All Blacks Vs Springboks RC Week 2

[nostrildamus]

@Tim said in All Blacks Vs Springboks RC Week 2:

Beauden Barrett also playing very well (I missed minutes 40 to 55 though).

Unorthodox opinion.

[KiwiMurph]

Beauden was fine but its certainly worth looking at other options.

[canefan]

@Tim said in All Blacks Vs Springboks RC Week 2:

Are we on the Foster bandwagon now?

Nope. But I feel more bullish than before the start of the RC

[canefan]

@Frank said in All Blacks Vs Springboks RC Week 2:

Rather than this short defensive bomb bullshit, I rather have a long kicking fullback (Stevenson) with good chasers.

It looked like team tactics. RM did it too

[Machpants]

@Tim said in All Blacks Vs Springboks RC Week 2:

Are we on the Foster bandwagon now?

If he drops beaudy and Clarke, nepo and havili doesn't come back. Maybe

[KiwiMurph]

@Machpants Nepo was great off of the bench tonight.

[Machpants]

@KiwiMurph he was ok. But one game without stupid penalties is not enough to cancel out the high chance of him losing us an important games in RWC

[nostrildamus]

If we don't have Cane we need more defensive starch in the loosies. And I don't understand why Samisobi isn't the starter, his pick and go wears them down more than any other tight forward.

[KiwiMurph]

Huge effort by Etzebeth just to play. Poor fulla.

[canefan]

@KiwiMurph said in All Blacks Vs Springboks RC Week 2:

Huge effort by Etzebeth just to play. Poor fulla.

Yeah. I'm sure he did it to honour his dad.

[Machpants]

@KiwiMurph said in All Blacks Vs Springboks RC Week 2:

Huge effort by Etzebeth just to play. Poor fulla.

Yeah much respect

[sparky]

Great to see Will Jordan back in Black and playing so well. Fingers crossed he’ll be good to go in France.

[BerniesCorner]

Special praise to Frizzell, Lomax, De Groot, Mo'unga, Jordie, Jordan and Raynal.
Christie showed a ton of guts. Pass was reasonable a lot of the time. The criticism on here is way over the top.
Scrums the majority of time were a thing of beauty.
Great to see Mo'unga bring his true ability to a test match
Willie Le Roux's defensive kicks sensational
Shelve the dinky AB defensive kicks, total disaster.

[Steve]

Intrigued to see both Jordan and Stevenson in 14/15 shirt at same time with Markie Mark in the 11 shirt.

[Machpants]

Nope. Beaudy stupid chip from 22 that lead to the last try cost us second place. Needs over 15 to take second from France

[canefan]

@Steve said in All Blacks Vs Springboks RC Week 2:

Intrigued to see both Jordan and Stevenson in 14/15 shirt at same time with Markie Mark in the 11 shirt.

Might have to wait until 2024...

[SBW1]

[Smuts]

@canefan that’s about right. Frustrated more than anything. Wasn’t like Albany. Or the Straueli era.

But that game was there to be won despite perhaps the most sublime 20 minutes of rugby since 2015. And the boks nailing their own dicks to the floor in the second twenty.

But we didn’t have the playmakers to do it. Willemse and DDA were gash.

[BerniesCorner]

@Machpants Beaudy was trying to entertain the crowd at the end going for a wonder breakout.
People on the Fern enjoy black boots, square scrums, straight running mid fielders, and kick the f**k out of it inside your 22.

[Smuts]

@canefan played well too, especially in the circumstances.

Retallick was immense on the other side of the ball. And Barrett wasn’t too bad even if he does need a fat smack.