All Blacks vs Ireland
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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.
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@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
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@KiwiInLondon Great hit from him at 50 minutes that spilled the ball. Nice low tackle from Sititi.
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@KiwiInLondon Yeah, because of our wide and flat play, he has to hit a shitload of rucks too.
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@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.
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@kiwiinmelb said in All Blacks vs Ireland:
@chchfanatic said in All Blacks vs Ireland:
Shit I like this new coaching group. They seem to know what they’re doing after all.
Some of you guys should read back what you write during the games.Coaching the ABs is a results based business,
Win you will be a hero , lose you will be the opposite,
And It’s never been any different
There was similar negativity with Henry and Hansen at times and they took us through our most successful era .
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@kiwiinmelb said in All Blacks vs Ireland:
@kiwiinmelb said in All Blacks vs Ireland:
@chchfanatic said in All Blacks vs Ireland:
Shit I like this new coaching group. They seem to know what they’re doing after all.
Some of you guys should read back what you write during the games.Coaching the ABs is a results based business,
Win you will be a hero , lose you will be the opposite,
And It’s never been any different
There was similar negativity with Henry and Hansen at times and they took us through our most successful era .
It was a long time ago, but the difference being I don't recall injury being their best selector.
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Don’t know if it’s been said but I was super impressed with the skipper Scott Barrett on a few levels
I thought his general play was exceptional and he picked off a couple of lineouts
but more importantly is growing into his captaincy making good calls when points were on offer
It was also great to see Scooter standing up for fellow player , not taking a backward step when the opposition was obviously putting in some unwanted attention -
@Bones said in All Blacks vs Ireland:
@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.
I disagree that he costs more than he gives.
His attacking lines are great, he gets himself in the right place to score tries more than anybody else - and at fullback he has more scope to do that more often. Once he's in space the blinkers are on and he doesn't look for support, and he has a tendency to kick the ball away (and call for others to kick for him) - which is fucking annoying, but hopefully that improves.
To me there is a bit of a parallel to some of the McKenzie criticism. If makes a break that only he would make, then fucks it up... is that better or worse than e.g. a Harry Plummer or a Perofeta not making the break, even if they wouldn't have fucked it up if they had made it? To me it's worse, because we want to play with ambition. There's only so many chances you give of course, but if you go too conservative I think you risk discarding guys like Ma'a Nonu.
You also have to look at the competition for the 15 spot, which isn't exactly red hot.
