All Blacks vs Wallabies Bledisloe II

booboo

Searched for the thread but seems to have disappeared into the mists of interweb obscurity.

Seems you and @blackdragon did overlap a bit though.

Victor Meldrew

@booboo said in All Blacks vs Wallabies Bledisloe II:

Searched for the thread but seems to have disappeared into the mists of interweb obscurity.

Seems you and @blackdragon did overlap a bit though.

I joined around the time or just before the 2005 Lions tour. Led to The Fern by a kiwi at one of my clients (Merrill Lynch).

Never forgiven the bastard.

Chris B.

Yeah - Blackdragon was the guy who wanted Hayman at 8.

Ben Blair as a first five was one of mine! It should've happened! An earlier version of DMac?

canefan

Once again injury is Razor's best selector. Vaaii out, Holland in

sparky

@Chris-B Didn't he also suggest Richie McCaw at Hooker? Something to with height to weight ratio.

brodean

@nostrildamus said in All Blacks vs Wallabies Bledisloe II:

Thankfully they saw sense and realized Tupou playing on that injured knee wasn't Vaa'i-able.
Now Scooter better be 100% or there'll be trouble brewing in the Muppet Show.

Im sure Skelton will test Scooter out to make sure hes ok.

Chris B.

@sparky He might well have done.

He was arguing based purely on supposed ideal sizes.

I've got some sympathy for that sort of premise (Big is good) - but, he'd taken it to a loopy extreme.

NTA

Too much weights. Not enough speed work.

kiwiinmelb

@Victor-Meldrew said in All Blacks vs Wallabies Bledisloe II:

@booboo said in All Blacks vs Wallabies Bledisloe II:

Searched for the thread but seems to have disappeared into the mists of interweb obscurity.

Seems you and @blackdragon did overlap a bit though.

I joined around the time or just before the 2005 Lions tour. Led to The Fern by a kiwi at one of my clients (Merrill Lynch).

Never forgiven the bastard.

I joined around the same time but haven’t been here consistently, tend to drift in when the allblacks are active .

I was here for the 2007 meltdown though

Victor Meldrew

@kiwiinmelb said in All Blacks vs Wallabies Bledisloe II:

I was here for the 2007 meltdown though

I was in Cardiff in November '07

It didn't happen

Kruse

@Victor-Meldrew said in All Blacks vs Wallabies Bledisloe II:

@kiwiinmelb said in All Blacks vs Wallabies Bledisloe II:

I was here for the 2007 meltdown though

I was in Cardiff in November '07

It didn't happen

I was in Bogota in November '07.
Can confirm there's lots of shit people claim to have happened - didn't happen.

booboo

@Victor-Meldrew said in All Blacks vs Wallabies Bledisloe II:

@kiwiinmelb said in All Blacks vs Wallabies Bledisloe II:

I was here for the 2007 meltdown though

I was in Cardiff in November '07

It didn't happen

What didn't happen?

NTA

No Quarter

@Victor-Meldrew said in All Blacks vs Wallabies Bledisloe II:

@booboo said in All Blacks vs Wallabies Bledisloe II:

Searched for the thread but seems to have disappeared into the mists of interweb obscurity.

Seems you and @blackdragon did overlap a bit though.

I joined around the time or just before the 2005 Lions tour. Led to The Fern by a kiwi at one of my clients (Merrill Lynch).

Never forgiven the bastard.

Before my time too, it was 07 that led me to this place, the injustice of it all was too much to take and the meltdown was somewhat cathartic to read as it articulated my thoughts so much better than the media articles afterwards (I didn't care about the forward pass, it was the ZERO penalties for 60 minutes!!). Then I joined a year or so later.

booboo

Just learned a fact that astonished me.

Listening to Jamie Wall talking to Devlin and in the introduction he made mention of the fact that the Wallabies haven't beaten the All Blacks since 2020! Looked it up and it's TEN straight wins to the ABs. (And as an aside I was at that game in Brissy.)

booboo

Further to Wall's comment about how many of the current squad would have experienced a loss to Aussie, there were 8 of tonight's XXIII and 12 of the current squad in that XXIII.

Taylor
Barrett
Ardie
BB
RI
ALB
Reece
Jordie
Lomax
Vaa'i
DMac
Jordan

You might want to include Aumua who you would expect would be in the squad but for injury. And Ofa maybe.

Edit: Paddy T in the squad that lost in 2019. A few othee repeat offenders in 2019 as well, and two as far back as 2015 (Taylor and BB).

booboo

I'm not sure what that says about player development...

Unite

@booboo said in All Blacks vs Wallabies Bledisloe II:

Just learned a fact that astonished me.

Listening to Jamie Wall talking to Devlin and in the introduction he made mention of the fact that the Wallabies haven't beaten the All Blacks since 2020! Looked it up and it's TEN straight wins to the ABs. (And as an aside I was at that game in Brissy.)

So they are due then…

I am over in Perth for work this week and next, heading along tonight. Hope the win one lose one cycle is broken.

booboo

@Unite overdue.

Apparently they go at a win every four-and-half tests. Have checked that stat.

NTA

Can't count anything that happened under Eddie's latest time behind the wheel

The Silver Fern

All Blacks vs Wallabies Bledisloe II