All Blacks v BI Lions Test #2
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Well done Lions. Took your chances and held your nerve at the end. AB's did pretty well playing with 14 for most of the match. Just a few mistakes took it out of our hands, and into the hands of the Lions and, to a lesser degree, the ref.
Our tactics seem to get worse, and in the last 20 we did a bunch of dumb stuff. Alongside the missed kicks that was a bridge too far. Volume went to 11 when Cruden did that lame ass kick for Laumape. Totally missed the fact that holding the ball to force a penalty, or try opportunity, was the far better option.
SBW...fuck... can be a damn hard player to support. Especially when his accidental shit stacks up with his intentional dumb shit!! That was top drawer stupid play. No upside whatsoever with a tackle like that. At the time I wondered if he pulled his arm so he didn't smoke Naholo, but leading with the shoulder and no arms leads to no good.
BB missed a couple of pretty easy kicks. Plus he didn't get any jammy tries either! Big third test for you mate!
Very interested to see what our backline looks like for the last test. SBW and Naholo may be out - and Cruden could get snaked by Lima. Although that's unlikely if we have even more new guys starting.
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@Duluth said in All Blacks v BI Lions Test #2:
TSF site traffic has just gone past the Chicago loss
My Facebook feed is full of crowing wallaby fans
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@Duluth said in All Blacks v BI Lions Test #2:
TSF site traffic has just gone past the Chicago loss
Nothing like an AB loss to bring out the posters!
I hate it when the ABs lose, but the Lions were very physical and sat our mob on their backsides a hell of a lot tonight. They rushed the line with some force and we did some good things but then made some mental errors due to pressure and poor execution.
My MOTM was O'Brien. A shout out to AWJ and Warburton, two players that I questioned when the team was selected, but both were excellent in these conditions. Itoje was good as was Faletau.
Well done to Farrell for making a couple of those difficult kicks in those conditions.
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@mariner4life said in All Blacks v BI Lions Test #2:
@Duluth said in All Blacks v BI Lions Test #2:
TSF site traffic has just gone past the Chicago loss
My Facebook feed is full of crowing wallaby fans
When neutrals crow, just have to take that as a compliment.
It's either that or just go David Bain on the motherfuckers. -
Well, this has been interesting (but expected) reading. No surprise the knives are out for SBW. I think 3/4 of the refs involved wanted to go with a yellow but the Frenchie was always giving a red.
I don't think the Laumape play worked. We missed Kaino and at the crucial stages in the end Read was getting smashed which is frightening.
The winning penalty was utter bullshit, but we really should have been more points ahead by that stage.
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@ACT-Crusader O'Brien might be missing next week....
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Most concerning for me, even after the loss, is posters here somehow thinking the red for SBW was not deserved, or that it was somehow accidental? What the actual fuck? He intentionally lined up a guys head with his shoulder while the guy was being tackled - what on earth did he hope to get out of that?
Oh and - go away Cruden.
Awful consistency from the ref, but he's French, what do we expect?
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@mariner4life said in All Blacks v BI Lions Test #2:
@Duluth said in All Blacks v BI Lions Test #2:
TSF site traffic has just gone past the Chicago loss
My Facebook feed is full of crowing wallaby fans
Is @NTA one of them or is he boring people about his Powerwall?
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Have to say I hate the 'jump to take a pass/into a tackle' and agree the final penalty was bollocks. What is a tackler meant to do, step aside and let him through the line? It's entirely different to jumping to take a high ball.
I always thought from my playing days that jumping into a tackle was illegal, but I don't think I've ever seen it penalised in the pro game.
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@Nepia yeah we missed kaino, and yep it told in the end with our guys running out of gas - but i just don't think you can defend in the backs a man down for 3/4 of a game - and a big part of the gameplan was running SBW at their closer channel, a job laumape is made for. to hansen's credit he also tried to mitigate it by bringing on the prop subs earlier than usual, and subbing whitelock and cane earlier, but it is a hell of a tough situation to cope with and we almost hung in there - pretty tough to fault the decision in those circumstances i think.
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@SimonAdd_2 Agree.
However we're so far down the "player safety" rabbit hole that the poor whistle blower couldn't really call anything else - no doubt some poorly though out directive. It's an ideal over-ruling reality (again)fluffybunny of a way to decide an intriguing game though
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Is the second penalty for jumping into a tackle on tour so far
