All Blacks v Wallabies at Eden Park.
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@mimic said in All Blacks v Wallabies at Eden Park.:
if someone is holding onto you, usually you strike down to get rid of the hand holding onto your shirt. We see this all the time at rucks.
Swinging your elbow like that, what did you think you were going to hit?
@zed said in All Blacks v Wallabies at Eden Park.:
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@Nepia said in All Blacks v Wallabies at Eden Park.:
@zed Say what? You want to legalise obstruction as long as it happens behind the ball? Have you been smoking the same stuff Kafe seems to be these days?
Lets say that happened 70 metres out - would you call it a legitimate penalising?
lol no. But what DHP did was not significant enough to disallow the try.
FFS man. Enough people have quoted the Law by now. The offence has nothing to do with whether a try would be still be scored.
Yes, it happens often in games behind normal play and doesn't get penalised but if you do it just before a try you run a high risk of being spotted and pinged.
To be clear the action of scoring the try was not disallowed. Foul play prior to the try was seen and ruled on.What about the interference on the Wallaby player (not sure of name) by ABs no 22 that allowed Savea to score. Do you agree that try should also have been disallowed? I think it should have been, however I don't think any Wallabies players spoke to Owens about it. Not sure though.
If you watched it, it was accidental. Cruden didn't stick a foot out to trip him. The player who fell down did make a protest, just like how Julian did.
I just did, paused it, Cruden has a hand on his back, a second later he goes down. Doesn't look like an accident to me.
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So coach thinks there is a lack of respect, Foley doesnt.....
This clown thing really got under his skin, which is gonna be a go to thing for someone now anytime they wanna wind him up....now I know a few got wound up over the grub thing, but dont think it bothered McCaw, well not that he stated anyway.
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@Rancid-Schnitzel said in All Blacks v Wallabies at Eden Park.:
@Marty said in All Blacks v Wallabies at Eden Park.:
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@mariner4life said in All Blacks v Wallabies at Eden Park.:
Thoughts on the All Blacks playing without a goal kicker?
Wondering about this.
Beaudy was pretty ordinary in the first part of the Super season. Came right in the ABs camp, but he seems to be regressing.
I wonder how long the coaches will put up with substandard goal kicking - eventually it will cost us a match, so he needs to sort it - otherwise he'll have to be relegated to super-sub status again.
General performance from Beaudy has me wondering again how effective he can be when his forwards are getting munched. I didn't see him trying to take control at any point. In fact after the game I realised I could barely remember seeing him.
They had 30 something percent possession in the first half. He barely had the ball enough to make an impression before he was hooked. When and where was he supposed to take control?
35% is not great but it's adequate. A more controlling performance from a Beauden Barrett would include, for example, taking on the line himself - something that has been his hallmark this season. Aaron Cruden had more direct influence on proceedings when he came on, though admittedly not always positive.
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@antipodean said in All Blacks v Wallabies at Eden Park.:
@barbarian said in All Blacks v Wallabies at Eden Park.:
The TMO call was a massive point in the match. I don't think the end result would have been different, but the ABs would have been put in a position they've never been in this year - scores tied or even behind in the second half of a match. Who knows how they would react?
Like their semi-final against South Africa last year? Or their pool game against Argentina? I think we've seen enough from this team that it can stay in the competition and give itself a chance.
Nah, you are right - not much joy on the possibility of the All Blacks being behind at half time and losing.
I've had a look at your matches from '05 to now (156 matches) to find they win two thirds of those in which they are behind at half time (23 of 35 in that period). The All Blacks were less than 5 behind 49% of the time and 5 to 10 behind 40% of the time.
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Just watched the game again. I don't know if it's just a one off and perhaps the ABs were not as mentally switched on as they should have been, but it was worrying to see the Wallaby forwards winning the collisions and making dominant runs. Our forwards looked small in comparison to theirs. Was really impressed with their ball carrying, especially from Timani, the two props and their big lock, Arnold.
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I'd say you could write some off as nerves, they have been in this position twice before, only to be thwarted by Aus....in 2011 we made hard work of a game when we were the better side and were expected to win comfortably against an opposition that we had already soundly beaten only weeks before.
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Barrett's off day might be partially explained by Steve Hanson's explanation that he'd been sick all week with an ear infection. Hanson was quoted near the end of an article on allblacks.com this morning.
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@akan004 said in All Blacks v Wallabies at Eden Park.:
Just watched the game again. I don't know if it's just a one off and perhaps the ABs were not as mentally switched on as they should have been, but it was worrying to see the Wallaby forwards winning the collisions and making dominant runs. Our forwards looked small in comparison to theirs. Was really impressed with their ball carrying, especially from Timani, the two props and their big lock, Arnold.
Think ABs tried hard to convince themselves to get up for this one "for the Tier 1 record" but reality is that being pretty fatigued and playing a match of no real consequence was always going to be tough mental hurdle to overcome.
Both Wallaby locks are around 120 kg, so a double-Retallick middle row.
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Can I suggest the wallabies just simply shut the fuck up?
We've played and beaten the Welsh Argues and Saffas with nary a bitter word or exchange yet all year (international and super rugby) from Australian rugby folk and coaches have been whinging about refereeing, whinging about foul play whinging about humility, whinging about the media.
Enough already. Take your thrashings (because that's what they've been) like a fair dinkum Aussie bloke and suck it up. That's what they expect of others.
Conversely win more than 3 games a fucking season and we might concede you've not had a particularly good rub of the green.
