Bledisloe One: Wellington, October 11
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@barbarian the ref didnt make any particularly egregious decisions either way, because he didn't make any decisions.
There were so many things he could've pulled up in that final 8 minutes (from both sides) and he just let it all happen - which i suppose made it more entertaining, but certainly not something for the purists.
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Firstly congratulations to the Wallabies. Start of a new era for Australian Rugby.
Sadly the same can't be said for the AB's.
It's hard to talk about the AB's without it seeming like you are ignoring the quality performance by Oz but nevertheless - DUMB - DUMB- DUMB
We have learned nothing. Playing players out of position. Don't play as a team, lack of leadership (Cane was awesome with his follow me stuff but we seemed bereft of ideas). First you win the game - take the fucking droppie. Yet despite being unable to manufacture from anything other than broken play in 80 minutes we thought we would come up with a barnstorming finish to snatch victory as have so many times before. They must have missed the memo reminding them that the team that performed those sorts of heroics was stacked with all time greatrs whereas this mob - aren't.
Yeah the last seven minutes was gripping but we actually turned it over three times but luckily got it back. It summed up a brainless team who relied on individual flair rather than a team effort.
What did we learn? The hobbit's out of form. Did some good stuff on attack and defence because he's quick but pretty poor. Two slow wings. Rieko - yeah I can see why some cream themselves over him but it was a below par effort even before you throw in the show boating. Goodhue at 12 - please no. Mounga got worse as the game went on. Smith average. Loosies - dysfunctional. Only one lock showed up - which was sort of true of the fatties as well although they do push well.....
So the pack was average at beast and lost the collisions and the breakdown. Backs bordering on awful. Poorly organised. Startled chooks.
Aussie deserved to win by around 10 for me. We were lucky and on this performance are going to get a real hiding from someone soon unless we get over ourselves, play the best players in their rightful positions and concentrate on executing our core skills properly.
Was great to have test footy back though. Hope the team's performance on Sunday makes me look like a complete piston wristed gibbon for all the above
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@Hooroo assume he is talking DMac?
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@taniwharugby said in Bledisloe One: Wellington, October 11:
@Hooroo assume he is talking DMac?
Oh right. Did he have a bad game? I was pretty trashed and remember commenting that he was involved twice in the lead up to one of our tries but I don't remember cursing him
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@Hooroo said in Bledisloe One: Wellington, October 11:
@taniwharugby said in Bledisloe One: Wellington, October 11:
@Hooroo assume he is talking DMac?
Oh right. Did he have a bad game? I was pretty trashed and remember commenting that he was involved twice in the lead up to one of our tries but I don't remember cursing him
that was his best moment in the game. the rest was pretty average. he wasn't alone though.
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@mariner4life said in Bledisloe One: Wellington, October 11:
@Hooroo said in Bledisloe One: Wellington, October 11:
@taniwharugby said in Bledisloe One: Wellington, October 11:
@Hooroo assume he is talking DMac?
Oh right. Did he have a bad game? I was pretty trashed and remember commenting that he was involved twice in the lead up to one of our tries but I don't remember cursing him
that was his best moment in the game. the rest was pretty average. he wasn't alone though.
turnover on our tryline was pretty good I thought
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TBH, I'm a bit sick of this living on 30 odd % possession malarkey.
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@Rapido said in Bledisloe One: Wellington, October 11:
TBH, I'm a bit sick of this living on 30 odd % possession malarkey.
Agreed - I want to see an All Black team squeeze the life out of the opposition. Brutally too.
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@antipodean said in Bledisloe One: Wellington, October 11:
@Rapido said in Bledisloe One: Wellington, October 11:
TBH, I'm a bit sick of this living on 30 odd % possession malarkey.
Agreed - I want to see an All Black team squeeze the life out of the opposition. Brutally too.
Same, I thought we were moving that way in 2017 and 2018ish (I think). Had some really dominant forwards displays.
Then by 2019 - we'd moved back to the passive 'we'll live on your scraps and leave our destiny in your hands coz we don't really rate you but we'll score some cool tries on a good day' strategy.
