Bledisloe 2
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What a game, eh.
While there was little appreciation for my nerves, that was vintage Bledisloe, and I'm glad we got up in the end to honour the mighty Tree.
Shocking start by the ABs, Wallabies were crisp in passing, tight on defence, and pounced on mistakes. Genia clearly took a sip from the fountain of youth, great game.
Ioane fantastic, gees he is quick, always making metres. Our scrum was also mighty tonight. DMac, well he is brave, and he makes some good sniping runs, but bloody hell he needs to sort out his passing. Sometimes it is downright awful. I'm nervous about these continual head knocks for Crotty and Cane. Not good. SBW had a game to forget. ALB much better from last week.
Cheika is a dick. Dude, you lost because your kicker couldn't kick for shit. And I wouldn't be shitting on the refs, because your team got several favours out there in terms of 50/50 disallowed tries, and another than could have easily got one of your men a yellow. -
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@Stargazer wonder where that came from?
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@NTA said in Bledisloe 2:
@Stargazer wonder where that came from?
It was similar to what they did last week, but looks more tightly formed this week. Hoopers idea from what I read this week.
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Watching the game now , Aussie scrum reminds me of the era where they considered Matt Dunning a test level prop.
Cheika is close to surpassing Woodward as most fuckwitted coach of the pro era , well done to him for having edged past Scott Johnson and Warren Gatland.
Owens not his usual self tonight.
DMac and SBW weak links so far.
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Just watched the last try of the game again. FFS Parenara! When is this guy ever going to learn not to be ahead of the ball carrier when receiving the pass. He does this all the time as a support runner and it's going to cost us a test one day. If they had reviewed that pass from Read to him, it could have gone either way.
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@ACT-Crusader said in Bledisloe 2:
@akan004 it's that flat attack line that both Boyd and the AB coaches employ though. TJP is good at catching that ball from behind though.
Puts a lot of pressure on the defence.
That pass was bordering on forward though (in fact I think it was). He didn't have to stand so flat on that occasion.
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Just watched the post match press conferences. What a contrast; Chieka can't help but come across as an ungracious arsehole every time.
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@jegga said in Bledisloe 2:
What's happened to Foleys kicking? He was great at the rwc.
Fat goal posts
A few flogs over here on social media saying Foley left 9 points out there from 3 conversions + a penalty.
I've always taken the view that conversions are the only ones that count, because penalties alter the course of the game. Conversions are consequence-free.
Therefore we are a draw at best.
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@NTA said in Bledisloe 2:
I've always taken the view that conversions are the only ones that count, because penalties alter the course of the game. Conversions are consequence-free.
Agreed; anything else is an exercise in hypotheticals.
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Shit, close one eh?
Laulala bloody awesome, well done that man.
Rieko / reiko very good.
Aaron Smith good.
SBW absolutely appalling. Imagine if every other player turned the ball over half a dozen times in 60 minutes too, you wouldn't even have a game to watch. At least McKenzie did some positive things to balance his ledger a bit.
Genia was great. We missed kaino and cane on the fringes, and he took advantage. Beale, folau, kuridrani, hooper, McMahon, TPN, Foley all very good. (except the goal kicking of course).
Very lucky to get away with the win. Reffing was fine, debatable ones both ways but communication and process good, and Owens lets the game flow well as always. I was waiting for them to check for a forward pass on the last try, pretty flat. Phew. -
Funny despite the score line and the close finish I feel like the performance was generally good. Some top drawer performances but the soft tries were disappointing. If Dmac was a 9/10 week what does that make Iaone this week? Iaone is so far further on than what we have seen from Savea for 3 years. Laulala was also outstanding, can breathe a lot easier watching that performance. Barrett's kicking spot on, TJ finally provided impact off the bench. DMac still struggling with pace of game but I feel they have to stick with him. SBW was dreadful , and I am wondering if he is relegating himself to impact player off the bench.
