RWC: All Blacks v Ireland (QF2)

taniwharugby

@Bones not according to the rest of the world.

kiwiinmelb

@akan004 said in RWC: All Blacks v Ireland (QF2):

Weather forecast looks shit. Is this a negative for us? The game slowing down will benefit the Irish but we are a pretty decent wet weather team as well.

https://www.yr.no/place/Japan/Kanagawa/Yokohama/long.html

it looks like the heavier rain is in the middle of the day , hopefully eased off by gametime

bayimports

So supposedly a source close to the team have passed on to a mate (and so on)...so take with a grain of salt*.. Anyway they believe that unless injury occurs the team was announced internally yesterday.

1 Moody 2 Taylor 3 Laulala 4 Brodie 5 Whitelock 6 Savea 7 Cane 8 Read
9 Smith 10 Mounga 11 Bridge 12 ALB 13 Goodhue 14 Reece 15 B Barrett

16 Coles 17 Ta’avao 18 (only one couldnt remember) 19 S Barrett 20 Todd
21 TJ 22 SBW 23 J. Barrett

Lets see later in the week, but a few talking points for sure.

to their credit, they did predict the first team exactly, but I still have no idea who the source is. However sharing for the fun of it anyway

akan004

@bayimports Not sure about Jordie ahead of BFA but pretty happy with the rest of the team.

cgrant

18 must be Ofa T surely.

bayimports

@akan004 said in RWC: All Blacks v Ireland (QF2):

@bayimports Not sure about Jordie ahead of BFA but pretty happy with the rest of the team.

perhaps given now Jordie can play 10 at a push?

And @cgrant I agree surely its Ofa

akan004

@bayimports We've already got two tens so I don't think it's that.

MajorRage

@bayimports said in RWC: All Blacks v Ireland (QF2):

So supposedly a source close to the team have passed on to a mate (and so on)...so take with a grain of salt*.. Anyway they believe that unless injury occurs the team was announced internally yesterday.

Moody 2. Taylor 3. Laulala 4. Brodie 5. Whitelock 6. Savea 7. Cane 8. Read

Smith 10. Mounga 11. Bridge 12. ALB 13. Goodhue 14. Reece 15. B Barrett

Coles 17. Ta’avao 18. (only one couldnt remember) 19. S Barrett 20. Todd

TJ 22. SBW 23. J. Barrett

Lets see later in the week, but a few talking points for sure.

to their credit, they did predict the first team exactly, but I still have no idea who the source is. However sharing for the fun of it anyway

Risky game to play two hookers. And give Aaron or Ben a debut there.

Bones

@MajorRage said in RWC: All Blacks v Ireland (QF2):

@bayimports said in RWC: All Blacks v Ireland (QF2):

So supposedly a source close to the team have passed on to a mate (and so on)...so take with a grain of salt*.. Anyway they believe that unless injury occurs the team was announced internally yesterday.

Moody 2. Taylor 3. Laulala 4. Brodie 5. Whitelock 6. Savea 7. Cane 8. Read

Smith 10. Mounga 11. Bridge 12. ALB 13. Goodhue 14. Reece 15. B Barrett

Coles 17. Ta’avao 18. (only one couldnt remember) 19. S Barrett 20. Todd

TJ 22. SBW 23. J. Barrett

Lets see later in the week, but a few talking points for sure.

to their credit, they did predict the first team exactly, but I still have no idea who the source is. However sharing for the fun of it anyway

Risky game to play two hookers. And give Aaron or Ben a debut there.

I was curious as to how good Coles would be at tighthead. Guess we'll find out.

Mobile pack anyway.

bayimports

For those that are held up on numbers, its interesting.. if I go to edit mode

Smith is 9 and Coles in 16

So either a bug, or one of you funny buggers has a great edit feature

MajorRage

@bayimports said in RWC: All Blacks v Ireland (QF2):

For those that are held up on numbers, its interesting.. if I go to edit mode

Smith is 9 and Coles in 16

So either a bug, or one of you funny buggers has a great edit feature

Can't take your team seriously anyway ... it's not like your @SouthernMan

Duluth

@bayimports said in RWC: All Blacks v Ireland (QF2):

For those that are held up on numbers, its interesting.. if I go to edit mode

Smith is 9 and Coles in 16

So either a bug, or one of you funny buggers has a great edit feature

Remove the dots after the numbers and it’ll work

The software thinks you’re adding an ordered list and gets confused

bayimports

@Duluth said in RWC: All Blacks v Ireland (QF2):

@bayimports said in RWC: All Blacks v Ireland (QF2):

For those that are held up on numbers, its interesting.. if I go to edit mode

Smith is 9 and Coles in 16

So either a bug, or one of you funny buggers has a great edit feature

Remove the dots after the numbers and it’ll work

The software thinks you’re adding an ordered list and gets confused

noted..tricky! cheers mate

chimoaus

Looks like a strong team, only wish ALB and Goodhue had the Italy game as a hit out, no doubt they have been training a lot together. I would also have BFA instead of the Giraffe. I guess the Giraffe being able to play the entire backline helps.

KiwiMurph

I'd rather see ALB at 13 and Crotty in the 23.

No Quarter

I'd also rather Pat T on the bench, he's a physical beast and can add a real point of difference in the final 20

Chris B.

@bayimports Won't surprise me if that's the team.

The team The Herald released reckoning it was the team to play Italy had Goodhue at centre - and it looked very much a shadow No. 1 side.

I'm slightly surprised that Jordie makes the bench ahead of Ben Smith - not many changes they could make to field less caps in the backs - BFA, Crotty and Rieko all on the outer - they could have picked Brad Weber, I guess.

We'll see for sure on Thursday.

Bones

Yeah if Jordie Mac is selected it may point to one of Barrett or Mo'unga having a slight injury impacting goal-kicking?

Machpants

@Chris-B yeah that's gotta be our rawist backline in a world cup knock out for a few tournaments

Chris B.

@Bones Or maybe if one of Richie or Beaudy get hurt they think Jordie has the best skillset to carry on with the two play-makers thing.

@Machpants Hansen has almost entirely abandoned his "experience wins" mantra for this RWC.

Just another drum that was convenient to beat at the time?

The Silver Fern

RWC: All Blacks v Ireland (QF2)