Waratahs v Highlanders - QF
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Think I'm most disappointed with the lack of leadership and cool heads shown by the senior players/All Blacks. Naholo's YC should have been the moment they regrouped. Instead they completely fell to bits. So much so that when they were up a man, they played like they were down several.
If I were the AB coaches, I'd be pissy at that display.
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@siam said in Waratahs v Highlanders - QF:
@shadowtrooper said in Waratahs v Highlanders - QF:
Reckon Naholo may have put paid to his AB chances - at least as far as WC chances go. Bridge is starting to look very very good, and makes the right decisions.
Steady on, Naholo being a buffoon doesn't elevate Bridge from being a Jonny McNichol wannabee sucking on the teat of the best forward pack in the comp
Big difference between McNichol and Bridge is that Bridge can create and has a higher work rate. He makes more metres closer to the action. Bridge is a better defender as well.
Jonny was probably quicker though.
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@act-crusader they're both fucken average to anybody not from canterbury
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@shadowtrooper said in Waratahs v Highlanders - QF:
@canerbry I am starting to wonder whether The Smiths have lost their mojo...
I'm not worried at all about Aaron, but Ben doesn't seem to be quite the same player he was before his sabbatical and especially of a couple of years ago when any mistake by him was a source of amazement.
On the plus side, I thought Squire had a very strong game - went hard the full 80.
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@mokey said in Waratahs v Highlanders - QF:
If I were the AB coaches, I'd be pissy at that display.
Although I’m sure one of those coaches will have thought, “extra week off for Azza, Bender and Liam...”
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@act-crusader said in Waratahs v Highlanders - QF:
@mokey said in Waratahs v Highlanders - QF:
If I were the AB coaches, I'd be pissy at that display.
Although I’m sure one of those coaches will have thought, “extra week off for Azza, Bender and Liam...”
...and Frizell..... the last thing he needs is more gametime....
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@kiwimurph said in Waratahs v Highlanders - QF:
@act-crusader said in Waratahs v Highlanders - QF:
@mokey said in Waratahs v Highlanders - QF:
If I were the AB coaches, I'd be pissy at that display.
Although I’m sure one of those coaches will have thought, “extra week off for Azza, Bender and Liam...”
...and Frizell..... the last thing he needs is more gametime....
Rancid Nepia bait
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@kiwimurph our secret weapon that only needs one or two bullets in the chamber to be an AB...
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@chris-b I remarked during the French tests that BFA looked remarkably underwhelming. I think you're correct and he's clearly not the player he was prior to his head knocks and sabbatical.
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@antipodean head knocks and baby kids, might be time to further groom Barrett the youngest. Reserve judgement for post RC, he's earned some rope at 14
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@siam fortunately for him then that the AB head coach spent many a day in Canterbury
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@antipodean I guess he's already more than a year older than either of Mils and Leon when they retired.
More than five years older than Cully!
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Wow, what a win. Pretty bloody stoked.
Our first 50 was just dire, and we should have been down by far more than 17. But we hung in there and cashed in really well against 14.
Not sure how the Clan weren’t able to score in those last 10 minutes, it was a bizarre brain snap by Paddy Ryan.
They just lacked patience, as we did in the first 40.
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@act-crusader said in Waratahs v Highlanders - QF:
@siam fortunately for him then that the AB head coach spent many a day in Canterbury
Well that makes no sense but better still let's keep crusader horse shit out of a Warratahs triumph thread eh? 🙂
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@barbarian said in Waratahs v Highlanders - QF:
Wow, what a win. Pretty bloody stoked.
Our first 50 was just dire, and we should have been down by far more than 17. But we hung in there and cashed in really well against 14.
Not sure how the Clan weren’t able to score in those last 10 minutes, it was a bizarre brain snap by Paddy Ryan.
They just lacked patience, as we did in the first 40.
I guess my attempts to change yours and Nicks passwords didn’t work
Congrats
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@act-crusader god, we’ve had decades on anguish here, just give us one measly Super quarter fucking final, please...
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@mokey said in Waratahs v Highlanders - QF:
Think I'm most disappointed with the lack of leadership and cool heads shown by the senior players/All Blacks. Naholo's YC should have been the moment they regrouped. Instead they completely fell to bits. So much so that when they were up a man, they played like they were down several.
If I were the AB coaches, I'd be pissy at that display.
Not to put too fine a point in it, but expecting Aaron Smith to step up under pressure because he's an AB would be a stretch; he's never really been under pressure as an AB halfback, and has consistently become a bigger dickhead than any halfback has a right to be.
