All Blacks v Ireland, 2021 NH Tour
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Can anyone be surprised at this result? We don't get enough from our props and our loose forwards don't combine enough with the tight five to go narrow and draw defenders in.
You simply can't play rugby at this level without the ball. A game plan that revolves around 50:50 kicks in your own half is just fucking stupid. Get into their half, secure possession, break down their defence.
We also seem enamoured with players who look great playing on dry tracks in summer. It's a long tour but Havili has gone backwards to the point he should already be occupying a space in MIQ. TJP manages to come back from Japan straight into the team and is terrible. Unsurprisingly. NZ just isn't adequately developing players at the SR level.
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Yes, his coaching group wasn’t as strong. Tony brown pulling out late hurt him there
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@dagrubster said in All Blacks v Ireland, 2021 NH Tour:
Yes, his coaching group wasn’t as strong. Tony brown pulling out late hurt him there
Brown was approached by Foster too but he was loyal to Joseph.
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The big problem is that there aren't too many other options.
The cupboard is bare at prop, lock (BBBR and SW now look old), halfback (behind Smith), 1st and 2nd Five.
Centre is better with Goodhue and PUJ as possible options.
LHP : Hodgman. Not better than the current ones.
THP : Cupboard totally bare.
Lock : S. Barrett and Tuipolutu ?
Halfback : Fakatava and Ratima maybe
1st Five : Ioane, Hunt ? Inferior to BB and RM IMO
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@sparky said in All Blacks v Ireland, 2021 NH Tour:
@duluth Havili shoved out of the way off the ball before the Dorris try. Created the gap. Try shouldn't have stood.
I thought that when watching live but then the replay from behind didn't show it so I thought I was overthinking.
Before the run was even made I thought 'illegal cleanout away from the ball" then wondered if that opened a channel. -
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@sparky said in All Blacks v Ireland, 2021 NH Tour:
@crucial Clever, sneaky stuff from Ireland. Turned the whole game. Next time the ABs are officiated by Luke Pearce, they need to be prepared to bleat like soccer players.
No, it was early morning eyesight. Just watched replay and the break was from the next ruck. Havili was pushed away at the previous but it had no effect.
The bleating at the ref did us no favours as he ignored it even when he should have taken action.
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@crucial said in All Blacks v Ireland, 2021 NH Tour:
@sparky said in All Blacks v Ireland, 2021 NH Tour:
@crucial Clever, sneaky stuff from Ireland. Turned the whole game. Next time the ABs are officiated by Luke Pearce, they need to be prepared to bleat like soccer players.
No, it was early morning eyesight. Just watched replay and the break was from the next ruck. Havili was pushed away at the previous but it had no effect.
The bleating at the ref did us no favours as he ignored it even when he should have taken action.
Pearce did a great job at telling Sexton to piss off.
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@majorrage said in All Blacks v Ireland, 2021 NH Tour:
2 more comments.
Refs decisions were excellent. Too slow, too many replays but his job was done fine.
The lack of a McCaw was telling. We played like dickheads and nobody was there to say so.
I like Whitelock as a player and he seems to be an OK skip most of the time but he goes missing in games like this as a captain.
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@crucial said in All Blacks v Ireland, 2021 NH Tour:
@majorrage said in All Blacks v Ireland, 2021 NH Tour:
2 more comments.
Refs decisions were excellent. Too slow, too many replays but his job was done fine.
The lack of a McCaw was telling. We played like dickheads and nobody was there to say so.
I like Whitelock as a player and he seems to be an OK skip most of the time but he goes missing in games like this as a captain.
probably no one else who could step up though, except maybe Sam Cane.
Also, want to shout out again to Dalton Papali'i who has quietly put together an incredible season. last year if you'd suggested he would be one of the AB standouts and a lock in the 7 jersey you would have been laughed at. What a player.
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Just watched the first half. Very passive defense from All Blacks, and poor ball carrying and security. Ireland dominated collisions.
Blackadder is a mediocre seven playing at blindside. Busy, but ineffective tackling and ball carrying. Retallick's ball carrying is awful. He better get a lot better next year. Savea ineffective.
Perenara is a terrible halfback, but an excellent defensive player.
Who took the quick tap from the 22? Idiot.
Papalii best AB on the field.
With our weak ball carrying pack, we need a ball carrying 12 and a power wing. We have neither.
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@sparky said in All Blacks v Ireland, 2021 NH Tour:
Not sure either Whitelock or Retallick are going to be first-choice by the time of the next RWC.
not so sure.
Both coming back from offseasons; Retallick in particular I back ot get back to fitness. Super next year should be interesting to see who really gets galvanised by this.
in some ways, this is the post-nut clarity of losing so many legends in 2015. The dropoff has been massive
