RWC SF: All Blacks v Argentina

[Bones]

@booboo said in RWC SF: All Blacks v Argentina:

@Bones said in RWC SF: All Blacks v Argentina:

@Kiwiwomble said in RWC SF: All Blacks v Argentina:

@Bones said in RWC SF: All Blacks v Argentina:

@Winger said in RWC SF: All Blacks v Argentina:

@stodders

Christie again

FFS. Let's hope Smith stays on for the full 80 minutes again.
(unless the AB's have a big lead with say 20 10 5 minutes left).

As we found out last week, we're better off just sending Aaron to stand behind the try line for 5 minutes either side of halftime and play with 14.

with at most 2 more games in the black jersey...good bloody luck getting him off the field i would say

I'm hoping the try line is on the field this week.

Pretty sure selections reflect this

You've heard then

[LagerLout]

@DaGrubster the day of that 'greatest game of Rugby ever' in 2000 in Sydney, the entire team was in a lappy bar in town drinking and err cahorting. Didn't seem to impact them that night, maybe they should do it again lol

[Bones]

@LagerLout said in RWC SF: All Blacks v Argentina:

@DaGrubster the day of that 'greatest game of Rugby ever' in 2000 in Sydney, the entire team was in a lappy bar in town drinking and err cahorting. Didn't seem to impact them that night, maybe they should do it again lol

Well yeah, cheap buffet innit

[ACT Crusader]

@canefan said in RWC SF: All Blacks v Argentina:

@Rancid-Schnitzel said in RWC SF: All Blacks v Argentina:

@Victor-Meldrew said in RWC SF: All Blacks v Argentina:

@Rancid-Schnitzel said in RWC SF: All Blacks v Argentina:

And Jordie should have been 12 long ago.

Anyone know how many Super Rugby Games Jordie has started at 12 before Foster put him there?

Probably as many as he started on the wing or at 13.

When he filled in at MF during the Lions tour I knew he could do it, as did you. It took a while but everyone else eventually caught up mate...

Hate to rain on yours and @Rancid-Schnitzel little parade but if you got back through the TSF history books you will find that I was a very early advocate of him playing 2nd 5 when he was just a young pup playing for Canterbury. And sure enough Razor got my emails back in 2016 and played him there….

[voodoo]

Watching the Stan preview, 2 things spring to mind:

1. It’s extraordinary that SBW is getting paid to speak; and
2. We are going to put 30 on Argentina on Saturday

[booboo]

@Bones said in RWC SF: All Blacks v Argentina:

@booboo said in RWC SF: All Blacks v Argentina:

@Bones said in RWC SF: All Blacks v Argentina:

@Kiwiwomble said in RWC SF: All Blacks v Argentina:

@Bones said in RWC SF: All Blacks v Argentina:

@Winger said in RWC SF: All Blacks v Argentina:

@stodders

Christie again

FFS. Let's hope Smith stays on for the full 80 minutes again.
(unless the AB's have a big lead with say 20 10 5 minutes left).

As we found out last week, we're better off just sending Aaron to stand behind the try line for 5 minutes either side of halftime and play with 14.

with at most 2 more games in the black jersey...good bloody luck getting him off the field i would say

I'm hoping the try line is on the field this week.

Pretty sure selections reflect this

You've heard then

[ACT Crusader]

@voodoo said in RWC SF: All Blacks v Argentina:

Watching the Stan preview, 2 things spring to mind:

1. It’s extraordinary that SBW is getting paid to speak; and
2. We are going to put 30 on Argentina on Saturday

Gummon bro, take it easy on the uso.

[stodders]

@voodoo Argentina to score 31?

[DaGrubster]

@Bones

Beware the clam chowder!

[Rancid Schnitzel]

@ACT-Crusader said in RWC SF: All Blacks v Argentina:

@canefan said in RWC SF: All Blacks v Argentina:

@Rancid-Schnitzel said in RWC SF: All Blacks v Argentina:

@Victor-Meldrew said in RWC SF: All Blacks v Argentina:

@Rancid-Schnitzel said in RWC SF: All Blacks v Argentina:

And Jordie should have been 12 long ago.

Anyone know how many Super Rugby Games Jordie has started at 12 before Foster put him there?

Probably as many as he started on the wing or at 13.

When he filled in at MF during the Lions tour I knew he could do it, as did you. It took a while but everyone else eventually caught up mate...

Hate to rain on yours and @Rancid-Schnitzel little parade but if you got back through the TSF history books you will find that I was a very early advocate of him playing 2nd 5 when he was just a young pup playing for Canterbury. And sure enough Razor got my emails back in 2016 and played him there….

Don't want to turn this into a "4 Yorkshiremen" skit but you would also find that I too was advocating for him around that time. But it was a no brainer because he was playing for the NZ U20s and Canterbury at.....farking 12.

