All Blacks v Springboks
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@no-quarter said in All Blacks v Springboks:
Judging by that team you'd think the Boks beat us by 50 points.
The usual media overreaction. Also not buying into this talk from many that we were beaten by a better team on the day. We beat ourselves really with sheer stupidity at times and of course Beauden's misses.
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@akan004 said in All Blacks v Springboks:
@no-quarter said in All Blacks v Springboks:
Judging by that team you'd think the Boks beat us by 50 points.
The usual media overreaction. Also not buying into this talk from many that we were beaten by a better team on the day. We beat ourselves really with sheer stupidity at times and of course Beauden's misses.
I must’ve missed the part when there were 30 guys in black jersey’s on the park.
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@akan004 you should have seen the English punters all over it with glee yesterday, that's the kind of thing that makes it really hard to support them even after living here ten years. Greenwood and Barnes were delighted.
Edit: just remembered they also declared the AB England match is a non event and the boks are the big game in the "autumn" internationals.
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@siam said in All Blacks v Springboks:
Lost to Boks at home because the antecedent of Don Clarke, Allen Hewson, Grant Fox, Andrew Mehrtens and Dan Carter ( to name a few) couldn't land kicks a 16 year old would nail!!??
The Boot used to kick ‘em long range, out of the mud, no kicking tee. With the toe of his boot. I guess by the time Fox was around they were using small mounds of dirt.
Beauden’s shitshow landing place kicks yesterday has me as vexxed and mystified as when Anton Oliver couldn’t throw into the lineout straight. Try some practice drills. All the tools and elements of the modern game are there. If you practice-practice-practice and still can’t find the greens and make your putts, maybe it’s time to find another putter, or spend some more time practicing.
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@kirwan said in All Blacks v Springboks:
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@antipodean said in All Blacks v Springboks:
Why are people saying "if we'd started Mo'unga"? Did they not watch his first test start?
Probably because a Mo'unga-BB 10 - 15 combo could have worked better than the BB-JB combo?
I'd never have started Mo'unga in this game but I'd have preferred him on the bench so that BB could drop back to 15 in the second half and RM could play at first five-eighth.
Would Mo’unga have taken over the kicking? DMac and JB are better kickers than BB, and even with BB having a particularly bad night with the boot Read didn’t give the ball to anyone else.
That was the most inexplicable thing to me, where was the captaincy to adjust when something was going wrong?
That was I didn't get. It became pretty obvious early on BB was having a shocker from the tee, so why not change the kicker? DMac - or hell even get the pimply giraffe to earn his keep FFS!
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@nevorian said in All Blacks v Springboks:
A few things learnt
4 Beaden Barrett will miss a few kicks but we don't lose too many tests when he is on the park
Depends what you mean by "many".
His win-loss ratio (when starting) is way below Cruden's and Carter's.
Since he's been our starting 1st-5 we've lost to Ireland, not won the Lions series, struggled against Scotland and now lost at home to the Boks. Plus some other losses of less concern.
So we don't lose "many" but an increasing amount of "few".
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@chester-draws how many due to his kicking?
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@taniwharugby said in All Blacks v Springboks:
technically, he did hit the side of the barn, twice, the ball just bounced away from the entrance
Pity It was the wrong fuckin' barn....
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@act-crusader said in All Blacks v Springboks:
@akan004 said in All Blacks v Springboks:
@no-quarter said in All Blacks v Springboks:
Judging by that team you'd think the Boks beat us by 50 points.
The usual media overreaction. Also not buying into this talk from many that we were beaten by a better team on the day. We beat ourselves really with sheer stupidity at times and of course Beauden's misses.
I must’ve missed the part when there were 30 guys in black jersey’s on the park.
Might be the part where we gifted them 2 tries?
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@shadowtrooper said in All Blacks v Springboks:
That was I didn't get. It became pretty obvious early on BB was having a shocker from the tee, so why not change the kicker? DMac - or hell even get the pimply giraffe to earn his keep FFS!
This was the real issue. You wonder what thought Read gave to changing the kicker.
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@victor-meldrew by all accounts the kicking thing was discussed, and agreed among the leadership group to stay as it was...also apparently Read said it was a decison of the 'drivers' (assume TJP & BB) to determine if they should go for the DG or the overlap we had...
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@taniwharugby Can understand not going for a DG - that makes sense as that approach has worked in the past. Think they need a more flexible approach to the goal-kicking though.
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@victor-meldrew said in All Blacks v Springboks:
@shadowtrooper said in All Blacks v Springboks:
That was I didn't get. It became pretty obvious early on BB was having a shocker from the tee, so why not change the kicker? DMac - or hell even get the pimply giraffe to earn his keep FFS!
This was the real issue. You wonder what thought Read gave to changing the kicker.
Does Read actually have any input into this in reality though? I would think it is decided between the kickers.
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@victor-meldrew said in All Blacks v Springboks:
@taniwharugby Can understand not going for a DG - that makes sense as that approach has worked in the past. Think they need a more flexible approach to the goal-kicking though.
We had multiple opportunities to go for the DG before the full time hooter sounded, meaning even if we missed we'd get the ball back.
I think from that position it was a braindead decision to go for the try. And I say try, because we were highly unlikely to get a penalty go our way at that stage unless it was an extremely obvious one.
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Regarding Barrett's goal kicking costing the ABs a test, the only other game I can think of is the 3rd test vs the Lions. He kicked 2/4. Ironically, BB was 6/6 in the 1st test and 7/10 in the 2nd test in that series. That sums up his inconsistency.
The Chicago loss can't be blamed on goal kicking. Outplayed and outscored in tries.
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@bovidae said in All Blacks v Springboks:
Regarding Barrett's goal kicking costing the ABs a test, the only other game I can think of is the 3rd test vs the Lions. He kicked 2/4. Ironically, BB was 6/6 in the 1st test and 7/10 in the 2nd test in that series. That sums up his inconsistency.
The Chicago loss can't be blamed on goal kicking. Outplayed and outscored in tries.
He's had a couple of shockers for the Hurricanes as well hasn't he?
2015 final springs to mind
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@bovidae said in All Blacks v Springboks:
The Chicago loss can't be blamed on goal kicking. Outplayed and outscored in tries.
Agreed. A confluence of issues; hubris, injuries, opponent playing very well. Kicking was the least of our issues.
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So we are treating this somewhat as an imperfect storm? Took quite a few things going wrong to end up here. Or quite a bit going right if you take a SA perspective!
Brings some spice to it all, gives us areas to really focus on... esp what plans B, C etc should involve. A bit crazy when we genuinely think it's easier to score a try than build pressure for a penalty or take a droppie.
