RWC: All Blacks v South Africa (Pool B)
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@Kirwan said in RWC: All Blacks v South Africa (Pool
:Interest that most of the first games had second half drop offs. Conditions must be pretty difficult
What’s the humidity like? Also the quality of the ground seems to deteriorate.
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Well that was a strange game. From where I was sitting ABs D was either very good or the boks lack real imagination. Probably more the latter. Barrett is an incredible rugby player but a poor FB.
Main difference was your loosies. Live, It does not look like you’re missing a traditional blindside. Take Ardie or Barrett off the field and you probably lose that game.
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@KiwiMurph said in RWC: All Blacks v South Africa (Pool
:@kiwiinmelb said in RWC: All Blacks v South Africa (Pool
:Another beauty from kearns,
Garcia repaid Nz for sending off Barrett, by not penalising them tonight
Love how Kearns was criticising Beaudie playing fullback pre game.
Then Beaudie proceeds to dominate from fullback.
Post game Kearns gushing over Beaudie.
The Kearns way. If anything he is predictable.
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Very fucken happy, keeps our pool victories going and a great confidence injection for the team. Our D was very good bar The enormous hole at the ruck for their try. SA could have scored a few other times but the AB scramble was great.
Very happy with the forward intensity and lots of good hits, players were very energetic getting back in the line. Also first game for awhile with no stupid fucken penalties, pat Moody on the back.
Really looking forward to relaxing for the rest of pool play and watching some good games.
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@Smuts said in RWC: All Blacks v South Africa (Pool
:Well that was a strange game. From where I was sitting ABs D was either very good or the boks lack real imagination. Probably more the latter. Barrett is an incredible rugby player but a poor FB.
Main difference was your loosies. Live, It does not look like you’re missing a traditional blindside. Take Ardie or Barrett off the field and you probably lose that game.
Take Faf off and you probably don’t get any go forward.
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I’ll gladly take that ,
It’s not finals yet , just needed to get the win , achieved it
On target so far
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@ACT-Crusader of course we have to be better than that or we get to win shit that is not a good enough performance to win a WC final
If that’s as good as we get we are fucked -
Also should say Mo’unga was very solid at 10. Very pleased for him, that was a big test with a lot of pressure and he stood up. Will only improve as the cup goes on.
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@Chris said in RWC: All Blacks v South Africa (Pool
:@Godder if you think that display is good enough you have low expectations the Boks are one dimensional
And what other team isn't? Ireland, Wales, England, Oz. They all have a very set game plan, one dimensional is the norm. So that's all we need to do, great one dimensional teams who don't have the same skills to ABs level. But they can stifle us, and the boks failed at that. We took a bit to get going but no nervousness after the first quarter
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@Chris said in RWC: All Blacks v South Africa (Pool
:@ACT-Crusader of course we have to be better than that or we get to win shit that is not a good enough performance to win a WC final
If that’s as good as we get we are fuckedIf that's as good as the boks get there fucked. It's the first game. Look how we did vs Argentina last time. Perfectly within the long term plan
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@Chris said in RWC: All Blacks v South Africa (Pool
:@ACT-Crusader of course we have to be better than that or we get to win shit that is not a good enough performance to win a WC final
If that’s as good as we get we are fuckedYou don't win the tourney in the first game. We have plenty of dry powder for everyone
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@canefan said in RWC: All Blacks v South Africa (Pool
:@Chris said in RWC: All Blacks v South Africa (Pool
:@ACT-Crusader of course we have to be better than that or we get to win shit that is not a good enough performance to win a WC final
If that’s as good as we get we are fuckedYou don't win the tourney in the first game. We have plenty of dry powder for everyone
Hopefully a good source of powder in Japan, plenty of time to add more before the Qfinal.
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@Machpants I never thought the Boks would win the WC so yeah they are fucked
Don’t underestimate what the NH teams will bring
Our scrum with the reserve props was poor we missed too many first up tackles
We kicked too much ball away
All things that may cost us unless we get better in those areas -
At this stage I would have ALB/Crotty midfield start again vs Boks. Goodhue will really have to show something special to break into the match day 23.
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@chimoaus said in RWC: All Blacks v South Africa (Pool
:@canefan said in RWC: All Blacks v South Africa (Pool
:@Chris said in RWC: All Blacks v South Africa (Pool
:@ACT-Crusader of course we have to be better than that or we get to win shit that is not a good enough performance to win a WC final
If that’s as good as we get we are fuckedYou don't win the tourney in the first game. We have plenty of dry powder for everyone
Hopefully a good source of powder in Japan, plenty of time to add more before the Qfinal.
We only used 20 mins worth tonight
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@Chris yes one way I agree, we'll have to get better. But we will. I'd put money this is the best performance of the first round., Tier 1 vs tier 1. And our next 3 games will be average, as the coaches straightjacket the team to test them. And we'll get to the final, not saying well win it, but we're the best team by a good margin
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