All Blacks v Springboks
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@tim said in All Blacks v Springboks:
@taniwharugby I do wonder if, with Barrett in place of Retallick, Squire has to play tighter. He wasn't very visible tonight.
He appeared to get injured early on a few times then went missing a bit.
@unite Squire should have been subbed after the initial injury. I said this to my watching companion at the time.
He clearly wasn't right. You could see it in the driving maul try where the South African hooker scored and then on the second half kick off.
I was stunned that he took til 58 minutes to come off.
I do acknowledge that the player and the training staff have more knowledge of the injury than me, but I think the "warrior mentality" of the players hurts the team at times
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@rebound said in All Blacks v Springboks:
@derm-mccrum how they dominates the game should've easily won by way more than 10 points. The Boks should've have more yellows for persistent infringing. If it was the ABs getting away with so many conspiracies would've been abound about refs helping them
persistent infringing is such a bullshit reason to bray for cards.
Those consecutive penalties include the bok dominant scrum penalty that went against them , and Snyman stuffing up an attempted turnover.
I hate it regardless of the team. Consecutive/persistent penalties include refereeing mistakes or sometimes just bad luck.
@rapido really how does your mind work. In this game there was more penalties awarded in the 2nd half then in the 1st half and the telling thing is the ABs were not penalised in the 2nd half. That's persistent infringing and requires progressively harsher penalties. That is the whole point of penalties on rugby. Otherwise what's the point then if a team can concede p
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@stargazer said in All Blacks v Springboks:
@jegga said in All Blacks v Springboks:
Just checking ,has anyone who isn’t a crusaders fan said Mounga would have won us the game ?
I don't think anyone (full stop) has said Mo'unga would have won us the game.
Yeah. Nah
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The loss we had to have.
Although if only we went with
Moody, Taylor, Franks, Whitelock, Barrett, Taufua, Todd, Read, FABBH, Mo’unga, FABGB, Crotty, Goodhue, Tamanivalu, Havili
@act-crusader said in All Blacks v Springboks:
The loss we had to have.
Although if only we went with
Moody, Taylor, Franks, Whitelock, Barrett, Taufua, Todd, Read, FABBH, Mo’unga, FABGB, Crotty, Goodhue, Tamanivalu, Havili
8 North Islanders and a Fijian poach.
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Is it time to start DMac at 15 instead of JB if we're going to persist with BFA at 14? The supposed DMac is a headless chook and JB is solid is a myth and DMac actually had some decent test matches at 15 last year.
But, you can see that some posters still have DMac blinkers as he's getting some shit yet him and Goodhue added heaps when they came on (Goodhue more than DMac it must be said, he was on fire) and as @Mokey pointed out DMac was set for a drop goal for ages.
I think in the last 10 minutes, especially with the Boks down a man we overdid the ruck hit ups and should have spread wide, and I mean wide, not down the blind, earlier when defenders were being sucked in.
BB's general play outside his kicking was pretty average too, stupid kicks to the sideline and he was doing a weird hip pass thing to players with defenders on him.
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@act-crusader said in All Blacks v Springboks:
The loss we had to have.
Although if only we went with
Moody, Taylor, Franks, Whitelock, Barrett, Taufua, Todd, Read, FABBH, Mo’unga, FABGB, Crotty, Goodhue, Tamanivalu, Havili
8 North Islanders and a Fijian poach.
@nepia said in All Blacks v Springboks:
@act-crusader said in All Blacks v Springboks:
The loss we had to have.
Although if only we went with
Moody, Taylor, Franks, Whitelock, Barrett, Taufua, Todd, Read, FABBH, Mo’unga, FABGB, Crotty, Goodhue, Tamanivalu, Havili
8 North Islanders and a Fijian poach.
He’s a deserved All Black and could fill a ‘void’ on the right wing
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@nepia said in All Blacks v Springboks:
@act-crusader said in All Blacks v Springboks:
The loss we had to have.
Although if only we went with
Moody, Taylor, Franks, Whitelock, Barrett, Taufua, Todd, Read, FABBH, Mo’unga, FABGB, Crotty, Goodhue, Tamanivalu, Havili
8 North Islanders and a Fijian poach.
He’s a deserved All Black and could fill a ‘void’ on the right wing
@act-crusader said in All Blacks v Springboks:
@nepia said in All Blacks v Springboks:
@act-crusader said in All Blacks v Springboks:
The loss we had to have.
