All Blacks v France II

[Landers92]

Sorry I couldn’t get the back line for last week. Made up for it this week and getting Test 2’s nice and early.

9. C. Roigard
10. B. Barrett
11. C. Clarke
12. J. Barrett
13. B. Proctor
14. R. Ioane
15. W. Jordan

Bench
21. C. Ratima
22. T. Tavatavanawai
23. D. McKenzie

[Landers92]

Bench impact from Tavatavanawai and Dmac… top notch.

Stoked for Jim to be in line to get his debut. Awesome to see

[Kiwiwomble]

@Landers92 said in All Blacks v France 2:

Sorry I couldn’t get the back line for last week. Made up for it this week and getting Test 2’s nice and early.

9. C. Roigard
10. B. Barrett
11. C. Clarke
12. J. Barrett
13. B. Proctor
14. R. Ioane
15. W. Jordan

Bench
21. C. Ratima
22. T. Tavatavanawai
23. D. McKenzie

not huge changes and obvious injury based so im ok with it, pity Big Jim couldnt play last week in dunedin

[mariner4life]

Proctor and Ioane suck fat donkey dicks in test 1, but get to play again while the form midfielder of Super Rugby gets rissolled despite not putting a foot wrong when he got a chance.

These selectors are as cooked as they sound

[Bovidae]

Rieko looked sluggish in test 1 so he better show more attacking threat in this game. If the weather is shit there will be even more high balls.

The interest will be in the locks/loose forwards.

[george33]

Norris starting .

[nostrildamus]

@mariner4life said in All Blacks v France 2:

Proctor and Ioane suck fat donkey dicks in test 1, but get to play again while the form midfielder of Super Rugby gets rissolled despite not putting a foot wrong when he got a chance.

These selectors are as cooked as they sound

I love a Chiefs fan rant as much as the next person who isn't a Chiefs fan but you have 3 quality 12s there and quite frankly they can't drop or bench Jordie after last week's effort, he was darn good.
So rotating QT and big Jim isn't that huge an insult, QT may play 13 but they probably see him as a 12. And they need to give Proctor another chance.

[nostrildamus]

@george33 said in All Blacks v France 2:

Norris starting .

I suspect they're gonna try to run French forwards off their feet.
I just hope they don't kick/throw away too much ball to those French backs.

[mariner4life]

@nostrildamus said in All Blacks v France 2:

And they need to give Proctor another chance.

why? further proof this is not a high performance unit.

the old ideals are dead. RIP.

[Kiwiwomble]

@mariner4life said in All Blacks v France 2:

@nostrildamus said in All Blacks v France 2:

And they need to give Proctor another chance.

why? further proof this is not a high performance unit.

the old ideals are dead. RIP.

i admit i didn;t watch a lot of the canes play but i thought he generally played well this year? if so and we also admit that international is a big step up.....surely we need to give guys more than one game to complete that step up, first game is the reality check, we just want to see some improvement in the next outing

[KiwiMurph]

No QT looks like a pre planned change decided prior to last weekend.

[Landers92]

Got told to not be surprised to see a small bit of rotation in the forward pack as well. Didn’t manage to get names unfortunately.

[george33]

@KiwiMurph he's not really a bench player, doesn't cover enough positions. Starts or not in the 23

[Kiwiwomble]

@george33 said in All Blacks v France 2:

@KiwiMurph he's not really a bench player, doesn't cover enough positions. Starts or not in the 23

i get the feeling the coaches dont subscribe to the idea that at least some bench spots are almost specialist positions

[ShaquilleOatmeal]

@KiwiMurph said in All Blacks v France 2:

No QT looks like a pre planned change decided prior to last weekend.

How long did Tupaea get to play last weekend? Was it fifteen or so minutes? That doesn't seem significant enough to achieve much if players are going to be rotated. I really think they need to use the bench a bit better and start making changes earlier.

However, I do feel like they're looking for impact from the bench and Tavatavanawai looks like a good option potentially. it will be interesting to see how he goes. Hopefully they give him a decent run.

[booboo]

@Landers92 said in All Blacks v France 2:

Sorry I couldn’t get the back line for last week. Made up for it this week and getting Test 2’s nice and early.

9. C. Roigard
10. B. Barrett
11. C. Clarke
12. J. Barrett
13. B. Proctor
14. R. Ioane
15. W. Jordan

Bench
21. C. Ratima
22. T. Tavatavanawai
23. D. McKenzie

Like that

[ACT Crusader]

@Landers92 said in All Blacks v France 2:

Got told to not be surprised to see a small bit of rotation in the forward pack as well. Didn’t manage to get names unfortunately.

Two changes to the bench in the forwards.

[Canes4life]

@ACT-Crusader said in All Blacks v France 2:

@Landers92 said in All Blacks v France 2:

Got told to not be surprised to see a small bit of rotation in the forward pack as well. Didn’t manage to get names unfortunately.

Two changes to the bench in the forwards.

Keen to elaborate?

[Frank]

With the move away from Rieko at center, we've got three 12s and one 13.
It would be nice if Big Jim or Tupaea could cover 13.
Both are going to be dropped if ALB is still in favor.

[nostrildamus]

@Frank said in All Blacks v France 2:

With the move away from Rieko at center, we've got three 12s and one 13.
It would be nice if Big Jim or Tupaea could cover 13.
Both are going to be dropped if ALB is still in favor.

ALB seems be a nice guy but they kept shifting him when he was in form, and now I wonder if he really has his nose in front.

I think their bigger problem than ALB at 13, would be Leicester coming back in form.

Oddly this would be an ideal time for Ennor (who I rate at AB level less highly than some on here), but he has all the robustness of Ethan Blackadder.