All Blacks v Springboks
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@bovidae said in All Blacks v Springboks:
While we're pointing the finger at players, a friend who was at the game said TJP would have scored his try after the Goodhue linebreak if he had ran towards the corner. For some unknown reason he cut back towards the defence and was tackled by Whitely.
He cut back because he was getting run down. I think the main camera angle showed that IMO.
Don't scapegoat TJPs decision, scapegoat his pathetic weany slow-twitch fibres ......
His getting a good head start and running stupidly flat support running lines ..... now explained .........
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@no-quarter said in All Blacks v Springboks:
We're building a good list of scapegoats now:
Jordie - outrageous quick throw with Bok defenders everywhere
Rieko - bundled into touch too often / called for quick throw then ran away from it
ALB - dumb intercept gifting them a try / ignored A Smith on his outside butchering a try Folau style
Beauden - woeful kicking, both at goal and in general play
Read - buck stops with the captain when setting up the winning play (drop goal FFS)
TJP - butchered a try running the complete wrong angle and got cut down by a big fat no. 8
DMac - poor ball security on the final play when we had an overlapThink that covers it - anyone else we can hate on?
Aaron Smith for the quick tap penalty when we should have been kicking for the corner
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@nevorian said in All Blacks v Springboks:
@no-quarter said in All Blacks v Springboks:
We're building a good list of scapegoats now:
Jordie - outrageous quick throw with Bok defenders everywhere
Rieko - bundled into touch too often / called for quick throw then ran away from it
ALB - dumb intercept gifting them a try / ignored A Smith on his outside butchering a try Folau style
Beauden - woeful kicking, both at goal and in general play
Read - buck stops with the captain when setting up the winning play (drop goal FFS)
TJP - butchered a try running the complete wrong angle and got cut down by a big fat no. 8
DMac - poor ball security on the final play when we had an overlapThink that covers it - anyone else we can hate on?
Aaron Smith for the quick tap penalty when we should have been kicking for the corner
just remembered his butchered kick off that didn't go the ten metres - perhaps that's why we didn't go the drop goal option later!
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@antipodean said in All Blacks v Springboks:
@jegga said in All Blacks v Springboks:
@mn5 said in All Blacks v Springboks:
Latest rankings. Cab someone explain how these work ? Full credit to S.A. but surely one won doesn't guarantee a jump of two spots?
Australia at 7 ? That must be their lowest ranking ever
Nah, in the 70s they managed to get to ninth. Predictably there are claims the coaches have to go, with counter claims asking "ok, who?".
I think making the RWC final in 2015 gave a false impression. It's been a continual slide. Since then they've managed 15 wins from 36 Tests, a success rate of 41 percent.
Which I dont understand because Cheika is, you know, the worlds best coach*
*world rugby, 2015
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As has been mentioned it's a game of inches, how close was it to is talking about a great comeback.
Only issue for us is how do we bounce back? If we lose to either Pumas or Sth A that wld be more of issue. How lucky are we that I'm. It sure the last time we lost two in a row, let alone to the same team. The next 12 mths is more about psychology and momentum going into WC more than anything else. We Cld bury teams mentally now by winning rest of games.
In saying that I thought we might lose two this year. The eoy tour is going to be a real task let alone playing SA over there on back of this game. #trusttheprocess -
@no-quarter said in All Blacks v Springboks:
We're building a good list of scapegoats now:
Jordie - outrageous quick throw with Bok defenders everywhere
Rieko - bundled into touch too often / called for quick throw then ran away from it
ALB - dumb intercept gifting them a try / ignored A Smith on his outside butchering a try Folau style
Beauden - woeful kicking, both at goal and in general play
Read - buck stops with the captain when setting up the winning play (drop goal FFS)
TJP - butchered a try running the complete wrong angle and got cut down by a big fat no. 8
DMac - poor ball security on the final play when we had an overlapThink that covers it - anyone else we can hate on?
At least 3 other blues played in the match and there's only one in the list.
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@akan004 said in All Blacks v Springboks:
@nevorian Aaron Smith has a habit of taking the quick tap and it rarely comes off. The guy is excitable but he needs to reign in his excitement levels and use his brains at times.
particularly whilst waiting around at airports
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@akan004 said in All Blacks v Springboks:
@nevorian Aaron Smith has a habit of taking the quick tap and it rarely comes off. The guy is excitable but he needs to reign in his excitement levels and use his brains at times.
