Argentina One: Parramatta, 14 November
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@Tim said in Argentina One: Parramatta, 14 November:
@JC The performance was so flat that I can't even bother getting mad. I just feel tired instead.
Yep, I just can’t find a shit to give about this. 5 years ago you could count on one hand the teams that had won a test match against the All Blacks. Now?
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@JC said in Argentina One: Parramatta, 14 November:
@Tim said in Argentina One: Parramatta, 14 November:
@JC The performance was so flat that I can't even bother getting mad. I just feel tired instead.
Yep, I just can’t find a shit to give about this. 5 years ago you could count on one hand the teams that had won a test match against the All Blacks. Now?
There's only one thing you want to need two hands for and that isn't it
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We were always going to lose to the Argies one day, but shouldn’t have happened today, no fucking way.
The previous regime lost to Ireland x2, got butt fucked by England in a World Cup semi final.... so the succession planning of having Foster locked in 4 years ago is actually working, as we’re just getting more of the same.
Lucky we aren’t playing Scotland, Japan or Fiji this year or we’d turn history on its head even more by losing to them too!
Man it was boring when we knew the ABs just had to turn up and they’d win every game eh?
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Gregor Paul’s take is good:
“What’s now beyond dispute is that the All Blacks have an endemic problem with discipline.”
Gregor Paul on Tri Nations rugby: Outclassed All Blacks got nowhere near Argentina
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/sport/news/article.cfm?c_id=4&objectid=12381951 -
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@Tim said in Argentina One: Parramatta, 14 November:
@JC The performance was so flat that I can't even bother getting mad. I just feel tired instead.
Perfect summary, mate.
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@Gunner said in Argentina One: Parramatta, 14 November:
So what’s Foster gonna do now?
Dunno but calling Ghostbusters isn't going to help. Not that it hasn't crossed his mind.
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Pathetic. Lomax outplayed on starting debut, Coles stupid then Taylor shit lineouts. Moody okay I guess, bit flat. Pat a bit flat too. Whitelock tried hard in a well beaten pack. Cane looks a bit knackered. Savea is, again, a lightweight against big teams playing fast defence and makes no impact. He should have been subbed rather than Frizzel, at least then we would have had someone make a few more tackles and hit some rucks. And you'd also be leaving on the guy who just had a rest, and taking off the guy who hasn't. Sotutu tried hard once on, a couple of good runs and had the skip pass execution been on - as it usually is - we'd have been in with a chance. Vaai went okay too.
In the backs, just anonymous, the lot of them. It almost seems like it might be an NZR directive to have Goodhue play 12 at the crusaders, trying to develop a combination with mo'unga, and foster is sticking to that... unfortunately it is wrong. goodhue is a gun at centre, and he's being wasted.
as for refusing to bring webber on for the hopeless TJ last week, then dragging smith early... christ, make up your mind.i guess this is what you get when you pick a coach who has never won anything. It was good to hear JK, another coach who hasn't won anything, get stuck in a bit. At least when JK couldn't coach for shit what he got was sacked, rather than promoted to the ABs job.
Well done Argentina, thoroughly deserved. Nico Sanchez runs a bit hot and cold, but when he's on, he really is world class. Combine that with 14 blokes tackling their arses off and it's a good recipe - that was a hell of a defensive effort.
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Have to ask the question if SRA is actually good for us. Yes our players look like a million bucks in it but they are generally up against passive defences and the physicality is a big step down from what we experienced today. Maybe not playing the saffers and Argies at SR isn't great prep for Test Rugby.
Or it could just be possibly the biggest off day we have had in decades.
