All Blacks vs Wallabies Bledisloe 2 Eden Park 14th Aug
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@reprobate said in All Blacks vs Wallabies Bledisloe 2 Eden Park 14th Aug:
@arhs said in All Blacks vs Wallabies Bledisloe 2 Eden Park 14th Aug:
Geez - do posters realise it is a 23 player game these days and the All Blacks learned over a decade ago that a lack of a plan B at RWC could have them out. Fern posters have gone on and on about not having plan B's too,
So, the current coaches are addressing this by training for scenarios where they lose a key player through injury or a card early, and making sure that the players slotting into another position can do so relatively seamlessly. Seems intelligent to me and a big tick for this regime. You can only have 8 on the bench. I have assumed that Jordie is seen as potential cover at 12 this week, else they would have most likely promoted Quinn Tupaea. There will be a planned scenario for the loss of any player.
The AB's will likely have a pecking order of 4 players minimum for any jersey number, and will do their best to build experience of each of those candidates in that jersey within the RWC leadup campaign. I see nothing wrong with that, and am happy for us not to be winning by 50 points with out best 15 playing 80 minutes every week, if we are progressing forward our troops for the RWC battle. Then, they will pick the best 23 players to deal with whatever the opposition are expected to throw at them that week, and will continue their admirable philosophy (big tick for current regime) of not picking players who are injured, but seeing it as an opportunity to further develop an understudy in preparation for what may come.
All these posts wanting Foster to be dumped for not keeping players in their preferred jersey number at all times would seem to based on nasty agendas and not on reason....
Except they're not doing this. They're picking Jordie Barrett because he deserves to be picked as a fullback on form, but then they also have to pick Beauden, McKenzie and Mo'unga, and Jordan. So then they're playing him on the wing because he 'deserves' a spot. The bench balance is fucked with 2 Barretts there.
The boks with 6 forwards on the bench in the WC were seeing it as a 23 man game, our dullards are not.With rm, dmac , bb and jb all in the 23 it feels like we have too much of the same ,
Maybe it’s been dictated by injury a bit , no Jordan last week , no alb this week, and no Clarke ,
But I would’ve thought you could leave one out and include a more explosive ball carrying type on the bench for balance
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@nzzp said in All Blacks vs Wallabies Bledisloe 2 Eden Park 14th Aug:
@kirwan said in All Blacks vs Wallabies Bledisloe 2 Eden Park 14th Aug:
Weathers good, crowd small so far
Two from two.
Crowded won't be big. NZRU should look at themselves
Nah, victim of a last minute change.
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@kirwan said in All Blacks vs Wallabies Bledisloe 2 Eden Park 14th Aug:
@nzzp said in All Blacks vs Wallabies Bledisloe 2 Eden Park 14th Aug:
@kirwan said in All Blacks vs Wallabies Bledisloe 2 Eden Park 14th Aug:
Weathers good, crowd small so far
Two from two.
Crowded won't be big. NZRU should look at themselves
Nah, victim of a last minute change.
They didn't have to play it at Eden Park. Another black mark against M Robinson.
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@voodoo said in All Blacks vs Wallabies Bledisloe 2 Eden Park 14th Aug:
@Kirwan @nzzp the Aussie commentary on Stan here just said the crowd is "edging towards 50k"...
And that the weather will be tricky- windy again.
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@kiwimurph what about the wind?
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@kirwan said in All Blacks vs Wallabies Bledisloe 2 Eden Park 14th Aug:
@nzzp said in All Blacks vs Wallabies Bledisloe 2 Eden Park 14th Aug:
@kirwan said in All Blacks vs Wallabies Bledisloe 2 Eden Park 14th Aug:
Weathers good, crowd small so far
Two from two.
Crowded won't be big. NZRU should look at themselves
Nah, victim of a last minute change.
Having any unsold seats at an AB game is a disgrace. Shirley you could fill it 3x over if the tickets were free? And if so, their job is to find that price point where it's at capacity. They should have dropped prices by $[10] every day over the last 2 weeks until sold.
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@crazy-horse said in All Blacks vs Wallabies Bledisloe 2 Eden Park 14th Aug:
@kiwimurph what about the wind?
Still a factor according to Jeff McTainish at the ground
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@voodoo said in All Blacks vs Wallabies Bledisloe 2 Eden Park 14th Aug:
@kirwan said in All Blacks vs Wallabies Bledisloe 2 Eden Park 14th Aug:
@nzzp said in All Blacks vs Wallabies Bledisloe 2 Eden Park 14th Aug:
@kirwan said in All Blacks vs Wallabies Bledisloe 2 Eden Park 14th Aug:
Weathers good, crowd small so far
Two from two.
Crowded won't be big. NZRU should look at themselves
Nah, victim of a last minute change.
Having any unsold seats at an AB game is a disgrace. Shirley you could fill it 3x over if the tickets were free? And if so, their job is to find that price point where it's at capacity. They should have dropped prices by $[10] every day over the last 2 weeks until sold.
Agree, this test would be a perfect one to give free tickets to any kid who is registered in junior rugby.
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Odds on a card in the first 10mins with all this talk about bringing the physicality?
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@antipodean said in All Blacks vs Wallabies Bledisloe 2 Eden Park 14th Aug:
Odds on a card in the first 10mins with all this talk about bringing the physicality?
High I reckon
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@antipodean said in All Blacks vs Wallabies Bledisloe 2 Eden Park 14th Aug:
Odds on a card in the first 10mins with all this talk about bringing the physicality?
Odds on us giving away 6 penalties in the first half?
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@gt12 said in All Blacks vs Wallabies Bledisloe 2 Eden Park 14th Aug:
@antipodean said in All Blacks vs Wallabies Bledisloe 2 Eden Park 14th Aug:
Odds on a card in the first 10mins with all this talk about bringing the physicality?
Odds on us giving away 6 penalties in the first half?
Only 6?
