All Blacks Vs England, Twickenham
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If it was me I would be starting
Finau
Cane
Sititi
And Savea off the bench.Funau, if he plays like yesterday, puts actual starch in our defence, and he improves our lineout. I would understand if he doesn't get picked though, he's not quick to his feet after smashing dudes, and test selectors hate that.
Sititi and Savea are very similar, I just think young Wallace has more form.
Cane is suited to playing up north.I expect we'll see Sititi, Cane and savea though.
@mariner4life
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So badly wants Finau to be good.......................@Frank said in All Blacks Vs England, Twickenham:
@mariner4life
So badly wants Finau to be good.......................In all honesty so do I
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Itoje didn't play for Saracens yesterday. Is he fit to play on Saturday?
@sparky said in All Blacks Vs England, Twickenham:
Itoje didn't play for Saracens yesterday. Is he fit to play on Saturday?
He’s fine and is in camp.
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@sparky said in All Blacks Vs England, Twickenham:
Itoje didn't play for Saracens yesterday. Is he fit to play on Saturday?
Elliot Daly (Edit: Henry Slade, not Daly!) is the only player from the squad who was released to play (because he's returning from injury).
@Mr-Fish said in All Blacks Vs England, Twickenham:
@sparky said in All Blacks Vs England, Twickenham:
Itoje didn't play for Saracens yesterday. Is he fit to play on Saturday?
Elliot Daly is the only player from the squad who was released to play (because he's returning from injury).
Slade is playing for Exeter today to prove his fitness. In the space of 11 months he’s gone from being ditched by Borthwick for RWC to getting a central contract when he’s injured.
Go figure huh?
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So apart from Alex Mitchell being out and question marks over Chessum and Slade, England are likely to be at full strength.
@sparky said in All Blacks Vs England, Twickenham:
So apart from Alex Mitchell being out and question marks over Chessum and Slade, England are likely to be at full strength.
George Ford is also touch and go. Hasn't played for a month so probably unlikely to start against the All Blacks.
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@mariner4life
So badly wants Finau to be good.......................@Frank said in All Blacks Vs England, Twickenham:
@mariner4life
So badly wants Finau to be good.......................Hi Frank
Jog on
Finau is already good.
But hey, let's get Blackadder back on to run around heaps.
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@Frank said in All Blacks Vs England, Twickenham:
@mariner4life
So badly wants Finau to be good.......................In all honesty so do I
@booboo said in All Blacks Vs England, Twickenham:
@Frank said in All Blacks Vs England, Twickenham:
@mariner4life
So badly wants Finau to be good.......................In all honesty so do I
Our only genuinely big body loose forward? Nah I hope he's shit forever. What a waste of space.
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I’m worried about the option taking of our 10’s when we are not making easy meters at the gain line.
I fear there is going to be a lot of crabbing sideways behind the advantage line and panic kicking.
@Jet said in All Blacks Vs England, Twickenham:
I’m worried about the option taking of our 10’s when we are not making easy meters at the gain line.
I fear there is going to be a lot of crabbing sideways behind the advantage line and panic kicking.
I saw DMac during SR, and he did not play that way for the Chiefs. In fact, he played a more orthodox game. I suspect it's Razor's gameplan that isn't working, he's asking DMac to make all the play instead of trying to manage the game more
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The Chiefs were pretty pragmatic for the last 2 years, DMac and Stevenson kicked a lot.
So yeah, he's for sure under instructions.
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@Frank said in All Blacks Vs England, Twickenham:
@mariner4life
So badly wants Finau to be good.......................Hi Frank
Jog on
Finau is already good.
But hey, let's get Blackadder back on to run around heaps.
@mariner4life said in All Blacks Vs England, Twickenham:
@Frank said in All Blacks Vs England, Twickenham:
@mariner4life
So badly wants Finau to be good.......................Hi Frank
Jog on
Finau is already good.
But hey, let's get Blackadder back on to run around heaps.
Point is, he's still waaaaaaay off the pace and you're all over it based off a couple of good tackles vs Japan.
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During Foster era:
Mo’unga didn’t play like this at the Crusaders.
He must be under instructions to play like this. No, no, no this isn’t super rugby, he’s just not test standard.During Razor era:
DMac didn’t play like this for the Chiefs. He must be under instructions to play like this. Yes yes.
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@mariner4life said in All Blacks Vs England, Twickenham:
@Frank said in All Blacks Vs England, Twickenham:
@mariner4life
So badly wants Finau to be good.......................Hi Frank
Jog on
Finau is already good.
But hey, let's get Blackadder back on to run around heaps.
Point is, he's still waaaaaaay off the pace and you're all over it based off a couple of good tackles vs Japan.
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Who would you play and why?
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Wind your necks in boys, we all want the AB’s to win at the end of the day.
We don’t have a vintage group of cattle and provincial nitpicking gets us nowhere.
Mo’unga, Beaudy and DMAC are all sides of a three cheeked arse. And it needs a bloody good smacking.
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I'd play Finau if he'd actually done something good against a good side.
You know, earned his selection.He was given good grace by Razor to start at England in two tests when he hadn't fuckin earned it at super level.
You 've talked about highlight reel Ardie. Finau is the ultimate example. Smashed a couple of 10s - woah get him in!!! He was shit against England and deservedly dropped.
Now the cupboard is almost bare, he might luck his way back in based off smashing someone other than a 10 against Japan. (for once)
I'd play Sititi at 6, Ardie at 8 and Cane at 7.
I want to see the back of Ardie at 8 and Cane at 7 as soon as possible, but Lakai seems to green to throw in against England and Finau simply hasn't earned a start.
Perhaps he can be off the bench.
He certainly has the physical dimensions to be an awesome 6, but right now he's more Pierre Spies (looking like Tarzan playing like Jane) than anything else.
This is perhaps partly on Razor persisting with Blackadder and Ardie for too long and not giving Sititi starts at 8 or bringing in Lakai earlier.
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Tell me you didn't watch the defence yesterday without telling me you didn't watch the defence yesterday. The highlight reel hits were a small part of it.
And after watching our loose forwards get dominated in contact all season so far I saw enough to think we should at least try. Also he's tall and a good lineout lifter.
I want to see the end of 3 loose 6'2 loose forwards forever. Especially ones that can't win a collision on defence.
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Tell me you didn't watch the defence yesterday without telling me you didn't watch the defence yesterday. The highlight reel hits were a small part of it.
And after watching our loose forwards get dominated in contact all season so far I saw enough to think we should at least try. Also he's tall and a good lineout lifter.
I want to see the end of 3 loose 6'2 loose forwards forever. Especially ones that can't win a collision on defence.
@mariner4life
Agree with the imbalanced back row but he simply hasn't earned a start yet. Putting in goodish work against Japan is not enough considering he's been tried once already. Its fuckin unfair on the harder working players that he swans into the starting 15.Giving him decent minutes off the bench should be his path perhaps with Savea going to 7 and Sititi to 8.
If he starts monstering opposing forwards and ups his workrate a tad then he starts at 6, then Sititi goes to 8 and Savea can fuck off to the bench where he belongs.
Then it's a two horse race between Papalii and Lakai for the 7 shirt once Cane buggers off.
