All Blacks vs England 2

Machpants

@antipodean said in All Blacks vs England 2:

@gt12 said in All Blacks vs England 2:

Do you take off Telea and move Rieko to the wing?

No, you stop handing England unearned possession.

Obviously, we should take off Taylor too.

Same thing

chimoaus

Smith easily MOM in that first half.

Old Samurai Jack

Naysayers. ABs will run away with this. Keep the faith!

sparky

@KiwiMurph No, but I know the England boys will be pumped as hell if it's close in the last 20 minutes.

Sport is beyond massive here at the moment with the Euros final this weekend and the England football team trying to defy 58 years of history. The England Rugby boys will want to point them the way with their own bit of history-busting.

mariner4life

What I love about the English defence is they are racing up and chopping the legs. Our big guys are standing waiting for the ball (not running on to it) and by the time they catch it, there's a white jersey hitting their legs.
And guys on the ground give turnover opportunities.

BerniesCorner

We could have been 12 points ahead

nostrildamus

@chimoaus said in All Blacks vs England 2:

Smith easily MOM in that first half.

Mostly, some questionable decisions. Itoje had great moments.

kev

Mark Telea never takes the outside option. It’s an issue.

KiwiMurph

The irony is Razor's Crusaders used to pick on Telea under high ball a few years back

chimoaus

@nostrildamus said in All Blacks vs England 2:

@chimoaus said in All Blacks vs England 2:

Smith easily MOM in that first half.

Mostly, some questionable decisions. Itoje had great moments.

1 try saving tackle and 2 try assists, he is the reason England are ahead at the break.

RoninWC

Codie Taylor having a shocker, throwing piss poor and that penalty he gave away on the half time buzzer had me blowing a gasket at the TV.

Get Aumua on from the start of the 2nd half!

Want to see Beauden on early as well.

sparky

@nostrildamus said in All Blacks vs England 2:

Has Akira bought his flight ticket yet?

Beyond weird that the ABs coaches overlooked Akira.

gt12

@mariner4life

I’m surprised we havent tried offloads, quite a few reasonable opportunities and its not like we are protecting the ball anyway

nostrildamus

We should have someone on the bench fast enough to replace a winger.

mariner4life

I do not want BB on as Perofeta has been fucking good

And I think BB is proper cooked

BerniesCorner

McCaw would grab this game by the scruff now.
We are going to find out

ACT Crusader

@Old-Samurai-Jack said in All Blacks vs England 2:

Naysayers. ABs will run away with this. Keep the faith!

Great opportunity for this group to overcome a little adversity and lift in the second 40

KiwiMurph

We selected 4 specialist wings and only pick the same 2 in the 23....

nostrildamus

@sparky said in All Blacks vs England 2:

@nostrildamus said in All Blacks vs England 2:

Has Akira bought his flight ticket yet?

Beyond weird that the ABs coaches overlooked Akira.

Akira overlooked for Finau hasn't been a convincing decision given the last 100 or so minutes...

mariner4life

@ACT-Crusader said in All Blacks vs England 2:

@Old-Samurai-Jack said in All Blacks vs England 2:

Naysayers. ABs will run away with this. Keep the faith!

Great opportunity for this group to overcome a little adversity and lift in the second 40

Also for the coaches to make an early statement with an improved 2nd half

The Silver Fern

All Blacks vs England 2