RWC QF: All Blacks v Ireland
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@taniwharugby said in RWC QF: All Blacks v Ireland:
@canefan not sure I'm with you then.
Wouldnt you be setting parameters for it to allow stuff to be let go?
It is either a knock on/forward pass, or it isnt, it is through the gate or it isnt, no leeway really?
I wouldn't use it for everything. The thought occurred because I read that article about Irish test 3 and Porter getting away with a similar tackle to Angus. AI should be able to recognise that both incidents were similar enough to warrant the same penalty
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Ouch...
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Not the week TR...
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@george33 said in RWC QF: All Blacks v Ireland:
@frugby Ofa for Newell that's a certain and Christie/ Roigard 50/50, experience mite count tho Schmidt will have a say I imagine on that call
@pakman said in RWC QF: All Blacks v Ireland:
@frugby Laulala will be in 23. Otherwise agree.
To me it seems they like Newell as their impact man in 18, guess we will see.
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I just had flashbacks to the "tactics" employed in the last test against the Irish, i.e. putting up a bomb on every single farking attack. Good Christ I hope the Guts Trust have shelved that winning approach.
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@Chris said in RWC QF: All Blacks v Ireland:
This week I sort of feel the same as the Aussies fans did last week.
Hoping we win and keep the WC dreams alive, also in the back of the mind thinking we could be going home after this weekend, what a shit feeling.It pains me to say it but we also don't really deserve to win. Ireland have been consistently excellent for such a long time and it would be kind of unfair for what is unarguably their best team of the RWC era not to even make the semis. But fůck that hippy bullshit. Those fůckers have always been baying for our blood, regardless of the opponent or situation. Would be bloody hilarious if we win because Barns missed a forward pass.
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@Rancid-Schnitzel said in RWC QF: All Blacks v Ireland:
we also don't really deserve to win
I'm sorry but IMO that is nonsense. If - against all expectations - the ABs can rise to the occasion, play better than Ireland and beat them, they fully deserve their spot in the semis. It would be different if our win was the result of a howler by the offiicals.
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@george33 said in RWC QF: All Blacks v Ireland:
So has team been leaked early ?
you normally tell us
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@Stargazer said in RWC QF: All Blacks v Ireland:
@Rancid-Schnitzel said in RWC QF: All Blacks v Ireland:
we also don't really deserve to win
I'm sorry but IMO that is nonsense. If - against all expectations - the ABs can rise to the occasion, play better than Ireland and beat them, they fully deserve their spot in the semis. It would be different if our win was the result of a howler by the offiicals.
Please read my entire post. I talk in the context of prior form and consistency. God knows, we've been on the receiving end of teams who've served up shit but then pull something out of their arses when playing us.
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@Kiwiwomble did C squad but don't believe it at all ,some one dreaming I'd say
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The rumour on radio ,
Leister is in for telia
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@kiwiinmelb id they say why? had i missed Telea is out?
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@kiwiinmelb no he isn't not in 23
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@kiwiinmelb said in RWC QF: All Blacks v Ireland:
The rumour on radio ,
Leister is in for telia
Turn, TURN, tuuuuuuuuuuuurnnnnn!
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@voodoo yeah, i think as much as lots of us might disagree with some...coughBBcough...id say 20 of the 23 is locked in at least
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@Kiwiwomble said in RWC QF: All Blacks v Ireland:
@voodoo yeah, i think as much as lots of us might disagree with some...coughBBcough...id say 20 of the 23 is locked in at least
injury aside
i think the only changes to the 23 that the coaches would have picked for the quarter back in August are DMac and Roigard to the bench, and that's through sheer weight of performance. Otherwise this was mapped a long way out
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