RWC Week 1: France v All Blacks
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Haven't caught up with all of the thread, but reflecting on the game overall, both teams were very error prone in the 1st half but in the 2nd half only we were error prone. The French tightened their game right up to suit the conditions - effectively wet weather footy in that heat. We were going to win if the game stayed fairly open with the likes of Telea really finding form, so they were smart to change tactics and we didn't adjust our gameplan, so our mistakes became more and more costly as they pinned us in our own half.
Given our injuries, we definitely do have the cattle to win the thing on ability alone based on that first half. I just question whether we have the smarts to adjust our game if things don't go to plan. It seems not at this stage.
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@Joans-Town-Jones said in RWC: France v All Blacks:
So where to now? Maybe this was the rope-a-dope. Do they spend the next three tests practicing their exit kicks, handling, ruck and kick retention?
I don't think rope a dope is the All Black way. This is Foster's blueprint, and they are going to follow it to it's conclusion, wherever that leads us
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@KiwiMurph said in RWC: France v All Blacks:
Just thinking about 6 and Vaai
Would Vaai be the 5th ranked Chiefs 6 behind Finau, Ah Koui, PGS and Jacobson?
He's never exactly stood out in his limited time at 6.
Ah Koui-I don't mind him, the few times I saw him played he looked pretty tireless and committed.
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@Machpants said in RWC: France v All Blacks:
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HindsightGood coaching is a wonderful thing, isn’t it?” Foster saidThe lack of forward replacements, carrying injured players, not having decent 6s, 10s with the kicking power of Detective Ironside, not changing the gameplan, that is all on Foster.
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Tactically that 2nd half was terrible by us, and exactly what I expected because it's what we've been doing for a couple of years now. First half we still kicked all our ball away, but I was pleasantly surprised by a few long kicks.
Well done France, comfortably put us away despite their injuries. Thought Aldritt was particularly good, but they made plenty of defensive errors and look quite beatable. -
Think that our kick chase game is the weakest link in our game plan at the moment, very rarely seems to pay off and normally just backfires with points against us.
Hoping that the plan all along has been to target the QF as our breakthrough game and that it will be all ok. Also hope we don’t go for too much rotation in the remaining pool games as we need to get our combinations more game time.
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At least the ABs had the decency to suck in the previous game too, so we didn’t go into this with false expectations
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@Joans-Town-Jones Well their kicking has be woeful for years. Why practice the obvious?
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@nostrildamus said in RWC: France v All Blacks:
Ah Koui-I don't mind him, the few times I saw him played he looked pretty tireless and committed.
I guess at Super he is a more a short lock who can play 6 but as a international backup bench 6/bench-emergency lock Ah Koui might have been worth a look. Perhaps he is too much of a loose cannon, but, early days.
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@akan004 I loathe Mark Robinson just as much
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@broughie said in RWC: France v All Blacks:
@Joans-Town-Jones Well their kicking has be woeful for years. Why practice the obvious?
So then fire David Hill and bring in Nick Evans?
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@Joans-Town-Jones That would require the acknowledgement of a problem.
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@Tim said in RWC: France v All Blacks:
This game really underlined how bad Ryan is. He keeps selecting awful players like Cody Taylor at the expense of genuinely good forwards. Vaa'i would make no other squad.
NZ rugby is rotten.
This is hilarious.
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@broughie and that is something that Foster is clearly never going to acknowledge which is why we are where we are.
His constant references to learnings is a joke and intended to fool us into thinking he has some analytical skills which he will diligently apply to the next game plan.
