RWC: England v New Zealand (SF1)
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@ACT-Crusader LOL, they brought him on with 10 to go. Maybe they should've played two Scott Barretts?
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@No-Quarter said in RWC: England v New Zealand (SF1):
I was also surprised we didn't try and play Rieko into some form given how much of a game breaker he is.
Was he due to play in the cancelled Italy game?
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@Tim said in RWC: England v New Zealand (SF1):
@ACT-Crusader He scored against Australia in Perth and was good. Hansen made him a scapegoat to bring in an NPC level player. You're not getting away with that Crusaders bullshit tonight.
Would have been a great game to have a player make something out of nothing, with the forwards getting owned. Like Savea and Ioane have done for us in the past.
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@Victor-Meldrew said in RWC: England v New Zealand (SF1):
@No-Quarter said in RWC: England v New Zealand (SF1):
I was also surprised we didn't try and play Rieko into some form given how much of a game breaker he is.
Was he due to play in the cancelled Italy game?
Geniuses would have probably played him at centre, like for large parts of the previous game. They made their minds up before the WC.
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@Kirwan the key word being the past. The very distant past. He hasn’t done any Houdini play for a while. Certainly not this year.
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@MrDenmore Nope that is a magnificent forward pack. We cant even look forward to their imminent retirement. Most are still young. They even did brilliant pop passes
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@ACT-Crusader said in RWC: England v New Zealand (SF1):
@Kirwan the key word being the past. The very distant past. He hasn’t done any Houdini play for a while. Certainly not this year.
And Bridge never has.
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@ACT-Crusader LOL, I guess you only watched the Crusaders this year.
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Looks like we spent most of our energy last week and were flat asf this week. That and a couple of baffling selections. This is why some of us were hoping for an easy QF so that we could peak for this game. Oh well, no excuses. England were just better but what hurts the most is that we offered nothing.
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@Machpants said in RWC: England v New Zealand (SF1):
Best you watch some Poldark
God no.
Like bloody East Enders with wrong accents and worse plot lines
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@ACT-Crusader I like Bridge - does the right thing. Covers well. Good skills so he finishes well, It’s always a mix call as to whether you have a game breaker or a team player. Trouble is that our game breakers like Reiko have been average.
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@Victor-Meldrew said in RWC: England v New Zealand (SF1):
@Machpants said in RWC: England v New Zealand (SF1):
Best you watch some Poldark
God no.
Like bloody East Enders with wrong accents and worse plot lines
Haha entirely true. But I do get nostalgic about Cornwall, spent a few years at Culdrose, and family in Coverack and Helston
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@BerniesCorner said in RWC: England v New Zealand (SF1):
@MrDenmore Nope that is a magnificent forward pack. We cant even look forward to their imminent retirement. Most are still young. They even did brilliant pop passes
The ABs attacked the tackle different tonight. We’ve tended to run one low and one high to not allow the offloads, but tonight there was quite a few, one low, and the England fatties were able stand and offload.
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Am on the other side of the Lizard. Bits of Poldark are filmed in Lerryn, near us.
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Tuipolotu should have been on earlier and Barrett back to 10. Sorry you guys are out. Reffing wasn’t bad. Hope Eng have played their final. If Boks get past Wales and Garces our lineout and direct midfield and loosies. I’m bleak it isn’t going to be ABs and Boks in final....
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I don't know how to process this loss. We got out coached. The issues I had with the coaching changes this year and especially this week played out.
Agree with much of what @No-Quarter writes below.
J Barrett was always a potential liability.
S Barrett didn't have a bad game but we needed offensive defence around the ruck and loose forward trio playing the style they'd been playing all year. Cane was never going to be able to add impact as a replacement that compared with what he offered at the start.
I was always on the Rieko train, while still being a Bridge fan, but it's telling that Bridge was replaced by Jordie in this match. Rieko was never as out of form as his detractors on here made out. Not saying he would have won the game but it was these sorts of little coaching decisions above that all contributed to this teams performance. I think a bloody good coach got too tricky in his last hurrah.
@ACT-Crusader WTF are you going on about with Patty T? He was barely on the field. FFS.
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@Bovidae said in RWC: England v New Zealand (SF1):
I didn't want to tempt fate before the game but this was only BBBR's 5th loss for the ABs, and until tonight he had never lost to the same team twice.
So it’s Brodie’s fault then.
