All Blacks v Ireland - 1st Test
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@Tim said in All Blacks v Ireland - 1st Test:
On the 33 minute mark, Ireland have begun to look tired, and Savea gets his excellent Fringe running game going - it's probably game over if you give an AB team with a 9 point lead that bit of time and space.
Beauden Barrett defending very well. Kicking game pretty good too, after an early nothing kick.
Thank you, I felt like I was watching a different game to some posters wanking on about how bad Beauden's kicking was. He even got blamed for a try as one of his kicks from inside the 22 was caught by an Irish player on the 50m line.
@No-Quarter Gibson-Park's brainfart was the kind of thing a test player should never do, and gifted the ball to the AB's on Ireland's 22, but Barrett's grubber for Tupaea was absolutely perfect. Beautiful play.
Smith's try was just cruel.
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Reece's 29th minute try was due to a very laboured, and inaccurate, pass from Sexton. I guess he had gotten his head knock when he slipped into a tackle a few phases earlier.
Up until that point the game was pretty even. NZ making some mistakes, but our set-piece was better.
@Tim said in All Blacks v Ireland - 1st Test:
Reece's 29th minute try was due to a very laboured, and inaccurate, pass from Sexton. I guess he had gotten his head knock when he slipped into a tackle a few phases earlier.
Up until that point the game was pretty even. NZ making some mistakes, but our set-piece was better.
That whole passage of play from the Irish, even before Sexton was pretty untidy, there was a fumble backwards prior to the sexton contact and was a mess from there
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On the 33 minute mark, Ireland have begun to look tired, and Savea gets his excellent Fringe running game going - it's probably game over if you give an AB team with a 9 point lead that bit of time and space.
Beauden Barrett defending very well. Kicking game pretty good too, after an early nothing kick.
@Tim said in All Blacks v Ireland - 1st Test:
Beauden Barrett defending very well.
Yep, very noticeable at the game that he made some important tackles. The Reece try was from a BB tackle creating a loose ball.
Kicking game pretty good too, after an early nothing kick.
I thought that a couple of kicks from deep in the 1st half could have been better directed when he kicked directly downfield. That could have been BB's intention but there was so much space wider for a wipers kick.
BB was considered in my MOTM voting.
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@Tim said in All Blacks v Ireland - 1st Test:
Reece's 29th minute try was due to a very laboured, and inaccurate, pass from Sexton. I guess he had gotten his head knock when he slipped into a tackle a few phases earlier.
Up until that point the game was pretty even. NZ making some mistakes, but our set-piece was better.
That whole passage of play from the Irish, even before Sexton was pretty untidy, there was a fumble backwards prior to the sexton contact and was a mess from there
@taniwharugby said in All Blacks v Ireland - 1st Test:
@Tim said in All Blacks v Ireland - 1st Test:
Reece's 29th minute try was due to a very laboured, and inaccurate, pass from Sexton. I guess he had gotten his head knock when he slipped into a tackle a few phases earlier.
Up until that point the game was pretty even. NZ making some mistakes, but our set-piece was better.
That whole passage of play from the Irish, even before Sexton was pretty untidy, there was a fumble backwards prior to the sexton contact and was a mess from there
That whole passage of play was the perfect example of how and when things will go wrong for a team like Ireland when they go off script.
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Irish openside didn't even get close to breaking from the scrum when Sowakula scored. :grinning_squinting_face: Massively pumped at scrum time.
@Tim yeah they werent happy with the ref on that, but Sowakula is already past the flanker by the time he realises and breaks into the ref, they were never getting him there.
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@Machpants said in All Blacks v Ireland - 1st Test:
@Duluth is there any actual analysis or is it just jizzing over good bits?
There is no proper analysis on that show. Considering some of the pundits coached to a high level it's shameful
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we need to hunt down who has been telling Kirwan SB had a "Kaino like performance"....they need to post on here
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we need to hunt down who has been telling Kirwan SB had a "Kaino like performance"....they need to post on here
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