RWC Week 1: France v All Blacks
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@Bovidae said in RWC: France v All Blacks:
The stat that should be most concerning is the penalty count. Much like the game vs SA, you give the opposition multiple scoring opportunities to apply even more pressure, especially with players in the sin bin.
Handling errors and breakdown turnovers killed us
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This is now just becoming embarrassing. I now live in Canada and I have neighbours who don't know shit about Rugby telling me that the All Blacks are not the same team anymore.
Foster may be a great bloke and all that but he should never have been given the job in the first place. We have just gone to shit under his tenure. We won't get out of the quarters if we are even lucky enough to get out of this pool.
Some of the players should have gone to Japan for good for the payday already. Where is the backup game plane if things are not working? This nonstop kicking the ball away is just a joke.
Richie and Dan must be in total disbelief in the stands. That is the second game in a row that was just sickening to watch. The French can play way better that that. Thank F### they didn't or we would have been in for another hiding.
I haven’t particularly been looking forward to this WC as I knew we weren’t going anywhere but the match at Twickenham and now this defeat has confirmed my worst fears.
All I can say is, I hope Razor can turn things around next year and make me want to watch this team play without a sense of how badly we could lose when I am watching. I am not a Crusaders fan but you have to give it to that man Scott Robinson. His record speaks for itself as does Fosters I am afraid to say.
I wish that I still drank as I could at least drown my sorrows. Yes this is negative but how else are you supposed to feel. My old man was Irish born so that’s who I now hope win if we can’t produce an absolute miracle. Enough said.
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I’ve seen this film before but the good guys were in red
And I felt, or I was told to feel, that the players in red were not smart enough or athletic enough to execute the coach’s vision
Turns out the players in red were smart enough and athletic enough but the coach was too pig headed and stubborn to admit that he was wrong
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@Mattasaurus said in RWC: France v All Blacks:
Akira and Sotutu ( have watched both live in NPC recently) are not lighting the NPC on fire.... really starting to view them both as flat track Auckland schoolboy players.... was hoping Akira would be stung by begin dropped and have a fire lit inside him.... but not from what I have seen in NPC so far ( as someone said earlier there is a bloody good player in him .... just not seeing it yet)--
and Sotutu miles off the pace for international rugby IMO on current formSotutu not in great from.
Akira has been great. In the Auckland player of the match polls he's had two firsts and a second.. and is clearly in the cumulative lead. Topping the stats in almost every game he plays.
Fuck even TJ was praising him for his enormous workrate in the tight and pointed out that not enough people are giving him credit
A bizarre post. I don't know how anyone watching the NPC doesn't recognise how good he is playing
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@canefan said in RWC: France v All Blacks:
@Chris said in RWC: France v All Blacks:
ALB was he even playing, inspired choice to play him at 2nd five impact was Zero.
He and Havili offer nothing in that regard. We aren't Coke classic, we are Coke Zero
I can’t agree with this as Coke Zero is good for you.
Fuck, Jordie can’t get fit enough quick enough can he ?
I was fairly sure the ABs were fucked when “twin impact subs” Havili and Christie took the field at the same time.
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@Victor-Meldrew Quite. Well, we know who Captain Mainwaring is!!
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@MN5 said in RWC: France v All Blacks:
@canefan said in RWC: France v All Blacks:
@Chris said in RWC: France v All Blacks:
ALB was he even playing, inspired choice to play him at 2nd five impact was Zero.
He and Havili offer nothing in that regard. We aren't Coke classic, we are Coke Zero
I can’t agree with this as Coke Zero is good for you.
Fuck, Jordie can’t get fit enough quick enough can he ?
I was fairly sure the ABs were fucked when “twin impact subs” Havili and Christie took the field at the same time.
As a dentist I can tell you Coke Zero appears to be good, but is actually bad or worse than Coke Classic. My analogy is sound
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If I was to take any positive out of that, it was that we did enough to win that game if we had an ounce of game smarts...we could have had that almost out reach after 40, but gee, when did we become so fucking stubborn with our tactics and inability to adjust?
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@His-Bobness said in RWC: France v All Blacks:
@Victor-Meldrew Quite. Well, we know who Captain Mainwaring is!!
We could be Hogan's Heroes
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Quick report from your local correspondent here in fucking hot Paris:
Backroom full of donkeys. Vaai, predictability, the worst of them. Tight five carried them. In as much as you can call that display "carried".
De Groot will want to forget that game in a hurry. ALB was MIA after that beautiful pop pass to Rieko.
Will Jordan is obviously a very dimwitted slow learner. Jump to contest you fuckwomble.Beaudy was bloody good until the final quarter. As was Mounga.
The blame for you Foster haters needs to be apportioned to the rest of the coaching staff who have had plenty of time to address the obvious issues. This was a collective display of incompetence.
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@taniwharugby said in RWC: France v All Blacks:
If I was to take any positive out of that, it was that we did enough to win that game if we had an ounce of game smarts...we could have had that almost out reach after 40, but gee, when did we become so fucking stubborn with our tactics and inability to adjust?
About six years ago.
At not once in his four years has Foster shown any signs of a desire to adjust. He has been quite plain, even when losing badly, that he thinks things are on track.
The ABs played OK in the first half, but we were still not leading. And there lies the real problem. We aren't very good even when playing well.
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@MN5 said in RWC: France v All Blacks:
@canefan said in RWC: France v All Blacks:
@Chris said in RWC: France v All Blacks:
I can’t agree with this as Coke Zero is good for you.
What you talking about Willis?
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@antipodean said in RWC: France v All Blacks:
Quick report from your local correspondent here in fucking hot Paris:
Backroom full of donkeys. Vaai, predictability, the worst of them. Tight five carried them. In as much as you can call that display "carried".
De Groot will want to forget that game in a hurry. ALB was MIA after that beautiful pop pass to Rieko.
Will Jordan is obviously a very dimwitted slow learner. Jump to contest you fuckwomble.Beaudy was bloody good until the final quarter. As was Mounga.
The blame for you Foster haters needs to be apportioned to the rest of the coaching staff who have had plenty of time to address the obvious issues. This was a collective display of incompetence.
The buck stops at the head coach. And with Ryan and Schmidt we have had some games which forwards really muscled up and attack was good versus decent opposition. Prior to them, none. So yes Ryan and Schmidt are part of the selectors and coaching team, but there has been improvement with them on board. Foster has the final say, and the midfield bomb/millions of short kicks/play in your own 22 has been the default under the entire foster tenure. And that leads to our losses
