AB's 2016 in Review
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@ACT-Crusader said in AB's 2016 in Review:
Not a bad summary and hard to argue with any of those selections.
Preseason I don't think anyone was really thinking ALB, S. Barrett and Squire would even make the ABs.
There were some that mentioned S. Barrett last year as an outside chance, but that was more pie in the sky then anything else.
Even three quarters of the way through Super Rugby only a handful of us were noticing ALB but even then its was just to say he looked like a good level headed player that could one day possibly press for higher honours. Talk about right place/right time. He used the confidence gained through regular play for the Chiefs after Ngatai was injured to grab his unexpected AB chance with both hands. The fact that he did it all without being overly spectacular points to him being a long term keeper.
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@Stargazer that would be wonderful.
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@nostrildamus Yeah, I really hope he stays on after next year.
Interesting interview; reflecting on the 2016 season, the NZ "production line" & players being lured overseas or into NRL straight out of school, the NH-SH gap, the loss of coaches to the North, the "fatigue/travel factor", Eddie Jones, staying or not after the Lions tour (he doesn't answer the question).
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@taniwharugby said in AB's 2016 in Review:
Rookie of the Year: Anton Lienert-Brown. A 21 year old with the rugby sense of the 12 year test veteran, this young man is as good, if not better than when Wayne Smith gave me his take on how talented Lienert-Brown was as an 18 year old
Why am I not surprised?
Interesting infographic on allblack.com
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Interesting, the tackle percentage struck me as being a bit low at first, but then I guess if everybody is only missing 1 tackle in 10 it's fairly decent.
Kicking percentage doesn't seem as bad as it might be too. I guess one thing to consider is we don't kick as many penalty goals as other teams and those are often only taken if they're almost a sure thing, leaving the bulk of the percentage down to conversions, do we score a higher percentage of those out wide?
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That graphic shows the re-emergence off Dagg quite clearly, a guy who missed the RWC, many thought was done...fantastic really.
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Penalties are very low. Maybe we score a lot of tries under penalty advantage?
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@Stargazer said in AB's 2016 in Review:
@nostrildamus Yeah, I really hope he stays on after next year.
Interesting interview; reflecting on the 2016 season, the NZ "production line" & players being lured overseas or into NRL straight out of school, the NH-SH gap, the loss of coaches to the North, the "fatigue/travel factor", Eddie Jones, staying or not after the Lions tour (he doesn't answer the question).
Why would Eddie leave after the lions tour?
He isn't involved in it....
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@da_grubster yeah that was been discussed following the NH tests, where the penalty count stats only seem to count penalties that stop play, unlike handling errors that are counted, even if advantage gets called over.
You'd have to assume they do record actual penalty counts, rather than just those where the ref stops play and awards a penalty, just odd we don't see the numbers.
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@da_grubster said in AB's 2016 in Review:
@Stargazer said in AB's 2016 in Review:
@nostrildamus Yeah, I really hope he stays on after next year.
Interesting interview; reflecting on the 2016 season, the NZ "production line" & players being lured overseas or into NRL straight out of school, the NH-SH gap, the loss of coaches to the North, the "fatigue/travel factor", Eddie Jones, staying or not after the Lions tour (he doesn't answer the question).
Why would Eddie leave after the lions tour?
He isn't involved in it....
You missed a comma. It was a list of subjects discussed in the interview with Wayne Smith. One of those subjects was Eddie Jones, Smith staying after the lions tour (or not) was another.
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@da_grubster said in AB's 2016 in Review:
Penalties are very low. Maybe we score a lot of tries under penalty advantage?
Yep I've already raised that a couple of times when discussing lopsided penalty counts. What I'm wondering is if we score a larger percentage of our tries out wide?
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@Stargazer said in AB's 2016 in Review:
@Bones I wouldn't be surprised if that's the case, especially considering that Dagg has scored most tries for us this year.
Yeah good point - I was thinking they've probably got high confidence in being able to score tries too, so don't often work all that hard to get closer to the posts.
