Australia v All Blacks - Bled I
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@Bovidae said in Australia v All Blacks - Bled I:
@antipodean said in Australia v All Blacks - Bled I:
As much as people hate Eddie swapping and changing his squads, he's brutal when it comes to form.
So Ala'alatoa has been dropped? Selective form then.
The depth between backs and forwards isn't a 1:1 ratio
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@game_film said in Australia v All Blacks - Bled I:
If Bell and Tupou are fit, the Wallabies are a very different team.
Bell is excellent in the loose but needs game time to work on his scrummaging.
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@game_film said in Australia v All Blacks - Bled I:
If Bell and Tupou are fit, the Wallabies are a very different team.
I'm not sold on that argument. Tupou loses the ball easily in contact and is lazy in defence. And he's not Australia's best scrummager.
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Kellaway is a much better fullback than Wright. Not sure why the latter was picked in the first place. I think the Wallabies can put together a pretty good team. It’s a shame about Ikitau (their best back IMHO), but Petaia is not a bad replacement. I’d put Valetini in the ABs and I think Angus Bell is a better ball-in-hand prop than some of our established players. I rate Tate McDermott ahead of the ginger guy in the ABs. They have the makings of a very good team. And Eddie is a sharp mind. I definitely wouldn’t be writing them off.
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@NTA said in Australia v All Blacks - Bled I:
@Tim said in Australia v All Blacks - Bled I:
I am writing them off.
Right here with ya bro
Negative Noo Noo
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@Machpants said in Australia v All Blacks - Bled I:
@NTA said in Australia v All Blacks - Bled I:
@Tim said in Australia v All Blacks - Bled I:
I am writing them off.
Right here with ya bro
Negative Noo Noo
Realistic Rah Rah
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@His-Bobness said in Australia v All Blacks - Bled I:
Kellaway is a much better fullback than Wright. Not sure why the latter was picked in the first place. I think the Wallabies can put together a pretty good team. It’s a shame about Ikitau (their best back IMHO), but Petaia is not a bad replacement. I’d put Valetini in the ABs and I think Angus Bell is a better ball-in-hand prop than some of our established players. I rate Tate McDermott ahead of the ginger guy in the ABs. They have the makings of a very good team. And Eddie is a sharp mind. I definitely wouldn’t be writing them off.
On the other hand Kellaway is a better winger than fullback, Valetini looked better at 6 for Brums than 8 for Wobs, Bell's set piece work is very much work in progress and Petaia has played very little rugby recently (let alone rugby at centre).
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@Tim said in Australia v All Blacks - Bled I:
I am writing them off.
And that is when the sh#tbags are at their best...... And history repeats itself for the umpteenth time.... Cripes I hope the ABs give them a good, relentless shoeing while they are down but you can never trust the convicts. Always have some kind of criminal mastermind plan. It is in their DNA!
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@Old-Samurai-Jack said in Australia v All Blacks - Bled I:
convicts. Always have some kind of criminal mastermind plan. It is in their DNA!
Stealing a loaf of bread isn't exactly The Great Train Robbery
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Change is coming: Predicting All Blacks' selection tactics for Wallabies clash
Eddie Jones’ presence alone guarantees the All Blacks won’t gamble next week.
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This was the 2002 Wallaby team that last won the bledisloe
Latham
Tune
Burke
Herbert
Mortlock
Larkham
Gregan
Kefu
Smith
Finegan
Harrison
Sharpe
Noriega
Paul
YoungWhat a team, that backline!!!
For reference, this was us - 13 bloody cantabs, damn you @ACT-Crusader
Christian Cullen (Wellington), Doug Howlett (Auckland), Mark Robinson (Canterbury), Aaron Mauger (Canterbury, vice captain), Caleb Ralph (Canterbury), Andrew Mehrtens (Canterbury), Justin Marshall (Canterbury), Scott Robertson (Canterbury), Richard McCaw (Canterbury), Reuben Thorne (Canterbury, captain), Norm Maxwell (Canterbury), Chris Jack (Canterbury), Greg Somerville (Canterbury), Mark Hammett (Canterbury, vice captain), Dave Hewett (Canterbury).
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@voodoo said in Australia v All Blacks - Bled I:
This was the 2002 Wallaby team that last won the bledisloe
Latham
Tune
Burke
Herbert
Mortlock
Larkham
Gregan
Kefu
Smith
Finegan
Harrison
Sharpe
Noriega
Paul
YoungWhat a team, that backline!!!
For reference, this was us - 13 bloody cantabs, damn you @ACT-Crusader
Christian Cullen (Wellington), Doug Howlett (Auckland), Mark Robinson (Canterbury), Aaron Mauger (Canterbury, vice captain), Caleb Ralph (Canterbury), Andrew Mehrtens (Canterbury), Justin Marshall (Canterbury), Scott Robertson (Canterbury), Richard McCaw (Canterbury), Reuben Thorne (Canterbury, captain), Norm Maxwell (Canterbury), Chris Jack (Canterbury), Greg Somerville (Canterbury), Mark Hammett (Canterbury, vice captain), Dave Hewett (Canterbury).
There was once a team with 14 cantabs and Jonah if memory serves me correctly……and he played on the right wing to accomodate Caleb Ralph !
