All Blacks v Argentina II
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I didn't watch as I had a 50th - and I haven't watched the replay yet. So having scrolled this thread for about 12 minutes, I feel perfectly placed to select a team for redemption.
You're welcome.
- De Groot
- Taylor
- Lomax
- Darry
- Vaii (50/50 with Patrick)
- Finau
- Cane (or Paps, I don't really care)
- Ardie (hooked for Sititi early if not playing out of his skin)
- Ratima
- Dmac
- Clarke
- ALB
- Ioane
- Jordan
- Jordie B (yes sir)
Happy to have helped out guys, see you in a week.
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Watched the Scott Hansen interview.
I am not going to say - “Something is rotten in the state of Denmark” -yet, but he doesn't give me that good down to earth feeling like say, Vern Cotter did. Too slick, too corporate, and too cocky. Apparently, it's all about "opportunities".What happened to just saying we screwed up and we feel ashamed?
There's too many coaches in this team, two of which (MacDonald and Holland) have no record to stand on to lay claim to be in the set up in the first place. This is reflected in the disjointed game plan.
And since Razor loves his assistants - perhaps we hire a how to exit out of our own half coach.
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@Frank said in All Blacks v Argentina II:
Watched the Soctt Hansen interview.
I am not going to say - “Something is rotten in the state of Denmark” -yet, but he doesn't give me that good down to earth feeling like say, Vern Cotter did. Too slick, too corporate, and too cocky. Apparently, it's all abpit "opportunities".What happened to just saying we screwed up and we feel ashamed?
There's too many coaches in this team, two of which (MacDonald and Holland) have no record to stand on to lay claim to be in the set up in the first place. This is reflected in the disjointed game plan.
And since Razor loves his assistants - perhaps we hire a how to exit out of our own half coach.
Hansen is a top bloke and a very smart coach he master minded a lot of the plans to combat teams in the Crusaders title play off games.
I had a lot to with Scott at club level down to earth dude. -
@Chris said in All Blacks v Argentina II:
@Frank said in All Blacks v Argentina II:
Watched the Soctt Hansen interview.
I am not going to say - “Something is rotten in the state of Denmark” -yet, but he doesn't give me that good down to earth feeling like say, Vern Cotter did. Too slick, too corporate, and too cocky. Apparently, it's all abpit "opportunities".What happened to just saying we screwed up and we feel ashamed?
There's too many coaches in this team, two of which (MacDonald and Holland) have no record to stand on to lay claim to be in the set up in the first place. This is reflected in the disjointed game plan.
And since Razor loves his assistants - perhaps we hire a how to exit out of our own half coach.
Hansen is a top bloke and a very smart coach he master minded a lot of the plans to combat teams in the Crusaders title play off games.
I had a lot to with Scott at club level down to earth dude.Perceptions vary I guess.
I don't like the language he uses.
It's not straight-forward enough.
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@Chris said in All Blacks v Argentina II:
Saveas time is done for me his work rate is poor now he floats in and out of the game too much.
He came back and has been playing Japan level rugby while the form 8 of the comp is twiddling his thumbs at NPC.
His captaincy is just not there under pressure we have nothing from the Captain.
And yet no one in the fawning media asked a hard question about his AWOL captaincy. Put him on the bench where he belongs if they're honest about seeking game breaking impact.
TJ is done as well. We need the young HBs in, both are running threats which we need.
Yes. Thanks for your years of service, great to see you come back from horrific injury. Off you pop now.
I hope we see some hard selections being made this week.
If Clarke doesn't get on the field I despair.
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@antipodean said in All Blacks v Argentina II:
@Chris said in All Blacks v Argentina II:
Saveas time is done for me his work rate is poor now he floats in and out of the game too much.
He came back and has been playing Japan level rugby while the form 8 of the comp is twiddling his thumbs at NPC.
His captaincy is just not there under pressure we have nothing from the Captain.
And yet no one in the fawning media asked a hard question about his AWOL captaincy. Put him on the bench where he belongs if they're honest about seeking game braking impact.