I think it's deliberate. He's scored some tries that way -- it's probably a higher percentage play than trying to break down a set defensive line. Therefore, a tactic encouraged by teh coaches and that can look silly when it doesn't come off... but with sound reasoning behind it.
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@raznomore I don't think I get the joke 😔
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@bovidae said in All Blacks v Springboks:
@no-quarter The Caketin - the last 2 home losses have been there.
The NZRU schedulers. Would have won at Eden Park.
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@taniwharugby said in All Blacks v Springboks:
@chester-draws how many due to his kicking?
The original statement was that his kicking doesn't matter much, because he makes up for it in other ways, so we don't lose many with him. Except we have started losing more since he moved in to 1st-5.
I say that Breauden's too hot and cold. He's brilliant one day and people are talking about him as the best player ever. Two weeks later he's rather obviously not.
I have said for ages I don't think he's good for the outside backs. Instead we rely on his brilliance, and when that doesn't turn up . . .
I'm not actually blaming him for the loss though, because I think our basic game plan is wrong anyway. We play for Beauden's brilliance instead of planning for his off days, which magnifies the wins -- and the losses.
Our game plan is to play high risk rugby and run people off their feet. Every time we play a team who keep making their tackles even when tired we struggle. We make lots of intercepts because players are encouraged to take big risks. The players who made them in the Boks game aren't notoriously error prone usually, they are in part following orders.
It's a flawed plan IMO. It's really obvious, and so the counter is not hard to figure out. I really hope we move on from it before the RWC.
Currently we often only start beating teams after 60 minutes. If the other teams can extend that time a bit, to 70 minutes, then we are only an intercept away from a loss every time.
I'd rather we played for the off-days, and take any brilliance if it comes. I don't care about 50 point wins if they come with stupid losses in between.
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@chester-draws people have been saying his kicking will cost us matches since, well, I guess since he started, how many has his kicking lost us?
You can argue this one, one conversion ties it up, but really, other factors lead to him needing to make one, and our boys unusually just lacked a bit of composure due to the fact they dont often have the blow torch on them as much as the Saffas did by the way they defended and forced our players to make errors...they say there is only about 5% between the top teams, but then it woulda been 105% to 100% and I think we win if we are 100%.
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@chester-draws said in All Blacks v Springboks:
It's a flawed plan IMO. It's really obvious, and so the counter is not hard to figure out. I really hope we move on from it before the RWC.
I'm guessing you've not noticed our win loss ratio for the last decade?
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@antipodean said in All Blacks v Springboks:
@chester-draws said in All Blacks v Springboks:
It's a flawed plan IMO. It's really obvious, and so the counter is not hard to figure out. I really hope we move on from it before the RWC.
I'm guessing you've not noticed our win loss ratio for the last decade?
Our dropping ratio? Yeah, I noticed.
The current style not been our plan for "a decade". You don't get to use the Carter and Cruden periods to back up how good Beauden is.
We used to play fast, but we didn't use to take the risks we take now. We didn't leave every game to deep into the second half to wrap it up.
The old plan was better. Attack at all times, sure, but be prepared to take it in to contact if nothing was going on.
Have some set plays, if possession is not yielding points. Use strike weapons other than your 1st-5 in those plays.
Take easy kicks for penalties even at 40 metres out (like what made Donald a hero -- imagine if we had chosen to not take that kick --we'd likely have lost). That was seven years ago. I think the current team would lose that match.
The cross-field kicks were much rarer too. They're typical of the new scheme -- great if they come off, but often just a turn-over of possession.
The willingness to defend for long periods is starting to slide too. Journalists can get all excited about how defence no longer wins big games in the new AB paradigm, but they're wrong.
It's just one loss. We've lost before and we'll lose again. What i don't like is that we lost while sticking to our plan.
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@chester-draws said in All Blacks v Springboks:
Our dropping ratio? Yeah, I noticed.
2009 71.42%
2010 92.85%
2011 83.33%
2012 89.28%
2013 100%
2014 89.28%
2015 91.66%
2016 92.85%
2017 82.14%
2018 85.71%Dropping from what, our perfect season? You do realise our biggest wins in 2016 were with Beauden as five-eighth? Or did we magically move from everything in 2017?
The willingness to defend for long periods is starting to slide too.
Yeah, haven't seen people posting about us winning with scraps of possession...
