Bledisloe 1
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@mariner4life said in Bledisloe 1:
@taniwharugby said in Bledisloe 1:
@mariner4life go back and read the thread, people bitching about DP and HS.
Just saying they come in cold, and get grilled.
Well there needs to be development, don't expect weekly changes, but they can still develop without doing that.
What has happened this year is the result of 2+ years of ignoring issues in front of you.
i think we are also a victim of our structure. Basically, from mid-June, if you are not playing in a test, you have nothing meaningful to play. And with all due respect, NPC rugby is a glorified club game compared to test rugby.
So basically the first choice guys play, everyone else goes cold.
Still think we are allowed to say they were average because they were. The reasons for that are of course arguable - not enough game time, experience at test level, their opposites were better etc. DP has had a couple of goes now and hasn’t shown out on either occasion. Sotutu’s first chance. It’s not the end for them, but not in favour of sharing AB jerseys around - esp. when the team is struggling. They can earn them - impressing at training, injuries, playing well at NPC. Their performance doesn’t help.
If NPC is glorified club rugby, then RTS should be no where near the AB squad.
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@Chris-B you can only assume they're backing themselves to cover that ground while the kick is in the air. Perhaps even encouraging it to potentially isolate the wide player. And if they don't kick, they're there as an extra body in the midfield.
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After reading this thread before watching
- Wasnt a bad game at all, great entertainment and drama
- Swain is a fluffybunny, if he gets less than 6 weeks for that, it is a joke
- Our defence is still pretty shite, just everything about it, alignment, narrow, staggered, gaps, no cohesion...I love watching the Irish d line which work as one
- Rough YC on the Wobbly 9 for pulling down maul, I dont think they even tripped over him
- After receiving the crosskick, CC shaped to kick, with probably the fastest guy on the field at full speed, took it to deck, lost control...nek minut Aus score, huge moment of indecision was quite costly
- We did some good stuff, had nice structure and played with accuracy and pace at times, but just cant maintain it
- Final play...well, wouldnt be a test match with a Frenchie in charge if there wasnt a penalty for tackling a player hurdling someone, a deal or something unusual!
If this is a precursor for WR to pull thier fingers out thier arses and stop teams dragging thier feet and slowing the game, awesome, but I suspect it will just be a moment that will live in infamy.
Oh, funniest comment, think it was TJ...Camera pans over Foster then Rennie, and TJ comments that they are both former Chiefs coaches, with 2 time winner Rennie, and then nothing, sounded like he stopped in mid-sentence!!
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Something else that occurred to me was that if the situation last night was reversed this board would be piling full bore onto Mounga and Foster for being dumb in the act and not preparing players better. Instead (most) Aussies are piling onto the ref.
Some of that will come from the reaction of the Aussie comms team who tried to convince their audience that the ref was totally at fault. -
@taniwharugby yeah that card on the canary yellow 9 was very rough!
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Was it Lomax who escaped a YC for the lift and slam?
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@Crazy-Horse said in Bledisloe 1:
@NTA said in Bledisloe 1:
@Crazy-Horse said in Bledisloe 1:
Only going off one 'real time' viewing but I think Aussie were lucky to dodge another card when Jordan has his legs taken out from under him when going for a high ball. I think it was Koroibete. We scored a few phases after that so it was forgotten about. At the time the ref seemed to ignore it, then it sounded like he was told it was something that should be revisited and then we scored. Unsurprisingly there were no replays of it.
The call was that Koroibete was pushed into the contact accidentally by one of his team mates. I think we had one of those previously (maybe a NH Test?) where a player pulled out of contact but an accidental collision forced them into the zone.
Quite possibly, but I am not sure how you can tell that was the call from the coverage. Did you hear a conversation between the ref and the TMO?
Pretty sure I picked it up from Reynal's mic - had a look at the video at 53:55 game clock:
B Barrett puts up a bomb from just outside his 22, landing on AB 10m line
Koroibete is a bit in no man's land, looking for the ball but then realising he's run back too far. He pulls out of the contest, watches Jordan, setting for a tackle when he lands.
Kellaway, meanwhile, is roaring into the zone with eyes on the ball. He impacts Koroibete, forcing him into Jordan's path.
Reynal says pretty much immediately "No he was pushed. Play on!"
As the ball comes out of the next ruck, he clearly says "He was pushed by his player. Accidental. Yeah pushed by gold"And then I think he say something like "off his feet" but it isn't clear what he's referring to.