You'd think we were selecting from a pool of tiny Japanese forwards, although the Japanese respect posession way more than us.
Or the opposition got better.
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good points, alsom you'd think we'd kick for territory more, you can have the ball but only i your own 22...we seem to be happy for them to have the ball in our half
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@Derpus said in Bledisloe One: Wellington, October 11:
@barbarian the ref didnt make any particularly egregious decisions either way, because he didn't make any decisions.
There were so many things he could've pulled up in that final 8 minutes (from both sides) and he just let it all happen - which i suppose made it more entertaining, but certainly not something for the purists.
My guess is that he wanted to stay out of it, given that he's not exactly objective. I think that all in all, it was a reasonable approach, even though some things were missed (Va'ii turnover in the last few minutes probably one of them).
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@antipodean said in Bledisloe One: Wellington, October 11:
@NTA said in Bledisloe One: Wellington, October 11:
@chimoaus said in Bledisloe One: Wellington, October 11:
@Stargazer said in Bledisloe One: Wellington, October 11:
@chimoaus Aren't the tests against the Aussies in Australia also for the Bledisloe Cup?
Yeah, can someone tell me how the Bledisloe works with 4 games. Can we technically draw 1 more and lose 2 and still retain it. Don't the Aussies have to win 3 to win it? Or do we have to win at least twice?
No - if there are 2 draws and 2 Wallaby wins, it is ours, 2-nil.
The Bled is three games. I'm unsure if it is determined by points difference in the event of a draw and a win apiece or if the holder keeps it.
Sorry may be dumb question but are not all RC games part of the BC series?
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@KiwiMurph said in Bledisloe One: Wellington, October 11:
There's a 4th Bledisloe after the 31st
7 November is the 4th Bledisloe.
That's what I thought
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@booboo said in Bledisloe One: Wellington, October 11:
@antipodean said in Bledisloe One: Wellington, October 11:
@NTA said in Bledisloe One: Wellington, October 11:
@chimoaus said in Bledisloe One: Wellington, October 11:
@Stargazer said in Bledisloe One: Wellington, October 11:
@chimoaus Aren't the tests against the Aussies in Australia also for the Bledisloe Cup?
Yeah, can someone tell me how the Bledisloe works with 4 games. Can we technically draw 1 more and lose 2 and still retain it. Don't the Aussies have to win 3 to win it? Or do we have to win at least twice?
No - if there are 2 draws and 2 Wallaby wins, it is ours, 2-nil.
The Bled is three games. I'm unsure if it is determined by points difference in the event of a draw and a win apiece or if the holder keeps it.
Sorry may be dumb question but are not all RC games part of the BC series?
Apparently they are this year, but normally there's only an extra Bledisloe fixture outside of the Rugby Championship.
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Yeah now both Oz and NZ need two wins out of the next three to take the Bled. Another draw and a win apiece means we keep it.
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@Machpants said in Bledisloe One: Wellington, October 11:
Yeah now both Oz and NZ need two wins out of the next three to take the Bled. Another draw and a win apiece means we keep it.
Adds a bit of spice and interest to it.
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@KiwiMurph said in Bledisloe One: Wellington, October 11:
@ACT-Crusader said in Bledisloe One: Wellington, October 11:
@Number-10 said in Bledisloe One: Wellington, October 11:
@ACT-Crusader said in Bledisloe One: Wellington, October 11:
Congratulations Fozzie. You did something Henry or Hansen didn’t achieve and that is lose the first Bledisloe match against a new Wallabies coach.
Slow starters, new combos, inexperienced backline, silver linings, hope, the draw we needed to have
No - Robbie Deans won his first Bledisloe Cup match in 2008: 34-19 in Sydney.
Wasn’t that Deans first test against the ABs, and OZ won?
Yep it was.
Did you go to that test? I was in Sydney in the week leading up to it and was set to fly back to Melbourne on the Friday but ended having to stay for a few days extra. I didn’t want to go to the test so bunkered in at the hotel and watched nervously.
