Japan XV v All Blacks XV
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Loved Fakatava doing his peak Aaron Smith impression.,,
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Thought the lads played fairly well. Do you know how friggen hot it is tonight? The only movement should be to reach for a drink. Luckily though, it could have been worst. Mildish summer so far.
Au Koi was immense and the play/ball follows Billy Harmon all the time. Has a Hooper-like ability to be involved all the time. -
@Stargazer It helps if you remove the eye patch.
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@African-Monkey said in Japan XV v All Blacks XV:
He may have no pace anymore, but man Goodhue still has beautiful hands.
As @Victor-Meldrew observed recently, imagine him with Rieko's pace and you have the prince of centres.
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@KiwiMurph said in Japan XV v All Blacks XV:
@booboo said in Japan XV v All Blacks XV:
Dumb question maybe ... was this on Stan? ... or otherwise available on the left of the Ta$man?
No. Highlights om YouTube.
Thanks KM
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@booboo said in Japan XV v All Blacks XV:
@KiwiMurph said in Japan XV v All Blacks XV:
@booboo said in Japan XV v All Blacks XV:
Dumb question maybe ... was this on Stan? ... or otherwise available on the left of the Ta$man?
No. Highlights om YouTube.
Thanks KM
I also found full match on YT (well by found I mean it auto started after I watched the highlights.)
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@pakman said in Japan XV v All Blacks XV:
@African-Monkey said in Japan XV v All Blacks XV:
He may have no pace anymore, but man Goodhue still has beautiful hands.
As @Victor-Meldrew observed recently, imagine him with Rieko's pace and you have the prince of centres.
The prince of centres throwing in a nothing grubber after being put into space down the left hand side, instead of looking to link up, would have had me stabbing him to death with the spikey bits on his crown.
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From the earlier comments, I was expecting an horror show. Nothing like that. Of course, the AB XV looked a bit rusty at times but we must remember that it is a makeshift team, with just a few days of training in its bag. Weber was not that bad. I still rank him above Christie. I like what I saw of Goodhue. He is lacking speed but he has the best hands in NZ rugby.
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@pakman said in Japan XV v All Blacks XV:
@Bovidae said in Japan XV v All Blacks XV:
I noted that both Bell and Dyer are part of the squad. Jager injured again?
Ah Kuoi was my MOTM.
Missed that. Was that on AB XV Twitter?
That is good spotting! Mafileo went to Argentina with ABs so maybe back up?