All Blacks 2023

[sparky]

@booboo And they were in the Uk for the week before. And a few of their players live in Europe.

[sparky]

@SBW1 ABs arrived last Saturday. So probably had just less than a week to get ready. Not unheard of but not ideal.

[Machpants]

@booboo said in All Blacks 2023:

@SBW1 said in All Blacks 2023:

jetlagged

Possible contributer. Along with playing bad and them playing good.

Silly question maybe. But as SA is the same timezone as UK jet-lag would not be an issue for them?

Timezone creates jet lag, correct. But flying is still not great for performance athletes. Hardly a new thing, tho

[booboo]

@Machpants said in All Blacks 2023:

But flying is still not great for performance athletes.

Can't really comment. Don't do a lot of flying ...

[nostrildamus]

@booboo said in All Blacks 2023:

@Machpants said in All Blacks 2023:

But flying is still not great for performance athletes.

Can't really comment. Don't do a lot of flying ...

that explains how you can maintain your high performance fern posting

[SBW1]

Really think we should have come over earlier and had an extra warmup game against Japan or one of the island nations or even played in Japan.

[canefan]

@SBW1 said in All Blacks 2023:

Really think we should have come over earlier and had an extra warmup game against Japan or one of the island nations or even played in Japan.

Do we have any more warm up games?

[Machpants]

France v Oz tomorrow, then that's it until RWC

[canefan]

I just had a look at the draw.

So if we win or lose to France and qualify A1 or A2, I don't see much difference between playing Ireland or SA in the QF

If we win that game we will be on either side of the draw depending on our pool position

The opponents will either be England, Oz, Wales or Argentina.

So I guess it's possible for us to lose the opener, and meet France in the final if we were to win through?

[booboo]

@canefan said in All Blacks 2023:

I just had a look at the draw. So if we win or lose to France and qualify A1 or A2, I don't see much difference between playing Ireland or SA in the QF

Am not sure what to make of your post Canefan.

You been following this whole World Cup draw thing over the last three years at all?

[canefan]

@booboo said in All Blacks 2023:

@canefan said in All Blacks 2023:

I just had a look at the draw. So if we win or lose to France and qualify A1 or A2, I don't see much difference between playing Ireland or SA in the QF

Am not sure what to make of your post Canefan.

You been following this whole World Cup draw thing over the last three years at all?

Not really, no

[nostrildamus]

Strategy smategy. Get through the pool, win the must-win sudden death matches including the final. There, fixed it for Foster.

[Machpants]

Current rankings - assuming Oz don't beat France & not including minnows
Pool A (who play Pool B in QFs of Death!)
NZ 4th
France 3rd
Italy 13th

Pool B Pool of Death for good teams
SA 2nd
Ireland 1st
Scotland 5th
Tonga 15th

Pool C Real Pool of Death
Wales 10th
Aus 9th
Fiji 7th
Georgia 11th

Pool D
England 8th
Japan 14th
Argentina 6th
Samoa 12th

So it may be shit for teams ranked 1-5 that one can't make quarters and 3 can't make the semi. But they have ended up very tight pools, outside the real minnows

[chimoaus]

@Machpants Should make for some good viewing for the neutral.

[nostrildamus]

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[akan004]

https://twitter.com/Murray_Kinsella/status/1696188616345567470

[Kiwiwomble]

i think Barrett is bloody lucky, not only was the guy prone on the ground and barrett dove off his feet to hit him, although the initial contact is shoulder i think it definitely slipped up to the head

I said the other week if i was an english fan id be a bit embarrassed when Farrell initially got off...im a bit embarrassed now

[voodoo]

@Machpants said in All Blacks 2023:

Current rankings - assuming Oz don't beat France & not including minnows
Pool A (who play Pool B in QFs of Death!)
NZ 4th
France 3rd
Italy 13th

Pool B Pool of Death for good teams
SA 2nd
Ireland 1st
Scotland 5th
Tonga 15th

Pool C Real Pool of Death
Wales 10th
Aus 9th
Fiji 7th
Georgia 11th

Pool D
England 8th
Japan 14th
Argentina 6th
Samoa 12th

So it may be shit for teams ranked 1-5 that one can't make quarters and 3 can't make the semi. But they have ended up very tight pools, outside the real minnows

Pool of Death seems to me to me a slight misuse of the term when the highest ranked team in the pool is Fiji at 7...if you can't make it out of that pool, one might question your right to be in a QF...

[Machpants]

@voodoo Top four teams in that pool are all ranked very closely, that's probably not a good pool of death. But it will be hard to call

[Stargazer]

@Kiwiwomble Why would you feel embarrassed by something that didn't happen (head contact)?