TRC: The All Blacks against the Springboks (version 98)

[Stargazer]

@westcoastie after ALB, Goodhue & Crotty .. etc

[westcoastie]

@Stargazer whats Crottys injury at the moment?

[Number 10]

[fcc]

@Kirwan When he started playing deeper. Fosters idiotic plan of playing flat and trying to offload against the rush defense was what led to the errors in the first half.

[Stargazer]

@westcoastie A few weeks to go; broken thumb. He's training with the ABs as per normal, just like Scott Barrett.

[Kirwan]

@Stargazer said in TRC: The All Blacks against the Springboks (version 98):

@Kirwan Yeah, and he got way more space in the second half, too, so it was a lot easier for him at 10 than for RM in the first half.

Well instead of discussing A fantasy game of what may have happened, let’s look at what happened when Richie was under pressure. It wasn’t good, and IMO we don’t have time to get him ready in time.

If Aussie are their useful poor selves then we’ll learn nothing about him either in those games.

[westcoastie]

@MN5 Savea is probably the form loosie in the world right now, maybe the best. He has to play. And Cane is just massive too. Reads not getting dropped. We have no 6, absolutely none. So its either Cane or Read to 6.

[98blueandgold]

@MN5 Issue is not him at 8 or 6 in set-piece it is around park. Not powerful enough in the middle yet too slow now to be out wide. So you are playing him because he lifts in a lineout, has control at the back of the scrum and is Captain.

[Machpants]

@westcoastie said in TRC: The All Blacks against the Springboks (version 98):

@akan004 we're lucky SBarrett was immense in super rugby. 12 months ago I would've agreed.

Maybe so, but SW and SB are just two locks. Then what?

[westcoastie]

@Stargazer good. because SBW needs to go.

[akan004]

@Number-10 said in TRC: The All Blacks against the Springboks (version 98):

Fuck. That's his wc over imo. Broken arm would have been better.

[Rebound]

Can World Rugby just sort out the refereeing. It's fucken abysmal. This game just showed it. How number 19 stayed on the field let alone not being penalised requires serious question. I mean what he did was far worse then Toupou last week. It's like they are agreeing that the broadcaster controls the TMO

[Chris]

@akan004 yes he’s maybe out for WC that’s big recovery time
Tendon and muscle damage

[Anonymous]

@sparky said in TRC: The All Blacks against the Springboks (version 98):

At least we kept our powder dry...

While our munition stores are flooding.

[sparky]

Strange feeling, perhaps for the first time ever in my life, of being slightly pleased and relieved that the ABs didn't win.

Even in World Cup year, I thought it was staggeringly disrespectful of Steve Hansen and Clown Foster not picking his first-choice 23 against a touring Springbok team. I hope the Old Foe never again face any sort of All Black B+ team when they visit New Zealand.

[Kirwan]

@Rebound when do we hear about citings?

[Machpants]

@Rebound Has anyone got a cut/gif/time stamp of BBBR injury? I was raging too much to remember where it was

[westcoastie]

@Machpants not much...

[junior]

@Kirwan said in TRC: The All Blacks against the Springboks (version 98):

@Stargazer said in TRC: The All Blacks against the Springboks (version 98):

@Kirwan I think BB would have struggled at 10 tonight.

He’s handled this sort of pressure before, and he was our best player today, so I don’t accept that.

Difference too in SR where he doesn’t get the front foot ball that Richie is used to. A whiff of being a flat track bully about him.

I don’t think TJ’s service helped RM tonight. He also looked anxious early doors, kicking straight into Bok defenders twice, shovelling pill straight out to SBW without moving forward first. Just a deer in headlights first half

[westcoastie]

@junior wouldn't have mattered who was 9, SA was so offside. TJP earnt us our first 6 points didn't he through turn-overs. TJ & BB kept us in it the first 30min.