Bledisloe 3
-
@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.
-
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.
-
@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.
-
@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)
2017 locks are world class, front row much a muchness. -
@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.
-
@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
-
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.
-
@rocky-rockbottom said in BLEDISLOE 3:
Garbage. Stone cold fucking garbage. Well deserved win to Aus
Sopoaga somehow just perfunctory, almost too measured. All those junctures when BB hits 4th or 5th gear, Sopoaga just didnt chance it. Played it safe in wet weather? The fucken aussies didnt. Plus they dropped the ball about 40 fucking times.
Mccaw's red heads/blue heads era frantically biffed out the fucken window from the 300th fucken floor. wft was that. no venon for 1st 50 then hit rudderless panic stations. Coles a deranged lippy out-of-control maniac. Read complicit. The caretaker dwarf at #15 a skittish dervish. The sky is falling and I want my mummy.
Gotta love this, it made me laugh.
-
The Wallabies didn’t win that, the All Blacks lost it. If the Wallabies can’t beat an All Blacks side with McKenzie running the cutter, I don’t know if they should be playing international footy.
The All Blacks were keeping their powder dry go the NH tour.
Wayne Barnes, need I say more! -
@westcoastie said in BLEDISLOE 3:
@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)
2017 locks are world class, front row much a muchness.I think our players now are as good as they used to be. Before 2015 we played a solid style of rugby and won a lot of games in the last 20 minutes. In these days we had Cane and Barrett coming off the bench. Now those guys are starters and we haven't been able to get similar impact from their replacements. Our combinations are not as settled (as you say) but the other thing we have lost is leadership around the field which we missed in the second half. That isn't necessarily a slight on Read but it was obvious 10 minutes into that half that the Aussies were successful in keeping the ball and moving forward. We just continued to do nothing about it for 15 minutes.
There were plenty of bad performances from the 2012-15 vintage as well though.
-
Impression tonight was that we were a bit rudderless and disorganised...and probably the backline giving the forwards better direction I think.
Just missing a few too many front-liners perhaps in this game.
Who would've thought at the start of the season, we'd have Perenara, McKenzie, Ioane & Havili trying to win the test for us in the last 10 plus a few other newbs in the pack. Did ALB come on for Crotty or SBW?
Pack still had Read, Whitelock, Cane & Taylor in there at the end.We had fuck all ball in the 2nd half, and that we did have we again gave back too easily. Perenara with 2-3 aimless kicks, SBW with a faaaaaaken dumb grubber when we definitely should've held on to it.
Where general field kicking was a strength with Dagg, Ben Smith, Beaudy all available it was a bit of a liability tonight.
-
-
@westcoastie Perenara's kicking at the end was poor.
-
@hydro11 said in BLEDISLOE 3:
@westcoastie said in BLEDISLOE 3:
@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)
2017 locks are world class, front row much a muchness.I think our players now are as good as they used to be. Before 2015 we played a solid style of rugby and won a lot of games in the last 20 minutes. In these days we had Cane and Barrett coming off the bench. Now those guys are starters and we haven't been able to get similar impact from their replacements. Our combinations are not as settled (as you say) but the other thing we have lost is leadership around the field which we missed in the second half. That isn't necessarily a slight on Read but it was obvious 10 minutes into that half that the Aussies were successful in keeping the ball and moving forward. We just continued to do nothing about it for 15 minutes.
There were plenty of bad performances from the 2012-15 vintage as well though.
Yeah, I think this is a pertinent point, we always had good impact from the bench - Charlie F, Cane etc coming on could up the tempo in defence and around the rucks and BB could carve weakened teams up.
However, I think we're in a plan to build depth now that might pay of in 2019. We should still be winning though.
