All Blacks vs Springboks - Twickenham
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well that brought us back down to earth lol
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@Victor-Meldrew said in All Blacks vs Springboks - Twickenham:
@Machpants said in All Blacks vs Springboks - Twickenham:
Even if he does win the cup, this is not good enough.
Really? I'd have thought winning the RWC would come before a warm-up game.
Yes because ABs should be better than this, the RWC is top priority but it is not everything
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@Machpants said in All Blacks vs Springboks - Twickenham:
@Victor-Meldrew said in All Blacks vs Springboks - Twickenham:
@Machpants said in All Blacks vs Springboks - Twickenham:
Even if he does win the cup, this is not good enough.
Really? I'd have thought winning the RWC would come before a warm-up game.
Yes because ABs should be better than this, the RWC is top priority but it is not everything
This game wouldn't even be played if there wasn't a RWC.
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@akan004 said in All Blacks vs Springboks - Twickenham:
Never seen an ABs team physically dominated like this. Men against boys.
Ive seen it before, many times. But the likes of DC, Cory Jane , Dagg et al, caught their kicks and got us back down the field.
Beaudy and Richie are not doing that for us.
We are under the pump in our own half for a disproportionate amount of time.
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@Tordah and you see the ABs going to the final after that? We wont get passed the QF.
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@Tordah Exactly. It's a meaningless game at the end of the day. Rather it happens here than in the QF.
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Some of the pre match talk coming out of the ab camp about wanting to make a statement is looking a bit comical now
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Hey didn't Telea and Roigard play well! Shame about the other 21. I found that excruciating with everything so slowed down. Wasn't the game meant to be sped up this year.
Anyways we can't cope with this style of officiating against an ultra powerful team. We'll done South Africa
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@KiwiMurph said in All Blacks vs Springboks - Twickenham:
@Machpants said in All Blacks vs Springboks - Twickenham:
@Victor-Meldrew said in All Blacks vs Springboks - Twickenham:
@Machpants said in All Blacks vs Springboks - Twickenham:
Even if he does win the cup, this is not good enough.
Really? I'd have thought winning the RWC would come before a warm-up game.
Yes because ABs should be better than this, the RWC is top priority but it is not everything
This game wouldn't even be played if there wasn't a RWC.
Was still played and with our best team available foster collected another record, worst ever loss outright. To go with his previous equal worst ever loss. And first loss to Argentina's. Twice. Lowest ever world ranking. Worst loss versus Oz. Worst loss versus France. Home Series lots in Pro era. Etc etc
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@Steve said in All Blacks vs Springboks - Twickenham:
@akan004 said in All Blacks vs Springboks - Twickenham:
Never seen an ABs team physically dominated like this. Men against boys.
Ive seen it before, many times. But the likes of DC, Cory Jane , Dagg et al, caught their kicks and got us back down the field.
Beaudy and Richie are not doing that for us.
We are under the pump in our own half for a disproportionate amount of time.
100% this.
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@kiwiinmelb said in All Blacks vs Springboks - Twickenham:
Some of the pre match talk coming out of the ab camp about wanting to make a statement is looking a bit comical now
I’ll be honest I thought the team seemed flat during the Anthem and Haka, just like their minds were already on France. SA to their credit were excellent and must be a serious challenger for the cup.
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@kiwiinmelb said in All Blacks vs Springboks - Twickenham:
Some of the pre match talk coming out of the ab camp about wanting to make a statement is looking a bit comical now
A statement was made, flat track bullies only
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@Joans-Town-Jones said in All Blacks vs Springboks - Twickenham:
@Tordah and you see the ABs going to the final after that? We wont get passed the QF.
Not necessarily, but I wouldn't write them off. Remember France losing to Tonga in the 2011 RWC pools? Who would have thought they'd get into the final and almost win?
ABs have shown earlier this year that they CAN play very well and dominate the Boks physically, just today the Boks won that contest, and quite clearly.
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Ouch that was a hiding! Our forwards were absolutely dominated (the first time sice Ryan has been there). I had feeling early part they were so worried about stopping maul, they forgot to compete. We had backfoot ball whole game, so backs were never going to do much. Was a mile away from the simple go forward stuff that has worked for us.
