Wallabies v All Blacks - Bledisloe 1 Sydney 2000
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TBF. outside the opening 10 mins and the final few, it wasnt that great from our POV, the next test we played much better, but lost.
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@Canerbry said in Wallabies v All Blacks - Bledisloe 1 Sydney 2000:
Fuck Mehrts was good.
At half of the game. Even he admits that defence wasn't part of his repertoire.
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@taniwharugby said in Wallabies v All Blacks - Bledisloe 1 Sydney 2000:
TBF. outside the opening 10 mins and the final few, it wasnt that great from our POV, the next test we played much better, but lost.
Totally agree, the next game was waaaay better standard, just a shit finish!
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@antipodean said in Wallabies v All Blacks - Bledisloe 1 Sydney 2000:
@Canerbry said in Wallabies v All Blacks - Bledisloe 1 Sydney 2000:
Fuck Mehrts was good.
At half of the game. Even he admits that defence wasn't part of his repertoire.
Ronan O’Gara made him look like Jerry Collins though
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@antipodean said in Wallabies v All Blacks - Bledisloe 1 Sydney 2000:
@Canerbry said in Wallabies v All Blacks - Bledisloe 1 Sydney 2000:
Fuck Mehrts was good.
At half of the game. Even he admits that defence wasn't part of his repertoire.
Kicking pressure drop goals was not part of it either
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@voodoo said in Wallabies v All Blacks - Bledisloe 1 Sydney 2000:
@taniwharugby said in Wallabies v All Blacks - Bledisloe 1 Sydney 2000:
TBF. outside the opening 10 mins and the final few, it wasnt that great from our POV, the next test we played much better, but lost.
Totally agree, the next game was waaaay better standard, just a shit finish!
The 2nd test is nearly my favourite all-time. Probably only clouded by the result
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Loved watching Cullen glide through for the third try again. What a runner!
Mark Hammett nearly cocked the whole thing up with a dreadful lineout throw on 78 minutes. The All Blacks' lineout was as brittle as a tea cup in the early 2000s.
Glad Jonah the Great was there to take Taine Randall's pass and score the winner. Legend!
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Great game.
Randall was excellent, not least basketball assist for Jonah at end.
Flavell (and Josh K) coming on really turned the forward contest and allowed us back into it.
That said, but for two wayward Oliver throws and bad misses by Merhts we could have been out of sight by 20.
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@sparky said in Wallabies v All Blacks - Bledisloe 1 Sydney 2000:
Loved watching Cullen glide through for the third try again. What a runner!
Mark Hammett nearly cocked the whole thing up with a dreadful lineout throw on 78 minutes. The All Blacks' lineout was as brittle as a tea cup in the early 2000s.
Glad Jonah the Great was there to take Taine Randall's pass and score the winner. Legend!
Thought Wobblies shut Cullen down well after first ten.
Umaga's defence kept us in it when Oz were rampant.
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@mariner4life said in Wallabies v All Blacks - Bledisloe 1 Sydney 2000:
The 2nd test is nearly my favourite all-time.
Spoken like a Queenslander - loving your boy Ealesy knocking over the winner
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Shit forgot the ABs played lastnight, how did we go??
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@Virgil said in Wallabies v All Blacks - Bledisloe 1 Sydney 2000:
Shit forgot the ABs played lastnight, how did we go??
Todd Blackadder played lock. Can you believe that shit ?
I’m glad Troy Flavell got selected. With his talent he’ll probably retire as our greatest lock ever. He’s ill disciplined but the coaches will sort that.
Kronfeld and Merhts take a bow. We’ll never see a 7 and a 10 this good in my lifetime, that’s for sure.
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@pakman said in Wallabies v All Blacks - Bledisloe 1 Sydney 2000:
Great game.
Randall was excellent, not least basketball assist for Jonah at end.
Flavell (and Josh K) coming on really turned the forward contest and allowed us back into it.
That said, but for two wayward Oliver throws and bad misses by Merhts we could have been out of sight by 20.
Agree on Randell. That was one of his best games in black. Not difficult to be the standout loose forward when the other two were Razor and Cribb though.
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The Aussies made this big thing about getting the crowd to sing Waltzing Matilda after the Haka because Bob Dwyer kept banging on about the Haka giving the ABs an unfair advantage at the start of Tests.
Love Nesbo's comment "Well, we know we're in Australia."
Three tries in the first five minutes from the ABs rather underminded Dwyer's argument.
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Those were the days when I despised the wallabies ,
And i guess in hindsight it was a respect thing , they were pretty bloody good , had a lot of self belief and I felt threatened playing them