Some saying we got monstered on Sunday by the Wallabies and lacked mongrel, but on that Sydney night we were monstered. They targeted Nonu and he was knocked on his backside time after time.
Also some selections that raised some eyebrows - Tuitavake on the right wing. Rodders started as blindside. Kaino starting at 8. Conrad on the bench. Ellis starting
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@ACT-Crusader Yep I was there. I was behind the posts.
That was a mess of a team - Daniel Braid starting at 7 with McCaw out injured and Braid had one of his anonymous games. Ellis had a shocker and it was clear as day Cowan had to start the next week.
Funnily I remember marvelling at how good Carter was that day - in a team getting smashed he was terrific - the ABs were actually in the match on the scoreboard until late where the Wallabies finally ran away with it but it was Carter keeping them in the game - without him the ABs would have got pumped on the scoreboard.
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@sparky said in Bledisloe One: Wellington, October 11:
Joe Moody, Sam Cane and Aaron Smith were World Class. The rest of that starting team not so much on today's evidence.
Sotutu, Clarke and Jordan must all start next week. Dane Coles, TJP and George Bridge are injury cover now & past their best. Goodhue is a 13 not a 12.
Mostly agree but I want Reiko on the field on the wing.
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@taniwharugby said in Bledisloe One: Wellington, October 11:
@Victor-Meldrew said in Bledisloe One: Wellington, October 11:
We don't just try different combinations
many years ago we did have 20+ test matches in a row when we didnt have the same pair start before Nonu-Conrad became a fixture...
Maybe Ioane/Clarke can start on either wing, JB to FB and ALB-Goodhue in the mid-field
This, goddammit this!
Fizzle are you reading!
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@KiwiMurph the Wallabies celebration after the Horwill try really irked.
Anyway we hit back the following week at Eden Park. We made quite a few changes too. Kahui moving to the wing, McCaw back. Kaino to blindside and Rodders to no8. Nonu and Conrad in the midfield. Cowan starting
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@Rapido said in Bledisloe One: Wellington, October 11:
My observations from end on. Early on in game - I thought Ioane bombed a certain 80 m try by going himself and not setting up Jordie
That selfish play was as bad as the botched try. Not what you expect from a centre.
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@ACT-Crusader said in Bledisloe One: Wellington, October 11:
@KiwiMurph the Wallabies celebration after the Horwill try really irked.
Anyway we hit back the following week at Eden Park. We made quite a few changes too. Kahui moving to the wing, McCaw back. Kaino to blindside and Rodders to no8. Nonu and Conrad in the midfield. Cowan starting
Geez it's easy to forget he's a World Cup winner playing in that very position.
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Having spent a while reading through this thread, I don't remember seeing it mentioned that Cane was wanting to setup for a DG but JB called for the ball and TJP took the wrong option passing it to him.
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@MN5 said in Bledisloe One: Wellington, October 11:
@ACT-Crusader said in Bledisloe One: Wellington, October 11:
@KiwiMurph the Wallabies celebration after the Horwill try really irked.
Anyway we hit back the following week at Eden Park. We made quite a few changes too. Kahui moving to the wing, McCaw back. Kaino to blindside and Rodders to no8. Nonu and Conrad in the midfield. Cowan starting
Geez it's easy to forget he's a World Cup winner playing in that very position.
I'll never forget him flattening his shit head cousin
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@Machpants said in Bledisloe One: Wellington, October 11:
@MN5 said in Bledisloe One: Wellington, October 11:
@ACT-Crusader said in Bledisloe One: Wellington, October 11:
@KiwiMurph the Wallabies celebration after the Horwill try really irked.
Anyway we hit back the following week at Eden Park. We made quite a few changes too. Kahui moving to the wing, McCaw back. Kaino to blindside and Rodders to no8. Nonu and Conrad in the midfield. Cowan starting
Geez it's easy to forget he's a World Cup winner playing in that very position.
I'll never forget him flattening his shit head cousin
Yeah, but it was still a case of someone bigger ( not by much ) smashing someone in a vulnerable position.
In saying that I loved Richards work in black, shame he had to compete with our greatest centre combo of all time.
