RWC: All Blacks v Namibia (Pool B)
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@Snowy said in RWC: All Blacks v Namibia (Pool
:@Crucial said in RWC: All Blacks vs Namibia Pool B:
With Whitelock probably not playing 80 who will the captain be when he departs?
Ben Smith?Cane, I would think, with a reshuffle in the loosies?
Whitelock might be planning to do 80 though as it seems unlikely that BBBR will.
Or Frizzell goes to lock and they both get a spell. It looks to me like Frizzell is the sacrificial lamb in this 31.
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@No-Quarter said in RWC: All Blacks v Namibia (Pool
:They need to play Jordie at 10 for the full 80.
No they really don't. Just enough to share minutes.
would you want Jordie, or Josh Ioane (because he would get the call up) to play in a knock out game?
Josh would be outside his Super Rugby halfback, Jordie is the million miles per hour man. He's a loose goose. -
@shark said in RWC: All Blacks v Namibia (Pool
:In my opinion that's our strongest backline, sans 'dual playmakers'. I like the ALB / Goodhue midfield.
Have to disagree on current form @shark, Goodhue was injured for a while and his performance against Canada was sub-par.
Based on current form, it has to be one of the following combinations (ranked in my own personal opinion order):
- SBW and ALB with Crotty on the bench
- Crotty and ALB with SBW on the bench
ALB is THE form midfielder and has become the glue and first midfielder chosen and it will be opposition dependant as to who he partners with, SBW for an England/SA/Ireland, Crotty the others. This unfortunately, this leaves Goodhue left-right-out.
But, he does have this match to improve on his performance against Canada but I'm thinking the ALB, SBW and Crotty trio have the positions well sewed up leading into the knockout phase of the Cup.
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Brodie's back.
To quote Metallica, nothing else matters.
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@Billy-Tell said in RWC: All Blacks v Namibia (Pool
:Brodie's back.
To quote Metallica, nothing else matters.
Get his reps, get through injury free, and it will be a successful game
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Nice JB gets to ease in to a new role safe in the knowledge that he has the world's best midfielder on his shoulder to carry him through
Wonder if I can get odds on number of charge downs?
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@taniwharugby said in RWC: All Blacks v Namibia (Pool
:@ACT-Crusader said in RWC: All Blacks v Namibia (Pool
:I think it will go okay now that he impressed his brothers against Canada....
but were they?
well he was the only one who didn't spill the pill
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Congrats to Whitelock, captaining his first World Cup match.
May not be his last....just sayin
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@westcoastie said in RWC: All Blacks v Namibia (Pool
:@No-Quarter said in RWC: All Blacks v Namibia (Pool
:They need to play Jordie at 10 for the full 80.
No they really don't. Just enough to share minutes.
would you want Jordie, or Josh Ioane (because he would get the call up) to play in a knock out game?
Josh would be outside his Super Rugby halfback, Jordie is the million miles per hour man. He's a loose goose.Jordie by a country mile
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@No-Quarter said in RWC: All Blacks v Namibia (Pool
:@westcoastie said in RWC: All Blacks v Namibia (Pool
:@No-Quarter said in RWC: All Blacks v Namibia (Pool
:They need to play Jordie at 10 for the full 80.
No they really don't. Just enough to share minutes.
would you want Jordie, or Josh Ioane (because he would get the call up) to play in a knock out game?
Josh would be outside his Super Rugby halfback, Jordie is the million miles per hour man. He's a loose goose.Jordie by a country mile
I was about to say it’s a bit early to be drinking yet but we’re 3 hours behind you at the moment.
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@Nevorian said in RWC: All Blacks v Namibia (Pool
:@taniwharugby said in RWC: All Blacks v Namibia (Pool
:@ACT-Crusader said in RWC: All Blacks v Namibia (Pool
:I think it will go okay now that he impressed his brothers against Canada....
but were they?
well he was the only one who didn't spill the pill
Exactly. They set him a new challenge and he didn't have the cojones to step up.
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I wonder if the abs will play a bit like test 1 lions,, running off nine. It would be another good test of that system under quasi opposed training circumstances. I reckon that's our default way of playing in a tight knock out and has been kept under wraps for a bit
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@Machpants said in RWC: All Blacks v Namibia (Pool
:I wonder if the abs will play a bit like test 1 lions,, running off nine. It would be another good test of that system under quasi opposed training circumstances. I reckon that's our default way of playing in a tight knock out and has been kept under wraps for a bit
**He's (Barrett) the boss and they're (the halfbacks) not," Hansen said. "Because they might think they're the boss and not do what they are told.
"Your No 10 is the main computer, so if he makes a choice to do something with the ball then give it to him**
Playing through nine confirmed!
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@rotated said in RWC: All Blacks v Namibia (Pool
:@ACT-Crusader said in RWC: All Blacks vs Namibia Pool B:
Genuine question - To what end?
Two tests is a long time. It was long enough for Reece to supposedly ink his name in the first XV permanently in some people's eyes, two tests could well wrestle it back from Ioane.
Bridge's form has been as good or better than anything Ioane has produced (admittedly against some weaker opposition) and he is in form right now so he is an obvious selection. But perhaps I have some blinkers on but Reece seems fine, but would certainly be a cut below the other full-time test wingers we've had for at least a decade.
Worth rolling the dice to see if Ioane can get back in form, no reason to think he can't in two tests. Only reason not to would be if for whatever reason they want to really look at Jordie or Smith at 14 with a view to the knockout stages.
nah.
Reece has made every post a winner in his two games (and I was a skeptic)
Very Nehe Milner Skudderish (b4 he went to shit) -
@antipodean said in RWC: All Blacks v Namibia (Pool
:It's Namibia. A prop could play 10.
Wonder if BB was channeling that thought when he spilled the ball on Wednesday.
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@RoninWC said in RWC: All Blacks v Namibia (Pool
:@shark said in RWC: All Blacks v Namibia (Pool
:In my opinion that's our strongest backline, sans 'dual playmakers'. I like the ALB / Goodhue midfield.
Have to disagree on current form @shark, Goodhue was injured for a while and his performance against Canada was sub-par.
Based on current form, it has to be one of the following combinations (ranked in my own personal opinion order):
- SBW and ALB with Crotty on the bench
- Crotty and ALB with SBW on the bench
ALB is THE form midfielder and has become the glue and first midfielder chosen and it will be opposition dependant as to who he partners with, SBW for an England/SA/Ireland, Crotty the others. This unfortunately, this leaves Goodhue left-right-out.
But, he does have this match to improve on his performance against Canada but I'm thinking the ALB, SBW and Crotty trio have the positions well sewed up leading into the knockout phase of the Cup.
That's nice. Goodhue has been the preferred choice until injury struck though, and it looks to me like they're giving him every opportunity to force his way back in.
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We're lucky to have the luxury of resting our two main 10's.
Shag and co have obviously been honing this WC plan for a while. Only the personnel will change, but not the Plan. We all knew that Pimply Giraffe would get time in the 10 jersey at some stage.. the hints were there, as was the return of BBBR.
More interesting to me is that Frizzle has forced his way into their thinking from the outing against Canada,
