All Blacks v Springboks
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Re the comments about offside and Faf, I had a look at the last 5 minutes again to see where the AR call of offside was and it was actually marginal (probably why Nige ignored it). That was with me watching the AR when he clicked his microphone to talk. What was noticeable was that Faf was actually working hard to stay onside and not concede a penalty. It was Le Roux that was constantly offside shutting down thought of spreading the ball to Ioane.
The ABs should have deliberately run at him, brought him into the game and claimed the penalty (and probably Red Card)
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@machpants fuck his videos are irritating. Only a spastic flashes all text for less than a human can read the words.
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Should we be concerned about our inability to win the close games? Contrary to the bs spouted by the media that this team has hardly been tested and placed under pressure, they actually have been under pressure quite often in recent history.
Over the last two years, this team have only managed to get the positive outcome 50% of the time in tight contests, not what you would expect from an AB team, especially one with so much talent. Here's a list of the games during that time that could have gone either way.
Wellington 2017 (loss to the BIL)
Auckland 2017 (draw with the BIL)
Dunedin 2017 (beat Australia)
Durban 2017 (beat the Boks)
Brisbane 2017 (loss to Australia)
Edinburgh 2017 (beat Scotland)
Cardiff 2017 (beat Wales)
Wellington 2018 (loss to the Boks)That's played eight, four wins, one draw and three losses.
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@akan004 cherry pick to make the sky fall?
how about looking at it like this. in 21 tests we are 17-1-3. In 13 of those tests we have hosed them.
We lost a game where we had 14 blokes for 3/4s of the game
We lost a dead rubber Bledisloe away.
We lost one of the best tests in years.You know, now i think about it, we are 0-3 where we have scored less points than the opposition. That's not what you expect from a team with this much talent.
Try looking at it this way. We never, ever lose big. if it's a loss, it's by a bee's dick. We are balls deep in every game we play. That's a pretty sweet position to be in.
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@mariner4life How have I cherry picked? I have simply gone through the close games over the last two years and reported the results. Granted we were down to 14 against the BIL but we were also up by 9 points in that game heading into the last 20 minutes. Should have closed that out. Ditto with Auckland the next week.
Bear in mind, we have had three poor results at home over a 15 month period. That's unheard of in recent times. Not as sweet as you make it out to be.
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because 3 from 21 is the real figure, not 3 from 8 with some arbitrary margin cut-off.
How many did we lose by 10+?
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@mariner4life I am judging how a team responds to pressure, and therefore looking at the tight games is the only way to get a true gauge of that.
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Whereas i see every game as pressure. We were under the pump in Sydney, down 7-0 with Aussies hammering us. We went bang before half time, bang after time, and blew the game open. We win by heaps, and you don't count it. Great response.
Pressure in test matches is not just the last 10 minutes.
And even in those metrics you have decided are dire, look at the individual games. On the weekend we were one stuck pass from bailing ourselves out. In the Lions series a spurious ref decision changes a probable win to a draw (having executed a very nice play to give us that opportunity). The Lions test we lost was another fairly innocuous penalty to lose it.
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In defence of Beauden Barrett
However, despite the missed conversions, Barrett’s performance against the Springboks was arguably his best of the year in the black jersey.
Interesting take
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