blacks vs Pumas II:

Let's not completely throw the baby out with the bathwater with Blackadder. If he can improve his accuracy he'll be a useful squad option going forward.

He might go better at seven, but at 6 he’s behind Akira and Jacobson by a long way.

At Seven, a few there too.

Would have ahead of Frizzell obviously.

That's why I said squad option.

Machpants

@act-crusader said in All Blacks vs Pumas II:

@kirwan said in All Blacks vs Pumas II:

Argies are good at spoiling not much else.

I can see that spoiling approach frustrating the Aussies. Their defensive system is pretty sound. We looked good when we got our offload game going. That will be key for the Aussies.

Dunno, Argentina are SA lite. Ozzie should smash them

Bones

@kirwan said in All Blacks vs Pumas II:

Would have ahead of Frizzell obviously.

Yeah can't see Frizzel doing much different than Blackadder, so give Blackadder the same chances.

The Silver Fern

All Blacks vs Pumas II