Although if only we went with
Moody, Taylor, Franks, Whitelock, Barrett, Taufua, Todd, Read, FABBH, Mo’unga, FABGB, Crotty, Goodhue, Tamanivalu, Havili
8 North Islanders and a Fijian poach.
He’s a deserved All Black and could fill a ‘void’ on the right wing
He's still a Fijian poach - I'm only being factual.
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At least we’re not Aussie.......
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Hmmm....Jordie has an off match and now he's cake? Pretty rough. Can't say I would be uncomfortable with DMac there though, but Jordie has had some cracking plays in other matches.
@bones said in All Blacks v Springboks:
Hmmm....Jordie has an off match and now he's cake? Pretty rough. Can't say I would be uncomfortable with DMac there though, but Jordie has had some cracking plays in other matches.
Some of us have never considered Jordie to be the Golden Boy that others do. He's decent but I don't think he's deserves that 15 by right.
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Take a chill pill. This was like that Rodders test in 2006. Hubris and some massive brain explosions. Take away those 2 ridiculous intercepts and that mindless penalty before half time and that's a 15 point win.
Relax, the ABs need losses like this to make sure it doesn't happen again.
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Take a chill pill. This was like that Rodders test in 2006. Hubris and some massive brain explosions. Take away those 2 ridiculous intercepts and that mindless penalty before half time and that's a 15 point win.
Relax, the ABs need losses like this to make sure it doesn't happen again.
@rancid-schnitzel That's what makes it so frustrating, we should have buried them. We made 600 odd running metres versus their 200 odd, it's crazy. We have these guys in our group at next year's WC. The last thing that was needed was the Boks getting some self belief that they can beat us. We need to put them away well in South Africa now and erode some of that belief.
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@rancid-schnitzel That's what makes it so frustrating, we should have buried them. We made 600 odd running metres versus their 200 odd, it's crazy. We have these guys in our group at next year's WC. The last thing that was needed was the Boks getting some self belief that they can beat us. We need to put them away well in South Africa now and erode some of that belief.
@akan004 but isn’t that the great thing about sport, the unpredictability. A team might dominate on stat X or Y but still lose because the other team just does a couple of things that turn the game their way.
We lost this time and have a big opportunity to turn it around in a couple of weeks. Some players will need to look at their performance and hopefully learn a few things from it.
World Cups are strange beasts. You can come into it with a certain type of record but that means squat because you could turn up on that day and voila walk into a QF win!
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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:
@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.
Agree. ALB is a 12 not centre. He had a game he will want to forget
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@akan004 said in All Blacks v Springboks:
I think Patty T may have played his last test in an AB jersey. He tends to lose the ball in contact too much. And as much as Ofa has improved, who else was nervous every time a scrum packed down in the 2nd half?
Not me, Ofa was huge out there. Franks is a big concern IMO, and was deservedly yanked after 45mins.
Patrick also had a good game, some big runs and good tight work. Dropped one ball.
@kirwan said in All Blacks v Springboks:
Patrick also had a good game, some big runs and good tight work. Dropped one ball.
One of those drop balls was from a terrible low pass from TJP.
I didn't think Smith's passing was that great either by his standards. One of those games.
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Take a chill pill. This was like that Rodders test in 2006. Hubris and some massive brain explosions. Take away those 2 ridiculous intercepts and that mindless penalty before half time and that's a 15 point win.
Relax, the ABs need losses like this to make sure it doesn't happen again.
@rancid-schnitzel said in All Blacks v Springboks:
Take a chill pill. This was like that Rodders test in 2006. Hubris and some massive brain explosions. Take away those 2 ridiculous intercepts and that mindless penalty before half time and that's a 15 point win.
Relax, the ABs need losses like this to make sure it doesn't happen again.
I was on a plane so didn't get to watch yet. But by the sounds of it they turned up and we had one of those games. Even then we only lost by 2 and could have won it on a late penalty shout not given? Better to take the odd loss know, hopefully it will learn us in time for Japan 2019
