All Blacks v France Test 3
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On DMac - it is quite hard to say a player doesn't do well in a tight game. We won that one by 35 points but it could have been a lot tighter without MacKenzie on form. Whenever we have a tight game, most people here thinks everyone played poorly. So the ten always cops a fair amount of blame.
I think DMac is the sort of player you just have to accept he will probably cost you points at one end and know he is good enough to get those points back for you.
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@taniwharugby when is the defending half allowed to move out from scrum. I thought part of the issue was that he got out to early, and into a bad position.
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@taniwharugby said in All Blacks v France Test 3:
shame that 2 weekends in a row the ref has made calls according to the rules but people will be going on about another incident where NZ get favoured by refs.
It’s ok, World Rugby will spend 8 hours in front of a replay from 9 different angles before they decide to rule out the try and change our score to 42
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@stargazer said in All Blacks v France Test 3:
@kirwan That's almost the same forward pack he will have in front of him in the ABs.
Which is not always as dominant at Test level as at Super level, which was my point.
Watch how Mounga went with his pack only at parity/going backwards like against the Lions. He looked shit.
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@stargazer said in All Blacks v France Test 3:
@kirwan Ah, bringing back the Lions game again. Let me bring back Dmac's nightmare in the Maori ABs game against the Lions then.
Yep, fair enough. Both struggle then is your point?
Agree, nice to see some improvement from DMac. The best we’ve looked from Set Piece in the backline in a couple of years.
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@kirwan said in All Blacks v France Test 3:
Don’t want Rieko to be taken for granted either, a hat trick and unlucky not to score more.
And just to annoy Bones, went well at centre too.
His pace looked good at centre!
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@kirwan said in All Blacks v France Test 3:
@stargazer said in All Blacks v France Test 3:
@kirwan Ah, bringing back the Lions game again. Let me bring back Dmac's nightmare in the Maori ABs game against the Lions then.
Yep, fair enough. Both struggle then is your point?
Agree, nice to see some improvement from DMac. The best we’ve looked from Set Piece in the backline in a couple of years.
No, that's not my point. My point is that it's absurd to refer to the games against the Lions over and over again.
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@stargazer said in All Blacks v France Test 3:
@kirwan said in All Blacks v France Test 3:
@stargazer said in All Blacks v France Test 3:
@kirwan Ah, bringing back the Lions game again. Let me bring back Dmac's nightmare in the Maori ABs game against the Lions then.
Yep, fair enough. Both struggle then is your point?
Agree, nice to see some improvement from DMac. The best we’ve looked from Set Piece in the backline in a couple of years.
No, that's not my point. My point is that it's absurd to use the games against the Lions over and over again.
He has a lot of ground to make up after looking that poor. I was waiting for him to be signed by the Blues, it was that bad.
Any ten would look good behind the Crusaders pack. He’s not shown anywhere enough to be considered ahead of anyone. Despite your fluffing.
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@mariner4life said in All Blacks v France Test 3:
@akan004 said in All Blacks v France Test 3:
Am struggle to think when was the last time Naholo impressed in the black jersey.
Has he completed a test match
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@kirwan said in All Blacks v France Test 3:
Don’t want Rieko to be taken for granted either, a hat trick and unlucky not to score more.
And just to annoy Bones, went well at centre too.
Was he at centre? Bloody good on him looking good against a well beaten side. Shame on him spiking Wise's kava.
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Much better performance tonight. Especially with all the new guys in the team.
Scott Barrett my MOTM. Don't see why people are saying he is too slow to cover 6. Not like Kaino was fast. Would much rather a strong tackler/strong carrier and lineout option with good ball skills over a flaah open field runner like Fifita.Dmac was also good. Still had some poor moments but for the most part he was playing like a 10.
Hopefully he and Richie can both develop so we have some good depth at 10.SBW was looking really good. Unfortunate that he got hurt. Think our backline balance with a strong runner at 12 to bend the line.
Thought Goodhue was decent on debut. Especially second half. Hemopo good on debut and i thought Frizzell wasn't as bad as has been said on here but still not seeing what he has over Akira.
Hopefully this is the last time we see Todd miss a squad. Time to have him on the bench in the top team.
Rieko was bloody good again. So much gas. Looked good at centre too.
Think people are jumping the gun on calling Ben Smith past it. He is still a fucking good rugby player.
And while Naholo wasn't great on D tonight he is still a bloody good winger to have in the squad.One and only thing i will say about the ref/tmo: The Frizzell no try was bullshit. Sure if the ref goes upstairs and says can you see a grounding? And the tmo can't see it you don't give the try. But when the ref said he saw it you don't interrupt then overturn the call because you aren't sure if he got it or not. There was no clear held up just like there was no grounding. So go with the refs call ffs.
Also the NZ anthem was awful. I hate the slow warbling opera types.
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@machpants said in All Blacks v France Test 3:
@kirwan said in All Blacks v France Test 3:
Naholo made 4 tackles and missed 5. Jesus.
Where'd you get the stats from, doesn't seem to be on espn?
Also who's sick of the phrase "here's Ioane with his pace"
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@kirwan said in All Blacks v France Test 3:
@stargazer said in All Blacks v France Test 3:
@kirwan said in All Blacks v France Test 3:
@stargazer said in All Blacks v France Test 3:
@kirwan Ah, bringing back the Lions game again. Let me bring back Dmac's nightmare in the Maori ABs game against the Lions then.
Yep, fair enough. Both struggle then is your point?
Agree, nice to see some improvement from DMac. The best we’ve looked from Set Piece in the backline in a couple of years.
No, that's not my point. My point is that it's absurd to use the games against the Lions over and over again.
He has a lot of ground to make up after looking that poor. I was waiting for him to be signed by the Blues, it was that bad.
Any ten would look good behind the Crusaders pack. He’s not shown anywhere enough to be considered ahead of anyone. Despite your fluffing.
Haha that "any 10 looking good behind the Crusaders pack" is such a myth.
Until tonight Dmac hasn't looked good at 10 behind ANY pack. Not even when the Chiefs pack is on top.
Mounga has played well plenty of times at super level. Not just when his pack is dominating.
However, right now it is clear that Dmac is 2nd in line for the ABs 10 spot. Luckily tonight he actually played well. More of that please.
http://www.espn.com/rugby/report?gameId=292720&league=289234