Australia v All Blacks - Bled I

[Old Samurai Jack]

@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!

[NTA]

@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

[Bones]

Hopefully the goat is at this one too

[pakman]

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[pakman]

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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.

[antipodean]

[voodoo]

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
Young

What 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).

[MN5]

@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
Young

What 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 !

[voodoo]

@MN5 that’s disgusting

[Machpants]

No wonder we couldn't get the Bled

[mariner4life]

@voodoo lol that just fucking screams vanilla doesn't it? Look at the midfield. The forwards. Just safe workers everywhere.

[Nepia]

@Machpants said in Australia v All Blacks - Bled I:

No wonder we couldn't get the Bled

Yep, thankfully the dome headed piston wristed gibbon copied Henry's Blues gameplan the next year and increased the non Cantab quota above two.

[canefan]

@mariner4life said in Australia v All Blacks - Bled I:

@voodoo lol that just fucking screams vanilla doesn't it? Look at the midfield. The forwards. Just safe workers everywhere.

Goes to show the Crusaders couldn't be a tier 1 test side. Not that test side anyway

[Crazy Horse]

@canefan said in Australia v All Blacks - Bled I:

@mariner4life said in Australia v All Blacks - Bled I:

@voodoo lol that just fucking screams vanilla doesn't it? Look at the midfield. The forwards. Just safe workers everywhere.

Goes to show the Crusaders couldn't be a tier 1 test side. Not that test side anyway

More like the Crusaders couldn't beat one of the best Wallaby teams of all time.

[mariner4life]

@canefan said in Australia v All Blacks - Bled I:

@mariner4life said in Australia v All Blacks - Bled I:

@voodoo lol that just fucking screams vanilla doesn't it? Look at the midfield. The forwards. Just safe workers everywhere.

Goes to show the Crusaders couldn't be a tier 1 test side. Not that test side anyway

They're all excellent rugby players but the team is too same same across the board

[MN5]

@Nepia said in Australia v All Blacks - Bled I:

@Machpants said in Australia v All Blacks - Bled I:

No wonder we couldn't get the Bled

Yep, thankfully the dome headed piston wristed gibbon copied Henry's Blues gameplan the next year and increased the non Cantab quota above two.

At the expense of Christian Cullen and others.

piston wristed gibbon

[Chris B.]

@canefan said in Australia v All Blacks - Bled I:

@mariner4life said in Australia v All Blacks - Bled I:

@voodoo lol that just fucking screams vanilla doesn't it? Look at the midfield. The forwards. Just safe workers everywhere.

Goes to show the Crusaders couldn't be a tier 1 test side. Not that test side anyway

Yes they could. They just couldn't quite beat them twice.

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[KiwiMurph]

Cripes the AB side in that era was weak - it was like having multiple equivalents of George Bridge in their position scattered throughout the team.

[canefan]

I remember sitting at an AB test, some silly women was trying to say Caleb Ralph was soooo much better than Jonah. Unknowingly the guy was playing test rugby on fucked kidneys and he was still better than that guy. He typified the cantablacks of the era for me. I just don't know how some of those guys got black jerseys, it was lazy selection

[MN5]

@canefan said in Australia v All Blacks - Bled I:

I remember sitting at an AB test, some silly women was trying to say Caleb Ralph was soooo much better than Jonah. Unknowingly the guy was playing test rugby on fucked kidneys and he was still better than that guy. He typified the cantablacks of the era for me. I just don't know how some of those guys got black jerseys, it was lazy selection

I’m disappointed Sam Broomhall missed selection for this match

A much safer option than future All Black coach Scott Robertson who was probably a bit dynamic at number 8 for this team.