All Blacks 2022
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All the AB props missed some key tackles today. I would hope that this was Laulala's last chance to prove he is good enough at this level. That was answered in the negative.
de Groot still needs to work on his fitness as he is very slow off the ground, but he is a keeper. Time to get rid of the old guard.
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I didn't follow the thread or get to see the game but the comments don't seem too angry or upset? So was it good in retrospect to evaluate pros and cons of the current team?
But the way England came back seems very AB-like.
Perhaps they were quite fit or the bench far superior (or the AB bench the converse?) -
@nostrildamus said in All Blacks 2022:
I didn't follow the thread or get to see the game but the comments don't seem too angry or upset? So was it good in retrospect to evaluate pros and cons of the current team?
But the way England came back seems very AB-like.
Perhaps they were quite fit or the bench far superior (or the AB bench the converse?)It has been a problem this last 2 seasons poor finishes to games in the last 20min.
Need to sort that come WC playoff time, does it point to the bench being wrongly selected at times I think so. -
@Chris said in All Blacks 2022:
@nostrildamus said in All Blacks 2022:
I didn't follow the thread or get to see the game but the comments don't seem too angry or upset? So was it good in retrospect to evaluate pros and cons of the current team?
But the way England came back seems very AB-like.
Perhaps they were quite fit or the bench far superior (or the AB bench the converse?)It has been a problem this last 2 seasons poor finishes to games in the last 20min.
Need to sort that come WC playoff time, does it point to the bench being wrongly selected at times I think so.And a lack of game management from our tens, and in this case TJ.
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@nostrildamus said in All Blacks 2022:
But the way England came back seems very AB-like.
Perhaps they were quite fit or the bench far superior (or the AB bench the converse?)I reckon you could characterize it as Chiefs-like. Those feckers are masters at it!
In the past decade I've watched a heap of games where one team has been comfortably dominating and then in the last 15 minutes the opposition has thrown caution to the wind, run from everywhere, and finished over the top.
The most egregious example was probably Auckland finishing over the top of Otago - scoring two tries in the last 2 minutes and extending some massive record of losing.
It's pretty disconcerting to see the ABs succumb to this, but I guess we've inflicted it a few times.
Somehow, you've GOT to force an error!!!
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Unbeaten in the NH tour but ... A very poor performance against Japan, followed by a convincing win against Wales (but the Taffies are really weak these days), then by another poor display for most of the game against Scotland. I don’t know which qualitative note to attribute to the New Zealand performance of this weekend. Good to very good for the forwards, average to bad for the game management.
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Anyone else reminded of the Blues first round loss to the Hurricanes this year? Played the game at very high speed, blitzed the opposition frequently on attack, dominant clean out and ball carrying, but ran out of gas and conceded about 20 points in the last 10 minutes. Also used subs late and all at once ...
Hope we are building to the kind of performances Schmidt got out of the Blues this year.
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@Tim said in All Blacks 2022:
Anyone else reminded of the Blues first round loss to the Hurricanes this year? Played the game at very high speed, blitzed the opposition frequently on attack, dominant clean out and ball carrying, but ran out of gas and conceded about 20 points in the last 10 minutes. Also used subs late and all at once ...
Hope we are building to the kind of performances Schmidt got out of the Blues this year.
So we want to fix that bit about the last 10 minutes right?
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@Stargazer said in All Blacks 2022:
@Tim I'd rather go with the kind of performance Robertson got out of the Crusaders in the SRP final.
Rely on key opposition players being injured and pray for rain?
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@Stargazer said in All Blacks 2022:
@Kirwan Oh geez, I hit a nerve! Sorry haha.
Just amused that you discount the record run and beating the Crusaders at home so easily. Dalton not having an illness requiring surgery and a dry track and I think we take that game.
But I forget about your Cantab one eye sometimes.
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@Stargazer said in All Blacks 2022:
@Kirwan If you don't really have answers because what someone said is true, you come with excuses and insults. But you do you!
Oh, I guess I missed the substantive content of "tee hee, I hit a nerve!". Great response!
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@Tim said in All Blacks 2022:
Anyone else reminded of the Blues first round loss to the Hurricanes this year? Played the game at very high speed, blitzed the opposition frequently on attack, dominant clean out and ball carrying, but ran out of gas and conceded about 20 points in the last 10 minutes. Also used subs late and all at once ...
Hope we are building to the kind of performances Schmidt got out of the Blues this year.
The problem with that is we used to always win that way as we were fitter.
But now teams can cope with that fast game and are finishing over the top of us.
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@Kirwan said in All Blacks 2022:
@Stargazer said in All Blacks 2022:
@Kirwan Oh geez, I hit a nerve! Sorry haha.
Just amused that you discount the record run and beating the Crusaders at home so easily. Dalton not having an illness requiring surgery and a dry track and I think we take that game.
But I forget about your Cantab one eye sometimes.
Um. I don't think Dalton and a dry track would have fixed the lineouts. That was a convincing win.
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@Chris said in All Blacks 2022:
@Tim said in All Blacks 2022:
Anyone else reminded of the Blues first round loss to the Hurricanes this year? Played the game at very high speed, blitzed the opposition frequently on attack, dominant clean out and ball carrying, but ran out of gas and conceded about 20 points in the last 10 minutes. Also used subs late and all at once ...
Hope we are building to the kind of performances Schmidt got out of the Blues this year.
The problem with that is we used to always win that way as we were fitter.
But now teams can cope with that fast game and are finishing over the top of us.
I think we need more than that to our game plan.A ten that can control a game, for example. The fact that RM can't do that with the arm chair ride he got for 65mins is pretty damning.
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@MiketheSnow said in All Blacks 2022:
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@Daffy-Jaffy said in All Blacks 2022:
Southern Hemsiphere teams and Northern Hemisphere refs aren't a happy combo.
Interesting analysis
you dont think its fair? the NH and SH definitely seem to interpret the rules differently
Without the breakdown of whether a NH or SH was reffing a particular match it's impossible to determine that
dont we have at least a good feel for that? the vast majority of super rugby games are reffed by SH refs
