Bledisloe One: Wellington, October 11

[Kiwiwomble]

@broughie said in Bledisloe One: Wellington, October 11:

@Kiwiwomble true but our problems in general are at 6 and 8 where her plays, and also with the head coach.

I thought most of the backline was a much bigger weakness than the loosies, frizell had more tackles than cane at half time

[mariner4life]

@Tim said in Bledisloe One: Wellington, October 11:

@Kiwiwomble Nonsense. Our fringe defence was garbage and Australia made big gains down the blindside all day. Frizzell is a clear weakness.

I don't think he was terrible, but neither do I think he added much.

Pur forwards were not any harder than last year. And that was substandard

Cane is gutted. Easily our best today.

[Tim]

@akan004 said in Bledisloe One: Wellington, October 11:

@Tim said in Bledisloe One: Wellington, October 11:

@Kiwiwomble Nonsense. Our fringe defence was garbage and Australia made big gains down the blindside all day. Frizzell is a clear weakness.

Paps or Grace has to come in for Frizell and Hoskins for Ardie.

Absolutely.

[No Quarter]

@Steven-Harris said in Bledisloe One: Wellington, October 11:

Caleb Clark nailed down a starting position in my opinion , so strong

He nailed down a starting position before the test started. Picking Bridge ahead of him is just braindead bullshit. There's a lot of daylight between those two players.

Worse still they paired Bridge up with DMac and Jordie. We had no variety and no real power in our back three.

[Lafleur]

@Stargazer said in Bledisloe One: Wellington, October 11:

Stats

Best tacklers

Tackles - missed tackles
Sam Cane 25 - 0
Joe Moody 16 - 0
Jack Goodhue 15 - 1
Sam Whitelock 15 - 1
Shannon Frizell 15 - 2

Ofa 14 - 4 (most missed tackles)

Sam Cane is a monster!

[booboo]

@Stargazer said in Bledisloe One: Wellington, October 11:

Stats

Best tacklers

Tackles - missed tackles
Sam Cane 25 - 0
Joe Moody 16 - 0
Jack Goodhue 15 - 1
Sam Whitelock 15 - 1
Shannon Frizell 15 - 2

Ofa 14 - 4 (most missed tackles)

Cane or Savea?

[Kirwan]

@No-Quarter said in Bledisloe One: Wellington, October 11:

@Steven-Harris said in Bledisloe One: Wellington, October 11:

Caleb Clark nailed down a starting position in my opinion , so strong

He nailed down a starting position before the test started. Picking Bridge ahead of him is just braindead bullshit. There's a lot of daylight between those two players.

Worse still they paired Bridge up with DMac and Jordie. We had no variety and no real power in our back three.

Exactly why I was worried about the safety first selections. We have gone backwards since 2019.

[rotated]

Also the 1994 streak goes next week unless Aussie really under perform. There is nothing from the past few years that shows they can make the necessary adjustments.

[booboo]

@Kiwiwomble said in Bledisloe One: Wellington, October 11:

@broughie said in Bledisloe One: Wellington, October 11:

@Kiwiwomble true but our problems in general are at 6 and 8 where her plays, and also with the head coach.

I thought most of the backline was a much bigger weakness than the loosies, frizell had more tackles than cane at half time

Because they were all out of position

[Stag]

Cane was fantastic as a player and average as a captain

[Kiwiwomble]

@booboo said in Bledisloe One: Wellington, October 11:

@Kiwiwomble said in Bledisloe One: Wellington, October 11:

@broughie said in Bledisloe One: Wellington, October 11:

@Kiwiwomble true but our problems in general are at 6 and 8 where her plays, and also with the head coach.

I thought most of the backline was a much bigger weakness than the loosies, frizell had more tackles than cane at half time

Because they were all out of position

Not arguing with that

[mariner4life]

@Stargazer said in Bledisloe One: Wellington, October 11:

Stats

Best tacklers

Tackles - missed tackles
Sam Cane 25 - 0
Joe Moody 16 - 0
Jack Goodhue 15 - 1
Sam Whitelock 15 - 1
Shannon Frizell 15 - 2

Ofa 14 - 4 (most missed tackles)

Ofa doesn't surprise me. To the naked eye he's trying to smash every tackle he makes, meaning he's missing a few. Needs to pick his moments rather than always look for thr big shot

Look at that Sam cane coloured egg all over shark's face

[Stargazer]

Stats

Possession - territory
All Blacks 39 % - 39 %
Wallabies 61 % - 61 %

[broughie]

@Kiwiwomble tackle count means nothing. Dominant tackles where you stop people in their tracks Is what we need. We never talked about Kaino’s tackle count. It was the impact of the tackles.

[mariner4life]

@Tim said in Bledisloe One: Wellington, October 11:

@Stag Savea sure isn't an 8, and it showed alright! His defence was chop.

I liked when he got owned by white

[Kiwiwomble]

@broughie said in Bledisloe One: Wellington, October 11:

@Kiwiwomble tackle count means nothing. Dominant tackles where you stop people in their tracks Is what we need. We never talked about Kaino’s tackle count. It was the impact of the tackles.

Never?

[mariner4life]

@Stargazer said in Bledisloe One: Wellington, October 11:

Stats

Possession - territory
All Blacks 39 % - 39 %
Wallabies 61 % - 61 %

yep, when the stats back up the eye test

[Tim]

@mariner4life said in Bledisloe One: Wellington, October 11:

Look at that Sam cane coloured egg all over shark's face

I'm looking forward to some great comments about how super coach Rueben Thorne doesn't rate Akira Ioane.

[Stag]

@mariner4life Cane was fantastic as a player, probably the best on the field, very average as a captain

[Chris B.]

So.....We're basically fucked.

Our coaches are shit and we've only got about two players who are up to playing in tests.

Luckily we can call up Flash Jordan....AAAAH..AAAH ....King of the Impossible!