Ireland vs All Blacks (2018)
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@nzzp said in Ireland Vs All Blacks:
Ireland have been seriously good for some time. They should have beaten us in Christchurch a few years ago. They should have beaten us in Dublin in 13. They did beat us in Chicago.
That win in Chicago was the catalyst for this victory in Dublin. Ireland now has the belief they can win these games, and that is half the battle.
The disappointing thing from an AB perspective is that Ireland played exactly how everyone expected them to so Hansen and co should have had a game plan to counter that.
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@rotated said in Ireland Vs All Blacks:
@rocky-rockbottom said in Ireland Vs All Blacks:
worst part is if Hansen's ego leads to him digging his heels in re;selections/positions, reducing us to just hoping the failures somehow get better instead of proactively rocketing them up the arse.
Hopefully he remembers that the 2011 team and tactics in large part was a response to the 2008/9 Boks. They finally stopped trying to impose a helter-skelter style and admit they had to be able to negate and withstand the box kick first and foremost and becoming more physical in the forwards.
I would prefer he accepts the Ireland/BIL style of game is giving them fits and perhaps select and play accordingly. Our aerial game on defence needs to improve and our kicking game needs to improve - to achieve either it would take a tough personnel decision.
Do we have anyone that can implement a better kicking game though? Beauden and DMac are erratic, Mo'unga more consistent but still not great (am comparing him to world class players like Carter here). Our midfield can't kick, BFA again not a great kicking game. I don't think we have the personnel - we look much, much better when we keep ball in hand so I think our gameplan really needs to centre around that. Which maybe it will come WC time.
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@kiwiinmelb said in Ireland Vs All Blacks:
With 15 to go , I honestly thought here we go , we will run over the top of them , we started to get some ball,
and its become so customary , you almost take it for granted ,Read alluded to the fact that they wanted to up the tempo and use their fitness in the 2nd half but the continual stoppages didn't allow any flow. Good tactics by Ireland if you can get away with it.
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@no-quarter Also, we did so many stupid box kicks/high kicks in the middle of the park at times when we should have been holding the ball. Its play like this that makes me lean towards the keeping the powder dry theory.
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@bovidae Problem is that the British teams have improved their fitness a lot over the past couple of years. The ABs are no longer able to pile on points against them in the last ten of an international as once they were.
Scotland last year, England and Ireland this year. All matched or bettered the ABs in the last ten minutes.
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@nepia I guess the question that should be asked is, did the kicks (all 6,000,000 of them) end up where they were supposed to?
Fox alluded to the kicking game last week saying that against England some of our kicks were going too long or too short, if Ireland anticipated a kicking game and given they were on point, it would exaggerate a poor kicking game?
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@nepia said in Ireland Vs All Blacks:
@no-quarter Also, we did so many stupid box kicks/high kicks in the middle of the park at times when we should have been holding the ball. Its play like this that makes me lean towards the keeping the powder dry theory.
Yeah I didn't even mention the halfbacks. Both of their kicking games are shit, and no idea about TTT. It's just not a strong point for us right now.
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@no-quarter said in Ireland Vs All Blacks:
even mention the halfbacks. Both of their kicking games are shit, and no idea about TTT. It's just not a strong point for us right now.
and yet A Smith had a great kicking game, surely you dont lose the skill just because Byrne isnt there any more? That said, his game has been stagnated and regressing since his toilet escapade...wasnt that just prior to the Chicago loss too?
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@sparky Read was referring to the entire 2nd half not just the last 10 mins. While I agree that there probably isn't that much difference in fitness levels now between the hemispheres having players go down injured allows you to have a breather and reset so you aren't as stressed physically. The SA super rugby teams used to always do this.
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@bovidae said in Ireland Vs All Blacks:
@sparky Read was referring to the entire 2nd half not just the last 10 mins. While I agree that there probably isn't that much difference in fitness levels now between the hemispheres having players go down injured allows you to have a breather and reset so you aren't as stressed physically. The SA super rugby teams used to always do this.
if our tactics are wait for bad kicks, and for the opposition to not delay the game, then we are more fucked than i thought
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@no-quarter Would TKB have been a starting option had he not left NZ? I think against the physical teams like Ireland and SA, we need a big strong halfback who can make darts around the rucks etc to suck some of their big forwards in.
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@nepia said in Ireland Vs All Blacks:
@no-quarter Also, we did so many stupid box kicks/high kicks in the middle of the park at times when we should have been holding the ball. Its play like this that makes me lean towards the keeping the powder dry theory.
One of those 1014 podcasts mentioned that every team wants to kick in that part of the field. First I'd properly thought of it but looking around it seems on the mark.
Those podcasts/videos really are an eye opener into the complexities of the pro game. Little things like spreading rucks and making defenders run an extra metre or so or where a defender goes after a tackle. Pretty much analysed to the nth degree.
I think the kicking is more about execution than not kicking. Just my take
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Brilliant take on it all from the Irish Times bless them
Watch us lose the run of ourselves after beating All Blacks
Beating the All Blacks is a notions bonanza and thus laden with danger for Irish rugby
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@nevorian said in Ireland Vs All Blacks:
Brilliant take on it all from the Irish Times bless them
Beating the All Blacks is a notions bonanza and thus laden with danger for Irish rugby
If this was slightly more dour, less funny and less wordy it could have been written by a Scotsman.
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@chris-b in 99 we executed the plan perfectly right up until the end of the first half of the test that never happened....
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@no-quarter said in Ireland Vs All Blacks:
@rotated said in Ireland Vs All Blacks:
@rocky-rockbottom said in Ireland Vs All Blacks:
worst part is if Hansen's ego leads to him digging his heels in re;selections/positions, reducing us to just hoping the failures somehow get better instead of proactively rocketing them up the arse.
Hopefully he remembers that the 2011 team and tactics in large part was a response to the 2008/9 Boks. They finally stopped trying to impose a helter-skelter style and admit they had to be able to negate and withstand the box kick first and foremost and becoming more physical in the forwards.
I would prefer he accepts the Ireland/BIL style of game is giving them fits and perhaps select and play accordingly. Our aerial game on defence needs to improve and our kicking game needs to improve - to achieve either it would take a tough personnel decision.
Do we have anyone that can implement a better kicking game though? Beauden and DMac are erratic, Mo'unga more consistent but still not great (am comparing him to world class players like Carter here). Our midfield can't kick, BFA again not a great kicking game. I don't think we have the personnel - we look much, much better when we keep ball in hand so I think our gameplan really needs to centre around that. Which maybe it will come WC time.
Sheesh NQ thatās starting to sound like an Aussie āwe donāt have the cattleā post....
