RWC QF: All Blacks v Ireland
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@nzzp said in RWC QF: All Blacks v Ireland:
@Victor-Meldrew said in RWC QF: All Blacks v Ireland:
@nzzp said in RWC QF: All Blacks v Ireland:
@ACT-Crusader said in RWC QF: All Blacks v Ireland:
@Bones said in RWC QF: All Blacks v Ireland:
@ACT-Crusader the communication, confidence, trust and tenacity shown there has become very rare in the past 6 years. Amazing to watch that and see them just all lined up every time, getting off the ground and not panicking.
I might be getting sentimental in my old age, but that whole sequence made me feel pretty proud as an AB fan.
I didn't believe the ABs had it in them to play that well for that long. At the end of the game I literally laughed out loud - it was a ridiculous win
One of the great AB wins of my lifetime. Experienced some great AB wins, but that was just raw, undiluted courage and focus, up there with '96 in Sth Africa
RWC and then our performanes this year have made Foster look a lot better. This doens't please me, but it's fair.
Probably his peak performance as coach and as good as any win by a AB coach. He was clearly rated by the players and boy, were they up for that game.
Hoping for a statement game this weekend, but not expecting it.
In many ways, I'd prefer steady improvement rather than a crap game followed by a "statement".
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Keenan is better than Barrett at 15
Lowe would have walked in
Aki v jordie is a toss up
JGP would walk in to the ABs now, but he wouldn't thrn because A Smith
JvdF and Doris would have started for us. Both guns.Their locks were good but so were ours.
That was a great team.
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@mariner4life yeah I'd love to see prime JGP combination with DMac. Both with brilliant vision and ability to work the inside defence.
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@mariner4life said in RWC QF: All Blacks v Ireland:
Keenan is better than Barrett at 15
Lowe would have walked in
Aki v jordie is a toss up
JGP would walk in to the ABs now, but he wouldn't thrn because A Smith
JvdF and Doris would have started for us. Both guns.Their locks were good but so were ours.
That was a great team.
Foster had a whole spine of U20 winning players (2009, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2015, 2017) and the last of a golden generation that started with Rennie's juniors winning the U20s in 2008.
Ireland had a good team with mostly solid players (a few U20 runner's up from 2016), personally I never thought of that QF result as an upset, rather that NZ's players performed to their real potential after Schmidt took over strategy from Fozzie.
Remember Schmiddy was in charge for test 1 at home in 2022 where we beat Ireland 42-16, this isn't some coincidence.
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@darylmitchell said in RWC QF: All Blacks v Ireland:
@mariner4life said in RWC QF: All Blacks v Ireland:
@darylmitchell you are just horrible at evaluating players
just looking at their QF 23 on Wikipedia, only a few players I would consider for ABs, Rónan Kelleher, Caelan Doris, Dan Sheehan, Tadhg Furlong (2018-2022 form), Andrew Porter, Joe McCarthy, everyone else is quite overrated on here, and most are currently 32 or over.
I think I'm second to this, but I think we are just a quick whip-around from us getting (edit: politely requesting) the mods to rename you Fitzy.
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@mariner4life said in RWC QF: All Blacks v Ireland:
Keenan is better than Barrett at 15
Lowe would have walked in
Aki v jordie is a toss up
JGP would walk in to the ABs now, but he wouldn't thrn because A Smith
JvdF and Doris would have started for us. Both guns.Their locks were good but so were ours.
That was a great team.
If we had turned from Nonu to Aki...
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@mariner4life said in RWC QF: All Blacks v Ireland:
Lowe would have walked in
Walked in over 2023 RWC Telea and Will Jordan?
DisagreeEDIT - forgot about Telea having the curfew issue.
I would put Lowe in the toss up category
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Fair. I just love his energy, accuracy and kicking game.
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@mariner4life said in RWC QF: All Blacks v Ireland:
Fair. I just love his energy, accuracy and kicking game.
He left at about the same time, maybe a bit before the AB selectors fell in love with George Bridge (I believe @dogmeat has specific experience of hearing one of the selectors on this)
I know there are age differences between the two, but Lowe's left boot, established super experience, and energy would have made him an interesting squaddie in 2017 when we were still trying to roll out Savea and Naholo (who weren't going to make the WC) and banking on Ioane (who was injured when it mattered in 2019).
I know who I'd have preferred on the left wing that day in 2019 against England, anyway.
Edit: And BTW, fuck James Lowe. And Aki. Leaving is fine, but turning out for another country is not cool - no free beers from @gt12 if we run in to each other in a pub somewhere.
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@Bones said in RWC QF: All Blacks v Ireland:
@gt12 the thing which gets me is these fluffybunnies pretending they're Irish now.
Fuck em, they are as far as I'm concerned.
Which means, they wear this shit too.
I loved them for the Chiefs, but I loved beating them in 2023.
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@mariner4life said in RWC QF: All Blacks v Ireland:
Aki v jordie is a toss up
No it isn’t.
Put a genuine truck it up the guts/“no one comes down our channels eh pretty boy” 2nd 5 outside any of your flyhalves and you become a seriously scary team.
Make it Aki or Esterhuizen or that Scottish bloke who’ve also got good hands and you’re Freddie Krueger as your proctologist terrifying.
Jordie should be on the bench. He covers basically the whole backline at a high standard so you can go 6-2, which instantly improves your forward pack.
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I not sure where the supposed 'hate' thing comes about. I can honestly say hand on heart there is no rugby nation I hate or even strongly dislike. F*** it anyone who plays the game is tops to me. The odd joker will annoy me for a while, but not too much, and more for doing shit or dumb things on field, not winding up someone.
Hell we have mentioned the Gregan thing, and Gregan laughs, it was aimed at Kelleher only, and have heard Justin Marshall say he loved it, as he found it hard to like Kelleher.
And who can ever forget Carlos crossing tryline , running over to the corner to score a try (at Lancaster Park), then banging over the conversion and giving Canterbury crowd the finger! All good theatre. -
I just hate dickheaded-ness in Rugby no matter where it comes from. Which was why the RWC QF was so bloody satisfying - Sexton's tears being the sweetest icing on the cake
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@Victor-Meldrew said in RWC QF: All Blacks v Ireland:
I just hate dickheaded-ness in Rugby no matter where it comes from. Which was why the RWC QF was so bloody satisfying - Sexton's tears being the sweetest icing on the cake
I did too up to a point, and realised that dickheadedness comes in may forms, and I wasn't above letting a halfback etc know what I thought of him if I had managed to get him (even if a bit late etc). I know we all kind of have our rules etc, but watching Coles goad Codie Taylor into getting YCed was something I enjoyed.
I also had a former French rugby player billeted with us a few years back in Aus. part of management of a club side we looked after. This man proudly told me that he had marked Colin Meads in a couple of tests, and after a few drinks we had laughed at rugby stories etc of what happened in tests etc that he had played in against not just Abs, but others too. Take y word for it, mouthing off etc would be least dicie thing that was happening.
Same as sledging in cricket, height of dickheadedness or just getting in heads?