[Rancid Schnitzel]

@ACT-Crusader said in RWC SF: All Blacks v Argentina:

@voodoo said in RWC SF: All Blacks v Argentina:

Watching the Stan preview, 2 things spring to mind:

1. It’s extraordinary that SBW is getting paid to speak; and
2. We are going to put 30 on Argentina on Saturday

Gummon bro, take it easy on the uso.

It's more imam than uso these days....

[Victor Meldrew]

@ACT-Crusader said in RWC SF: All Blacks v Argentina:

@canefan said in RWC SF: All Blacks v Argentina:

@Rancid-Schnitzel said in RWC SF: All Blacks v Argentina:

@Victor-Meldrew said in RWC SF: All Blacks v Argentina:

@Rancid-Schnitzel said in RWC SF: All Blacks v Argentina:

And Jordie should have been 12 long ago.

Anyone know how many Super Rugby Games Jordie has started at 12 before Foster put him there?

Probably as many as he started on the wing or at 13.

When he filled in at MF during the Lions tour I knew he could do it, as did you. It took a while but everyone else eventually caught up mate...

Hate to rain on yours and @Rancid-Schnitzel little parade but if you got back through the TSF history books you will find that I was a very early advocate of him playing 2nd 5 when he was just a young pup playing for Canterbury. And sure enough Razor got my emails back in 2016 and played him there….

Let's hope he carries that 2016 U20 knockout stage form into the Argentinian semi then.

[Jailbreak7]

Shite the European Music awards due to be held in Paris in Nov have just been cancelled......please rugby gods let our comp be played out as it should be...

[Machpants]

@LagerLout said in RWC SF: All Blacks v Argentina:

@DaGrubster the day of that 'greatest game of Rugby ever' in 2000 in Sydney, the entire team was in a lappy bar in town drinking and err cahorting. Didn't seem to impact them that night, maybe they should do it again lol

As long was they weren't cavorting with the strippers, all good.

[Dan54]

@canefan said in RWC SF: All Blacks v Argentina:

@Rancid-Schnitzel said in RWC SF: All Blacks v Argentina:

@Victor-Meldrew said in RWC SF: All Blacks v Argentina:

@Rancid-Schnitzel said in RWC SF: All Blacks v Argentina:

And Jordie should have been 12 long ago.

Anyone know how many Super Rugby Games Jordie has started at 12 before Foster put him there?

Probably as many as he started on the wing or at 13.

When he filled in at MF during the Lions tour I knew he could do it, as did you. It took a while but everyone else eventually caught up mate...

Well as he played 12 for NZ U20s and was always a 12, he also always said he preferred 12 as a position it was certainly nothing new. He played there for Canterbury and had a few games for Canes there, can't remember how many.

[kiwiinmelb]

@Dan54 said in RWC SF: All Blacks v Argentina:

@canefan said in RWC SF: All Blacks v Argentina:

@Rancid-Schnitzel said in RWC SF: All Blacks v Argentina:

@Victor-Meldrew said in RWC SF: All Blacks v Argentina:

@Rancid-Schnitzel said in RWC SF: All Blacks v Argentina:

And Jordie should have been 12 long ago.

Anyone know how many Super Rugby Games Jordie has started at 12 before Foster put him there?

Probably as many as he started on the wing or at 13.

When he filled in at MF during the Lions tour I knew he could do it, as did you. It took a while but everyone else eventually caught up mate...

Well as he played 12 for NZ U20s and was always a 12, he also always said he preferred 12 as a position it was certainly nothing new. He played there for Canterbury and had a few games for Canes there, can't remember how many.

Always looked like a utility type with his skills , can understand why he didn’t play much 12 in seniors in the beginning because he was just so tall and skinny looking , and then he started looking at home at fb.

, but i thought it was always a possibility he may return there down the track if he bulked up .

[Dan54]

Just an interesting question in my mind, for the semi's this weekend, have we ever been in the situation where 3 of the 4 teams have suffered a loss before semis and were second in their pools?

[canefan]

@Dan54 said in RWC SF: All Blacks v Argentina:

Just an interesting question in my mind, for the semi's this weekend, have we ever been in the situation where 3 of the 4 teams have suffered a loss before semis and were second in their pools?

Not unsurprising when the general consensus before the tournament was that this RWC would be the most openly contested ever

[stodders]

Minutes played by Arg and NZ squads in World Cup so far:

https://x.com/rpetty80/status/1714949409639747959?s=46&t=Xyr9rqvpyxuZ6mu4OxMcYA

[stodders]

A better table showing the SF squads by position

https://x.com/analystgus/status/1714966442439790815?s=46&t=Xyr9rqvpyxuZ6mu4OxMcYA