RWC: All Blacks v Italy (Cancelled) (Pool B)
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@Unite said in RWC: All Blacks v Italy (Pool
:@antipodean said in RWC: All Blacks v Italy (Pool
:@Frank No, it's an open stadium.
Google says it has a retractable roof?
Roof hasn't closed since 2015. Maintenance costs on it were too high, so it became an open-air stadium.
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@Chris-B said in RWC: All Blacks v Italy (Pool
:@KiwiMurph Wow - if we get knocked out early then this really will be the RWC that didn't happen.
A draw would see us top the pool - or am I missing something?
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@No-Quarter I mean going out in the QF.
Two romps against Canada and Namibia, a cancelled game, and a game against the Jaapies we usually would have played in the 4N.
Allied with me watching very few of the pool games, so I'm struggling for engagement. I'm more excited about the NPC!
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@kiwiinmelb said in RWC: All Blacks v Italy (Pool
:I think we can all agree reikos best puts him ahead of bridges best , based on past games,
Just seems to have lost that attacking ability that made him so dangerous, but have noticed an effort to lift his work rate, maybe that was something he had to work on ?
The coaches will know more than us , who is in the better mental state etc
I’m tipping bridge to continue getting selected over him at this point in time, just haven’t seen enough to make them change it.
That "based on past games" is the problem when comparing these players. Rieko has way more past games than Bridge and Reece. Basically, we don't know yet what Bridge's and Reece's best is. It may well be that with more experience, they'll prove to be better than Rieko. We simply don't know yet. We may have seen Rieko's best already, but I'm sure we haven't seen the best of Bridge and Reece, yet.
Another problem is that all three of them are very different type of players. It depends what kind of player the coaches are looking for; what skills and other qualities they think they need most for a particular test.
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@Chris-B said in RWC: All Blacks v Italy (Pool
:@No-Quarter I mean going out in the QF.
Two romps against Canada and Namibia, a cancelled game, and a game against the Jaapies we usually would have played in the 4N.
Allied with me watching very few of the pool games, so I'm struggling for engagement. I'm more excited about the NPC!
If Japan vs Scotland is called off, and then Ireland take 5 points against Samoa we will get Japan in the quarter final. Could work in our favour. Not that Ireland are up to much this RWC...
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@No-Quarter said in RWC: All Blacks v Italy (Pool
:@Chris-B said in RWC: All Blacks v Italy (Pool
:@No-Quarter I mean going out in the QF.
Two romps against Canada and Namibia, a cancelled game, and a game against the Jaapies we usually would have played in the 4N.
Allied with me watching very few of the pool games, so I'm struggling for engagement. I'm more excited about the NPC!
If Japan vs Scotland is called off, and then Ireland take 5 points against Samoa we will get Japan in the quarter final. Could work in our favour. Not that Ireland are up to much this RWC...
No, we will get Ireland since they will be on 16 points, the same as Japan. H2H trumps points difference so Japan will finish on top.
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@akan004 said in RWC: All Blacks v Italy (Pool
:@No-Quarter said in RWC: All Blacks v Italy (Pool
:@Chris-B said in RWC: All Blacks v Italy (Pool
:@No-Quarter I mean going out in the QF.
Two romps against Canada and Namibia, a cancelled game, and a game against the Jaapies we usually would have played in the 4N.
Allied with me watching very few of the pool games, so I'm struggling for engagement. I'm more excited about the NPC!
If Japan vs Scotland is called off, and then Ireland take 5 points against Samoa we will get Japan in the quarter final. Could work in our favour. Not that Ireland are up to much this RWC...
No, we will get Ireland since they will be on 16 points, the same as Japan. H2H trumps points difference so Japan will finish on top.
Ohhh OK thanks. Ireland it is then.
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The only games WR should be worried about this weekend if they need to reschedule is Japan vs Scotland and Ireland vs Samoa as they will determine the QF teams from Group A.
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@Quo-vadis said in RWC: All Blacks v Italy (Pool
:@Unite said in RWC: All Blacks v Italy (Pool
:@antipodean said in RWC: All Blacks v Italy (Pool
:@Frank No, it's an open stadium.
Google says it has a retractable roof?
Roof hasn't closed since 2015. Maintenance costs on it were too high, so it became an open-air stadium.
Fair enough
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@Machpants lucky I didn't bet on BBBR to score a try
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@Machpants said in RWC: All Blacks v Italy (Pool
:Game is cancelled, we still top the pool with the 0 0 draw.
This ABS team is shit getting nil all vs Italy
Our won every pool match record is now only unbeaten in the pools.
My Saturday is now ruined as I was looking forward to a resounding AB victory in case my beloved Magpies go down to the money bags invitational XV that masquerades as Ta$man in the NPC.
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@chimoaus said in RWC: All Blacks v Italy (Pool
:So, who is underdone come Ireland, be interested to see minutes played this World Cup. Such bollocks, I was looking forward to a nice afternoon of rugby.
We were fine in the first pool game against SA and that was after only playing one game in five weeks leading up to it. I think they will be ok.