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@PecoTrain said in Bledisloe One: Wellington, October 11:
@Billy-Tell said in Bledisloe One: Wellington, October 11:
Mounga had a really poor game I thought given the weather. I also think goodhue should be 13 or not in the team. Best memory will be Clarke’s cameo. O for awesome. You’d have to think BB to 10 and JB to 15 for the next game.
On Mo'unga's bad/quiet game, only NTA has mentioned the late hits on him. I counted three times where RM was down in back play (Wilson's late hit, being clattered in the lead up to Reiko's non-try and then twice in the second half) after late hits in addition to the big hit early (11 mins?) from Toomua.
As for centres, haven't almost all of the AB's centre choices in recent years been forced by injuries? ALB/Laumape/SBW/Crotty all had injuries at various points during 2018 and 2019 while Reiko has only begun his move to centre in 2020. Goodhue has ended up in 12/13 by being available.
Well DC, AC and BB - indeed all test 10s - all had to deal with that at various stages of their time in the 10 jersey. If RM isn’t tough enough to shake off a couple of marginally late hits then perhaps he doesn’t have the minerals to be a test match 10
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@chimoaus said in Bledisloe One: Wellington, October 11:
@Bovidae Was this around the time RM was standing around the ruck looking like a virgin in an orgy?
He was standing in the pocket at least twice and then joined the ruck because I think TJP got stuck in a ruck.
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@ACT-Crusader You would have to question his standing in the team if they just ignored him, I highly doubt DC would have been ignored.
Yep TJ needed help. I remember yelling at the TV at this point saying what the fuck is RM doing at the ruck.
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@chimoaus said in Bledisloe One: Wellington, October 11:
@ACT-Crusader You would have to question his standing in the team if they just ignored him, I highly doubt DC would have been ignored.
I think you’re reading way to much into it especially that the best opportunity was the one where Sotutu was passing out but decided to go to Jordie. That didn’t make sense to me.
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@ACT-Crusader That ruck above was the perfect spot for a dg, but RM literally walked up to the ruck and does nothing.
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@chimoaus have you got the stills for before and after?
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@ACT-Crusader He basically walks up to the ruck, puts his hand on top of the wallaby then casually walks away. The next drive the ruck is directly under the posts. Its at this stage he should be demanding the ball to throw it over. WTF is he even doing at the ruck. The rest of the backline are out waiting.
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@ACT-Crusader said in Bledisloe One: Wellington, October 11:
@chimoaus have you got the stills for before and after?
Honestly stop defending him - if we don't have a halfback there to pass the ball back for the dropkick, it's not the job of the guy who's supposed to take the dropkick to go and play half back. You see the issue here, right?
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@chimoaus said in Bledisloe One: Wellington, October 11:
@ACT-Crusader He basically walks up to the ruck, puts his hand on top of the wallaby then casually walks away. The next drive the ruck is directly under the posts. Its at this stage he should be demanding the ball to throw it over. WTF is he even doing at the ruck. The rest of the backline are out waiting.
That last shot of the 4 (bottom right) is quite telling - look at the space behind the ruck, right in front of the posts, basically the perfect spot for him to casually knock it over.
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@junior said in Bledisloe One: Wellington, October 11:
@chimoaus said in Bledisloe One: Wellington, October 11:
@ACT-Crusader He basically walks up to the ruck, puts his hand on top of the wallaby then casually walks away. The next drive the ruck is directly under the posts. Its at this stage he should be demanding the ball to throw it over. WTF is he even doing at the ruck. The rest of the backline are out waiting.
That last shot of the 4 (bottom right) is quite telling - look at the space behind the ruck, right in front of the posts, basically the perfect spot for him to casually knock it over.
Like our failure in 2007 it has to be a failure of the onfield leadership group, its not up to Richie to call his own number
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@junior no need to defend him. Here’s how I saw it, 87th minute in the pocket. 87:50 in the pocket
So at the 88th minute they decided to keep it in the forwards and Richie comes in.
But by 88:20 he’s back in position for the drop goal. But they go wide.
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