Bledisloe #1
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Jeez, that was painful to watch at times. SB's Red screwed our chances but we were pretty awful for much of the game
Negatives:
Read's captaincy
Poor discipline
Too many turn-overs
Ben Smith looking ordinary
Franks
First 45 minutesPositives:
Coles went well.
Ardie was outstanding
BB making breaks as of old.
ALB was good and solid - outstanding ball retention
Reiko looks to have played himself back into form
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@Unite said in Bledisloe #1:
@ACT-Crusader said in Bledisloe #1:
Did someone mention 2003?
Role reversal is a good omen
So we lose the Bledisloe and lose the RWC Final...keeps getting better!
But what a glorious semi win against ‘Straya
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@barbarian said in Bledisloe #1:
Where did that come from? Best we've played in years.
We got the rub of the green, but we've had that before and still lost. Glad we made it count. Scored some lovely tries.
Bring on Eden Park.
I don’t remember your guys getting the rub of the green. Just totally outplayed the ABs in every facet; you do that and shit will naturally go your way. Congrats, after a really tough year that’s an incredible performance.
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@Tim said in Bledisloe #1:
Kieran Read is smiling and upbeat in the after-match interview because he has an IQ of 80 and is a shit captain. Always captain by default. Never been good.
If you can't win against all odds, you don't really deserve to be captain.
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Well deserved Aussie. Have the coaches been tricking us all along or do that not have confidence in there strategy? RM and BB now saves and cane? We just seem to have an identity crisis on our attack....again. Aussies from get go looked assured and confident and played direct, starving us of ball. We looked good but struggled to apply pressure.
Need to see what we do next week before I make my judgement but we have to stick with this now I think cause changing the team would seem to admitting defeat by coaches??? Confused atm
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Oi ! Shag !!
You'd want to win this thing in Japan otherwise I want my emotional money back for the directionless dirge we've witnessed for the past 2 and a bit years.
Never seen so many errors as we "fine tune" a fucken gameplan that won us 2 world cups!
Could we use forwards once, before shovelling, chips or kick passes, please, just to see if Meads and Lochore were right about ball playing New Zealand forwards?
What, exactly is our strategy for beating the best teams in the world? Please don't let it solely be "passes sticking".
A fucking hiding...
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@Stargazer said in Bledisloe #1:
According to the stats, Richie Mo'unga made 8 tackles and missed 0. Excellent on defence; it was others who missed their man.
The criticism of Richie is about the loss. Our forwards were owned. White running from rucks created havoc. The Aussies kept the ball in hand and had much better tactics.
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@kev said in Bledisloe #1:
This has been coming for some time. We keep being told that we can play rugby without the ball. Kicking it away. The Wallabies showed that keeping the ball in hand is what matters. Some of our tight forwards struggle with their hands. Tonight they lost the contact as well.
Well said
I say some warning signs with NZ Super Rugby sides this year
I saw alot more danger signs when the ABs got away with a win in Buenos Aires Boks then threw a lot at ABs in Cake Tin
1 thing ABs could hang their hat on was good defence:
90% tackle completion in last 2 games & kept opponents to 16 pts eachI still shocked that ABs conceded 47 points in a game!!!!
When the last that fucking happened
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@Stargazer said in Bledisloe #1:
@Canerbry said in Bledisloe #1:
Don't understand why the Aucklanders are laying into Mo'unga,he was one of the better ones.
Oh, that's right.
Because .. Blues fans, and BB is now a Blues player.
Or we just want the best ten to play ten. Feel free to circle the cantab wagons, ignore we just conceded 47 points to australia
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Akira Ioane should not even be in the conversation...he is so far off the pace in terms of attitude and fitness ,it’s not funny...
Are people deluded ...?,
The reality is the red card played its part..we needed to be at 100% in the 2nd half not just to stay in the fight but also to salvage any credibility or even do the impossible..I liked the fact that we showed some fight in the 2nd half..but at the end of the day, we made an incredible amount of tackles in the first half which at the end of the day was gonna spike us at the end..
Nick White was outstanding for the Wallabies..his control around the edges was impressive..
Richie Mo’unga also seems to be copping some criticism which is highly unfair, we needed to be playing the territory game in the first ,but Beauden Barrett had plenty of time to kick long, but decided use a short kicking game which backfired big time..Thought Read was outstanding under the circumstances..Coles tackled his heart out and ALB was superb..flush it and move on
