All Blacks vs Fiji
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@Frank said in All Blacks vs Fiji:
Can either Reiko or Clarke play 14, or can both only play 11?
With Clarke and Reiko you've got two big, very quick wingers.
With Proctor at 13, you've you got his provincial partnership with Jordie and a center who really looks to feed his wingers. Tempting, but probably won't happen.Give Reiko and Proctor a go at center. The better distributor gets the start against SA.
Ratima-DMac-JB/ALB is strong.Could start Reiko 13, mid game shift to wing, then Proctor on
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Guys we are on an upward curve.
Post 2019 we had:
No props
No midfield
No scrum
No goal kickerBarrett, Patty T, Vaai and Darry looking solid
Sort out 6 and 13
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I thought Perofeta was good.
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@BerniesCorner said in All Blacks vs Fiji:
Guys we are on an upward curve.
Post 2019 we had:
No props
No midfield
No scrum
No goal kickerBarrett, Patty T, Vaai and Darry looking solid
Sort out 6 and 13
Steady on
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Savea - Ratima/Roigard/Hotham sniping combo is a weapon
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@MN5 Looked good to me.
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@BerniesCorner said in All Blacks vs Fiji:
@MN5 Looked good to me.
BelongedJury is out.
It was against Fiji. Not Ireland. Not SA. Not France…..
The game was well and truly won by the time he had a run.
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I can tell by the look in the eyes from 5000 km away looking at Sky Go.
The turnover sold it -
@BerniesCorner according to commentators the AB’s first in 67 minutes!
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@reprobate said in All Blacks vs Fiji:
- but fuck me the provincial bias in posting is strong this year.
Provincial bias = someone having a different viewpoint to you
Regarding Proctor and not passing, Centres shouldn't always pass no matter what. my view is Proctor got it right this week. Reiko didn't last week
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Stats
Lineouts - NZ 17/17; Fiji 8/10
Scrums - NZ 6/6; Fiji 7/11
Tackles - NZ 114/139 (82%); Fiji 145/200 (73%)
Penalties - NZ 8; Fiji 8
Rucks won - NZ 87/89 (97%); Fiji 72/74 (97%) -
Some notable individual stats
Tackles / missed tackles
Blackadder 7/4
Proctor 7/3
Hotham 7/3
S. Barrett 6/2
Aumua 4/2Jacobson 8/1
ALB 8/1
Reece 7/1
Williams 7/1
Bell 7/1
Newell 6/1Sititi 8/0
Savea 7/0
Tosl 6/0 -
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@Chris-B said in All Blacks vs Fiji:
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@mikedogz said in All Blacks vs Fiji:
This game is being played at 2:30pm Saturday NZ time. Right when a lot of club finals are being played.
Bummer.
Needs better coordination
we're paying a home game against Fiji in the US. The wants or needs of the NZ rugby public actually matter fuck all to the NZRU
I'm guessing this is to do with Silverlake's strategy for growing NZ Rugby and especially its revenue.
If we could get 1/100th proportion of American kids wandering round in $55 All Black caps that cost $5 to make - as there are NZ kids wandering round in NBA caps - then probably there's $50 million bucks.
These are made up numbers - but, there are 8 billion people wandering the planet and a good proportion of them would like to have a stylish black cap. NZ Rugby and Silverlake just need to work out how to make sure it has an AB logo on it.
These sort of games are a start.
You won't be far off it. A pair of Jordans 1s cost approx $40US shipped and sell for $180US or more depending on the hype.
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@Bones said in All Blacks vs Fiji:
Tosi made almost as many tackles as Blackadder, Blackadder accounts for almost 20% of missed tackles.
Yeah he had a great game.
Yes but @Bones he was “busy”, “coming back from injury” and ( insert all other excuses here )
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@Bones said in All Blacks vs Fiji:
Tosi made almost as many tackles as Blackadder, Blackadder accounts for almost 20% of missed tackles.
Yeah he had a great game.
Great! We agree.
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@Bones said in All Blacks vs Fiji:
Tosi made almost as many tackles as Blackadder, Blackadder accounts for almost 20% of missed tackles.
Yeah he had a great game.
Or, attempted more tackles than anyone else - despite lacking match fitness and 'couldn't keep up', 'struggled with the pace'.
Meanwhile Proctor misses 3 and is the messiah who needs to urgently replace one of our best players from the WC (and I say that as a long time Ioane doubter). -
Bladder was mixed out there. Not a 7 at all. His lines were poor - usually coming in the side of the ruck. Struggled to find people to tackle. Can see why you'd consider him at 6, but at 7 it's a strong no thanks from me. Our loosies are not setting the world on fire and just seem unbalanced.
Separately, folk need to slow down a bit on reaching conclusions for the backs in particular. They got time and space you don't get against good teams. ALB (who's excellent generally) looked like the second coming of Cullen. That will not map across to a team that pressures us with rush defence.
All of our weaknesses seemed to be there still; lineouts (Aumua much improved), exits, kicking, carrying in the tight. It looks easy against a side that misses 55 tackles, but I'd be very cautious of assuming we've cracked the issues that have plagued us for so long. If you were coaching against this AB side you'd be running a simple game plan based on rush defence, kicking and contesting lineouts making us try to exit.
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@nzzp said in All Blacks vs Fiji:
All of our weaknesses seemed to be there still; lineouts (Aumua much improved), exits, kicking, carrying in the tight. It looks easy against a side that misses 55 tackles, but I'd be very cautious of assuming we've cracked the issues that have plagued us for so long. If you were coaching against this AB side you'd be running a simple game plan based on rush defence, kicking and contesting lineouts making us try to exit.
I thought we contested lineout in England 2 and this test not too badly.
Exits were pretty good in Fiji test. DMac was getting excellent distance more so than Auckland.
