RWC Week 1: France v All Blacks
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No I refuse to let you introduce strawman arguments. You did it in the NPC thread too. Lift your game it makes you look dumb
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@Duluth said in RWC: France v All Blacks:
From the current squad what would you have picked?
I personally would have gone for Jacobson, as I really rate him, and despite what the height and weight might say, he feels and plays like a bigger body than Papalii IMO. I don't necessarily hate the option, as think we lacks options at 6, with the only one I consider near good enough injured.
Blackadder isn't that big either, and has spent the best part of 18 months injured, whilst I think Samipeni is still very raw, and wouldn't have been ready for this WC.
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@akan004 the issue you're facing by picking mainly on SR form is continuity. Because of Forster's results over the last couple of years he's about 1 year behind in his plan to solidify the team. He was still phucking around with the team on the end of year tour last year. With the emergence of JB at 12 and Rieks finally showing glimpses of a test centre pairing, Foster simply didn't have enough time to blood anymore players. Then you’ll all be complaining our team is far too inexperienced.
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@Duluth said in RWC: France v All Blacks:
From the current squad what would you have picked?
personally...i would have some faith in myself and who i had picked and give whomever i had picked in the SA game another shot....i truly believe all this one game in one game out shit has to have an effect on players...meaning the next time they get a shot they'll be in their own heads
I dont mean players become undroppable...but there is a middle ground between playing one game ever so often and being kept on after 3 bad games in a row
also doesnt mean i wouldn't have picked a different squad, but when weve got a squad we need to rev them up...not make them doubt themselves
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@Darren said in RWC: France v All Blacks:
Oh hell no
But everyone was having a bad day, nice to bring on someone to turn the game around a bit. Just don't think Christie does that. He is not going to add a spark that might make a difference.
I'm just not liking the makeup of this team, and the squad in general just seems to be selected badly.Let's face it if AB pack doesn't go well , and if Roigard did play and not look good, posters being what they are would of been moaning about him not being up to it anyway.
I think I been reading forums too long!
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@No-Quarter said in RWC: France v All Blacks:
Dalton's selection? He is absolutely world class
I am not sure he has put in enough World class performances at Test Level to call him World class.
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@No-Quarter said in RWC: France v All Blacks:
@Darren said in RWC: France v All Blacks:
Oh hell no
But everyone was having a bad day, nice to bring on someone to turn the game around a bit. Just don't think Christie does that. He is not going to add a spark that might make a difference.
I'm just not liking the makeup of this team, and the squad in general just seems to be selected badly.That was a great little confidence boost for Roigard, by far the best thing to come of that warm up match. But the game was gone, and it was a warm up match, so there was no pressure on him at all. Against the French at home in a WC opener? Yeah that's a different kettle of fish and I can see why they wouldn't want to expose him to that this early in his career. Some pool games for him to make his case and get more comfortable in the black jumper, and he's every chance of making the bench in the quarter.
Why then is he in the RWC squad?
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@frugby said in RWC: France v All Blacks:
@Joans-Town-Jones said in RWC: France v All Blacks:
@frugby we're down by 5, 20 mins to go, have the ascendency, scored 22 unanswered points, you don't think Fozzy is hooking Nugget?
If we have scored 22 unanswered points and are on absolute fire? Absolutely not haha.
Foster, the ABs coach? He'd drop God.
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@Duluth said in RWC: France v All Blacks:
Hopefully ALB goes well.
If he can have even a solid game it settles a few questions about the bench for later in the tournament. With him covering 12/13 and two 10's in the starting lineup it gives us options for that last bench spot
would love for him to have a solid game, just tackle blokes and try and put RI in some space...
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@Kiwiwomble said in RWC: France v All Blacks:
@Duluth said in RWC: France v All Blacks:
From the current squad what would you have picked?
personally...i would have some faith in myself and who i had picked and give whomever i had picked in the SA game another shot....i truly believe all this one game in one game out shit has to have an effect on players...meaning the next time they get a shot they'll be in their own heads
I dont mean players become undroppable...but there is a middle ground between playing one game ever so often and being kept on after 3 bad games in a row
also doesnt mean i wouldn't have picked a different squad, but when weve got a squad we need to rev them up...not make them doubt themselves
This was the main issue with the EOYT. Foster finally found some talent in JB at 12. Many of us had been calling for it for a while. But no, he went and phucked around with the team much to the applause of @Victor-Meldrew who was advocating for playing backups to JB in the next 9 tests.
Come this year, Foster could have really nailed the team down but again phucked around with it despite 2 weeks between the last 3 tests.
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@Joans-Town-Jones said in RWC: France v All Blacks:
@No-Quarter said in RWC: France v All Blacks:
@Darren said in RWC: France v All Blacks:
Oh hell no
But everyone was having a bad day, nice to bring on someone to turn the game around a bit. Just don't think Christie does that. He is not going to add a spark that might make a difference.
I'm just not liking the makeup of this team, and the squad in general just seems to be selected badly.That was a great little confidence boost for Roigard, by far the best thing to come of that warm up match. But the game was gone, and it was a warm up match, so there was no pressure on him at all. Against the French at home in a WC opener? Yeah that's a different kettle of fish and I can see why they wouldn't want to expose him to that this early in his career. Some pool games for him to make his case and get more comfortable in the black jumper, and he's every chance of making the bench in the quarter.
Why then is he in the RWC squad?
We have a pretty significant lack of depth at halfback right now
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@Bovidae said in RWC: France v All Blacks:
To be optimistic, let's go back to the 2015 RWC.
The pecking order of the halfbacks at the start was (1) Smith, (2) TJP, (3) TKB. By the time the playoffs started TKB had overtaken TJP to be Smith's backup. There is time for Roigard to prove his worth before the game that really matters.
Team sheets from 2011 indicate Cowan was preferred starter earlier in the year and St the start of the tournament. Ended up 3rd 9.
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@booboo said in RWC: France v All Blacks:
@Darren said in RWC: France v All Blacks:
Winning this games doesn't necessarily give us the easier QF anyway, just creates momentum and confidence.
Which is "easier" ...
Scotland, if the manage to tip over either SA or Ireland, which had happened before
