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@Victor-Meldrew said in Wales v All Blacks:

@MiketheSnow said in Wales v All Blacks:

If Razor goes away from that then he's dumber than we think

Trust me, we don't.

Shittings! For someone who stuck by Foster and the explanations you stated in his defense.......

DMac is our No.1 . We've known that for a long time esp. since Ireland 2024. That shit is frustrating.
We saw enough of Love against Wales to suggest he needs to be there for the long term. The long returns alone had me convinced. Jordan to 14, Clarke on the other wing. The air squad is born.

More loosy goosy. Unbelievable.

Loosy goosy play letting Wales into the game. I honestly don't understand AB tactics of the last 5 years.

@brodean said in All Blacks 2025:

@MN5 said in All Blacks 2025:

@taniwharugby said in All Blacks 2025:

@Jet to be fair, prior to 2011, most ABs saw out their careers off shore, but from that period of 'greatness' we had several top drawer players that hit 100 caps.

Better to burn out than fade away.

I said that too.

Barrett is that dying ember on the fire and there's no more wood left.

And to think I laughed to myself sneeringly while Ireland foolishly clinged to an ancient Johnny Sexton through to 2023 RWC.

When BB was chasing back on Saturday, the leg movement was very Sexton-like. His legs are definitely gone. The recent ABs decline has coincided with the lack of ruthlessness in selections.

@Chris-B said in Scotland v All Blacks:

@ACT-Crusader said in Scotland v All Blacks:

The most costly of dropped kicks was Lakai’s in my view. We were on the back foot in our own half.

Yeah - and that's the thing.

I don't really recall us dropping a high ball all season that was uncontested - i.e. like a goober drop in cricket. We probably have, but they're not common.

But, a well-directed box kick that's contestable is going to get dropped more often than it's caught, because you've got someone else's arms shoulders and impact in your space. The Jaapies quite often just send a guy up with one arm to make sure they disrupt the catch.

I don't think the Scots caught any of the ones we missed today.

It's a chaos maker - that's why it's used extensively by most teams. If we seem like we're more vulnerable to it, I'm inclined to think it's as much because other teams' box-kicking is more accurate than ours.

Interestingly, I think the Scots went away from ball in hand once they drew level and resorted to the box kick. Which was quite helpful, because it gave us possession, which we'd been starved of for 20 odd minutes.

Lakai's miss gave the Scots the momentum. Exiting after restarts is the side's Achilles' heel and has been a major problem since Foster. Pop kicks, failure to secure the restarts, poor box kicks, BB and AS chippies, they'll find a way to put pressure on themselves......super frustrating. Sort that out and there will be a major shift in game momentum shifts.
ABs are poorer than other teams at taking the high ball or recovering the box kicks because the players seem to leave it to one or two players. I watched ABs jog slowly back or just stare at the action during the game while they leave DMac/Jordan, etc. to recover the ball. Nobody is getting into recovery positions. Watch the Boks in contrast, they always seem to have a number of players covering all bases. Again, frustrating and squarely on the coaching I think (I gave Foster shit for this but it hasn't improved at all).
This sounds a bit negative, but previously, during for example the Henry era, they seemed to deal with the obvious problems (high ball, lineout woes, etc). These problem areas have been going on for years.
Some really good things happening, too. This doen't seem to be the platform for that, though.

Boks can just find a way, can't they? It is impressive. Against us, they pulled out their power scrum, against France, they just went to their driving maul. Prod and probe until an opposition's weakness is exposed. Respect.

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

Why are they booing?

How dumb are these players?

From one knock on at the start off

Self destructing

Jeez, it is only halftime. Way to jinx the ABs. by these over positive comments.

Japan have gone backwards. Eddie Jones is a friggen charlatan. I just needed to say that.

Nah, Scots don't have a big physical forward pack, it is a fast team so these loosies make sense for this game.

@kev said in All Blacks vs Wallabies Bledisloe II:

DMAC still can’t kick conversion. Horror night. FFS means we get BB back.

Nooooooo!

Good sides would have finished this game 10 minutes ago. Sigh.

Cron going full traitor!

@Bones said in All Blacks vs Wallabies Bledisloe II:

Was there a Jordan forward pass in the leadup to the second Tupaea try? Or was that a different set of play?

You are consistent! Trashing Jordan trumps everything.