RWC: All Blacks v Ireland (QF2)
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@bayimports Not sure about Jordie ahead of BFA but pretty happy with the rest of the team.
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@akan004 said in RWC: All Blacks v Ireland (QF2):
@bayimports Not sure about Jordie ahead of BFA but pretty happy with the rest of the team.
perhaps given now Jordie can play 10 at a push?
And @cgrant I agree surely its Ofa
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@bayimports We've already got two tens so I don't think it's that.
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@bayimports said in RWC: All Blacks v Ireland (QF2):
So supposedly a source close to the team have passed on to a mate (and so on)...so take with a grain of salt*.. Anyway they believe that unless injury occurs the team was announced internally yesterday.
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Moody 2. Taylor 3. Laulala 4. Brodie 5. Whitelock 6. Savea 7. Cane 8. Read
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Smith 10. Mounga 11. Bridge 12. ALB 13. Goodhue 14. Reece 15. B Barrett
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Coles 17. Ta’avao 18. (only one couldnt remember) 19. S Barrett 20. Todd
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TJ 22. SBW 23. J. Barrett
Lets see later in the week, but a few talking points for sure.
- to their credit, they did predict the first team exactly, but I still have no idea who the source is. However sharing for the fun of it anyway
Risky game to play two hookers. And give Aaron or Ben a debut there.
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@MajorRage said in RWC: All Blacks v Ireland (QF2):
@bayimports said in RWC: All Blacks v Ireland (QF2):
So supposedly a source close to the team have passed on to a mate (and so on)...so take with a grain of salt*.. Anyway they believe that unless injury occurs the team was announced internally yesterday.
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Moody 2. Taylor 3. Laulala 4. Brodie 5. Whitelock 6. Savea 7. Cane 8. Read
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Smith 10. Mounga 11. Bridge 12. ALB 13. Goodhue 14. Reece 15. B Barrett
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Coles 17. Ta’avao 18. (only one couldnt remember) 19. S Barrett 20. Todd
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TJ 22. SBW 23. J. Barrett
Lets see later in the week, but a few talking points for sure.
- to their credit, they did predict the first team exactly, but I still have no idea who the source is. However sharing for the fun of it anyway
Risky game to play two hookers. And give Aaron or Ben a debut there.
I was curious as to how good Coles would be at tighthead. Guess we'll find out.
Mobile pack anyway.
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For those that are held up on numbers, its interesting.. if I go to edit mode
Smith is 9 and Coles in 16
So either a bug, or one of you funny buggers has a great edit feature
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@bayimports said in RWC: All Blacks v Ireland (QF2):
For those that are held up on numbers, its interesting.. if I go to edit mode
Smith is 9 and Coles in 16
So either a bug, or one of you funny buggers has a great edit feature
Can't take your team seriously anyway ... it's not like your @SouthernMan
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@bayimports said in RWC: All Blacks v Ireland (QF2):
For those that are held up on numbers, its interesting.. if I go to edit mode
Smith is 9 and Coles in 16
So either a bug, or one of you funny buggers has a great edit feature
Remove the dots after the numbers and it’ll work
The software thinks you’re adding an ordered list and gets confused
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@Duluth said in RWC: All Blacks v Ireland (QF2):
@bayimports said in RWC: All Blacks v Ireland (QF2):
For those that are held up on numbers, its interesting.. if I go to edit mode
Smith is 9 and Coles in 16
So either a bug, or one of you funny buggers has a great edit feature
Remove the dots after the numbers and it’ll work
The software thinks you’re adding an ordered list and gets confused
noted..tricky! cheers mate
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I'd also rather Pat T on the bench, he's a physical beast and can add a real point of difference in the final 20
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@bayimports Won't surprise me if that's the team.
The team The Herald released reckoning it was the team to play Italy had Goodhue at centre - and it looked very much a shadow No. 1 side.
I'm slightly surprised that Jordie makes the bench ahead of Ben Smith - not many changes they could make to field less caps in the backs - BFA, Crotty and Rieko all on the outer - they could have picked Brad Weber, I guess.
We'll see for sure on Thursday.
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@Bones Or maybe if one of Richie or Beaudy get hurt they think Jordie has the best skillset to carry on with the two play-makers thing.
@Machpants Hansen has almost entirely abandoned his "experience wins" mantra for this RWC.
Just another drum that was convenient to beat at the time?
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@Machpants said in RWC: All Blacks v Ireland (QF2):
@Chris-B yeah that's gotta be our rawist backline in a world cup knock out for a few tournaments
I imagine losing circa 300 caps would do that.
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@nzzp said in RWC: All Blacks v Ireland (QF2):
Not an ambush, but we played really poorly. We weren't allowed to play well, but we really didn't cope with the rush defence, and our forwards were really really passive.
In other words, we were crap.
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@KiwiMurph said in RWC: All Blacks v Ireland (QF2):
I'd rather see ALB at 13 and Crotty in the 23.
I would have stuck with the Crotty-ALB combo and had SBW on the bench again. Goodhue still looked rusty as against Namibia.