All Blacks vs Argentina I
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@KiwiMurph said in All Blacks vs Argentina I - 10 August:
I'm glad we have a specialist throwing coach.... Corey Flynn really earning his pay....
Did Taylor miss one lineout while he was on?
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@sparky said in All Blacks vs Argentina I - 10 August:
@BerniesCorner But that was a meaningless pre-world cup exhibition game, five days after they had stepped off 12,000 mile plane journey.
This was the first game of the Rugby Championships at home after a month's build up.
With a new coaching panel who must be eager to stamp their mark
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@Frank said in All Blacks vs Argentina I - 10 August:
The direct game plan was really working in the World Cup last year.
And the Blues won using a variant of it.
Then our only solid moments today were when we played direct.
Not sure why Razor felt he had to come along and put his own mark on things.
It's not working.
We could easily have lost both of thoe England tests.
Color me thoroughly unimpressed so far.
Especially with the Canterbury mates club.Yeah the boring Cantab style doesn’t work for the ABs, it didn’t even work for the Saders this year.
I’d rather us play like the Blues did this year and play ‘up the guts’ rugby.
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I started getting worried when DMac wasn't given the orders to go for the penalty goal in the first half.
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@antipodean said in All Blacks vs Argentina I - 10 August:
@Chris said in All Blacks vs Argentina I - 10 August:
@antipodean said in All Blacks vs Argentina I - 10 August:
@Chris said in All Blacks vs Argentina I - 10 August:
@antipodean said in All Blacks vs Argentina I - 10 August:
@Canes4life said in All Blacks vs Argentina I - 10 August:
@nostrildamus said in All Blacks vs Argentina I - 10 August:
Aumua took a great time to throw so badly
No one jumped though. Just piss poor all around. Horrible game overall by the ABs.
Why are people blaming Aumua for a lineout where he had no targets? The whole thing was a debacle and speaks volumes about the coaching and selecting.
Fucking abysmal. At least Fozzie got us to a RWC final.
Because he didn’t throw one straight since he came on.
No. One. Jumped.
What every line out
Too difficult to grasp we're talking about the last lineout?
All 4 Amua fucked up by not throwing straight not just the last one.
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@Chris said in All Blacks vs Argentina I - 10 August:
@antipodean said in All Blacks vs Argentina I - 10 August:
@Chris said in All Blacks vs Argentina I - 10 August:
@antipodean said in All Blacks vs Argentina I - 10 August:
@Chris said in All Blacks vs Argentina I - 10 August:
@antipodean said in All Blacks vs Argentina I - 10 August:
@Canes4life said in All Blacks vs Argentina I - 10 August:
@nostrildamus said in All Blacks vs Argentina I - 10 August:
Aumua took a great time to throw so badly
No one jumped though. Just piss poor all around. Horrible game overall by the ABs.
Why are people blaming Aumua for a lineout where he had no targets? The whole thing was a debacle and speaks volumes about the coaching and selecting.
Fucking abysmal. At least Fozzie got us to a RWC final.
Because he didn’t throw one straight since he came on.
No. One. Jumped.
What every line out
Too difficult to grasp we're talking about the last lineout?
All 4 Amua fucked up by not throwing straight not just the last one.Yes.Fixed.
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@LatsToTheMax said in All Blacks vs Argentina I - 10 August:
How? H-h-how??? Just, how???
That came down to three moments. Two gifted tries and a series of awful passes.
Does D-Mac need to take a spell and bring Plummer in from outside the squad? We just have zero punch. Personly I thought there were some rough PKs against us. Not sure what SlackBladder did in the lineout other than compete for the ball to warrant a PK and there we some rucks such as the last PK where Sititi was sitting out the back doing sweet FA to be involved yet gets pinged. The fact is, Argentina should have been within 14 points of this game yet we managed to manufacture them a win. FML.
I may get roasted here but in hindsight
10 Plummer
12 Lam (ok ok raw as hell, ALB then)
13 Proctorwould have gone better IMO
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@Canes4life said in All Blacks vs Argentina I - 10 August:
It’s funny (if you want to look at this way) but every time we’ve lost in Wellington apart from that Lions test, the weather has been perfect. It’s like the ABs prepare for high winds and bad weather when they play in Welly and then when it’s fine their plan goes out the window.
Weather had nothing to do with this
More Wellington being a port city because the ABs were all at sea
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@KiwiMurph said in All Blacks vs Argentina I - 10 August:
Well in the Crusaders he got to coach against his now co-coaches Leon and Holland.....
ouchy ouch
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how was the ground? Quite a few players slipped, mostly the AB backs but one or two Argies as well
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@reprobate said in All Blacks vs Argentina I - 10 August:
Pretty ugly really. The one consistent positive from the previous games was our scrum, and not having any of those kinda negated that.
Darry did his job well. Tough night for Aumua, but he's worth persisting with.
Savea seems to be lacking the positives that have been used to justify the balance problem he creates in the loosies. Also he may interview well, but not a captain's arsehole.
TJP, as expected, been ruining backlines for a decade.
I hope the axe gets wielded for the next one, but more likely we get the same 'give those guys a chance to redeem themselves' bullshit. They're too comfortable, they're complacent. Fuck them off.More importantly: Matera and Kramer were huge. Creevy too: 30-fucking-9, what a champion. Well done Argentina.
Creevy is one of my fave alltime players. Matera is basically a Crusader and streets ahead of any other loosie on the park. Kramer still looks like the bruiser from that Chris Reeves Superman film.
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Our tactics remind a little bit of when Wayne Smith tried to bring in the flat attack line because he thought our skills were superior, and it largely failed. I think Razor’s come in with a similar mindset, but what he’s forgotten is at this level, everybody's skill base is at a certain level, and rugby is still very much about power and pressure. There’s no way around it, and we need to select and/or grow players who can play a power game, or we’ll continue to go side to side and look ineffectual like we did tonight. I’ll cut him some slack as we’ve lost Whitelock, Retallick etc. who were the engine room for so long, but he needs to rethink the balance of his team fast.
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I'm not sure even Fozzie's teams looked that physicality overmatched. Apart from a few minutes, the forwards looked flat, isolated, and lacked any sort of cohesion or plan. TJPs slow service compounded that, and the backs could get any penetration either
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Plus I am wondering if our good scrums have hidden other weaknesses in our pack..
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The realty is we still could have won that but the late second half errors were mind numbing.
I genuinely thought those days were over. No captaincy.
Need to commit with the likes of Sititi , Ratima, Proctor, Jordan, Clarke
