All Blacks v Wallabies at Eden Park.
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@Rancid-Schnitzel said in All Blacks v Wallabies at Eden Park.:
But your kingdom for a 12!
Yeah.... Hodge wasn't as effective as I wanted him to be. He had a clean shot on Savea late in the game as The Bus was catching the ball. Most times you want a bloke Hodge's size and balance to cut him in half. Got bumped.
The three-quarter line had about 20 caps between them before the game. Hope they learned a lot...
@SynicBast said in All Blacks v Wallabies at Eden Park.:
The first two points were how the Argies smacked us around in that first game as well. Nicely spotted, Nick.
Having watched Phipps both win and lose games for the Tahs in the last few years, it has been an interesting pattern. The problem is its real fucking chicken-and-egg stuff
When he's passing off the ground, the forwards roll through, so he keeps doing it. When they're not going forward, he steps and prevents them rolling through. So he keeps doing it...
If I was coaching him, the first thing I'd have him do is tie 20kg weights to his ankles and make him do ruck drill for twenty minutes.
Make that twenty minutes each side.
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DHP changed his line, obstructed a defender who by that stage only had the ankle tap as a valid option.
Complete dunce. He needs to find a corner to sit in.
Dhp should drop by the refs changing room and apologise that his stupidity is going to deflect some ill informed bile their way in the afterwash.
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Todd was a genuine nuisance, but I thought he was fortunate a couple of times, with his elbows on the ground or his weight on another player in the ruck-thing. Mainly though, he got himself into position to be a nuisance, so he gets the credit for that, and getting the penalties.
Both sides were a bit inaccurate on their own ball at ruck time. We just didn't do enough.
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@akan004 said in All Blacks v Wallabies at Eden Park.:
Read choosing to kick the ball out at the end is one of the strangest decisions I have seen from this AB team.
I hesitate to say it, but I thought it was a bit weak. Not what I have come to expect from this AB side since 2013
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@akan004 said in All Blacks v Wallabies at Eden Park.:
Read choosing to kick the ball out at the end is one of the strangest decisions I have seen from this AB team.
Game won. Record achieved. Tour coming up. Why bother?
Also I thought Nige had his arm up for our scrum? What happened after that? The family got home at that point.
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@NTA said in All Blacks v Wallabies at Eden Park.:
Todd was a genuine nuisance, but I thought he was fortunate a couple of times, with his elbows on the ground or his weight on another player in the ruck-thing. Mainly though, he got himself into position to be a nuisance, so he gets the credit for that, and getting the penalties.
Both sides were a bit inaccurate on their own ball at ruck time. We just didn't do enough.
I was about to quote this post but replace "Todd" with "Pocock in every game he ever played" but then I thought, fuck it, don't bother.
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@Stargazer said in All Blacks v Wallabies at Eden Park.:
Hansen saying Barrett "was a bit under the weather" as a reason why he was replaced.
I hope so, otherwise it was a monumentally stupid decision to sub him. Yes his goalkicking was pants and he deserves a smack for that, but he's still the best attacking player out there.
IMHO Cruden should either start or not be in the 23. He isn't a great bench player, and I reckon Lima S offers more. Better goal kicker too.
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@akan004 said in All Blacks v Wallabies at Eden Park.:
Read choosing to kick the ball out at the end is one of the strangest decisions I have seen from this AB team.
Yeah, didn't need it. BBBR already went off. SW was on a dodgy ankle.
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@TeWaio said in All Blacks v Wallabies at Eden Park.:
TKB has the passing accuracy of A Smith and the strength of TJP in heavy traffic. Was a good addition I thought, his crisp service helped us open the game up at the end.
This is the same guy that threw a no look pass that would have been an Aus try if we didn't have a turbo hooker?
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@Rancid-Schnitzel said in All Blacks v Wallabies at Eden Park.:
@TeWaio said in All Blacks v Wallabies at Eden Park.:
TKB has the passing accuracy of A Smith and the strength of TJP in heavy traffic. Was a good addition I thought, his crisp service helped us open the game up at the end.
This is the same guy that threw a no look pass that would have been an Aus try if we didn't have a turbo hooker?
What exactly are you disagreeing with him on? That was an obvious fuck up but it doesn't change the fact that his delivery was a dramatic improvement on TJP's crap passing.
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Watching the Wallaby post game interview and Chieka's having a massive whine. What's this thing about clowns?
