Bledisloe Three: Sydney, 31 October
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The word is
DHP 15, Petaia 13, Alaalatoa starting/Tupou bench, Simone 12.
Their team named at 4.30pm nz time.
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Tupou becomes ineffective once he runs out of gas. At least he loses his selling point.
Not surprised to see him shifted to bench as an impact player. The last two tests he has been started to provide impact at the start then subbed.
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@Crucial or that he bangs off another midfield kick gifting the opposition territory.
Raining here since before dawn all day. Thunderstorms tomorrow. Saturday looking like afternoon thunderstorm then clear for kick off.
Sunset is officially 7:23PM on Saturday, so really it's a twilight game. Weird, TBH.
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@NTA said in Bledisloe Three: Sydney, 31 October:
@Crucial or that he bangs off another midfield kick gifting the opposition territory.
Raining here since before dawn all day. Thunderstorms tomorrow. Saturday looking like afternoon thunderstorm then clear for kick off.
Sunset is officially 7:23PM on Saturday, so really it's a twilight game. Weird, TBH.
The guy has a big upside though. Just need to work out how to use it well.
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@Crucial said in Bledisloe Three: Sydney, 31 October:
The guy has a big upside though. Just need to work out how to use it well.
Absolute beast with a few metres of steam up. Really sucks in defendersDecent hands, too. Should give him 2 or 3 crashes, then skip him as a dummy runner or put a faster man on his shoulder.
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@Derpus said in Bledisloe Three: Sydney, 31 October:
I think he's being benched because he's too easy to rile up
Disagree with that. It's just that he was mostly ineffective last time out, so new things need to be tried.
RWC in 2 years, let's look at the optimal in terms of combination and individual performance.
For example, if AAA is starting again of beer tempted to put Faingaa back at 2 because Brumbies
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@Derpus said in Bledisloe Three: Sydney, 31 October:
@Crucial He regularly plays 80 minutes for the Reds so.... don't really agree.
I think he's being benched because he's too easy to rile up and throw off his game. Plus AAA does more meat and potatoes.
I'm not saying that he becomes useless, he can still scrum well and do basics. Just that he can only do the wrecking ball stuff for so long before fading.
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Tupou is a huge talent. I imagine, given the noises made by Rennie around re-earning your spot, he's benched because his error count is too high. For every good thing he does, there is at least 1 turnover.
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@Victor-Meldrew said in Bledisloe Three: Sydney, 31 October:
Thank God for that. I thought @nostrildamus was referring to some non-alcoholic abomination pretending to taste like single malt whisky.
(Fond memories of malt syrup - my dad used to let me lick the spoon when he made his carboys of beer.)
The old malt drink from childhood? No. Zero alc-Malt whisk(e)y? No. Abomination? Probably. Nearly 0% Malt beer. From Arabia. With pineapple.
I have no shame, and probably no taste. It was just an experiment in cheapness and there is a nice bottle of honey mead to try tonight. -
@nostrildamus said in Bledisloe Three: Sydney, 31 October:
@Victor-Meldrew said in Bledisloe Three: Sydney, 31 October:
Thank God for that. I thought @nostrildamus was referring to some non-alcoholic abomination pretending to taste like single malt whisky.
(Fond memories of malt syrup - my dad used to let me lick the spoon when he made his carboys of beer.)
The old malt drink from childhood? No. Zero alc-Malt whisk(e)y? No. Abomination? Probably. Nearly 0% Malt beer. From Arabia. With pineapple.
I have no shame, and probably no taste. It was just an experiment in cheapness and there is a nice bottle of honey mead to try tonight.😳
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Team has been released:
1 Karl Tu'inukuafe (14)
2 Dane Coles (71)
3 Ofa Tuungafasi (37)
4 Patrick Tuipulotu (32)
5 Samuel Whitelock (118)
6 Shannon Frizell (11)
7 Sam Cane (70) - captain
8 Hoskins Sotutu (2)
9 Aaron Smith (94)
10 Richie Mo'unga (19)
11 Caleb Clarke (2)
12 Jack Goodhue (15)
13 Anton Lienert-Brown (45)
14 Jordie Barrett (19)
15 Beauden Barrett (85)16 Codie Taylor (52)
17 Alex Hodgman (1)
18 Tyrel Lomax (2)
19 Scott Barrett (37)
20 Dalton Papalii (3)
21 TJ Perenara (66)
22 Ngani Laumape (13)
23 Rieko Ioane (31) -
@Machpants said in Bledisloe Three: Sydney, 31 October:
Team as oiled
It really is the savouriest Oil!!
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so the big surprise is a specialist 12 on the bench?
Really mixing it up these guys aye
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@mariner4life starting utilities and benching specialists....
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@mariner4life said in Bledisloe Three: Sydney, 31 October:
so the big surprise is a specialist 12 on the bench?
Foster possibly sees him as a wing
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@mariner4life said in Bledisloe Three: Sydney, 31 October:
so the big surprise is a specialist 12 on the bench?
Really mixing it up these guys aye
Suppose they could afford to with 3 13’s, 2 10’s and 2 15’s the 23...