TJ is done as well. We need the young HBs in, both are running threats which we need.
Yes. Thanks for your years of service, great to see you come back from horrif injury. Off you pop now.
I hope we see some hard selections being made this week.
If Clarke doesn't get on the field I despair.
Yeah that sums it up really well for me.
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@Frank said in All Blacks v Argentina II:
@Chris said in All Blacks v Argentina II:
@Frank said in All Blacks v Argentina II:
Watched the Soctt Hansen interview.
I am not going to say - “Something is rotten in the state of Denmark” -yet, but he doesn't give me that good down to earth feeling like say, Vern Cotter did. Too slick, too corporate, and too cocky. Apparently, it's all abpit "opportunities".What happened to just saying we screwed up and we feel ashamed?
There's too many coaches in this team, two of which (MacDonald and Holland) have no record to stand on to lay claim to be in the set up in the first place. This is reflected in the disjointed game plan.
And since Razor loves his assistants - perhaps we hire a how to exit out of our own half coach.
Hansen is a top bloke and a very smart coach he master minded a lot of the plans to combat teams in the Crusaders title play off games.
I had a lot to with Scott at club level down to earth dude.Perceptions vary I guess.
I don't like the language he uses.
It's not straight-forward enough.
Ultimately, we'll judge him by his results.He is very analytical type deep thinker understands the game very well.
If you sat down and talked rugby with him you would see. -
@Chris said in All Blacks v Argentina II:
Saveas time is done for me his work rate is poor now he floats in and out of the game too much.
His captaincy is just not there under pressure we have nothing from the Captain.
TJ is done as well. We need the young HBs in, both are running threats which we need.
I hope we see some hard selections being made this week.Did you even watch the game. Savea was fine but as captain its hard with such a poorly selected and poorly coached side. As was TJ. But people ahve made there mind up with TJ before the game starts (having posted this I would have started Ratima).
Regarding players. Look at your Crusader players and coaches to see where the blame lies
Taylor should be dropped to the reserves and replaced with Aumua. He threw well this game (as did Aumua in his one start) but not all. But he does nothing much else now. I would prefer both RR and Aumua. But hes a vice captian now. This is becoming an issue with Robertson. Hes like another Deans or Wylie (or Hart). Not a Wayne Smith. Or Henry.Newell is hopeless apart from scummaging but even here in this game he was poor.
Reece is too slow and small for test rugby.
In my view Blackadder is not the answer at 6There were other poor selection but the above is a start
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@Winger said in All Blacks v Argentina II:
@Chris said in All Blacks v Argentina II:
Saveas time is done for me his work rate is poor now he floats in and out of the game too much.
His captaincy is just not there under pressure we have nothing from the Captain.
TJ is done as well. We need the young HBs in, both are running threats which we need.
I hope we see some hard selections being made this week.Did you even watch the game. Savea was fine but as captain its hard with such a poorly selected and poorly coached side. As was TJ. But people ahve made there mind up with TJ before the game starts (having posted this I would have started Ratima).
Regarding players. Look at your Crusader players and coaches to see where the blame lies
Taylor should be dropped to the reserves and replaced with Aumua. He threw well this game (as did Aumua in his one start) but not all. But he does nothing much else now. I would prefer both RR and Aumua. But hes a vice captian now. This is becoming an issue with Robertson. Hes like another Deans or Wylie (or Hart). Not a Wayne Smith. Or Henry.Newell is hopeless apart from scummaging but even here in this game he was poor.
Reece is too slow and small for test rugby.
In my view Blackadder is not the answer at 6There were other poor selection but the above is a start
Yeah BS you are seeing what you want to see
Savea is a passenger now bye bye.
TJ is just not up to it.
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more than ever i think saveas best positions is impact off the bench
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@Kiwiwomble said in All Blacks v Argentina II:
more than ever i think saveas best positions is impact off the bench
At the very best.
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@Chris i would at least like to see what he could do if he knew he only needed to play 30 mins against tired opposition
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@Kiwiwomble said in All Blacks v Argentina II:
@Chris i would at least like to see what he could do if he knew he only needed to play 30 mins against tired opposition
Yeah that’s fair.
