All Blacks v Ireland - 2nd Test
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Back to basics first
Your captain has to be an automatic pick for a position.
You can't trust a back.
They have to have experience.
They must like to captain.
Do they command respect.
Our short term goal is the WC.That leaves Whitelock , am I missing something?
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@MrDenmore said in All Blacks v Ireland - 2nd Test:
What has Foster achieved? What players has he developed? What innovations has he introduced? He has done nothing but made excuses and wrecked the careers of several players.
I don’t buy the ‘we lack the cattle’ line. The NZ-born players in the Irish team were mostly journeymen before they migrated. Coaching and strategy and leadership make the difference.
NZ has none of that. In the meantime, Foster, with the support of an incompetent leadership at NZ rugby are trashing one of the world’s leading sports brands.
Travesty.
Meanwhile some complain that Robertson supposedly didn't want to work under him.
Fark off.
Foster is a reverse Midas, better to keep away from him and maintain your reputation.
I don't care if the problems are wider or deeper. Every journey starts with a first step and sending Foster out to pasture is a giant leap for AB-kind.
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@ACT-Crusader said in All Blacks v Ireland - 2nd Test:
@nostrildamus said in All Blacks v Ireland - 2nd Test:
@mariner4life said in All Blacks v Ireland - 2nd Test:
Our problem gents is
If you ever had to go through performance management of an employee you wanted to get rid of
Tonight we have
A terrible yellow card to a winger trying to charge a kick
A prop having an all time shit test
A prop getting red carded despite nearly knocking himself outThat geys very hard to say justified dismissal
What about
-players out of positionevery AB coach in the last 30 years has done that
-gamebreakers on benchsome definitely have been and others more positional options
-doesn't know sub rulesneither did the officials or senior players it seems
-doesn't proactively create new team strategies - I see you got some management speak in there with a useless adverb like “proactively”. You either do something or you don’t.
-doesn't use bench at right timego back through the annuls of TSF and you will find test matches where we have bemoaned bench use.
-relies on BB kicking at the wrong times and in the wrong places - BB’s kicking is definitely an issue
-loses to all sorts of records - legacy means something for sure
-has terrible winning record - haven’t seen the stats comparing his record to others. It can’t be good.
-name a player who has improved under his coaching (Bower? Not improved under Crusaders?)- what happens under the ABs can’t be looked at in isolation. That’s simply not how it works. People might bring up the Nonu example but he was still a damn good rugby player with the Canes, Blues, Landers and kept improving there.So a couple of sackable offences in there I guess 😉
proactively: (of a person or action) creating or controlling a situation rather than just responding to it after it has happened.
Not just management speak, Actual English language.
As to the rest, sure it has happened before.
But I wasn't responding to "what is unique here" but "That geys very hard to say justified dismissal"
let me put it another way for you, we are further from RWC winning potential than when we lost to England. We have stagnated.
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@ACT-Crusader said in All Blacks v Ireland - 2nd Test:
@Kirwan 3 minutes and 25 seconds after Ofa’s. ABs win with 13 men.
Shame on you for that jinx.
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@mikedogz said in All Blacks v Ireland - 2nd Test:
I learnt today that the TMO has an assistant TMO and they have 11 screens to look at. Club ref today said he got to sit in room.
Who monitors the performance of TMO, and what plays he chooses to highlight? This is becoming a game changing issue.
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@BerniesCorner said in All Blacks v Ireland - 2nd Test:
Regardless of any other sh*te, we have consistently struggled to get enough ball from the forwards after Richie departed.
The rest is just elastoplasts.Bollocks. It's all Foster's fault.
And he's fat.
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@gt12 said in All Blacks v Ireland - 2nd Test:
I was surprised to see so many big-upping the team before kickoff, that should probably be mentioned.
However, in the aftermath of that result,I think I sum up the mood here by saying that we aren't surprised.
In a series like this, one of the best parts is that you see how coaching and preparation really play a part, and simply put the ABS were just tactially inept againt a team that came ready to shut down plays that had worked last week.
