All Blacks vs Ireland
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@Victor-Meldrew said in All Blacks vs Ireland:
@cgrant said in All Blacks vs Ireland:
With Furlong out, I guess EdG's scrummaging is not critically needed. Williams is usually a good scrummager too and a better all round forward than EdG. Ofa T was excellent from the bench and it would not have been a sensible decision to let one of these two out of the 23.
Reading your post, I noticed we seem to be in a good space in a number of positions we looked to be struggling a year/few months ago. Props, Locks and Halfbacks look good and if Proctor kicks on, the midfield as well. New players like Sititi and Ratima have slotted in and some of the newbies from the last couple of years have really kicked on.
I'm not saying we are going to win but it's great going into tough games knowing we have got a decent forward pack.
Quiet confidence. Decent scrum. Last 3-4 years at times has been dire not knowing where to find a good prop.
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@cgrant said in All Blacks vs Ireland:
With Furlong out, I guess EdG's scrummaging is not critically needed. Williams is usually a good scrummager too and a better all round forward than EdG.
I would like to see Williams more involved around the field than he was against England. He is a good ball-carrier, unlike de Groot, but was largely anonymous. One carry all game for 6 m.
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@The-Irishman said in All Blacks vs Ireland:
Great interview with McKenzie. Classy bloke and I fear him cutting us open tomorrow. Hopefully the he will be put under lots of pressure to force errors.
Will come down to our forwards setting a platform , for me the most underated part of his game is his quick passing game, his hands are pretty slick when hes on
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@The-Irishman said in All Blacks vs Ireland:
Great interview with McKenzie. Classy bloke and I fear him cutting us open tomorrow. Hopefully the he will be put under lots of pressure to force errors.
Thanks for posting that. Great interview. I really like the intelligent way he quickly responds, and the way he sees the game and it's challenges is the way I like to see it.
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@The-Irishman said in All Blacks vs Ireland:
Great interview with McKenzie. Classy bloke and I fear him cutting us open tomorrow. Hopefully the he will be put under lots of pressure to force errors.
I dunno what the Irsh press are doing, we can hear their questions, that's not the way these things are done in NZ!
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@ARHS said in All Blacks vs Ireland:
@The-Irishman said in All Blacks vs Ireland:
Great interview with McKenzie. Classy bloke and I fear him cutting us open tomorrow. Hopefully the he will be put under lots of pressure to force errors.
Thanks for posting that. Great interview. I really like the intelligent way he quickly responds, and the way he sees the game and it's challenges is the way I like to see it.
Would like to see a photo of the interviewer because, based on his voice alone, I am convinced he is a leprechaun.
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@nostrildamus the leprechaun asked some great questions it must be said, not the usual tripe you'd normally hear at these pressers.
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@kiwiinmelb yeah, that's exactly what I meant. His quick passing creating lines and space, totally different input to the game compared to Beauden.
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@The-Irishman said in All Blacks vs Ireland:
@nostrildamus the leprechaun asked some great questions it must be said, not the usual tripe you'd normally hear at these pressers.
He was very good indeed, better than most sports interviewers in this part of the world at any rate! And I was a bit too cheeky, loved his accent. (Well, accent for me, anyway).
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@The-Irishman said in All Blacks vs Ireland:
@nostrildamus the leprechaun asked some great questions it must be said, not the usual tripe you'd normally hear at these pressers.
is this him? https://www.oldwesley.ie/the-occasional-lunch/
Ok doesn't look like a leprechaun. Does look like he enjoys a drink and an anecdote though so all is perhaps not lost. -
@Chris-B said in All Blacks vs Ireland:
A year on from the RWC Final.
Only 11 of this 23 played in that game.
Williams and DMac promoted from that bench to starting. Tele'a has switched wings and Jordan moved to fullback.
Elliott Smith: 'Ireland are in the first stage of grief - denial'
‘Irish are stuck in a cycle of disbelief.’
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@The-Irishman said in All Blacks vs Ireland:
@nostrildamus the leprechaun asked some great questions it must be said, not the usual tripe you'd normally hear at these pressers.
Worth noting that it's not a press conference, it's a one-on-one interview, so much easier for him that for a journo fighting it out with a throng of others to get a line of questioning in.
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@Machpants I think 18 from Ireland who played in that QF, but only 10 from NZ (Tele'a was left out for protocol breach).
Actually, 17 and 9 because neither Crowley nor DMac got off the bench.
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without retirements and injuries what do you reckon those numbers are?
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@nostrildamus yes that's him. He does look a bit leprechaunish in fairness!
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Never go into an AB game with no belief bit I suspect its going to require our best performance under the Razor era thus far
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@kiwiinmelb said in All Blacks vs Ireland:
Never go into an AB game with no belief bit I suspect its going to require our best performance under the Razor era thus far
Ireland or France.
France hands All Blacks historic Rugby World Cup defeat
New Zealand records its first loss in a men's Rugby World Cup pool match, going down 27-13 to host nation France in the tournament opener.
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Watching highlights of that quarter final again and New Zealand players scored some great tries. Lester, Bundee, Ardie, Jameson, Will.
We know what Ireland will bring but on paper their bench seems lacking impact imo. Healy was world class back in the day. He’s now 37 and there because no one else has really stepped up.
