All Blacks v Springboks
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Good gutsy performance from the Boks, but we gifted them two tries - having switched off after the first two of our own. Throw in Barrett’s atrocious kicking and it looked like the necessary wake-up call. In retrospect, Hansen would have been better starting Mo’unga in this match and played a more Crusaders-style than a Hurricanes one. At least he would have kicked the goals.
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I gotta say though Goodhue must start. As soon as he came on the back line looked untold better.
Sounds silly but he is the Dan a Carter of centres. Has sooooo much time on the ball and does the right thing every time.
That bok defence though. That was something else. For 80 mins too. Truly didn’t think they had the fortitude to do that
@hooroo said in All Blacks v Springboks:
I gotta say though Goodhue must start. As soon as he came on the back line looked untold better.
Sounds silly but he is the Dan a Carter of centres. Has sooooo much time on the ball and does the right thing every time.
That bok defence though. That was something else. For 80 mins too. Truly didn’t think they had the fortitude to do that
Yeah absolutely re Goodhue. He adds the punch that ALB just can't from centre (I think ALB is a 12 all day). Crotty was ok. ALB was persona non grata.
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I gotta say though Goodhue must start. As soon as he came on the back line looked untold better.
Sounds silly but he is the Dan a Carter of centres. Has sooooo much time on the ball and does the right thing every time.
That bok defence though. That was something else. For 80 mins too. Truly didn’t think they had the fortitude to do that
@hooroo said in All Blacks v Springboks:
That bok defence though. That was something else. For 80 mins too. Truly didn’t think they had the fortitude to do that
Whitley with 65 minutes in his legs running down TJP, with only about 5 mins in his, was quite a telling image of the match.
Wasn't a pivotal moment as nz eventually scored from that field position, but a moment.
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Good gutsy performance from the Boks, but we gifted them two tries - having switched off after the first two of our own. Throw in Barrett’s atrocious kicking and it looked like the necessary wake-up call. In retrospect, Hansen would have been better starting Mo’unga in this match and played a more Crusaders-style than a Hurricanes one. At least he would have kicked the goals.
@mrdenmore said in All Blacks v Springboks:
Good gutsy performance from the Boks, but we gifted them two tries - having switched off after the first two of our own. Throw in Barrett’s atrocious kicking and it looked like the necessary wake-up call. In retrospect, Hansen would have been better starting Mo’unga in this match and played a more Crusaders-style than a Hurricanes one. At least he would have kicked the goals.
Only if it had been Mo'unga at 10, with BB at fullback instead of Jordie.
Edited to add that it probably would have been a bit much to throw Mo'unga in this game after only 1 start.
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@hooroo said in All Blacks v Springboks:
I gotta say though Goodhue must start. As soon as he came on the back line looked untold better.
Sounds silly but he is the Dan a Carter of centres. Has sooooo much time on the ball and does the right thing every time.
That bok defence though. That was something else. For 80 mins too. Truly didn’t think they had the fortitude to do that
Yeah absolutely re Goodhue. He adds the punch that ALB just can't from centre (I think ALB is a 12 all day). Crotty was ok. ALB was persona non grata.
@shark said in All Blacks v Springboks:
Yeah absolutely re Goodhue. He adds the punch that ALB just can't from centre (I think ALB is a 12 all day). Crotty was ok. ALB was persona non grata.
I think ALB was better than Crotty (who offered nothing IMO), just overshadowed his decent game with that silly and unnecessary intercept to that dwarf
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It's funny how people are talking up the Boks defence..
They gave up 6 tries.. If the AB's had a goalkicker, they would have won..
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@shark said in All Blacks v Springboks:
Yeah absolutely re Goodhue. He adds the punch that ALB just can't from centre (I think ALB is a 12 all day). Crotty was ok. ALB was persona non grata.
I think ALB was better than Crotty (who offered nothing IMO), just overshadowed his decent game with that silly and unnecessary intercept to that dwarf
@tordah said in All Blacks v Springboks:
@shark said in All Blacks v Springboks:
Yeah absolutely re Goodhue. He adds the punch that ALB just can't from centre (I think ALB is a 12 all day). Crotty was ok. ALB was persona non grata.
I think ALB was better than Crotty (who offered nothing IMO), just overshadowed his decent game with that silly and unnecessary intercept to that dwarf
The only positive from Crotty was that he didn't go off injured
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@akan004 said in All Blacks v Springboks:
@mimic we should have won this easily, as good as they were...
Eh no.
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@akan004 said in All Blacks v Springboks:
@mimic we should have won this easily, as good as they were...
Eh no.
@derm-mccrum said in All Blacks v Springboks:
@akan004 said in All Blacks v Springboks:
@mimic we should have won this easily, as good as they were...
Eh no.
Eh yes
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@tordah said in All Blacks v Springboks:
@shark said in All Blacks v Springboks:
Yeah absolutely re Goodhue. He adds the punch that ALB just can't from centre (I think ALB is a 12 all day). Crotty was ok. ALB was persona non grata.
I think ALB was better than Crotty (who offered nothing IMO), just overshadowed his decent game with that silly and unnecessary intercept to that dwarf
The only positive from Crotty was that he didn't go off injured
@anonymous said in All Blacks v Springboks:
The only positive from Crotty was that he didn't go off injured
Judging on tonight's game I would count that as a negative
ALB & Goodhue worked a lot better -
@akan004 said in All Blacks v Springboks:
The neutrals are going to be partying big time now.
Keep a count of "All Black Aura" articles in the next week....
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Could be the night Barrett's lacklustre goalkicking gets shown up if it stays tight. I pretty much expect us to pull away later on though.
@shark said in All Blacks v Springboks:
Could be the night Barrett's lacklustre goalkicking gets shown up if it stays tight. I pretty much expect us to pull away later on though.
Well ...
