Australia v All Blacks - Bled I

[MN5]

@voodoo said in Australia v All Blacks - Bled I:

This was the 2002 Wallaby team that last won the bledisloe

Latham
Tune
Burke
Herbert
Mortlock
Larkham
Gregan
Kefu
Smith
Finegan
Harrison
Sharpe
Noriega
Paul
Young

What a team, that backline!!!

For reference, this was us - 13 bloody cantabs, damn you @ACT-Crusader

Christian Cullen (Wellington), Doug Howlett (Auckland), Mark Robinson (Canterbury), Aaron Mauger (Canterbury, vice captain), Caleb Ralph (Canterbury), Andrew Mehrtens (Canterbury), Justin Marshall (Canterbury), Scott Robertson (Canterbury), Richard McCaw (Canterbury), Reuben Thorne (Canterbury, captain), Norm Maxwell (Canterbury), Chris Jack (Canterbury), Greg Somerville (Canterbury), Mark Hammett (Canterbury, vice captain), Dave Hewett (Canterbury).

There was once a team with 14 cantabs and Jonah if memory serves me correctly……and he played on the right wing to accomodate Caleb Ralph !

[voodoo]

@MN5 that’s disgusting

[Machpants]

No wonder we couldn't get the Bled

[mariner4life]

@voodoo lol that just fucking screams vanilla doesn't it? Look at the midfield. The forwards. Just safe workers everywhere.

[Nepia]

@Machpants said in Australia v All Blacks - Bled I:

No wonder we couldn't get the Bled

Yep, thankfully the dome headed piston wristed gibbon copied Henry's Blues gameplan the next year and increased the non Cantab quota above two.

[canefan]

@mariner4life said in Australia v All Blacks - Bled I:

@voodoo lol that just fucking screams vanilla doesn't it? Look at the midfield. The forwards. Just safe workers everywhere.

Goes to show the Crusaders couldn't be a tier 1 test side. Not that test side anyway

[Crazy Horse]

@canefan said in Australia v All Blacks - Bled I:

@mariner4life said in Australia v All Blacks - Bled I:

@voodoo lol that just fucking screams vanilla doesn't it? Look at the midfield. The forwards. Just safe workers everywhere.

Goes to show the Crusaders couldn't be a tier 1 test side. Not that test side anyway

More like the Crusaders couldn't beat one of the best Wallaby teams of all time.

[mariner4life]

@canefan said in Australia v All Blacks - Bled I:

@mariner4life said in Australia v All Blacks - Bled I:

@voodoo lol that just fucking screams vanilla doesn't it? Look at the midfield. The forwards. Just safe workers everywhere.

Goes to show the Crusaders couldn't be a tier 1 test side. Not that test side anyway

They're all excellent rugby players but the team is too same same across the board

[MN5]

@Nepia said in Australia v All Blacks - Bled I:

@Machpants said in Australia v All Blacks - Bled I:

No wonder we couldn't get the Bled

Yep, thankfully the dome headed piston wristed gibbon copied Henry's Blues gameplan the next year and increased the non Cantab quota above two.

At the expense of Christian Cullen and others.

piston wristed gibbon

[Chris B.]

@canefan said in Australia v All Blacks - Bled I:

@mariner4life said in Australia v All Blacks - Bled I:

@voodoo lol that just fucking screams vanilla doesn't it? Look at the midfield. The forwards. Just safe workers everywhere.

Goes to show the Crusaders couldn't be a tier 1 test side. Not that test side anyway

Yes they could. They just couldn't quite beat them twice.

http://stats.allblacks.com/asp/teamsheet.asp?MT_ID=2081

[KiwiMurph]

Cripes the AB side in that era was weak - it was like having multiple equivalents of George Bridge in their position scattered throughout the team.

