All Blacks v BI Lions Test #2
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@Stockcar86 said in All Blacks v BI Lions Test #2:
LOL, UK commentators saying that at 9 all at halftime against 14 players, this game is 50-50
They weren't far off!
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@hydro11 I wouldn't expect SBW to be booed in Black but I expect there to be immense pressure if he is ever selected again. It's true he offers something that no other player does but if he can't control himself he can't be selected in big games and if he can't be selected in big games he can't play at all as the ABs are better off developing someone else.
It's not great because I would prefer that the ABs were able to utilise his skills but I don't see any way around it.
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@Siam said in All Blacks v BI Lions Test #2:
Reading people saying SBW should never play for the All Blacks again makes me think of hysterical wimmin
Agreed, seems to be a bit of losing the plot going on.
Also, re: TJP, I've just seen a front on shot of the Murray try and I think TJP has a case - I didn't see it on either of the replays when watching the game (had people over so couldn't do my usual rewind and watch again). He was being held, he had to jump out of the hold and moved away from the exact whole Murray ran into.
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@No-Quarter said in All Blacks v BI Lions Test #2:
Beauden wasn't total shit but I think the Carter vs Beauden debate was answered to a large degree. Carter thrived in games like that, Beauden has freakish skills but doesn't have the same leadership & game management Carter had.
Answered? Ones finished a long career, the other has tons of time.
One loss and typically we kiwis go off the deep end.
We'll be better next week, the rest of the team will step up, give him a platform and hopefully win from there!
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I'll be happy to be proven wrong, but the part I like least is that he does this in big games. In the games where need him to be at his best, he's at his worst - it's only small decisions, but they are more costly than they used to be.
I agree that he won't be there in 2019, and he can't be trusted to be the ground gaining 2nd five without significant risk.
Now, if we use World according to Garp logic, he's been pre-disastered, so should be RC free for another 20 tests
But, I think he's a risk, and I just don't see the value in investing any more time in him in an AB jersey. -
@MadGav said in All Blacks v BI Lions Test #2:
Those blaming Barrett need to take a few breaths.
He missed a few, sure.
He still kicked 7 penalties and all our points. Carter had plenty of kicking nights like his.
We have always known that Barret is a really average kicker so it's a bit rich to blame him now for his poor kicking. But his last play was pathetic, time is up and you chip the ball from inside your 22. That was almost as dumb as Cruden's cross kick with a minute to go.
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@Siam said in All Blacks v BI Lions Test #2:
@Nepia Yeah i thought that at first but in reality he got out of the hold easily and flanked left, leaving the hole.
Nah, Murray beat him fair and squareHaha, we've reversed our positions on it, I thought the other way at first but watching the replay I think the act of getting out of the hold, easy or not, was what pushed him wide as he had to go left to get out of it.
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@Siam yep in his own over-excited unique way, TJP went the wrong way too quickly. He made a very good cover tackle in the lead up to that phase.
No case to answer for there.
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@MadGav said in All Blacks v BI Lions Test #2:
@No-Quarter said in All Blacks v BI Lions Test #2:
Beauden wasn't total shit but I think the Carter vs Beauden debate was answered to a large degree. Carter thrived in games like that, Beauden has freakish skills but doesn't have the same leadership & game management Carter had.
Answered? Ones finished a long career, the other has tons of time.
One loss and typically we kiwis go off the deep end.
We'll be better next week, the rest of the team will step up, give him a platform and hopefully win from there!
Thing is, no ab flyhalf in the last 60 odd years has had to play the majority of the game with 14 men.
I think Carter may have handled it better, but it's hard to say because he was never in that situation. All I know is that teams that go one player down at any early stage tend to get arse raped. It was an incredible effort to even be in a winning position.
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@Rancid-Schnitzel said in All Blacks v BI Lions Test #2:
I think Carter may have handled it better, but it's hard to say because he was never in that situation. All I know is that teams that go one player down at any early stage tend to get arse raped. It was an incredible effort to even be in a winning position.
Exactly, you can't compare - Barrett wasn't even playing 10 for the game.
Thought we did bloody well to almost win it, soft defence for the first try killed us.
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@akan004 said in All Blacks v BI Lions Test #2:
@MadGav said in All Blacks v BI Lions Test #2:
Those blaming Barrett need to take a few breaths.
He missed a few, sure.
He still kicked 7 penalties and all our points. Carter had plenty of kicking nights like his.
We have always known that Barret is a really average kicker so it's a bit rich to blame him now for his poor kicking. But his last play was pathetic, time is up and you chip the ball from inside your 22. That was almost as dumb as Cruden's cross kick with a minute to go.
That's a bit harsh. He was thrown the ball, he had no support, and there was a wall of Lions players running right at him. Crudens kick was at the other end of the field while hot on attack.
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@akan004 said in All Blacks v BI Lions Test #2:
We have always known that Barret is a really average kicker so it's a bit rich to blame him now for his poor kicking. But his last play was pathetic, time is up and you chip the ball from inside your 22. That was almost as dumb as Cruden's cross kick with a minute to go.
A really average kicker wouldn't have kicked 7 penalties in the those conditions. The last play we had nothing else on and a wall of red in front, miracles don't always happen.
So much hyperbole after a loss!
Looking forward to next week.
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barrett's chip is indefensible. it wasn't on, there was no space. he needed to try to find some support and recycle.
as for SBW offering something nobody else does, that's bullshit too i reckon. ALB has as good an offloading game, (it was Luatua's offload that made the West try for the blues), Laumape is a more effective battering ram, Fekitoa is a more physical defender, and Crotty is a more reliable defender, a far better organiser and passer, and makes a fraction of the errors. What exactly is it that he offers that nobody else does, if it isn't defence, offloading, passing, pace, brains?
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@KiwiMurph said in All Blacks v BI Lions Test #2:
I'm not sure why some are so certain that SBW won't be around for 2019 RWC - he's signed up to the end of 2019.
Ha, oops.
I'm way fucked off though. I don't see how, as a coach, you ca be happy with that. It probably depends on whether you think it was intentional (my opinion) or not. If so, how do you pick him? It was perhaps forgivable in 2011 as a new convert, but now? WTF?
