England vs All Blacks
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NZ comprehensively outplayed until BB stopped kicking aimlessly.
England thoroughly deserve their lead, but will be kicking themselves it's so close after having all the first half.
Should have kept Shields off. Lawes awesome.
England will be lucky to stay at 15 if they keep on infringing.
Going to be a cracking second half.
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Speed is our best friend. Reckon we need to really ramp it up in the 2nd half. Bring on Todd for Squire, and Richie M, to add some spice.
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@act-crusader our first half’s have been average. So not sure you can say kicking has worked.
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@mikethesnow yeah Lawes and Itoje have been excellent.
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@kev said in England vs All Blacks:
@act-crusader our first half’s have been average. So not sure you can say kicking has worked.
In this game , the conditions suggest it’s a day for kicking , but the quality of the kicks were shit
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Ha ha. Had to laugh at jk/Wilson half time comments. He who holds the umbrella stays driest 😆
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@kev yeah I agree. But the strategy of playing a certain way in the 1st half and changing things in the 2nd have been successful this year.
Just need to work on execution
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Whoever said they thought it was brilliant from Read to take the scrum - I really don't think he had any choice. It was simply score a try here or be pushed out of the game. Now we have given ourselves a chance. That's all we need
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Not being funny but wtf is Habana on the sidelines calling this match
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@mikethesnow PC gone mad
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@act-crusader yep I also think the mindset becomes too much about kicking. That grubber to blindside inside 22 was a low % play when had no position for 20 mins and behind.
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@mikethesnow said in England vs All Blacks:
NZ comprehensively outplayed until BB stopped kicking aimlessly.
Have to disagree he was kicking aimlessly. He wasn't kicking well (or even close), but he was clearly trying to get in behind the English to force 5m scrums. He was missing comfortably, but if he nailed one the ABs are probably going to score 75% of the time off that set piece.
Good plan, just executed shit. England tried the exact same thing early and pulled it off and are being lauded.
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@rotated said in England vs All Blacks:
@mikethesnow said in England vs All Blacks:
NZ comprehensively outplayed until BB stopped kicking aimlessly.
Have to disagree he was kicking aimlessly. He wasn't kicking well (or even close), but he was clearly trying to get in behind the English to force 5m scrums. He was missing comfortably, but if he nailed one the ABs are probably going to score 75% of the time off that set piece.
Good plan, just executed shit. England tried the exact same thing early and pulled it off and are being lauded.
Yeah if those grubbers stopped before the try line it would’ve been completely different
