Bledisloe #2

[Tim]

Tuipulotu good. Much more suited to test rugby than Barrett.

[jegga]

Penalty count is 6-5 , the guys in yellow were very disciplined for the first 30 or so .

[Wairau]

I would have taken another scrum at the finish, to use up more of Cole's YC time and possibly get a try

[Dice]

There was once a time when Ardie was a punchline on here. Now he's probably the best player in the country.

[Mokey]

Read playing really well. Much better running and ball in hand. Coles you fucking shit for brains. Too many penalties still.

[kev]

Moody needs to work on his accuracy. Can’t be giving away penalties and dropping the ball (last week). Impressive scrum time today though.

[kiwiinmelb]

@Dice said in Bledisloe #2:

There was once a time when Ardie was a punchline on here. Now he's probably the best player in the country.

Will be a star at the World Cup ,

My prediction

[Steven Harris]

@Mokey he was excellent last week as well...!

[Tim]

Beale is going to bombed to hell in the WC.

[jegga]

@Tim said in Bledisloe #2:

Beale is going to bombed to hell in the WC.

Good.

[NTA]

@Tim said in Bledisloe #2:

Oz are a rabble this week. Getting done by that 7 man scrum.

Franks can't make the WC squad at this rate.

Read's defence more potent this week.

More about brains - if Sio had dropped that scrum be could easily have drawn a Penalty. Laulala got a bit lower than him and was in a bad position given the previous penalty he'd given

[No Quarter]

@NTA said in Bledisloe #2:

Also: if Foley had missed either of those penalties, Brumbies fans would be calling for his head

Very costly misses

[Victor Meldrew]

@Steven-Harris said in Bledisloe #2:

@Mokey he was excellent last week as well...!

Been excellent since Sam C was out injured. Simply outstanding at Twickenham last November.

[Kruse]

@jegga said in Bledisloe #2:

@Kruse said in Bledisloe #2:

@jegga Yeah - currently riding a shitty little chinese 150cc motorbike around Mongolia.
Last week, I lucked out with a hotel room where I got Setanta.
This week - deliberately made today's ride a short one, checked into the most "classy" (relatively, for Mongolia) looking hotel in town... no Setanta.

That sounds very cool .

My brother in law used to like it there, there’s a species of trout that grows to four feet long he used to fly fish for.

He reckoned the alcohol consumption amongst the locals was on a par with Russians too .

It's kinda a "stop-gap" between two other trips - the London-Beijing I bragged about in the de-facto Motorbike thread (and need to write a more recent write-up on, probably starting an actual biker thread), and I'm about to head to North Korea after this. Won't be posting from there, I suspect, sorry @Victor-Meldrew .
But yeah - I've met a few people here for the fishing, and seen a few fly-fishers about.
The alcohol consumption - it's weird, it seems like drinking vodka and airag used to be a standard thing for any semi-social occasion... but nowadays, there's heaps of guys drinking beer in the afternoon/evening - not handling it well... and maybe a bit of a backlash from the non-drunkards.

[taniwharugby]

@Mokey yea I think talk of Reads demise was a bit premature, he has been building nicely the last few games

[kiwiinmelb]

Looking like bsmith May miss like mils in 2011 ,

Selected in the squad but miss the top 23

[jegga]

@kiwiinmelb said in Bledisloe #2:

Looking like bsmith May miss like mils in 2011 ,

Selected in the squad but miss the top 23

Agree

[akan004]

The wob played the ball ffs

[Siam]

@akan004 said in Bledisloe #2:

The wob played the ball ffs

Nonsense refereeing

[Stockcar86]

is Jaco making up his own rules?