The Silver Fern

I wonder if it’s time to look at foreign coaches. TBH both Rennie and Joseph underwhelm me a little, and who else from NZ currently coaching is up to that standard? (Schmidt did well initially with Aus, but they haven’t exactly been going gangbusters recently either)

Very mediocre season by the ABs to continue our slide into averageness. Some good individual efforts… CC, Codie, Holland, Roigard… Quin and LF (latterly), and who knows if Love would have been any good if he had chances earlier?

But the coaching set up is clearly out of their depth. There’s areas of our game that have looked great in spurts, but overall lack of vision, cohesion and a clear, effective game plan. The players look as confused and discombobulated as we feel as fans. I had hoped for more in season 2, but decidedly underwhelmed.

Let’s hope NZ Rugby has some balls and will walk back from their (in hindsight) bad call.

Carley’s arm must have been tired after that effort

Outside of a World Cup you look for opportunities to emulate the week-on-week pressure of a tournament. This was a rare shot at a Grand Slam, Based on this, we’ve gone out in the Semis (poorly).

England played the right tactics today - disrupted our ruck ball aggressively and employed rush defence well. You play to the ref on both those counts. We had chances to come back into the game once we’d let it slip, but weren’t up to it. BB was pretty terrible, and I don’t think some of our selections were great for this game. We have some great top-line players, but the likes of Ratima aren’t up to this level, unfortunately. However, better coaching would help cover those weaknesses. We’re very much in Razor’s image atm - when things aren’t going well, we look completely clueless. I feel for Scooter, a great guy and has been a great player, but not a captain’s asshole.

Well done England, better team today

@MN5 said in Scotland v All Blacks:

Just woke up for a piss. Sounds like another typical gutsy Scotland loss.

I’m going back to bed.

If you enjoy rollercoaster rides, it’s a good watch

@jimmyb said in Scotland v All Blacks:

@Darth-Sader said in Scotland v All Blacks:

@jimmyb said in Scotland v All Blacks:

But at the end of the day, this win is good for the mentality of the team. Winning is winning.

I miss the heyday of the Henry-Hansen eras when we had the foot on the throat and never took it off. Those days are long gone. Still, some exciting players coming through…

Because, if you watch any of those games, we saw the best rugby players ever. McCaw Read and Kanio would demolish any of the current teams

Yes, but we also had two teams worth of players who would beat most other top teams. SA is the only current squad with that kind of depth. It’s a cultural thing as well as a talent/personnel issue.

@jimmyb said in Scotland v All Blacks:

But at the end of the day, this win is good for the mentality of the team. Winning is winning.

I miss the heyday of the Henry-Hansen eras when we had the foot on the throat and never took it off. Those days are long gone. Still, some exciting players coming through…

@Old-Samurai-Jack said in Scotland v All Blacks:

So dumb though. Carter, Sititi....what were they thinking?

Sometimes it feels like we’re the Forrest Gump of world rugby - we run real fast but we’re thick as pig shit

@jimmyb said in Scotland v All Blacks:

Well they won with three yellow cards and only conceded 17 points against one of the better attacking back lines in the world. So that’s a positive.

Negatives is they can’t catch a fucking highball

Negative: we still rely on individual brilliance to pull it out of the fire

@sparky said in Scotland v All Blacks:

Kick good. Eight point lead.

Well fuck me, when he’s on this kid is on

@Jet said in Scotland v All Blacks:

@sparky said in Scotland v All Blacks:

Beauden Barrett has been poor. Again.

He is washed.

Two problems: a) we’re not brave enough to move on from him b) even if we introduced young talent (let’s face it, DMac isn’t the answer) we don’t have the quality coaching.

Hey ho, we’re back in the lead?

@Jet said in Scotland v All Blacks:

@sparky said in Scotland v All Blacks:

13 minutes to go.

We could have won by 30 or lose by 5.

Stench of flat track bully off us.

Harlem Globetrotters of world rugby

@No-Quarter said in Scotland v All Blacks:

Hallmark of Razors ABs is how inconsistent they are, even within a game

They’re like a hot crazy girlfriend

Fair play to Scotland, they’ve owned this half

Oh shit

Nice Lakai

Why does it feel like this ABs team is a highlights package with no spine

Bye-bye halftime lead…