RWC Week 1: France v All Blacks
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@Steve said in RWC: France v All Blacks:
One of Beaudy or Mo'unga need to be dropped.
We can't have two chip kick merchants knocking around.
Im going to smash my TV up if they do that again.
It's been happening since the last world cup.
The axis does not work.
@KiwiMurph said in RWC: France v All Blacks:
@Steve said in RWC: France v All Blacks:
One of Beaudy or Mo'unga need to be dropped.
We can't have two chip kick merchants knocking around.
Im going to smash my TV up if they do that again.
It's been happening since the last world cup.
The axis does not work.
Im sick of it.
Give me Shaun Stevenson over that dross. At least he can bang a ball and has an eye for the try line.
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Well done France - good commitment to breakdowns and sensible options - play for territory and look what happens.
Basic rugby acumen won and lost this game - very poor options from key players. What was Fossies plan ?….. play in our own half as much as we can?
Key areas of concern:
Exits and playing in the right areas of the field. That's why the errors came - BB in particular is a piss poor liability - Dmac any day for me, or put Jordan at 15.Clean outs were piss poor today - Ardie was average for him and shown to be light weight in contact in my opinion. Definitively need another loose forward as we had very little presence at the breakdown. And got players isolated far to much. Please let it be Blackadder.
Might be a bit of a hot take - but felt the ABs lost this more than French won it. France wont win this world cup.
Talea and Scooter our best today.
BB and tactics / options our worst. (Christie off the bench was also poor) -
Nothing fucking changes under Foster same shit that has not worked for 3 years.
Terrible tactical game by Us.@Chris said in RWC: France v All Blacks:
Nothing fucking changes under Foster same shit that has not worked for 3 years.
Terrible tactical game by Us."holding back"
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Interviewing drunk kiwis in a FanZone. Fuck... I thought THAT was a new low.
And then they pull out the inane "up the wahs" - whatever the fuck that means.@Kruse said in RWC: France v All Blacks:
Interviewing drunk kiwis in a FanZone. Fuck... I thought THAT was a new low.
And then they pull out the inane "up the wahs" - whatever the fuck that means.Some inane catchphrase about some other sporting organisation I believe
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We played that like it was super rugby, terrible game plan.
Forwards were soft. Backs clueless at times.
@Kirwan said in RWC: France v All Blacks:
We played that like it was super rugby, terrible game plan.
I can understand the tactics to want to play an uptempo game and tire the French. But that relies on holding onto the ball (not kicking it away) and the ref not wanting to stop the game all the time.
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Well done France - good commitment to breakdowns and sensible options - play for territory and look what happens.
Basic rugby acumen won and lost this game - very poor options from key players. What was Fossies plan ?….. play in our own half as much as we can?
Key areas of concern:
Exits and playing in the right areas of the field. That's why the errors came - BB in particular is a piss poor liability - Dmac any day for me, or put Jordan at 15.Clean outs were piss poor today - Ardie was average for him and shown to be light weight in contact in my opinion. Definitively need another loose forward as we had very little presence at the breakdown. And got players isolated far to much. Please let it be Blackadder.
Might be a bit of a hot take - but felt the ABs lost this more than French won it. France wont win this world cup.
Talea and Scooter our best today.
BB and tactics / options our worst. (Christie off the bench was also poor)@Mattasaurus said in RWC: France v All Blacks:
Well done France - good commitment to breakdowns and sensible options - play for territory and look what happens.
Basic rugby acumen won and lost this game - very poor options from key players. What was Fossies plan ?….. play in our own half as much as we can?
Key areas of concern:
Exits and playing in the right areas of the field. That's why the errors came - BB in particular is a piss poor liability - Dmac any day for me, or put Jordan at 15.Clean outs were piss poor today - Ardie was average for him and shown to be light weight in contact in my opinion. Definitively need another loose forward as we had very little presence at the breakdown. And got players isolated far to much. Please let it be Blackadder.
Might be a bit of a hot take - but felt the ABs lost this more than French won it. France wont win this world cup.
Talea and Scooter our best today.
