RWC Week 1: France v All Blacks
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@Victor-Meldrew said in RWC: France v All Blacks:
@Chester-Draws said in RWC: France v All Blacks:
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@Machpants said in RWC: France v All Blacks:
@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 had the final say, and the midfield bomb/millions of sorry kicks/play in your own 22 has been the default under the entire foster tenure. And that leads to our losses
Ahh yes, the predictable lament that 'when we're good it's the assistants, when we're bad it's the head coach'. Those with a few more functioning synapses might start to look at the quality of player available and reflect on that body of evidence.
IMO you have to be a dimwit to believe that the problem is just the head coach.
Nope, just recognising that in the end the head coach makes the decisions, and if he ignores his assistants, then they cannot be held accountable.
We have plenty of evidence that Schmidt is a good coach, and that Ryan is a great forwards coach. If they have turned to rubbish within one year, then it is one man that has done that.
When things were going dreadfully, Foster had no choice but to allow them to make changes. Once things were going well, we saw him revert to his favourite players and plays.
By the end of next year the whining about not having decent players will be gone. It will take the change of one man in the set-up. (I'm not even particularly pro-Robertson, I think that would happen if he were to resign and say Jamie Joseph got the job.)
And you have this deep inside knowledge of the discussions between Foster, Schmidt and Ryan how?
If you think all the problems can be solved by replacing one man and then in a few months NZ Rugby will be back to the glory days of 50 point shellackings of the Boks, then I could put you in touch with some people who are selling a bridge?
You only have to look at the U20 performance since 2016, the lack of player development, the innovation in coaching and rugby structure in the NH and NZR's seeming inability to notice the rugby world has moved on to see the problems are way deeper than that
You are sure of your position, based on exactly the same evidence as I am. Unless you do have inside knowledge. You wouldn't go round slighting people when you are doing the exact same thing, would you?
I never said we would be back to the glory days in one year, only that the clown days will be over, and that people will stop thinking we have no depth. The change will be that we play to the strengths of the players, not trying to shoe-horn the players into a very ordinary game plan.
At the end of 2024 is when you should bag me for being wrong. I'll be here.
(Just for the record, I predicted almost exactly what has happened under the Foster regime four years ago. All I'm doing now is predicting what will happen when he leaves, and we have history to suggest what might happen in that regard.)
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@Snowy said in RWC: France v All Blacks:
So out of 84 votes, only 15 of us saw that coming. I can only assume that a lot of people haven’t noticed the list of Foster’s AB “achievements” or just have truly “blind” faith that what had taken over 100 years to build has fallen.
I'll admit to blind faith and an inability to actually pick against the ABs.
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This will give you a laugh...
Interestingly, another record today, quickest RWC apparently...
All Blacks ratings: Barretts and Telea shine, props fail in historic defeat
Following their first-ever defeat in a Rugby World Cup pool match, here is how we rated the All Blacks players who lost 27-13 to France.
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Well that sucked! Forwards were raped especially our front row, except for Scotty B. Christie was shit and Beaudy needs to be dropped. Talea was all class, our props, shot they were crap. Should have sacked Fozz when we had the opportunity. And Dalton is really undersized, he was outmuscled at the breakdown.
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@pjay said in RWC: France v All Blacks:
Why don’t we do the winning French thing and have a major off field political blow up by sacking our head coach mid tournament … and hunt down Razor to get on a plane toute suite.
What have we got to lose…Coming from a country who voted Aunty Jacinda in twice...
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@NTA said in RWC: France v All Blacks:
Not much between the teams IMHO in terms of skill, physicality, and fitness.
The two real differences were use of brain and use of hands. ABs lost a lot of ball in contact.
Especially when we looked to be putting the pressure on their defence.
Just watched a bit of a replay (yes I am a sucker for punishment), and our formation with the ball was looking good until the ball for dislodged or wasn’t secured properly at the breakdown and squirted out the side or a pass is made that had a guys reaching behind (Smith was not as crisp today in that regard) and we lost momentum.
We had chances and we didn’t apply the scoreboard pressure needed.
When they had us down in their 22 we actually defended pretty well. A couple of errors and guys not holding shape, but overall pretty good. The concern was the relentless pressure of it and we couldn’t hold in the conditions.
We know what we have to do to get to the QF and that’s what I’m actually excited about to see if we any mental toughness to lift.
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@ACT-Crusader said in RWC: France v All Blacks:
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@Stag said in RWC: France v All Blacks:
What a list Fozzy has
First home loss to Ireland
First series loss to Ireland
First loss to Argentina
First home loss to Argentina
Largest ever defeat
First ever pool loss at a World CupJust to name a few…
From the dedicated thread
First to lose to Ireland in NZ.
First to lose a series to Ireland.
First 3 test series loss in professional era.
Worst halftime deficit ever.
First to lose to Argentina, and at home
Highest score against us
Biggest losing margin x2
Lowest world ranking
Worst win rate in Pro era
First ever consecutive 14 point+ losses
First loss in RWC pool play
Worst ever RWC loss
Biggest margin of defeats and highest scores conceded against Argentina, Ireland, Australia, South Africa, and France
Only ever time lost 3 consecutive home testsI hear he’s the also the first AB coach to eat Vita Brit’s and not Weetbix.
The sun will come up tomorrow….
Nah he eats chocolate cake for brekkie
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OK, so, we're down by 20 early in the game vs Italy. Does the team say "phuck it" and go out and play their own game or stay with Fozz-ball?
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@NTA said in RWC: France v All Blacks:
Also I don't think you can really have Mo'unga and Beaugan out there at the same time. Just doesn't feel like they complement each other.
People were saying that in 2019.
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“Hindsight is a wonderful thing, isn’t it?” Foster said
Except pretty much everyone on here was saying it was dumb to go into a RWC campaign with a lock and 6 down. Fair enough if BBBR and Frizzell were fit, to have that number of locks and loosies. But they aren't, so it was just common sense to adjust the squad. But Foster has zero flexibility of thought
'Don’t be surprised' if Emoni Narawa's replacement 'is a loose forward'
The changes stretched what was already an exhausted squad depth in the back row, having two of the five loose forwards injured.
