RWC Week 1: France v All Blacks
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@Stargazer said in RWC: France v All Blacks:
@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.
@Tim may be a bit OTT, but have we really progressed that much in the forwards in the last year? Last nite's second half reminded me of the loss to France in '21 and the 35-7 loss to the Boks was probably the worst AB forwards performance I've seen.
Not bagging Ryan for not being a Coaching Jesus, but there's still huge problems there around headspace and handling pressure to sort out.
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@Victor-Meldrew said in RWC: France v All Blacks:
@Nevorian said in RWC: France v All Blacks:
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.
I'd put parts of our forward game as being weaker. Little things like discipline, control, set-piece and not going to pieces when under pressure.
Looked to have improved hugely in the RC but seems to have gone backwards.
And you're the one who wanted the team changed every test to find 4 backups to JB.
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@Victor-Meldrew said in RWC: France v All Blacks:
@taniwharugby said in RWC: France v All Blacks:
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.
Oh, fuck me....
I’d love to see the ratings at end of first half.
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@pakman said in RWC: France v All Blacks:
@Victor-Meldrew said in RWC: France v All Blacks:
@taniwharugby said in RWC: France v All Blacks:
This will give you a laugh...
Interestingly, another record today, quickest RWC apparently...
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.
Oh, fuck me....
I’d love to see the ratings at end of first half.
I assumed they were from the first half..
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At the moment Italy is our final.
We need to decide on our top team and play the combos in the pools as much as possible.
Some of these guys confidence must be shot.
Ethan is arriving. -
@BerniesCorner The Italy game is now the most important All Blacks game since 2011 World Cup final. If we lose (and if we play like we have in the last two games that’s a possibility) the reputation of the team will be shot for a decade at least.
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I'm done with reading comparisons, firsts, jokes with this AB team.
Want them to ignore the inevitable shite noise, focus and give it heaps.
Proud of SB last night did exactly that. -
Give over boys
You’ll stuff Italy
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@MiketheSnow your boys used to say that too 😉
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@Victor-Meldrew said in RWC: France v All Blacks:
Great.
Did you or did you not what the team to be changed every test? And what were the results like? How are the ABs fairing?
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@sparky said in RWC: France v All Blacks:
@BerniesCorner The Italy game is now the most important All Blacks game since 2011 World Cup final. If we lose (and if we play like we have in the last two games that’s a possibility) the reputation of the team will be shot for a decade at least.
For Namibia and Uruguay, the ABs need to A, attack the breakdown like no tomorrow, B, practicing kicking loooooong from their 22 and pinning the the opposition in their 22 and for Italy they need to play 80 mins of rugby winning both halves. Go hard out, rack up à score then spend the next 60 mins kicking the ball long and deep.
#winning
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@Joans-Town-Jones said in RWC: France v All Blacks:
@sparky said in RWC: France v All Blacks:
@BerniesCorner The Italy game is now the most important All Blacks game since 2011 World Cup final. If we lose (and if we play like we have in the last two games that’s a possibility) the reputation of the team will be shot for a decade at least.
For Namibia and Uruguay, the ABs need to A, attack the breakdown like no tomorrow, B, practicing kicking loooooong from their 22 and pinning the the opposition in their 22 and for Italy they need to play 80 mins of rugby winning both halves. Go hard out, rack up à score then spend the next 60 mins kicking the ball long and deep.
#winning
Unfortunately it will be basketball
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@Joans-Town-Jones said in RWC: France v All Blacks:
@sparky said in RWC: France v All Blacks:
@BerniesCorner The Italy game is now the most important All Blacks game since 2011 World Cup final. If we lose (and if we play like we have in the last two games that’s a possibility) the reputation of the team will be shot for a decade at least.
For Namibia and Uruguay, the ABs need to A, attack the breakdown like no tomorrow, B, practicing kicking loooooong from their 22 and pinning the the opposition in their 22 and for Italy they need to play 80 mins of rugby winning both halves. Go hard out, rack up à score then spend the next 60 mins kicking the ball long and deep.
#winning
Yikes sounds like Grant Fox
No need to re invent the wheel
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Cheer up, lads.
The French were bloody lucky to win that.
Their try after half time relied on a number of fortuitous events, including Jaco missing a relieving knock on.
The yellow had a much more subtle impact than the obvious. Not sure if it was some perception of guilt for not giving red or what, but for the next 15 minutes or so Jaco has hyper tough on us at breakdown and anything which was dropped assumed forwards. Meanwhile, counted him twice not pinging for same thing in their half and one heinous offside, which even ITV picked up, which was very kickable.
An even handed display in those 15 minutes and it'd have been 19-16 or even 16 all with ten to play.
That was the game in a nutshell.
ABs did many good things and were best team over first three quarters.
I expect French coaches will have lots of material for Monday review.
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@pakman I can see why we can have cause for optimism, however the biggest problem is the need for 3 big games in a row.
I think we certainly have it in us to roll anyone in a quarter, it's backing up the next week against a quality opposition I have little faith in us doing, let alone 3 times in a row.
I'd love them to prove me wrong though, would be a fitting end for the likes of Whitelock, Smith etc
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@BerniesCorner said in RWC: France v All Blacks:
At the moment Italy is our final.
We need to decide on our top team and play the combos in the pools as much as possible.
Some of these guys confidence must be shot.
Ethan is arriving.Probably walking on water to get there judging by some of the posts on here about him
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@reprobate said in RWC: France v All Blacks:
@pakman Seriously mate, blaming the ref for that loss is totally ridiculous.
I didn’t ‘blame the ref’, I referenced that the French were lucky. Sometimes that’s the difference.
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@pakman mate seriously??? I'm not drinking the Kool-Aide on this one. We were dominated up front by a superior French pack. We were average at the breakdown, we lost our first ever game in pool play and we lost by the worse margin in our RWC history.
No we sucked! The only positives are Reiko and Telea were awesome.
