@roninwc said in MOTM All Blacks v Springbokke II:

Ardie 1st, then Mounga and finally went with Ioane.

Sorry @ploughboy I respectfully disagree. Ardie came in and really put his head down and hit rucks (something he was accused previously as a "leaner"). He was shifting bodies and making tackles. 3 turn overs with 2 of them game changers, the steal on their own tryline and then the steal to set up his own game winning try. Has really turned a corner.

Ardie’s steal on the goalline was The Game-Changer. Boks were ready to score and put the test match to bed. Ardie made sure that didn’t happen.

@chris-b said in MotM vs Pumas II:

@billy-tell said in MotM vs Pumas II:

Karl
Ardie
Codie

Karl with the greatest debut propping season ever for an AB.

Might need to kick a conversion to be ahead of Kent Lambert! 🙂

You'd have to go some to have a more startling debut than Lambert

In 1971 he was playing club rugby as a flanker.

In 1972 he decided to try out as a prop.

Within 12 months he represented NZ Universities, Junior AB's, made his AB debut as a mid weeker (kicking that conversion) made his test debut against Scotland (mighty Mouse Ian McLaughlin) scoring a try and NZ Maori. And competed in the Golden Shears.

All before he turned 21!!!!!

Then fucks off to league after helping beat the Lions in 77 because he can't afford to stay in rugby

@billy-tell Yep agree the water supply was first class

otherwise B Smith, Goodhue and Cody Taylor

Goodhue, ALB and DMac.

Man love for the backs.

@act-crusader said in MotM vs Australia II:

Henry and Hansen obviously didn’t read my emails

spam filters are a bitch

@antipodean said in MotM vs Australia I:

@cgrant said in MotM vs Australia I:

Naholo scored a fantastic try and ripped the ball from Koroibete's hands which led to Goodhue's try.

It' a mark of how depressed and resigned to defeat Wallaby supporters are that they aren't more outraged about that. Koroibete was clearly tackled and Naholo had to release.

A gif was posted on GAGR with someone having a little whine. After watching it I actually thing Naholo was in his rights as he didn't even make a tackle. The ball carrier went to ground voluntarily.

Cant post the gif here as the file size is too big, but here is a link to the thread page http://www.greenandgoldrugby.com/community/threads/bledisloe-1-saturday-18-august-2018-anz-stadium-sydney.18318/page-28

@hooroo said in MotM vs France III:

S Barrett MoM, closely followed by DMac and then I went for Luke Whitelock. I thought he was awesome on defence and he is really nice in the tight.

Ooh err.

I'm surprised to see Ardie hasn't got any votes. I thought he was the best of the forwards, even as a sub, and made the most tackles. At least he looked interested!

Whoops only voted once and for Taylor which is who I said when asked by the bartender in the pub right after the game. Fark he was good!

Here's another cool one from reddit... Todd's goal line defense:

Nov 29, 2017 Watch Matt Todd - Goalline Defence | Streamable Watch Matt Todd - Goalline Defence | Streamable

Watch "Matt Todd - Goalline Defence" on Streamable.

Hames, Dmac and SBW for me. They created many inspirational moments for their team-mates in a toughie

Naholo, Cane and Hames.

@pakman said in MotM vs Barbarians:

TKB went close to my vote. His tactical decision making came just when we needed it and exposed the scratch nature of the oppo.

Agreed. He would have been my 4th choice.

For those criticising the decision to select TKB on this tour, would you have been confident if it was Pulu/Weber/Drummond coming on in the 2nd half?

I'd be having TKB on the bench in Paris. It won't happen though.

@mimic said in MotM vs Australia III:

@hydro11 said in MotM vs Australia III:

@mimic said in MotM vs Australia III:

@hydro11 said in MotM vs Australia III:

@kiwimurph said in MotM vs Australia III:

@hydro11 youll happily vote for Cane who knocked on at the end I see.

Knock ons happen. SBW chose a terrible option. I can get over mistakes - dumb passes, kicks and penalties are tougher to deal with.

Was it a terrible option? He was chipping ahead for Ioane, who we would back for pace..
His offload leading to Ioane's try was high risk, but when it came off it was amazing..
If the grubber came off, people would be lauding SBW for his array of skills.

I went with SBW, Read and Cane.

You might, I wouldn't. I hated the praise Garden-Bachop got for his stupid chip kick the other week.

I guess you weren't a fan of Goldie who used to do it and seemed like he had the ball on a string.

that's a bit different. wilson was generally at full pace with one man in front of him when he did it - and if it wasn't on, he had no problem taking contact. as an option for wilson it was reasonably good percentage-wise, and he was very well-practised at it.
sbw's biggest flaw has always been trying too much on his own. trying low-percentage hero plays. despite a good game, he did it again.

Top 10 after RC:

Retallick 169
Cane 155
A. Smith 111
R. Ioane 109
Read 107
D Mac 84
Whitelock 74
Moody 68
B. Barrett 64
Laulala 62

I'm confused. How can I vote for BBBR when he wasn't there?

SBW was solid I thought. Still not a well oiled combo with BB and Crotty though, can still hesitate 😞
For MotM I thought Ione and Smith (who at one stage was just outrageous), most others excellent, locks and bench especially. Read was there when he needed to be, lineouts and tackles. Also marveled at Cole's magic awareness of where ball would be (but thought he has lost a bit of speed) and Taylor for his pressure when he came on. SB was great, Squire's cameo was wrecking ball material, showed heaps of bogan mongrel (is that bongrel?) Thought of BB as 3rd but he varied from incredible to good to why did he do that, so no.
Went for Cane, really important part of team, so he is my #3.

@Stargazer said in MotM vs Argentina I:

@hydro11 Should calculate average number of votes per games played, if you want to compare players.

Fifita, Jordie and Crotty win that one easily but it doesn't mean much because they have been injured or just not good enough to be selected.

I went all front-row and see I'm only one picking Dane. His lineout throwins were amazing, and the scrum was incredible. Delighted to see him back in black, still a little rusty but for those reasons alone he gets my vote.

No surprise when Crotty n Smith went off they fell to bits. Those two just solidify the team!
Three players
Aaron Smith
Crotty
Rettalick