Bledisloe Four: Brisbane, 7 November

[Winger]

@Yeetyaah said in Bledisloe Four: Brisbane, 7 November:

@Tim your bias towards Blues region players isn't going to help.

Blues are the new Cantabs

[KiwiMurph]

TJ Faiane is not a test level 12.

Neither is Laumape.

[Yeetyaah]

@Kirwan also a fan of Faiane.

[Tim]

@Kirwan he isn't at all, but Laumape is just awful. Should go back to league.

[Kirwan]

@Tim said in Bledisloe Four: Brisbane, 7 November:

@Kirwan he isn't at all, but Laumape is just awful. Should go back to league.

Yep, he’s not a good 12 at Test level.

[voodoo]

1st game of the year that I haven't watched with my son, in our AB gear. He is at his mates place, and I felt like a dick wearing my jersey at home, watching alone.

I'm sorry guys, I feel responsible

[Gunner]

Pointless question as they won’t get rid of TJP, but who’s next in line at 9?

Nock?

[Machpants]

I thought SB was actually not that bad, but his shit on the ground was dumb beyond belief. Fucking pissed that the TMO incorrectly called it

[Tim]

@Yeetyaah Neither are test level. Faiane at least has good distribution. Laumape is so limited.

[Winger]

@Tim said in Bledisloe Four: Brisbane, 7 November:

@Kirwan he isn't at all, but Laumape is just awful. Should go back to league.

He wasn't great. But playing outside a rubbish BB didn't help him

[ACT Crusader]

It’s unfortunate that Akira had to go off. He was looking strong. He’ll get another chance.

But anyone thinking he should’ve stayed on ahead of Ardie in a RC scenario when he is seen as a leader in the side is a little naive.

Well done to Akira. Make sure you give your Blues team mate heaps for that RC!

[Kirwan]

@ACT-Crusader said in Bledisloe Four: Brisbane, 7 November:

It’s unfortunate that Akira had to go off. He was looking strong. He’ll get another chance.

But anyone thinking he should’ve stayed on ahead of Ardie in a RC scenario when he is seen as a leader in the side is a little naive.

Well done to Akira. Make sure you give your Blues team mate heaps for that RC!

In hindsight should have yanked Reece and kept all the forwards out there

[sparky]

Not happy at all. We saw last week what a poor side Australia are and tonight we lowered to their level. So much dumb thinking and poor defence.

Think we would have been done by South Africa, England and France tonight. Probably Ireland too.

ABs no consistent enough, still not the sum of their parts.

[antipodean]

I expected Australia to be much better from last week and us to be worse.

Hopefully the coaches admit to themselves that the bad performance was of our making and future selections reflect that.

[Siam]

@Nepia that was worse, no prop was involved

[Rebound]

@Rebound and it's a distinct pattern with this ref. All games he reffed NZ teams at super rugby they get penalised more than opponents and mostly it's not even close on the penalty count. Irrespective of the result of the game

[Kirwan]

So Rennie has a win and a draw against us now, not the worst start from an Aussie coach.

[MrDenmore]

Poor selection unless you think Foster’s intention was to trial some of his dirt trackers in a dead rubber. But the game lost all its shape after the red card and the forward leaders in the pack - Cane and Whitelock - look like they had been played out. TJP was appalling. Slow and cumbersome. Beauden Barrett looked like his head was somewhere else. And the Laumape experiment failed - he was lost out there. As for Reece -surely that was his last game in black?

[mofitzy_]

Gutted for Jordan. Hopefully nothing serious.

[Gunner]

It’s already been mentioned, but our leaders need a kick up the arse for allowing and heavily contributing to such helter skelter, brain dead play.

And the coaches can cop some blame for leaving TJP & Reece on the field for so long when they were completely shitting the bed.