Our defense was just as porous as last week, while their's was much harder to breakdown. That's analysis, coaching, and player preparation. Which of those is the problem (likely all three) doesn't matter, as this series is showing that we don't have the right leadership to respond to challenges until they are presented to us.
In other words, no-one appears to have considered that Ireland would improve.
You look at individual skill errors, and you wonder how the ABs went from being the best skilled team in the world, to being very average - pretty much from the time we sent Mick away.
Can anyone define how the ABs play? I can't. We don't have a pattern, and certainly not one that endeavours our 'brand' to be worth hundreds of millions of dollars.
We'll win next week due to the immense pride bashing the players will be feeling, especially if that Irish fluffybunny called our skip a second-rate McCaw..
But, that could be the worst thing possible, as it will likely hide the rot at the heart of the current team. European clubs have better coaching teams than the ABs. Something is very very rotten with the entire set-up, and we should start by getting rid of the useless fluffybunnies in the boardroom who rubber-stamped the appointment of Foster, his re-appointment, and especially the appointment of his sub-standard assistants.
Post of the Year so far, for me.
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@ACT-Crusader said in All Blacks v Ireland - 2nd Test:
@Old-Samurai-Jack said in All Blacks v Ireland - 2nd Test:
2020/2021/2022 Pfff.... I am numb. So we badly lost to Ireland in NZ. We lost to an underdone Argentinian side in Aussie. You accepted that. I give you guys a couple of days before this is swept under the carpet.
The carpet is getting a bit lumpy under there, but I was under no illusion that post 2019 RWC we were in for a roller coaster. It’s never great to see your team lose and lose pretty badly like we did tonight, but this is where we are at and from week to week we are going to see these fluctuations in performance. There’s a host of factors, I guess it comes down to whether we need a circuit breaker (or several) right now.
You are pretty much right. But if we accept fluctuations we have to look at the trajectory - and it ain't up. For me, we're just bumping along in a seemingly incoherent way
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@Kirwan said in All Blacks v Ireland - 2nd Test:
Put that down to LF completely lost on defence
Knock on for scrum before was bogus. SB knew TMO could see that, but somehow the 11 screens didn't have the right angle?
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@junior said in All Blacks v Ireland - 2nd Test:
@ACT-Crusader said in All Blacks v Ireland - 2nd Test:
Ofa is cooked but we can’t replace him
Ofa doing a great impression of Lauaki in 2008 tonight
His offside was purely technical as nowhere near the ball.
AS OPPOSED to forward who out hands on ball in ruck but deemed OK because they comply when ref calls for hands off.
Arguably ought still to be 10-7...
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@Victor-Meldrew The diagram on the right is a better illustration of what’s going on in Foster’s head and the lack of direction in the all blacks.
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@broughie said in All Blacks v Ireland - 2nd Test:
@Victor-Meldrew The diagram on the right is a better illustration of what’s going on in Foster’s head and the lack of direction in the all blacks.
Maybe. I imagine inside his head is a diagram with lots of black lines staying in their own half.
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Been saying for a while and Its become pretty obvious that the ABs pack over the last 4 years have an issue with consistently producing quality performance week after week.
It’s only when they have been embarrassed that the produce a performance. Then settle back to mediocre standards.
What’s not clear is the reason why, but everyone one involved must accept responsibility. Maybe it really is just a case that we aren’t very good.
It’s pretty uncomfortable viewing seeing how well drilled this Ireland team is compared to the ABs. Huge gulf in how they are prepared in my view.
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@DaGrubster their running lines are so much more direct, at pace and at different angles. We are boring in comparison and bereft of ideas.
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Yup, it’s light years from what we are producing.
It’s impressive to watch and they are a truly modern rugby side. On the other hand the AB’s are still playing yesterdays game.
It struck me that watching the game today, it was a bit like watching klopp’s Liverpool run rings around Ole’s Man U.