BB and tactics / options our worst. (Christie off the bench was also poor)100% agree. Although I said it was rugby's version of a rope-a-dope. All they did was make tackles and kick long. 2nd half they just feed off poor exits and knock-ons.
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Small mercies - at least Sam Cane can't wear the flack for this one.
Bigger issue, cupboard is completely bare. Little talent, and even fewer brains.
@Donsteppa yeah I don't think we have the smarts to win the rwc.
I think we have the players and ability, but we want to win it scoring a million tries and looking pretty doing so, we don't want to grind a win like 2011.
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I was expecting/hoping the AB’s to do more in the second half but it was the French who let loose and had that bit of extra in the tank. Bugger! Granted the conditions potentially suited them more (used to their heat/humidity whereas we are coming out of our Winter) but I thought they looked way more nervous in the first 40 than we did.
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Foster is the worst choice ever. Seems a nice guy but he is just not up to it. The icing on the cake would be losing to Ireland in a ¼ final.
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I was expecting/hoping the AB’s to do more in the second half but it was the French who let loose and had that bit of extra in the tank. Bugger! Granted the conditions potentially suited them more (used to their heat/humidity whereas we are coming out of our Winter) but I thought they looked way more nervous in the first 40 than we did.
@allblackfan2 said in RWC: France v All Blacks:
I was expecting/hoping the AB’s to do more in the second half but it was the French who let loose and had that bit of extra in the tank. Bugger! Granted the conditions potentially suited them more (used to their heat/humidity whereas we are coming out of our Winter) but I thought they looked way more nervous in the first 40 than we did.
Using the weather as an excuse is really clutching pal
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@Kruse said in RWC: France v All Blacks:
Interviewing drunk kiwis in a FanZone. Fuck... I thought THAT was a new low.
And then they pull out the inane "up the wahs" - whatever the fuck that means.Some inane catchphrase about some other sporting organisation I believe
@MN5 said in RWC: France v All Blacks:
@Kruse said in RWC: France v All Blacks:
Interviewing drunk kiwis in a FanZone. Fuck... I thought THAT was a new low.
And then they pull out the inane "up the wahs" - whatever the fuck that means.Some inane catchphrase about some other sporting organisation I believe
The wahine? Is this PC mandated supporting of ladies' sport gone mad?
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@Donsteppa yeah I don't think we have the smarts to win the rwc.
I think we have the players and ability, but we want to win it scoring a million tries and looking pretty doing so, we don't want to grind a win like 2011.
@taniwharugby said in RWC: France v All Blacks:
@Donsteppa yeah I don't think we have the smarts to win the rwc.
I think we have the players and ability, but we want to win it scoring a million tries and looking pretty doing so, we don't want to grind a win like 2011.
Razor would definitely get more out of this bunch.
There are a few players who need dropping and Foster hasn't the testicular fortitude to do it.
This lack of ruthlessness has been a hallmark of his tenure and quite soon it will be "4 more years boys".
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The Foster catastrophe was all so predictable. https://www.forum.thesilverfern.com/topic/3557/message-to-the-nzru?_=1694207553537
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Two people who need much greater criticism: Schmidt and Ryan.
They continue to select for and play this game.
@gt12 said in RWC: France v All Blacks:
Two people who need much greater criticism: Schmidt and Ryan.
They continue to select for and play this game.
I thought the forwards were OK for much of this game. The backs, Telea excepted, were crap.
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@MN5 said in RWC: France v All Blacks:
@Kruse said in RWC: France v All Blacks:
Interviewing drunk kiwis in a FanZone. Fuck... I thought THAT was a new low.
And then they pull out the inane "up the wahs" - whatever the fuck that means.Some inane catchphrase about some other sporting organisation I believe
The wahine? Is this PC mandated supporting of ladies' sport gone mad?
@Kruse said in RWC: France v All Blacks:
@MN5 said in RWC: France v All Blacks:
@Kruse said in RWC: France v All Blacks:
Interviewing drunk kiwis in a FanZone. Fuck... I thought THAT was a new low.
And then they pull out the inane "up the wahs" - whatever the fuck that means.Some inane catchphrase about some other sporting organisation I believe
The wahine? Is this PC mandated supporting of ladies' sport gone mad?
Wahs = Warriors.
