Bledisloe 3
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@act-crusader said in BLEDISLOE 3:
@nepia said in BLEDISLOE 3:
@billy-tell said in BLEDISLOE 3:
Was going to happen eventually. I blame SBW with a ridiculous grubber with about 3 minutes to go.
Barrett >>> Sopoaga.
SBW was probably our best player.
Nah, Read was.
The same Read who gave away two silly penalties in a row in the first half - oh wait, your weekly Crusaders selection extends to MOTM too I see ;).
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@gt12 said in BLEDISLOE 3:
Maybe, but I think we’re worse at 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,12,13,14,and 15.
That’s not to say that the Wobblies aren’t playing well.
Well done Australia, good win. Cleeeeeaaaaarly the better team, which is worrying, because I'm happy to stand by the statement I've made here. We're a shittier now team than we were two years ago, there's no really nice way to say it.
Sure, we were missing a few first teamers, but even then I don't really think that the 2017 team - at full strength - is better than the 2015 team - at full strength. It'll make international rugby interesting, at least, but right now we are very dependent on our second row.
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Well played Wallabies. Should have won by more. They smoked us. Won the collisions and the loose balls - they really wanted this.
DMac had a fucking mare - who knew a midget error prone fullback who makes bad decisions wouldnt work out in the wet?
SBW had a great game aside from that dumb grubber - but Ofa deserves more criticism for his dumb shoulder charge.
We got smoked up front. Whitelock looks out of gas.
Sopoaga was rocks and diamonds. Not what you want in the wet.
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@tim said in BLEDISLOE 3:
NZ were awful. Squire is the worst player in recent memory. A worse six than Todd Blackadder - he really is that bad. Makes no tackles as the first tackler, has no impact as the second. Inspects rucks and doesn't hit them. Against a decent defence he can't even carry the ball. Completely missing in this game, just fucking useless.
The fact that Hansen selects him means that he is as dumb as he looks and sounds. With Smith gone we are in for some mediocre performances.
There was zero intelligence displayed today in any facet of the game.
Now that is the sort of (over) reaction I have come to love on the fern.
Only missing a reference to Kaino
Squire has had some good moments and some average ones this season. Work in progress for sure.
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@reprobate said in BLEDISLOE 3:
If there's one thing I can't stand it's giving the ball away in good attacking positions with shitty kicks.
If there's one thing I can't stand more than that, it's some fucking idiot doing it when down by a couple of points with minutes to play.
Best game from you in ages SBW. Apart from that bit, you game losing dimwit.This. Plus one thousand.
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Squire was called one of the best finds of the season earlier in the RC when he had a brilliant game; now he has a bad game, and suddenly he is the worst? I don't buy either. He's a good player, and until they find a better one, they just need to work on improving him. They have to, because Kaino isn't go to last much longer.
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@act-crusader He had zero good moments tonight. He's a classic flat-track bully.
He was actually worse tonight than in the semi-final against the Crusaders. Absolutely shithouse player. Not good enough for the Chiefs but Hansen picks him ahead of Kaino and Ioane. Moron.
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@gt12 agreed that our 2015 vintage is better than this squad, this 2017 vintage is more like the 2008-9-10 era, we lost depth after 2007.
DC was starting to make his mark, just as Beauden is.
Nonu & Snake were a new midfield really, and we're not really sure our best combo (I still think Crotty/ALB over SBW/Crotty)
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@stargazer said in BLEDISLOE 3:
Squire was called one of the best finds of the season earlier in the RC when he had a brilliant game; now he has a bad game, and suddenly he is the worst? I don't buy either. He's a good player, and until they find a better one, they just need to work on improving him. They have to, because Kaino isn't go to last much longer.
He just doesn't seem to offer anything in tight which Kaino did and which we are sorely needing with Retallick out. Read stepped his game up in that department today.
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@kiwimurph said in BLEDISLOE 3:
Won the collisions and the loose balls
Don't think Foley would agree with that. Fucking huge hit from the reserve prop
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Well done Oz. Through gritted teeth.
Better team on the day, in the second half at least - and it seemed mostly due to a whole lot of Cheika's beloved "mongrel, effort, grit, belief" - and all the other bullshit buzzwords he rolls out as "coaching". So, maybe... he's been a genius all along?
Also - Cane holding up most of the team for 80 minutes, just too exhausted to hold that final ball?
And yeah - SBW, no need to comment on that chip/grubber/? kick, it's already been pointed out as a fucking stupid fluffybunny unnecessary glory-hunting Hail Mary what-the-fuck moment. -
Sopoanga lacked punch required to get backline moving in contact. DMac is not a first five at this level. Crocketts missed tackle before half time and Aaron Smiths poor pass at start of second half when on attack changed game. Some of our players are not quite there and we have others.
