All Blacks vs Ireland

MajorRage

@taniwharugby said in All Blacks vs Ireland:

Dunno if this has been posted...but it's pretty cool

That annoys me. I really try to dislike BOD based on all the ‘coulda doid’ shit from 2005.

I’ve seen a few clips that paint him in a far more positive light.

Same thing happened with Austin Healy and before him there was Will Carling.

Thank god Jonny Sexton still seems like an absolute cock.

BOD is a pretty good pundit too. Others try to get him to say things to start controversy but he side steps them well. We had him for the QF up here and was really respectful and gave good insight.

Bones

The thick plottens.

Tim

@booboo I did pick us to win in the pre-game poll, but only because it was Ireland's first game of the season. Think we exceeded that expectation!

Tim

Anyone see a good replay of what happened about 12:43 in? Did McCarthy make head contact with his arms on DMac?

Tim

Has anyone done a deep dive on Sititi's defence? He's a brilliant young player, who will be in the team for years, his running game is excellent, he's good over the ball, and he certainly has the x-factor, but how good is his tackling? Seems like an area he can improve in. I would back him to go up a level.

Tim

Jordan runs brilliant lines, and is a great attacking player, but he makes a shit load of mistakes. The quick throw 45 minutes in was insane.

Tim

Rieko Ioane had to clean up so much shit ball, and managed to quickly recycle. Got a few hospital passes!

KiwiInLondon

@Tim said in All Blacks vs Ireland:

Rieko Ioane had to clean up so much shit ball, and managed to quickly recycle. Got a few hospital passes!

@Tim said in All Blacks vs Ireland:

Rieko Ioane had to clean up so much shit ball, and managed to quickly recycle. Got a few hospital passes!

People don’t appreciate just how solid Rieko is in defense and how much crap he has to deal with. Not enough appreciation

Tim

@KiwiInLondon Great hit from him at 50 minutes that spilled the ball. Nice low tackle from Sititi.

Bones

@Tim without doing any kind of deep dive whatsoever, he seems very busy, quick back to position and often well balanced to put in a solid shoulder.

If I was to quantify it with accurate fact, I'd say he's a lovely hybrid of Collins and Sooialo.

Tim

@KiwiInLondon Yeah, because of our wide and flat play, he has to hit a shitload of rucks too.

Bones

Tim

I don't want to shit on him too much, but Cane really got smashed when he had the ball.

Tim

Would be interesting to see the stats on knocks on this game compared to the average. Some very aggressive defense.

Tim

Sititi is a very good link player. Best we've had for a long time.

Tim

@Bones Yeah, that was just a poor kick all round. He should have taken the ball into contact and setup another attack when we had them on the rack. The execution of the kick was poor too. Crappy play. That guy makes a lot of mistakes.

Tim

@Bones In the last 20 minutes he did a lot of work getting wide on defence.

Tim

13 points is a very low total for Ireland, Ioane did really well rushing up and stopping their attack.

Bones

@Tim said in All Blacks vs Ireland:

@Bones Yeah, that was just a poor kick all round. He should have taken the ball into contact and setup another attack when we had them on the rack. The execution of the kick was poor too. Crappy play. That guy makes a lot of mistakes.

I just don't get the free pass he gets for (fairly frequent to be fair) miracle tries when he surely costs us more than 5 points a game from dismal or brainless play. On defence and attack.

kiwiinmelb

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All Blacks vs Ireland