MotM vs Australia III
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Todd, Kaino, Crotty
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Todd, Kaino and Coles.
Todd was excellent, got about and defence was huge in the second spell and was a nuisance at the breakdown.
Kaino was Kaino, as was Coles, man he is fast.
What to do with Julian, large parts he was rubbish, but had a couple of moments that I don't think anyone else could have done either, freakish.
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Todd, Perenara - easy
Smith, because no Smith no tries for Savea.
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@cgrant said in MotM vs Australia III:
@Unco
ALB missed too many tackles to be named IMO.
I went for Coles, Todd and J. Savea.A fair point, probably should've given that vote to Crotty, but then Savea made a shit-ton of mistakes too and yet he's getting heaps of votes.
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@DMX said in MotM vs Australia III:
Ben Smith , Todd and Coles. Ben Smith has to be in the All Black great category now, he is a treasure.
Be interesting who gets the World Player of the Year award. Not sure whether a raft of AB contenders could take one-another out, but It would be between Ben Smith, Dane Coles and Beauden Barrett for me - and right now, I've probably got Ben edging it.
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@Unco said in MotM vs Australia III:
@cgrant said in MotM vs Australia III:
@Unco
ALB missed too many tackles to be named IMO.
I went for Coles, Todd and J. Savea.A fair point, probably should've given that vote to Crotty, but then Savea made a shit-ton of mistakes too and yet he's getting heaps of votes.
Crotty had his fair share of errors.. Missed tackles plus the knock on that led to Savea's try.. Our defence was poor.. Basically everyone missed a tackle.. Even Read made a bad read on Foles..
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@Chris-B. said in MotM vs Australia III:
@DMX said in MotM vs Australia III:
Ben Smith , Todd and Coles. Ben Smith has to be in the All Black great category now, he is a treasure.
Be interesting who gets the World Player of the Year award. Not sure whether a raft of AB contenders could take one-another out, but It would be between Ben Smith, Dane Coles and Beauden Barrett for me - and right now, I've probably got Ben edging it.
I would've had Barrett, although one thing Coles might have over the others is captaining his super side to victory...
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@Bones said in MotM vs Australia III:
@Chris-B. said in MotM vs Australia III:
@DMX said in MotM vs Australia III:
Ben Smith , Todd and Coles. Ben Smith has to be in the All Black great category now, he is a treasure.
Be interesting who gets the World Player of the Year award. Not sure whether a raft of AB contenders could take one-another out, but It would be between Ben Smith, Dane Coles and Beauden Barrett for me - and right now, I've probably got Ben edging it.
I would've had Barrett, although one thing Coles might have over the others is captaining his super side to victory...
General play, I'd probably agree. I guess I'm holding Beaudy's goal kicking a bit against him. Someone's doubtless got stats for it - but, I doubt he's at 70% for the ABs or the whole year.
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We probably didn't have a standout performer for 80 this match or even 70.
Probably Ben Smith comes close, but he made a mistake or two. But overall he was our best and most consistent performer.
Todd, Crotty, Savea did a lot of good things but like everyone there were errors.
Some interesting stats, we missed 24 tackles which is high. But OZ had a mountain of possession and they missed 20 tackles of their own.
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After a relaxed re-watch, I change my votes and go for Coles, TJP and Smith as they were consistent. Todd missed that tackle on Arnold and Savea was not good enough in the first half.
Worst performances were Barrett's because of his goalkicking, and Cruden's because of his kicking from hand. -
Some interesting individual stats from the test match, in particular the tackle count and missed tackles.
Whitelock - 19/0
Read - 16/2
Todd - 16/1
Coles - 15/2
Retallick - 13/1
Crotty - 12/1
Moody - 10/4
Perenara - 9/1
Kaino - 8/2
Crockett - 8/1
Franks - 8/1http://www.espn.com.au/rugby/playerstats?gameId=268581&league=268561
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@ACT-Crusader said in MotM vs Australia III:
Some interesting individual stats from the test match, in particular the tackle count and missed tackles.
Whitelock - 19/0
Read - 16/2
Todd - 16/1
Coles - 15/2
Retallick - 13/1
Crotty - 12/1
Moody - 10/4
Perenara - 9/1
Kaino - 8/2
Crockett - 8/1
Franks - 8/1http://www.espn.com.au/rugby/playerstats?gameId=268581&league=268561
A pity for Todd that his one missed tackle stands out more than all the other missed tackles in the game - also in that lead up he'd actually made a crucial tackle which helped stop a try being scored earlier.
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@ACT-Crusader said in MotM vs Australia III:
Some interesting individual stats from the test match, in particular the tackle count and missed tackles.
Whitelock - 19/0
Read - 16/2
Todd - 16/1
Coles - 15/2
Retallick - 13/1
Crotty - 12/1
Moody - 10/4
Perenara - 9/1
Kaino - 8/2
Crockett - 8/1
Franks - 8/1http://www.espn.com.au/rugby/playerstats?gameId=268581&league=268561
Hmmmm, so my placing Kaino first based on some rock star tackles looking shaky.
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4 misses by Moody is a worry!
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@taniwharugby said in MotM vs Australia III:
4 misses by Moody is a worry!
I think that's his "thing" to go along with Franks' "must begin with an offside penalty".
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@Bones said in MotM vs Australia III:
@taniwharugby said in MotM vs Australia III:
4 misses by Moody is a worry!
I think that's his "thing" to go along with Franks' "must begin with an offside penalty".
Our entire team was offside the first few phases, until the ref puts down the marker.
I spent the first minute if the match (internally) shouting at us to get onside.