Springboks V All Blacks
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@stargazer I agree with you. Mounga could do with the experience. I'd even start him, with his Crusaders colleagues Crotty at second-five and Goodhue at centre. Same back three as last week, with a Hurricanes backs bench of Perinara, B Barrett and J Barrett.
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@taniwharugby yeah I reckon it'll be what we typically see on the rebound from a loss - focus and attack everything that was a strength for the opposition in the previous game and systematically erode their confidence before blowing out in the last ten.
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@infidel said in Springboks V All Blacks:
Infidel will be very surprised if Goodhue doesn't start in the 13 jumper.
I'm glad that @infidel thinks that @infidel thinks that way.
Will be interesting to see what they do though, won't it?
While Crotty and SBW have been out the new combos have worked well and while SBW showed out reasonably in the test and showed that he looks to just need a little playing time, Crotty was underwhelming compared to his stand in.
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With regard to Codie, they will surely be looking toward the EOYT and what they know about Coles. Taylor is looking jaded (as he should).
Maybe they will ask Harris to step up with a really good game? We know his scrummaging is good and he is reasonable around the field. His throwing can be off but a tired Taylor is no better. -
@mrdenmore said in Springboks V All Blacks:
@stargazer I agree with you. Mounga could do with the experience. I'd even start him, with his Crusaders colleagues Crotty at second-five and Goodhue at centre.
Just add to those three
Perry, Taylor, Franks, Whitelock, S. Barrett, Read....
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@act-crusader said in Springboks V All Blacks:
@mrdenmore said in Springboks V All Blacks:
@stargazer I agree with you. Mounga could do with the experience. I'd even start him, with his Crusaders colleagues Crotty at second-five and Goodhue at centre.
Just add to those three
Perry, Taylor, Franks, Whitelock, S. Barrett, Read....
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@pakman said in Springboks V All Blacks:
Has there been anything official about BBBR?
Whilst I hope he doesn't need surgery it is close to the go/no go point for next year's Super season. Better IMO to miss EOYT than get crocked and need surgery anyway, which will rule him out till May.what's awesome is we have been playing well without him. He's an incredible player, but the forwrad pack has hardly missed a beat without him there. Well, in the bits he does anyway
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@bones I think lack of game sense probably had more impact on that game.
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@taniwharugby said in Springboks V All Blacks:
@bones I think lack of game sense probably had more impact on that game.
No one would have dared to be senseless if Brodie was there.
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@bones said in Springboks V All Blacks:
@nzzp we lost to SA.
With a very distinct lack of cohesion, accuracy, effectiveness and mongrel.
I'm not so convinced it was as big a disaster as people say. We scored 6 tries, and should have scored a couple more. We threw them 14 points from muppet decisions, missed 6/8 kicks, and still only lost by two. All that said, we still had a chance to win in teh last minute where anything but a tip on the pass probably leads to a try.
Particularly, I don't think the forwards played particularly poorly. A few dropped balls, but would love to see the stats on drops per hundred carries - not sure it would be that different.
Put it another way, you play that game 20 times, I'd expect us to win 19 of them with that outfit playing the way they did that night. I do not think it was a disaster.
That said, we should still have had more composure and won the damn thing. That doesn't mean we played poorly though.
