The Silver Fern

Waste of a spot playing Nichols, didn’t even know he was in the squad. Surely giving one of the young fullas a game would be more worth while?

What garbage.

Can’t lose games like that against bottom sides and expect to win comps.

DWZ has been a great player, but I think he’s done. He is an absolute liability on defence.

Wow, if Queensland can finish this it’ll be some story.

I think NSW have a comeback in them, but to overcome 20 points… hmmm, maybe too much. Hope that comment doesn’t come back to haunt me.

They were completely written off by EVERYONE after game one. Shit team, shit players, NSW just had to turn up and they’d win in their sleep.

You’d have thought the media would know, you never write Queensland off.

For me it’s getting too much like the NRL, where they’re checking every little detail in the lead up to a try to find a reason not to award it.

TMO should not be allowed to intervene in something unless asked, or if it’s “actual” foul play.

The game is not played in super slow motion, if it looks wrong in real time, it’s wrong.

If it looks good in real time, it’s good, move on.

If the ref misses someone offside by the length of a toenail, tough shit, move on.
If they miss an obstruction that you need a 10 slide power point presentation to get to an answer, tough shit, move on.

I’m a fan of the captains challenge, which will hopefully pick up any real howlers.

If you’re injured (need a rest) go to the sideline to get checked.

Scrums need to be sped up too.

Let’s just get on with the fucking game.

@mariner4life said in All Blacks v France I:

Firstly, pretty fun game of football. Both teams came yo play open footy when ever possible, and we got a lot of ball movement because of it.

Good mature win in the end. Take the points, recognise your dominance, grind it out.

Cheers to the French, a lot of those kids can fucking play.

For us, my main takeaway is, guess what, fotm means something. The guys who did good did good in super too. Those who battled? Guess what.

Same main weaknesses. Can't kick, can't hurt their ruck. Lose the air.

Some of our shape was gorgeous
I loved when we played direct
Set piece good.

So many positives for week one.

What is this positive sorcery?
Did you miss the memo that it’s all doom and gloom.

Where’s a Zarn Sullivan sized kick, just when we need one.

France haven’t made many mistakes tonight, but that one was a bloody important one from an AB point of view

If we kick the ball away again on attack I’m going to lose my shit:

Is this the NRL?

Can they check these things before awarding the try and the kicker is lining it up FFS.

We need to stop kicking it away when we’ve just made a break, or on the front foot on attack.

Fucking frustrating, low percentage shit.

We’re back to defensive fucking bombs.
FML.

God our defence is just utter trash

Lots of good ball movement, finding plenty of space, but on the back of that we’ve seen a lot of sloppiness.

Proctor getting done on the outside off set piece defence was fucking ugly.

Overall plenty to like.

Well, no one can call the selections conservative any more.

A few surprises, but I’m looking forward to seeing what the new guys can do.

And I’m a fan of Ardie being at 7, opens up way more options IMO.

Can’t play as poor as we did in the first half and expect to get a result.

Second half was much better, showed heart to come back at them, especially after losing CNK and Metcalf to injury.

I’m the least religious person you’ll ever meet, but can we all pray that those two don’t have serious injuries…

We are down by 14, 20 to go. Time to start throwing it around, we are not going to grind our way to a win with one out plays up the middle.

We score first, good to see we haven’t given up.

Holy shit we are absolutely being fucked over by the ref. Some total head scratchers, cheating fluffybunny.

Why we didn’t challenge that last one which gave them an easy 2 is beyond me though.

What a garbage half from the Warriors.
Getting smashed up front.
Shit completions.

18-0 at half time, can’t see how we come back from here, we’ve got nothing.

Trash

Warriors with their worst 25 minutes I’ve seen all year (didn’t watch the Vegas game).

Now the ref is doubling down on their shitness and gives the Broncos a kickable scrum penalty. Yep a fucking SCRUM penalty. In league. Get fucked.