All Blacks vs. B&I Lions test #1
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Good win. AB forwards were ruthless at ruck time and kept our ball moving. What irony that our second string front row won penalty against Lions strongest scrummaging tight five. Loss of concentration I imagine. Compounded by Ioane snatching try.
Our bomb catching very average, shades of 2009, as previously commented. Our lineout throwins looked too flat to me, often leaving scope for an opportunistic steal. Whitelock showed at end with replacement props that he could match Kruis for height.
I expect we could be facing a number of maul penalties if we use same tactics and with French refs. BBBR got away with absolute murder on won occasion.
AB brains trust had done their homework on neutering rush defence by driving in close to rucks and Nugget probing blind side incessantly.
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@mariner4life said in All Blacks vs. B&I Lions test #1:
Great test. For 50 minutes that was nail biting stuff. Some huge performances from both sets of players.
Crowd seemed to go quiet when we pulled away? Celebrate you bastards
Crowd had a huge red contingent.
Apparently 30k of tickets when to lions supporters??
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@Tim said in All Blacks vs. B&I Lions test #1:
Taylor's missed tackle on Davies was a cardinal sin.
Yeah it was bad. Our whole defensive line seemed poor in that phase. Our hooker marking a class centre was not good.
The same in that 1st half when we were caught wide of the ruck with tight forward marking backs. Lions almost score a try.
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@ACT-Crusader Yeah, he was one of many to miss tackles during that period, so unfair to single him out. ALTHOUGH, he was in good position to tackle and went too high.
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@mariner4life said in All Blacks vs. B&I Lions test #1:
Not selecting Hayley Westenra is a mistake IMO
Yes.
And no.
Old mate was quite good with the singing.
But was not Hayley Westenra.
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@MiketheSnow said in All Blacks vs. B&I Lions test #1:
Fowrward for me. Technique from Dagg all wrong.
Two words ...
"Ba"
And "Hahahahaha"
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@Pot-Hale said in All Blacks vs. B&I Lions test #1:
Forward pass to Cody
Two words :
"bull"
And some other word I forget...
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@Pot-Hale LOL. Shut the fuck up. Calling non-existent forward passes from All Blacks is the Irish supporter's move.
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@mariner4life said in All Blacks vs. B&I Lions test #1:
Ben smith playing like a fluffybunny, tow him!!!
Yeah well HIA ...
Was not good on the high ball catch
So Dagg to 15. Who to 14?
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@Donsteppa said in All Blacks vs. B&I Lions test #1:
Can't rush defence one out if people pick n go through you
Re the rush defence ... how often did the ABs give the inside ball? Very effective
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@reprobate said in All Blacks vs. B&I Lions test #1:
Fuckin kicking the fuckin ball away hot on attack again instead of running it. Isn't that meant to be what the other guys do?
This
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I Think Crockett can retire safe in the knowledge he has decisively shoved the old saw that he is a weak link at scrum time right down the NH scribes throats - even that paragon of AB scrums Hayman got schooled in his early days in Black a could of times.
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@Chris-B. said in All Blacks vs. B&I Lions test #1:
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@rotated said in All Blacks vs. B&I Lions test #1:
Does Cruden have some link to Hawkes Bay? Smithy pumping his tires for his performance today big time.
Smithy is from the Poo.
Actually, he was born in Nelson.
I don't think you're quite getting the idea of this ;).
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@ACT-Crusader said in All Blacks vs. B&I Lions test #1:
@Tim said in All Blacks vs. B&I Lions test #1:
@Bones Start TJP next week?
Dagg to fullback I guess, or do they go for Jordie?
Ioane and Naholo the wings? Or does Savea come back?
I wouldn't be surprised if they bring Jordie in. The two fullbacks is an important part of our gameplan.
We did lose our shape when Cruden came on to 1st 5. He got a little better later in the 2nd half. But I'm not the biggest fan of moving Barrett from 1st 5. He's currently our best 1st 5 so should play 80 there if he's fit.
I think you're all going overboard on Cruden - he seems to be the new Fern piñata no matter what he does. We lost shape for a number of reasons, and we were already losing shape when BB was still at 10. Also, I said earlier in the thread that BB did a couple of dud kicks when it was at least 3 one which was a similar chip kick as Cruden's that went straight back of a Lion.
When the ABs pulled away in the second half Cruden was steering the ship from 10 and if you look at the good attacking play he was one of the key guys moving the ball into space.
I don't know why he was taking the line kicks though, I would have thought Barrett would have kept that job.