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the problem is chaps, who do you replace him with? The other 8 in the squad is a kid with about 14 minutes of pro rugby under his belt, and made some key errors when he came on.
Or you could go with Jacobson, but he's another toiler at this level.When you deliberately leave the best #8 of Super Rugby out of the squad, and only bring in the guy who spent the first half of the year fucking around in Japan, at best you have limited your options, at worst you knew this was coming and you wanted to avoid the hard decision that comes with it.
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@mariner4life definitely i was more meaning big picture, if we decided he wasn't a starter then the squad selections would be different
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@Chris said in All Blacks v Argentina II:
@Frank said in All Blacks v Argentina II:
@Chris said in All Blacks v Argentina II:
@Frank said in All Blacks v Argentina II:
Watched the Soctt Hansen interview.
I am not going to say - “Something is rotten in the state of Denmark” -yet, but he doesn't give me that good down to earth feeling like say, Vern Cotter did. Too slick, too corporate, and too cocky. Apparently, it's all abpit "opportunities".What happened to just saying we screwed up and we feel ashamed?
There's too many coaches in this team, two of which (MacDonald and Holland) have no record to stand on to lay claim to be in the set up in the first place. This is reflected in the disjointed game plan.
And since Razor loves his assistants - perhaps we hire a how to exit out of our own half coach.
Hansen is a top bloke and a very smart coach he master minded a lot of the plans to combat teams in the Crusaders title play off games.
I had a lot to with Scott at club level down to earth dude.Perceptions vary I guess.
I don't like the language he uses.
It's not straight-forward enough.
Ultimately, we'll judge him by his results.He is very analytical type deep thinker understands the game very well.
If you sat down and talked rugby with him you would see.Maybe so. But he seems to live in his head a bit too much. But thats how he is
One change Robertson should or could make is to let him select the entire backline to see if he can do any better. as it is its not working at present and really I doubt if it even well with MacDonald and Holland involved. Maybe even let MacDonald go and appoint Hansen head coach and Holland as a support coach. And thats it. Just far too many at present. Ellison could also be a support coach maybe (looking after defense) but no more
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@mariner4life said in All Blacks v Argentina II:
the problem is chaps, who do you replace him with? The other 8 in the squad is a kid with about 14 minutes of pro rugby under his belt, and made some key errors when he came on.
Or you could go with Jacobson, but he's another toiler at this level.When you deliberately leave the best #8 of Super Rugby out of the squad, and only bring in the guy who spent the first half of the year fucking around in Japan, at best you have limited your options, at worst you knew this was coming and you wanted to avoid the hard decision that comes with it.
Sititi I suppose only option unless you bite the bullet and add the no.8 who was not selected.
We have to try something give Sititi a run they picked him give him a go it can’t be worse. -
@Chris said in All Blacks v Argentina II:
@Kiwiwomble said in All Blacks v Argentina II:
more than ever i think saveas best positions is impact off the bench
At the very best.
he's tired because he carreid the team on his shoulders for the RWC. Seriously, he was immense there- didn't make him grow and become a lineout option, but he was close to one of our best players last year. Short memories around here.
You're both right. TJ is past it (and you knew what you were getting when you picked him Razor), Ardie unbalances the trio and is getting on; Newell is pants around the park but Jase loves him, Blackadder is limited at 6 in Tests, and Reece is amazing at somethings, but still too small for front line tests.
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@Winger said in All Blacks v Argentina II:
@Chris said in All Blacks v Argentina II:
Saveas time is done for me his work rate is poor now he floats in and out of the game too much.
His captaincy is just not there under pressure we have nothing from the Captain.
TJ is done as well. We need the young HBs in, both are running threats which we need.
I hope we see some hard selections being made this week.Did you even watch the game.
Taylor should be dropped to the reserves and replaced with Aumua.If you're gonna ask that of someone else, then advocate for Aumua who totally shat the bed, the post becomes a bit of a joke.
And I say that as a fan of Aumua, and a critic of Taylor.
