The Silver Fern

Bricklayers Arms in Bromley was pretty good last time I was there.

@canefan said in All Blacks v France II:

@Dan54 said in All Blacks v France II:

@brodean said in All Blacks v France II:

@Dan54 said in All Blacks v France II:

@brodean understand your point etc, but I doubt whether Love is even been considered starting for ABs this week, after about 4-5 games at most starting for Canes. And I a Canes man (and Love fan). I doubt any test coach in world would consider a starting 10 with so little experience.

You're probably right about consideration from the coaches. Doesn't mean they're right.

The guy is 24 now. He's had 5 years of Super Rugby experience and started 13 games for the Canes at 10. It's an experimental French B/C team. Beauden Barrett had already played 24 tests at 24. We're too conservative now.

Problem is that coaches at Canes (rightly or wrongly) haven't thought Love is good enough to steer them around field at 10. Their job is to do what they think is best for Canes, and selectors have to (I think) select on a good body of work, so they have confidence they won't cock up in tests.
I tend to agree I would like to see more of Love, but if at 10 off bench. Her starts and makes a few balls ups, imagine the melt down (and in press etc) about playing him before he ready.

Laidlaw shat the bed by reinstating Cameron as the starter when he returned from injury. Bad for the Canes, bad for Love and his AB potential

Speaking of body of work - there was more than enough body of work to show that Brett Cameron wasn't the answer but Laidlaw went that path anyway.

@antipodean said in All Blacks vs Ireland:

@Machpants said in All Blacks vs Ireland:

@antipodean said in All Blacks vs Ireland:

@Machpants said in All Blacks vs Ireland:

Algerian VPN works

with?

ExpressVPN

No, I meant what are you trying to achieve?

Oh watching the NZ v Ire Squidge vid

@Machpants That's an uncomfortable conversation the next day.

@dogmeat said in Should Ardie play 7?:

@mariner4life reddit are banning all nudity and adult content from October

looooool

and so dies Reddit, gone the way of tumblr

https://www.rugbypass.com/plus/nowhere-to-hide-for-all-blacks-as-south-african-mini-tour-looms/

@African-Monkey said in Still talking about Foster:

@nzzp said in Still talking about Foster:

@nzzp said in Still talking about Foster:

Good call. Naive is probably right.

Update: I think a mix of thin skinned and naive.

His talking about the games in 2021 were something like (not a direct quote) we smashed Tonga 102-0, then beat Fiji by 57 and 60- but still some people weren't happy.

I remember those Fiji games. They were coached by Vern and Ryan - and their forward pack scored a try or two against us up the guts. They looked sharp. People were right to critique the performances.

Yeah, that first Fiji test we had Blackadder, Sotutu and Frizzell who were beaten to the punch at breakdown a lot. It was only the last 20 where Fiji faded and Coles scored about 4 tries from rolling mauls where we pulled away but we struggled for large periods of that test.

Beating that Tonga team shouldn't even be mentioned as a test. They had to pull a bunch of guys out of Auckland club rugby to make the numbers as covid rules at the time didn't allow for them to pick most of their overseas players.

That Fiji test essentially made Ryan's name, they were really well drilled. What's stange is that it doesn't seem to have given Cotter much pop. I know that he is planning on retiring but he is one of the names who I think has the philosophy to be very successful at the next level with players of AB talent.

@Windows97 said in All Blacks vs England 2:

I'm confused by the pod system we are using, from static ball our pods are standing deep and static and getting caught behind the advantage line

scrum halves passing to static ball carriers instead of in front of them is one of the most confusing things to me. when I played it was one of the first things we were taught when passing from the ruck to generally always pass in front and basically never to the man. so weird how professionals still get that wrong so often

@mariner4life said in Emotion:

Watching the 2003 semi at JJ Murphy's in Wellington I nearly threw an empty handle through the TV

Anger is also am emotion

Probably wouldn’t have even got kicked out. Murphy’s had all sorts of feral behaviour back in the day. Great pick up joint too.

We have a chance now. We have a tight 5.
The rest is icing
Might buy some tickets

@cgrant said in All Blacks v France, 2021 NH Tour:

Pita Ahki

Played for Tonga and NZU20s and NZ 7s? We could use someone like him. And Moala.

But if they fix their injury worries I'd have no problems with twin midfielders, just imagining what dummy running tactics one could come up with, with twins that could almost look like.