Pumas v All Blacks
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i think as shit as that 2nd half was from our POV, it probably sets us up much better for next week than if we had kept on rolling and put 60 on them.
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Dire 2nd 40.
I don't understand why Crotty was pulled for DMac. Surely keep the midfield that was on fire together, put DMac at 15, and put Smith to 14??
I learnt nothing from the 2nd 40, but ALB was all-class in the first 40.
Also, I am just waiting for Akira Ioane to leap ahead of Squire and Dixon. They are filling a gap, especially Dixon.
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@Frank said in Pumas v All Blacks:
Can we have instant yellows for blatant Hollywood shit?
I'm serious.
Didn't they bring in specific "laws" this year to address that shit?
It may be difficult to judge during the game, but I reckon the post-match adjudication could easily make some landmark calls to cut that shit out. -
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A game ruined by Joe Moody. It's been about 20 years since you've been able to get away with cuffing someone across the head, but...fucking props.
Then, to make matters worse we had about 15 minutes of repeated scrums that only a fucking prop or ex-prop could enjoy. Fucking props!
Jam Moody's head in his locker and give everyone in the team a turn at kicking his arse. Elliot Dixon and Liam Squire can each have two kicks, because they probably missed 20 minutes of their test careers because of him.
30 minutes of my life I won't get back...
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@Frank said in Pumas v All Blacks:
Also have after the match citings to really clean it up.
Yeah - that was exactly what I was thinking of, just couldn't think of the word due to the 9 hours of drinking between the SA timezone and this one.
BTW - from what I recall, that other game was similar - some spectacular frenetic rugby at the start, which just devolved into... meh. -
I really liked how we built in the first half. Didn't try to score on every play in the early stages and just put pressure on and then that final 20 we were lethal.
The Barrett, Crotty, ALB trio really combined well I thought.
TJP is tough as nails. He got through a mountain of tackling around the fringes.
The second half started well, but then the game descended into a mess. We were our own worst enemy at times lacking accuracy at the tackle and not shifting bodies.
The Moody YC was poor. It's just ridiculous that refs allow cleaning out that far beyond the ruck. I can live with 1-2 metres and a little bit of dark arts from either side, but that was so far beyond it was laughable. And the fact he held him down was a joke.
I think both sides would be pretty disappointed with how that last 20 played out. Argie front row got popped when we had 7. We were inaccurate with the offside line and played a bit disjointed defensively.
But overall I'm happy with getting a good margin win in a hostile place to play.
Bring on the Boks.
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Yellows generate more yellows (when they occur 5m out).
Thought the NZ scrum in those circumstances was superb, that some of the dodgy scrum penalties contributed to the second team yellow is a bit of a joke. No argument with the offside penalties though.
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I'm a fan of C Taylor, like what I've seen of him in black so far in his career.
But he was poor today and his 2 poor throws contributed to our poor second half performance. Badly timed when we needed possession and structure to take some control with a player in the bin and the oppoistion and ref getting some momentum.
On another day when down to 13 men these mistakes would really bite you.
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Carried on watching after the test and is a,show about the 1996 tour of SA, great viewing, snippets of games mixed with interviews with players
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That was mighty generous of Jako to stay back for half an hour after the rugby had been played, to manage scrum practice. He managed to fit in a couple of extended committee meetings of the Referees Association while he was at it.
There is no-one quite so stubborn as a South African appointed as some minor official - I think it was Marius van der Westhuizen, linesman¹ from the far side, who refused to leave the field until Jako let him have his way over Joe Moody.
The Pumas had some talented fellas out there, and blokes who enjoyed tackling BBBR, Crockett, Read and Ardie, however they are a disjointed rabble together. Their forwards are (sometimes perfectly) cohesive up until the precise moment the set piece ends, then they rush about as individuals until the precise moment the next set piece commences. Their backs practice dramatic diving only, evidently - no-one seems to know what their team mates inside might do next.
They are a bit like having the mothers club organise the Queens Birthday Bash here tomorrow - order 6 cartons of light beer, a single carton of heavy and too little ice; leave the tomato sauce at home; put on designer salad and tasteless fat free burger meat; no inhumanely harvested beef rump steaks; discover there is too little space to mount the jumping castle for the kiddies; and forget to book the stripper.
I was looking forward to assessing how the new bloke fitted in with Ryan Crotty ( â„¢ too slow, one dimensional, boringly reliable) and would have appreciated more than 40 minutes in which to see enough.
Last night was like watching the new Under 15s outfits taking their early tentative steps into rugby. This morning was 40 minutes of classic All Blacks excellence followed by an unnecessary delay in getting out into the garden.
¹ "linesman" - they renamed it to "line sheila" or "line batter" - I know, I know - in their determination to de-masculinise the last remaining forum for blokes to be combative.
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There were some very bad missed tackles in that second half - and lazy offsides which were rightly penalised. J Savea carrying the ball under his right arm instead his left bombed one try and Izzy doing the usual look around and ponder his goose step instead of just heading for the corner bombed another. Cane and Kaino were missed around the rucks although A Savea was great when carrying - as for Squire, the game seemed to pass him by. DMac will never be an AB full back until he can tackle big guys and not just lay down in front of them.
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@No-Quarter said in Pumas v All Blacks:
Pat T coming into his own now,
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They said something like that regarding Jean Condom.
