RWC Week 1: France v All Blacks

[junior]

@mariner4life said in RWC: France v All Blacks:

can we please stop comparing this team to the 2015 vintage? There are a handful of tema in history that can favourably compare to this team, and certainly no team at this Cup.

Ben Smith is as good as any AB fullback ever
Our best ever midfield that includes one of the best 12s ever
The best 10 to play the game
The best AB halfback ever
One of the top #8s in AB history
The greatest rugby player of all time
The best AB 6 i've ever seen
Our best locking compo at the peak of their powers

Prime BB coming off the bench.

It's a ridiculous comparison that doesn't really say anything about this team.

I would also add to this a Coles-Mealamu hooking combination that, collectively, is as good as any hooking combo in the game.

[Tim]

Enough of the state secrets, just name the fucking team already.

[mencey]

yep, when is the team being named FFS?

[Daffy Jaffy]

@mencey According to a graphic I found re: team announcement times and posted in the RWC discussion thread, the AB's are named at 3:30am NZ time, 5:30pm Paris time. Soon.

[mencey]

@Daffy-Jaffy said in RWC: France v All Blacks:

@mencey According to a graphic I found re: team announcement times and posted in the RWC discussion thread, the AB's are named at 3:30am NZ time, 5:30pm Paris time. Soon.

THX Mate

[Tim]

@Daffy-Jaffy

[JayCee]

[Tordah]

About as expected. No Roigard is a bummer.

[JayCee]

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[KiwiMurph]

I can't imagine that team puts a great deal of fear into the French.

Will be bloody impressive if ABs can snag the W.

[akan004]

Narawa ruled out of the RWC. Here's your chance Foster to undo your initial fuck up, pick Finau as a replacement.

[Tim]

@akan004 Long time to wait on it when he's been injured since the first test of the year! He's just a fucking wing FFS.

[akan004]

@Tim Makes the decision to select him when he was nursing a chronic back injury seem even more ridiculous now. Foster is just so unbelievably stupid.

[Tordah]

@akan004 said in RWC: France v All Blacks:

Narawa ruled out of the RWC. Here's your chance Foster to undo your initial fuck up, pick Finau as a replacement.

Not that I don't believe you, but where did you get the info (Narawa's injury) from? AB team infos are difficult to get sometimes. Thanks

[akan004]

@Tordah

[Tim]

@akan004 I cannot come up with new ways of describing the incompetence. A player who was completely expendable for this campaign.

[DaGrubster]

@Tim

That seems very strange.

It’s not as if he is a world class player with 50 tests behind him and you know what you are getting.

Finau or Lord to be named replacement

[Tim]

@DaGrubster Yeah, a one test rookie. Never going to make a difference in this WC, especially with the other wings we have.

[Daffy Jaffy]

If they are bloody minded and go like for like maybe Stevenson, or maybe Blackadder leapfrogs Finau to reinforce the Loose forwards?

[Tim]

If they want an actual six it's Finau or Ioane. If they want a lock it's Lord or Tuipulotu.