All Blacks vs England 2
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@BerniesCorner said in All Blacks vs England 2:
Thank you Ratima
Shining light from the night to be honest. I wonder how long it will take Razor to figure out he is clearly the n1 9 in the squad.
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@Kirwan said in All Blacks vs England 2:
@fcc said in All Blacks vs England 2:
@Kirwan said in All Blacks vs England 2:
@Donsteppa said in All Blacks vs England 2:
We are so loose, when Perofeta ran from his line when he had plenty of time to kick I think he showed what the game plan was.
This is one of the most idiotic comments I have seen on this forum and that is in along history of idiotic comments.
Perofeta clearly screwed up, put himself under pressure and used his footwork to get out of it. It had nothing to do with the game plan, it was all skill execution and pressure. Plan A would have been to kick it.
I used it as an example us playing too much in our 22, and even our own half. Do you disagree we went out to run it?
It was a poor example as perofeta put himself under pressure.
We looked to counter attack if we had space more than we did last week. This was a counter to the rush defence, try to attack against a broken line. By and large it worked, if we had faster wingers it could have been very lucrative. Both wingers couldn’t take the outside breaks offered to them. Hence why I think Jordan comes back into this team on the wing very soon.
However, from static ball or if we were under pressure in our own half we kicked. Our kicking game was poor at times (particularly at the start of the 2nd half) and we should have have used Jordie Barrett more. As above, perofeta would have most likely kicked in that situation as there was limited opportunity if he gathered the ball cleanly and had time, luckily he did very well under extreme pressure.
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@kev said in All Blacks vs England 2:
@mariner4life said in All Blacks vs England 2:
@Tim said in All Blacks vs England 2:
Not sure why Ioane is being criticized. Defended well, and consistently got over the advantage line from shit ball.
He had a fucking good game considering what he was given. Couple of hard carries, some good defence as well.
Right before he got substituted he had two men outside him in space and didnt give the pass. A few minutes later DMac had a similar option, draw and pass with BB setting up Telea for try. Not saying that he gets dropped, but setting up his outsides and passing is his Achilles heal. Needs to be better at it. Coaches need to work on him.
Rewatch it. DMac was covered and also in the way preventing the pass to Jordie.
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@antipodean said in All Blacks vs England 2:
So one series down and all the old problems are still apparent:
- An inability to exit.
- Aimless, uncontested kicking.
- No way around the rush defence.
- Our own defence is porous on the edges.
We played with very little prep time with an injured lock (PT) and prop (EdG) and winger (probably) and 2 or 3 rusty players (Savea and BB-although BB didn't look rusty in test 2 at all), some newbies, and still won both games, found clear weaknesses to improve, have a better idea of NH standard, and don't have many new injuries (TP and ?)
So that is good, in my book. They now though need to show improved cohesion, selection, organization, consistency, leadership, strategy and skills. So plenty to work on. -
Ratima, Roigard, Viljoen
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Is Jordan back soon enough? Caleb? Who else would you bring in if they aren't ready?
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@nostrildamus said in All Blacks vs England 2:
@Chris said in All Blacks vs England 2:
@sparky said in All Blacks vs England 2:
@Chris That's the forecast according to the BBC for next Saturday.
Surprised it's not going to be warmer. https://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/5391811
Yeah I thought it might be hotter from what I remember being there a couple of years ago.
oh the humidity!
Yeah I know about humidity where I live.
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@nostrildamus said in All Blacks vs England 2:
Is Jordan back soon enough? Caleb? Who else would you bring in if they aren't ready?
Roigard for Christie.
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@Chris said in All Blacks vs England 2:
@nostrildamus said in All Blacks vs England 2:
@Chris said in All Blacks vs England 2:
@sparky said in All Blacks vs England 2:
@Chris That's the forecast according to the BBC for next Saturday.
Surprised it's not going to be warmer. https://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/5391811
Yeah I thought it might be hotter from what I remember being there a couple of years ago.
oh the humidity!
Yeah I know about humidity where I live.
Lol
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@chimoaus said in All Blacks vs England 2:
@nostrildamus said in All Blacks vs England 2:
Is Jordan back soon enough? Caleb? Who else would you bring in if they aren't ready?
Roigard for Christie.
Not until Northern tour
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@Tim said in All Blacks vs England 2:
Let's hear no more BS about Beauden Barrett being finished. He won that game.
Ratima looked good.
Totally agree. What makes a team in the long run is tough tests like this. England are a very good side.
BB was fantastic tonight as was Ratima when he came on for his" FIRST " test. Outstanding
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@Mattasaurus said in All Blacks vs England 2:
Not bad for 3 weeks together really.
Not really buying that. Apart from the scrum, the forwards were shit and that's the same forwards coach and pretty much the same players as the RWC squad. In many ways we're going backwards.
But credit to Robertson for going back to last year's dual playmaker tactics to get the win.
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SoCal in summer, I’m surprised it’s not hotter.
It’s also a fucking awesome place to go. Love it there
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Gutted, good first XV but our bench is weak and our accuracy is terrible when in good positions at the moment and it’s cost us in both tests. We desperately need to find a tight head from somewhere.
All Blacks did what they do, scrum half change was critical, Barret was class. Opportunity missed but I’m looking forward to the November test.
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@Victor-Meldrew said in All Blacks vs England 2:
@Mattasaurus said in All Blacks vs England 2:
Not bad for 3 weeks together really.
Not really buying that. Apart from the scrum, the forwards were shit and that's the same forwards coach and pretty much the same players as the RWC squad. In many ways we're going backwards.
But credit to Robertson for going back to last year's dual playmaker tactics to get the win.
Our counter rucking was pretty good.