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@MiketheSnow said in Bledisloe 1:
Was it Lomax who escaped a YC for the lift and slam?
Yep. Then quickly hooked.
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@MiketheSnow said in Bledisloe 1:
Was it Lomax who escaped a YC for the lift and slam?
I don't think it warranted yellow - past horizontal is penalty minimum but card is determined by landing on shoulder/neck/head.
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@voodoo said in Bledisloe 1:
@taniwharugby yeah that card on the canary yellow 9 was very rough!
Incidental contact at best, then S Barrett tripped over himself. Comedy gold!
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@NTA said in Bledisloe 1:
@voodoo said in Bledisloe 1:
@taniwharugby yeah that card on the canary yellow 9 was very rough!
Incidental contact at best, then S Barrett tripped over himself. Comedy
goldcanary yellow!FIFY
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@KiwiMurph said in Bledisloe 1:
@MiketheSnow said in Bledisloe 1:
Was it Lomax who escaped a YC for the lift and slam?
Yep. Then quickly hooked.
Looking at his action and Swain's action the impact of Swain's actions are far more serious.
But there was far more intent in Lomax's action IMHO
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@MiketheSnow said in Bledisloe 1:
But there was far more intent in Lomax's action IMHO
er, you usually talk alot of sense, but that sir is utter nonsense! Swain was malicious, sole intention was to take his knee out.
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@taniwharugby said in Bledisloe 1:
@MiketheSnow said in Bledisloe 1:
But there was far more intent in Lomax's action IMHO
er, you usually talk alot of sense, but that sir is utter nonsense! Swain was malicious, sole intention was to take his knee out.
Swain wasn't even looking
He just grabbed what was available to him - on the second attempt - and attempted & succeeded in driving the player off his feet
Happens at nearly every breakdown
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@Damo said in Bledisloe 1:
@Billy-Tell said in Bledisloe 1:
@Stargazer said in Bledisloe 1:
@Billy-Tell said in Bledisloe 1:
@Stargazer said in Bledisloe 1:
It’s a scrum not free kick. Law 20 “taking a penalty or free kick”
This literally comes from the World Rugby website (Law 9.7.d)!
Have you read law 20? The section I referred to?
A penalty or free-kick must be taken without delay.
Sanction: scrum.
Interesting.
I had thought ref was wrong as timewastimg is a free kick. Arguably he was right. I suggest it makes no difference as we would have taken a scrum anyway.
I feel sure it was bent arm - did he actually give a penalty?
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On the Clarke defence - if he's being told to "shoot" or if he's getting lost - either way it needs to be addressed. If he's dithering and then shooting, he's timing it poorly and not committing. If he's drifting in and then rushing up because he's identified wrong, he needs to stop drifting in.
Take away Sotutu's mind-numbing kick and I thought he had a really good game, especially for a guy sitting in the stands for months on end. He was busy as and definitely added something different, accuracy getting the ball away is something he could teach Rieko.
I thought de Groot was busy as, as well - I felt like I saw him a lot in the first 20-30 minutes, carting it up and hitting blokes/breakdowns on defence - just not as much impact as in previous games.
Valetini is a bit scary - he's basically Ardie, but proper loosie size.
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@taniwharugby said in Bledisloe 1:
@MiketheSnow said in Bledisloe 1:
But there was far more intent in Lomax's action IMHO
er, you usually talk alot of sense, but that sir is utter nonsense! Swain was malicious, sole intention was to take his knee out.
No it wasn't....but I can't tell if you're taking the piss or not.
Lomax's intent was to lift above the horizontal, not sure if it was his action to right the aussie or just plain luck that he only ended up landing on his side, because he had begun his descent with his shoulders facing the turf.
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On the "it's never happened before " line of thought on the Foley penalty time wasting. I'll admit I cant remember seeing it before. But for 90% of my time watching this sport there was no 10 to 20 seconds of 'sacking celebration ' occurring, and then team huddles before kicks. Etc. This is new territory. I'm actually not against the NFL sacking celebration thingy coming into the game, it's fine. The huddle can piss off though.
I have however seen plenty of these reversals for delaying scrum feeds, delaying lineout throws (e.g. the Itoje scream didnt come from nowhere..) and delayed 22 dropouts when players pass it around to each other looking for space to take a 'quick' one.
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@Rapido said in Bledisloe 1:
On the "it's never happened before " line of thought on the Foley penalty time wasting.
I think the easy response to that is as someone else raised earlier (maybe @crucial) - I've never seen the kicker weirdly imitate a mime before.
