All Blacks vs England I
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@Kirwan pretty similar to foster because they’re the best players in the country.
He can’t just pluck All blacks out of thin air.
The only real contentious positions are Halfback and fullback. Roigard and Jordan would be there if fit. -
@Kirwan said in All Blacks vs England I:
Pretty similar to a Foster team IMO, understandable with the short lead up but still feels a bit meh.
No unexpected. And BB would have probably got the nod over Perofeta if he'd played some more competitive rugby recently.
Hope to see a better game plan, but I suspect we are going to see kick and hope, and tackle the counter attack.
Just hope we don't get the same appallingly bad forwards performance we saw the last time we played England.
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@KiwiMurph said in All Blacks vs England I:
I like Razor having a proper press conference with journos on team naming and not a premade internally produced video.
Good shit
That's been the standard for many years? Foster and co did the exact same thing.
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@chchfanatic said in All Blacks vs England I:
@Kirwan pretty similar to foster because they’re the best players in the country.
He can’t just pluck All blacks out of thin air.
The only real contentious positions are Halfback and fullback. Roigard and Jordan would be there if fit.Not the best six, they chased him off.
I wouldn’t have gone with TJ either, or Perofeta. DMac may be the best ten in NZ but not convinced about him yet. Feels like an impact player to me.
So meh.
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@Victor-Meldrew said in All Blacks vs England I:
@Kirwan said in All Blacks vs England I:
Pretty similar to a Foster team IMO, understandable with the short lead up but still feels a bit meh.
No unexpected. And BB would have probably got the nod over Perofeta if he'd played some more competitive rugby recently.
Hope to see a better game plan, but I suspect we are going to see kick and hope, and tackle the counter attack.
Just hope we don't get the same appallingly bad forwards performance we saw the last time we played England.
And Ardie? If Perofeta gets in over BB for that reason, why isn’t Sititi starting? If he’s not ready to start, why didn’t they pick Sotutu.
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@Bovidae said in All Blacks vs England I:
@MN5 said in All Blacks vs England I:
I think it’s a good reason not to select Beauden Barrett and why he’s on the bench. Brain fades tend to run in the family
Beauden's yellow card was the turning point in the last game.
In hindsight Beaudie taking the drop goal 3 wasn't the best option either in that game. The issue with taking 3 in that scenario is with the kick off you end up back in your own half from the following restart. Would have been better off keeping England pinned back in their own half.
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@MN5 said in All Blacks vs England I:
@ACT-Crusader said in All Blacks vs England I:
Interesting that the last 4 red cards by an All Black are
Ofa - Blues
Scooter - Saders
Jordie - Canes
Cane - ChiefsThis is in no way an endorsement of selecting more Highlander players
I think it’s a good reason not to select Beauden Barrett and why he’s on the bench. Brain fades tend to run in the family
Robertson's rolled the dice with Scooter in that regard. Could be the making of him though.
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@Kirwan said in All Blacks vs England I:
why isn’t Sititi starting
Experience, I'd suggest. SP has been around the AB's for some time and Wallace hasn't. It'd be a bit weird if he's doesn't get a cap in the next two Tests though.
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@ACT-Crusader said in All Blacks vs England I:
Interesting that the last 4 red cards by an All Black are
Ofa - Blues
Scooter - Saders
Jordie - Canes
Cane - ChiefsThis is in no way an endorsement of selecting more Highlander players
Um, yes it is!
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@MN5 said in All Blacks vs England I:
Scott ‘both sides of the ball’ Robertson talking up Sevu Reece
this is just cruel!
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@Landers92 understand Haig being there. Unsure about Gilbert
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@mariner4life said in All Blacks vs England I:
Though, after Jacobson got car5ded because he tackled with force, maybe you whiny bitches are right, and rugby really is a game for faeries now.
we live in debauched, effeminate times. Gone are the days when you only got red for having the temerity to be the best player on a team that was beating the ABs AND you laid the (legal) tackle of the decade on the AB ten.
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@mariner4life said in All Blacks vs England I:
@kiwiinmelb said in All Blacks vs England I:
My first thoughts , not a lot different to what fozzie would’ve picked.
I suppose when razor sprinkles his magic dust over them it will look much different.
it's a very "balanced" team, so no obvious pointers to a way they will look to play.
And in reality, there aren't THAT many ways to play winning test rugby anyway.
Fixed.
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He only got a yellow for that. The red came for his karate chop to a throat 😂
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@DaGrubster must be piss easy to get a black belt in NZ/France.
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@nostrildamus said in All Blacks vs England I:
@MN5 said in All Blacks vs England I:
Scott ‘both sides of the ball’ Robertson talking up Sevu Reece
this is just cruel!
Not as cruel as jokes about Foster and Hansens waistlines
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@KiwiMurph said in All Blacks vs England I:
I like Razor having a proper press conference with journos on team naming and not a premade internally produced video.
Good shit
I think we starting to see NZR (and Razors etc) setting a more professional/marketing orientated plans with ABs. The series on Razor , and the one that got me is the ABs now have a commercial manager as part of team. Her job is to look after the sponsors etc requirements and make sure the team is sold even more. I sure this is all part of it (and quietly think we starting to see the changes od being involvd with Silver Lake). I won't be surprised to see players names on jerseys etc in near future, and anything else that will help sell things. It's the way of future.