Christ on a bike it's been tiresome and repetitive all year.
Chinese might have to add a new horoscope- 2016 the year of the pissing and moaning wallaby.
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Must admit, the herald clown mock up is in poor taste and not funny. Doesn't even make sense.
I can't remember seeing anything like that from them previously so seems a. It out of character.
Checks must have been pleased with it though. Gave him an excuse the attacke the ABs as opposed talking about his shortcomings.
Overall though the wobs played pretty well for majority of the game
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@Marty said in All Blacks v Wallabies at Eden Park.:
@Rancid-Schnitzel said in All Blacks v Wallabies at Eden Park.:
@Marty said in All Blacks v Wallabies at Eden Park.:
@Chris-B. said in All Blacks v Wallabies at Eden Park.:
@mariner4life said in All Blacks v Wallabies at Eden Park.:
Thoughts on the All Blacks playing without a goal kicker?
Wondering about this.
Beaudy was pretty ordinary in the first part of the Super season. Came right in the ABs camp, but he seems to be regressing.
I wonder how long the coaches will put up with substandard goal kicking - eventually it will cost us a match, so he needs to sort it - otherwise he'll have to be relegated to super-sub status again.
General performance from Beaudy has me wondering again how effective he can be when his forwards are getting munched. I didn't see him trying to take control at any point. In fact after the game I realised I could barely remember seeing him.
They had 30 something percent possession in the first half. He barely had the ball enough to make an impression before he was hooked. When and where was he supposed to take control?
35% is not great but it's adequate. A more controlling performance from a Beauden Barrett would include, for example, taking on the line himself - something that has been his hallmark this season. Aaron Cruden had more direct influence on proceedings when he came on, though admittedly not always positive.
As mentioned, he only had the ball a handful of times in attack. It would be interesting to know at what stage him taking the ball to the line would have been a controlling performance or indeed called for under the circumstances.
Cruden came on and failed to find touch from a penalty and then sent a harmless kick into the 22. With much more possession and a tiring opponent of course he's going to be more involved.
BB totally deserves any criticism for his kicking, which could prove crucial in some of the typical arm-wrestles up north. It could even be argued that Lima S gets the nod if BB cant get at least 70%. But complaining that he didn't control the game enough when his team had 35% possession and he barely touched the ball in attack is absolutely ridiculous.
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@da_grubster said in All Blacks v Wallabies at Eden Park.:
Must admit, the herald clown mock up is in poor taste and not funny. Doesn't even make sense.
I can't remember seeing anything like that from them previously so seems a. It out of character.
Checks must have been pleased with it though. Gave him an excuse the attacke the ABs as opposed talking about his shortcomings.
Overall though the wobs played pretty well for majority of the game
I remember seeing the richie mcGrub thing last year and didnt like that , it reminded me of what the nrl media do around origin time, and thought nrl paper , probably influenced by that , cheap shots for a laugh, it works for them , but I thought leave it out of rugby ,
Then when i saw the clown thing on the sat arvo , I cringed , I thought we dont have to resort to this rubbish too , just preview the bloody game
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@da_grubster said in All Blacks v Wallabies at Eden Park.:
Must admit, the herald clown mock up is in poor taste and not funny. Doesn't even make sense.
I can't remember seeing anything like that from them previously so seems a. It out of character.
Checks must have been pleased with it though. Gave him an excuse the attacke the ABs as opposed talking about his shortcomings.
Overall though the wobs played pretty well for majority of the game
Apparently the artist is Australian. So it's probably an Australian thing to do I guess.
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@mimic said in All Blacks v Wallabies at Eden Park.:
@da_grubster said in All Blacks v Wallabies at Eden Park.:
Must admit, the herald clown mock up is in poor taste and not funny. Doesn't even make sense.
I can't remember seeing anything like that from them previously so seems a. It out of character.
Checks must have been pleased with it though. Gave him an excuse the attacke the ABs as opposed talking about his shortcomings.
Overall though the wobs played pretty well for majority of the game
Apparently the artist is Australian. So it's probably an Australian thing to do I guess.
There have been so many take-overs or mergers of the media this year that I'm not even sure "our" media aren't Australian now as well.
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@kiwiinmelb funny, I hadnt even seen it and I expect plenty others hadnt either, but now loads have...despite what Cheika says, the NZR cant control what the media print...oh wait, according to the article yesterday, they do control it...this NZR is a huge beast, what else does it control? The weather, the US Media, surely Hansen is gonna come out in favour of one of the candidates and his support will seal thier victory?
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@mimic said in All Blacks v Wallabies at Eden Park.:
@da_grubster said in All Blacks v Wallabies at Eden Park.:
Must admit, the herald clown mock up is in poor taste and not funny. Doesn't even make sense.
I can't remember seeing anything like that from them previously so seems a. It out of character.
Checks must have been pleased with it though. Gave him an excuse the attacke the ABs as opposed talking about his shortcomings.
Overall though the wobs played pretty well for majority of the game
Apparently the artist is Australian. So it's probably an Australian thing to do I guess.
Even funnier, Cheika's cousin once dated the artist's sister lol
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@da_grubster said in All Blacks v Wallabies at Eden Park.:
Must admit, the herald clown mock up is in poor taste and not funny. Doesn't even make sense.
To me it looks like a Simpson's reference. Cheika looks like Rory B. Bellows, who is Krusty the Clown out of makeup, ergo Cheika the Clown.