[canefan]

I remember sitting at an AB test, some silly women was trying to say Caleb Ralph was soooo much better than Jonah. Unknowingly the guy was playing test rugby on fucked kidneys and he was still better than that guy. He typified the cantablacks of the era for me. I just don't know how some of those guys got black jerseys, it was lazy selection

[MN5]

@canefan said in Australia v All Blacks - Bled I:

I remember sitting at an AB test, some silly women was trying to say Caleb Ralph was soooo much better than Jonah. Unknowingly the guy was playing test rugby on fucked kidneys and he was still better than that guy. He typified the cantablacks of the era for me. I just don't know how some of those guys got black jerseys, it was lazy selection

I’m disappointed Sam Broomhall missed selection for this match

A much safer option than future All Black coach Scott Robertson who was probably a bit dynamic at number 8 for this team.

[canefan]

@MN5 said in Australia v All Blacks - Bled I:

@canefan said in Australia v All Blacks - Bled I:

I remember sitting at an AB test, some silly women was trying to say Caleb Ralph was soooo much better than Jonah. Unknowingly the guy was playing test rugby on fucked kidneys and he was still better than that guy. He typified the cantablacks of the era for me. I just don't know how some of those guys got black jerseys, it was lazy selection

I’m disappointed Sam Broomhall missed selection for this match

A much safer option than future All Black coach Scott Robertson who was probably a bit dynamic at number 8 for this team.

Current NZR CEO and 13 for that match tried his hardest to correct that mistake for many years when it came to picking an AB coach...

[antipodean]

@canefan said in Australia v All Blacks - Bled I:

I remember sitting at an AB test, some silly women was trying to say Caleb Ralph was soooo much better than Jonah. Unknowingly the guy was playing test rugby on fucked kidneys and he was still better than that guy. He typified the cantablacks of the era for me. I just don't know how some of those guys got black jerseys, it was lazy selection

Epitomised by the speeding tortoise getting a cap as a winger. Ridiculous.

[canefan]

@antipodean said in Australia v All Blacks - Bled I:

@canefan said in Australia v All Blacks - Bled I:

I remember sitting at an AB test, some silly women was trying to say Caleb Ralph was soooo much better than Jonah. Unknowingly the guy was playing test rugby on fucked kidneys and he was still better than that guy. He typified the cantablacks of the era for me. I just don't know how some of those guys got black jerseys, it was lazy selection

Epitomised by the speeding tortoise getting a cap as a winger. Ridiculous.

It was similar to the ABs in the great Auckland era, they had a few guys get black jerseys and I'm not sure there wasn't someone better than them who missed out. Mark Carter springs to mind

[ACT Crusader]

@voodoo said in Australia v All Blacks - Bled I:

Christian Cullen (Wellington), Doug Howlett (Auckland), Mark Robinson (Canterbury), Aaron Mauger (Canterbury, vice captain), Caleb Ralph (Canterbury), Andrew Mehrtens (Canterbury), Justin Marshall (Canterbury), Scott Robertson (Canterbury), Richard McCaw (Canterbury), Reuben Thorne (Canterbury, captain), Norm Maxwell (Canterbury), Chris Jack (Canterbury), Greg Somerville (Canterbury), Mark Hammett (Canterbury, vice captain), Dave Hewett (Canterbury).

A couple of hacks ruining the party.

I wouldn’t pick one Wellington or Auckland player in my….

[MajorPom]

@ACT-Crusader said in Australia v All Blacks - Bled I:

@voodoo said in Australia v All Blacks - Bled I:

Christian Cullen (Wellington), Doug Howlett (Auckland), Mark Robinson (Canterbury), Aaron Mauger (Canterbury, vice captain), Caleb Ralph (Canterbury), Andrew Mehrtens (Canterbury), Justin Marshall (Canterbury), Scott Robertson (Canterbury), Richard McCaw (Canterbury), Reuben Thorne (Canterbury, captain), Norm Maxwell (Canterbury), Chris Jack (Canterbury), Greg Somerville (Canterbury), Mark Hammett (Canterbury, vice captain), Dave Hewett (Canterbury).

A couple of hacks ruining the party.

I wouldn’t pick one Wellington or Auckland player in my….

Canterbury team …..

[Duluth]

https://www.rugbypass.com/news/eddie-jones-defends-coopers-form-while-hooper-is-a-long-shot-for-bledisloe-i/

[KiwiMurph]

Sounds like they are hoping for a crowd of 80k.

Collingwood vs Carlton the night before will likely pull a bigger crowd.