RWC Week 2: All Blacks v Namibia
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@stodders Agreed. If he is just a pale imitation of Smith, what does he offer? Impact? Variation? Strategic advantage? X-factor? That’s a no!
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@Billy-Tell said in RWC Week 2: All Blacks v Namibia:
Opposition is not very good. But Roigard surely has to be the bench 9. Just takes the right options every time.
We don't know how he'll go against top teams and when under pressure, but the signs are he'll do OK. His last two appearances will have done wonders for his confidence.
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@MajorRage said in RWC Week 2: All Blacks v Namibia:
Am I the only one quite happy with the way things are going? Execution isn't perfect, but that is a proper torrential tropical rainstorm they were playing in for a while. It's slippery as anything & you can't expect every pass to stick. Good points
- Backline finding gaps / space with ease - thats what you want in these games
- AB's are not going up the jumper despite the weather, still got the confidence to try things out - encouraging
- Roigards option taking is excellent, and hopefully will be our number 2 scrummie, if not number 1 by the business time
- Forwards dominated early, but then have clearly dropped from giving 100% as there is simply no need to
You're damned either way as the All Blacks in these games, so I'm pretty happy with the way things have gone.
Roigard may not be as fast as Smith but he is a triple threat, unlike 2d Smith
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@MN5 said in RWC Week 2: All Blacks v Namibia:
Namibia are such a waste of space when it comes to World Cups. They’re always at them and they ALWAYS get fucken hammered. At least others minnows seem to improve a little bit here and there ?
Yep. Wish another African team would step up.
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Yup, and you can’t blame them as we want them to play heads up rugby.
Also, it is probably counter productive to play the kind of rugby we want to in the qtr final etc as it will be easy to implement against Namibia but it gives our opponents a lot of data to analyse.
I am keen to see better discipline in areas such as set piece, defence and accuracy in breakdown work. That’s what we can take out of it I suppose.
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@Victor-Meldrew said in RWC Week 2: All Blacks v Namibia:
@Billy-Tell said in RWC Week 2: All Blacks v Namibia:
Opposition is not very good. But Roigard surely has to be the bench 9. Just takes the right options every time.
We don't know how he'll go against top teams and when under pressure, but the signs are he'll do OK. His last two appearances will have done wonders for his confidence.
He's only played against second tier teams. Like SA...
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@Machpants said in RWC Week 2: All Blacks v Namibia:
@chimoaus said in RWC Week 2: All Blacks v Namibia:
BB can exit.
He did a couple last game, but stopped after half time
The question should be why?
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Lol Ofa and Nepo are a circus act. Bunch of clowns.
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@Victor-Meldrew said in RWC Week 2: All Blacks v Namibia:
@Billy-Tell said in RWC Week 2: All Blacks v Namibia:
Opposition is not very good. But Roigard surely has to be the bench 9. Just takes the right options every time.
We don't know how he'll go against top teams and when under pressure, but the signs are he'll do OK. His last two appearances will have done wonders for his confidence.
Sacrilege
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@canefan said in RWC Week 2: All Blacks v Namibia:
@Machpants said in RWC Week 2: All Blacks v Namibia:
@chimoaus said in RWC Week 2: All Blacks v Namibia:
BB can exit.
He did a couple last game, but stopped after half time
The question should be why?
Half time chat from foster
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Always Ofa.
