RWC Week 2: All Blacks v Namibia

[stodders]

@Canes4life Retallick

[sparky]

Cam Roigard.

That’s the post.

[stodders]

@sparky at least Robertson knows he has one decent 9 next year

[taniwharugby]

@Canes4life Dmac was bi-polar in that game, back to his headless worst in the final 15 or so, otherwise very good

[JayCee]

Will EDG be available for the 1/4s?

[gt12]

@Tim said in RWC Week 2: All Blacks v Namibia:

@gt12 Three awful games in a row.

Our props, overall, are a long way away from being a WC group.

EDG has the skill but lacks brains and consistency, Newell and Williams aren’t ready, Ofa and Laulala are defensive liabilities.

None of them can really carry for shit.

[Steven Harris]

@Gunner theres a few back in NZ that are way better than Christie , possibly one of the poorest selections for a RWC squad

[Steve]

@stodders said in RWC Week 2: All Blacks v Namibia:

@Steve I blame SBW

Garces certainly opened the proverbial floodgates. And our turning of the other cheek let everyone else ride rough shod over us ever since.

[Machpants]

@JayCee said in RWC Week 2: All Blacks v Namibia:

Will EDG be available for the 1/4s?

Tackle school yes

[The Irishman]

@hydro11 said in RWC Week 2: All Blacks v Namibia:

@gt12 said in RWC Week 2: All Blacks v Namibia:

EDG seems to be an absolute meathead.

How is that a meathead? You are committed to a tackle, then the guy gets tackled to change height. It isn't even a shoulder direct to the head, it is a glancing blow and inadvertent. Nothing he could do there, really.

Jesus. Seriously? Where was the attempt to wrap?

[Billy Tell]

@gt12 said in RWC Week 2: All Blacks v Namibia:

@Tim said in RWC Week 2: All Blacks v Namibia:

@gt12 Three awful games in a row.

Our props, overall, are a long way away from being a WC group.

EDG has the skill but lacks brains and consistency, Newell and Williams aren’t ready, Ofa and Laulala are defensive liabilities.

None of them can really carry for shit.

Yeah it’s our Achilles heel.

[Old Samurai Jack]

LF, Cam, and Dmac the best.
LF lacks pace but boy the lad creates and is busy.

[canefan]

@taniwharugby said in RWC Week 2: All Blacks v Namibia:

@Canes4life Dmac was bi-polar in that game, back to his headless worst in the final 15 or so, otherwise very good

Needs to stay consistent for the whole match

[akan004]

@hydro11 said in RWC Week 2: All Blacks v Namibia:

@gt12 said in RWC Week 2: All Blacks v Namibia:

EDG seems to be an absolute meathead.

How is that a meathead? You are committed to a tackle, then the guy gets tackled to change height. It isn't even a shoulder direct to the head, it is a glancing blow and inadvertent. Nothing he could do there, really.

He simply shouldn't have gone so high. Stupid play.

[Kirwan]

@Duluth said in RWC Week 2: All Blacks v Namibia:

@Tim said in RWC Week 2: All Blacks v Namibia:

@Duluth Very dumb to go into a tackle like that in one of these games.

Guy is addicted to giving away penalties.

Exactly. Regardless of what card it is or if there is a suspension that was some low IQ shit

Unbelievably stupid thing to do 60 points up.

[Machpants]

@The-Irishman said in RWC Week 2: All Blacks v Namibia:

@hydro11 said in RWC Week 2: All Blacks v Namibia:

@gt12 said in RWC Week 2: All Blacks v Namibia:

EDG seems to be an absolute meathead.

How is that a meathead? You are committed to a tackle, then the guy gets tackled to change height. It isn't even a shoulder direct to the head, it is a glancing blow and inadvertent. Nothing he could do there, really.

Jesus. Seriously? Where was the attempt to wrap?

His arm was not tucked, appeared ready to wrap, but knocked away from a wrap by the impact of tackled players arm. So does that make it a tackle or shoulder charge, cos the was no wrap.

But all we talk about is the card sadly

[antipodean]

@hydro11 said in RWC Week 2: All Blacks v Namibia:

@gt12 said in RWC Week 2: All Blacks v Namibia:

EDG seems to be an absolute meathead.

How is that a meathead? You are committed to a tackle, then the guy gets tackled to change height. It isn't even a shoulder direct to the head, it is a glancing blow and inadvertent. Nothing he could do there, really.

Get lower and not lead with a shoulder across his body? Even his technique was shit. The sooner Mcleod is sacked, the better.

[Canes4life]

Shame we are talking about a red card. We should be talking about how good Cam Roigard was. De Groot you dick.

[MN5]

@gt12 said in RWC Week 2: All Blacks v Namibia:

@Tim said in RWC Week 2: All Blacks v Namibia:

@gt12 Three awful games in a row.

Our props, overall, are a long way away from being a WC group.

EDG has the skill but lacks brains and consistency, Newell and Williams aren’t ready, Ofa and Laulala are defensive liabilities.

None of them can really carry for shit.

….and I look at a guy like Ofa and don’t know why. He looks like he should be able to run through brick walls.

[His Bobness]

Red cards a lottery. The adjudication is farcical. No problem with being vigilant in protecting heads but there is no consistency in the rulings.