RWC QF: All Blacks v Ireland
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@taniwharugby said in RWC QF: All Blacks v Ireland:
@JayCee was a ruck about phase 14, BR was over the ball, should have ended there, Barnes called away and BR quickly pulled away, so often players keep going when they have won it...the discipline in those 30 odd phases was something rarely seen by this AB side.
I think a couple of those ruck no calls were marginal
Retallick over the ball - he was quick to call no hands
Ardie over the ball - did Ardie fully detach as the tackler?
T. Williams offside - close but pulled away after one extra long go at it.
Ioane neck roll - looked to have started around the shoulders and then go higher -
i've seen another angle of the Ioane/Sexton "incident" and that makes it look for all money like the first words come from the guy in green (when Iaone had moved on to shake the next guys hand), Ioane chirps back, and Sexton blows up.
It's all dumb shit and i wish people would stop talking about it
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@gt12 said in RWC QF: All Blacks v Ireland:
He did a good job. I will say that the difference between Nuggy and almost any other scrumhalf is noticeable in terms of speed of pass, but holy shit even Richie's passing from the base looked disabled senior citizen in comparison.
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@Wairau said in RWC QF: All Blacks v Ireland:
Who's the pillock who always says SavAYa?
and TamEYEti WilliamsBe thankful you don't have itv. Actually I drunkenly tweeted them to ask if it would be too hard to talk to the teams before a game about pronunciation. No response.
Fyangaranooka had a great game for a guy I've never heard of.
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@MajorRage last year wasn't it? possibly the last time they played?
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I agree it is a shit question, but he must have expected it. He cant disavow the sledge, so he should have owned up to it.
If he’d said ‘yeah, that one came back to bite me a bit, he was excellent today when it really counted for his team’ then I’d have a pretty different opinion of him. I imagine a Dane Coles or Gregan or Fitzpatrick would say something similar.
It’s fair that he might not have been in the right head space but perhaps that’s the point, he was happy to be a bully when we lost with quite a few things going against us.
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@Bones said in RWC QF: All Blacks v Ireland:
@Wairau said in RWC QF: All Blacks v Ireland:
Who's the pillock who always says SavAYa?
and TamEYEti WilliamsBe thankful you don't have itv. Actually I drunkenly tweeted them to ask if it would be too hard to talk to the teams before a game about pronunciation. No response.
Fyangaranooka had a great game for a guy I've never heard of.
Actually looking at it again TamEYEti doesn't sound too bad. Although Tah-mEYE-tee might work better.
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@ACT-Crusader said in RWC QF: All Blacks v Ireland:
looked to have started around the shoulders and then go higher
Yeah, and Rieko pulled one out in the opening phases of the game I think it was so I wouldn't be pointing fingers.
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@MajorRage said in RWC QF: All Blacks v Ireland:
not up to reporters to ask about a sledge delivered at an appropriate time years ago
That makes about zero sense.
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@Donsteppa said in RWC QF: All Blacks v Ireland:
Maybe this is the opposite of the 2007 RWC campaign. Rather than over thinking it about whether individual players can get through three knockout games in a row, just get stuck in and fire up for each game at a time.
Injuries, attrition, and tiredness being factors that each team that makes the Final just has to deal with.
I mean, this was basically what we did in 2011 - largely imposed because of an injury crisis in the 10 jersey.
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@ACT-Crusader the Ardie one was close and he didn't let go, was cleaned out and pleading with the AR, I think BR one was pretty clean, but Barnes saw different and BR let it go...
Obviously Cane was asked about the comment from POM too, he fended it off, he'd already go the best response to it.
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@Donsteppa said in RWC QF: All Blacks v Ireland:
Maybe this is the opposite of the 2007 RWC campaign. Rather than over thinking it about whether individual players can get through three knockout games in a row, just get stuck in and fire up for each game at a time.
Injuries, attrition, and tiredness being factors that each team that makes the Final just has to deal with.
Really good point. Seen that in successful business teams where planning got screwed and they had to just stay focussed on the basics. Imagine the military do this every day.
