All Blacks vs Springboks II
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@stargazer said in All Blacks vs Springboks II:
@crucial Close to the squad I hoped for, knowing that some selections (Ardie starting, for example) are a given.
Weber starting instead of TJP
Mo'unga back in the 23
Rioane to 11
DH and ALB midfield
Blackadder retained in 23Only surprise is maybe Jordan being dropped, but Reece is a good replacement. I would have picked Jordan instead of Dmac in the 23, now that RM is back.
Which is what makes me think a tactical change (or the the other 2 didn't follow the plan)
Jordan doesn't counter attack. He waits for others to doit then follows up. Bridge tries but as he is unable to beat a man is ineffective.
That bok chase line comes up fast and committed. Break through from a kick and it will be all on. -
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@crucial said in All Blacks vs Springboks II:
@kirwan said in All Blacks vs Springboks II:
Hopefully Taylor sorts out his throwing, that had a huge impact on what we could do last week. We were forced to keep throwing at 2
That was the boks doing more than Taylors throwing IMO.
Yep for sure same happened to the Wallabies v Boks, they had to revert to using 2 in their line outs.
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@crucial said in All Blacks vs Springboks II:
@kirwan said in All Blacks vs Springboks II:
Hopefully Taylor sorts out his throwing, that had a huge impact on what we could do last week. We were forced to keep throwing at 2
That was the boks doing more than Taylors throwing IMO.
Well I remember one going to the back with Akira being lifted where it hit him in the stomach. How did the boks force that?
Whenever it went long it was off target.
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another with only one question mark
I would have Dmac and richie on the bench, id rather have someone a bit bigger, but thats splitting hairs
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@kirwan said in All Blacks vs Springboks II:
@crucial said in All Blacks vs Springboks II:
@kirwan said in All Blacks vs Springboks II:
Hopefully Taylor sorts out his throwing, that had a huge impact on what we could do last week. We were forced to keep throwing at 2
That was the boks doing more than Taylors throwing IMO.
Well I remember one going to the back with Akira being lifted where it hit him in the stomach. How did the boks force that?
Whenever it went long it was off target.
Bad lift probably.
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@kiwiwomble said in All Blacks vs Springboks II:
another with only one question mark
I would have Dmac and richie on the bench, id rather have someone a bit bigger, but thats splitting hairs
Agreed Jordan or even QT would have been better.
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@chris said in All Blacks vs Springboks II:
@kirwan said in All Blacks vs Springboks II:
@crucial said in All Blacks vs Springboks II:
@kirwan said in All Blacks vs Springboks II:
Hopefully Taylor sorts out his throwing, that had a huge impact on what we could do last week. We were forced to keep throwing at 2
That was the boks doing more than Taylors throwing IMO.
Well I remember one going to the back with Akira being lifted where it hit him in the stomach. How did the boks force that?
Whenever it went long it was off target.
Bad lift probably.
It wasn't a timing issue, the ball never made it to the target.
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@kirwan said in All Blacks vs Springboks II:
@chris said in All Blacks vs Springboks II:
@kirwan said in All Blacks vs Springboks II:
@crucial said in All Blacks vs Springboks II:
@kirwan said in All Blacks vs Springboks II:
Hopefully Taylor sorts out his throwing, that had a huge impact on what we could do last week. We were forced to keep throwing at 2
That was the boks doing more than Taylors throwing IMO.
Well I remember one going to the back with Akira being lifted where it hit him in the stomach. How did the boks force that?
Whenever it went long it was off target.
Bad lift probably.
It wasn't a timing issue, the ball never made it to the target.
I don't remember that one so only guessing .
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Good team. I'll be very disappointed if they don't smack 7 shades of shit out of this lot.
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@nepia said in All Blacks vs Springboks II:
@hooroo said in All Blacks vs Springboks II:
@nepia said in All Blacks vs Springboks II:
Only one selection in that team annoys me. Am I a Fozzie fan now?
Which one?
I thought that would be obvious - Reece.
I’m annoyed too. Bridge deserves heaps more chances to play himself into form.
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@bovidae said in All Blacks vs Springboks II:
It's going to be a big challenge for the reserve front row. Aumua is not as strong a scrummager as Taukei'aho. The jury is still out on Bower and Tuungafasi looks underdone and has had his own problems in the scrum previously.
According to who ? I thought it was just his throwing that wasn’t as good.
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Yeah, I thought Aumua was a strong scrummager.
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just spotted something interesting on the TRC stats page.
If you look at the top 10 players for metres carried Bridge and Valetini are the only ones that aren't also in the top 10 for defenders beaten.
EDit: Will Jordan appears in neither top 10 but is second equal on tries scored. That's Josh Kronfeld levels of try 'poaching'
