All Blacks v Argentina II
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@Canes4life I don't think either are playing horrible, something's just not clicking. Hopefully it'll click? Might be easier with wingers running lines off you rather than fucking about at the breakdown.
And if one is actually playing horrible then hook him for the form midfielder.
It is, however, an absolute piss take that Finau, Proctor, can't squeeze their way into a 23.
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All provincial bias aside.
There are 4 guys in the 23 who either just came back from Japan or are heading there shortly. Another one is off to Leinster after the EOYT.
Form players from super rugby like Sititi, Sotutu, Ratima, Love , Proctor, Akira, Lakai etc all have cases to be made that they have been hard done by from their respective fans.
They have trotted out two rizla paper wins against England and a horror show last week.
It doesn’t feel like a meritocracy.
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@reprobate said in All Blacks v Argentina II:
Also: way to take a very young guy, throw him in late to a losing side out of position and then drop him. Great management
Who?
Finau has not lost a test yet.
Sititi?
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@booboo said in All Blacks v Argentina II:
@reprobate said in All Blacks v Argentina II:
Also: way to take a very young guy, throw him in late to a losing side out of position and then drop him. Great management
Who?
There's only two guys dropped! Surely you can figure that out?
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@Bones said in All Blacks v Argentina II:
@booboo said in All Blacks v Argentina II:
@reprobate said in All Blacks v Argentina II:
Also: way to take a very young guy, throw him in late to a losing side out of position and then drop him. Great management
Who?
There's only two guys dropped! Surely you can figure that out?
Telea or Reece?
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@booboo said in All Blacks v Argentina II:
@Bones said in All Blacks v Argentina II:
@booboo said in All Blacks v Argentina II:
@reprobate said in All Blacks v Argentina II:
Also: way to take a very young guy, throw him in late to a losing side out of position and then drop him. Great management
Who?
There's only two guys dropped! Surely you can figure that out?
Telea or Reece?
Telea is on the bench.
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The management of Finau and Sititi has been absolutely awful to date. What the hell were they thinking putting Sititi on at 6 in a test we were battling in. He's a rookie and doesn't normally play there. That's one of the dumbest substitutions I can think of in AB history, and just to top it off they drop him after he completely unsurprisingly didn't go very well just to fuck with his confidence.
Picking Finau and Sititi and leaving out Akira and Sotutu was always a huge risk for those two young players, they really should be learning their trade in the squad and from the bench (in their preferred positions!). I was concerned their confidence would get ruined, and that is coming to pass with the way they are being managed. The coaches desperation to not pick the Blues boys is not only hurting us on the field, it is fucking around with the form and confidence of two players that we hope will be mainstays in the black jersey down the track.
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@sparky said in All Blacks v Argentina II:
Maybe that is slightly better than last week's side. But I'm hardly filled with confidence.
A great chance for Argentina to notch up a second consecutive away win against the ABs.
If that happens then you really do have problems
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@Canes4life said in All Blacks v Argentina II:
@Jet said in All Blacks v Argentina II:
Cane confirmed in the interview he was covering 8 if Ardie goes down.
I mean I like Cane and we need his starch but Sotutu must be sick as a parrot.
Oh god, the All Blacks really are going backwards.
Not only Sotutu, but Sititi, Iose and even Renton must be choking on their cornflakes.
Weetbix probably
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Huge match this one. Big pressure.
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