Bledisloe Two: Auckland, October 18
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Unfortunately for the Wallabies they fell apart in the second, their first 40 was very similar to Wellington with some great forward interplay, players in motion and structure. They reverted to old with some fucken stupid passes, aimless kicking and woeful handling. They just needed some patience and to calm down which will likely come with time.
Had a few of those key moments gone their way it may have been a much tighter game. The AB's on the back of Clarke really pounced on the Wallabies mistakes and they couldn't recover after those back to back to back tries.
If the Wallabies can reduce the error rate and play like the first 120 minutes we should be in for a good game in OZ.
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Incredible from Caleb Clarke. So good. No one ever owns the All Blacks 11 jersey. Not even Jonah. But if he keeps this up, Caleb's going to develop into one of the best Left Wings we've seen.
Sam Cane, superb again. Best decision Foster has made was to appoint him captain. Nugget very good again.
So much better from Ardie Savea and Richie Mo'unga
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@NTA said in Bledisloe Two: Auckland, October 18:
@booboo said in Bledisloe Two: Auckland, October 18:
@NTA said in Bledisloe Two: Auckland, October 18:
@Steven-Harris said in Bledisloe Two: Auckland, October 18:
Dumb from Moody was warned 🤦♂️
If he got done for all the jersey pulling he does as well, he'd get the cheese
Just ease up on your moral indignation.
Nah - this is the Fern. Hypocrisy is expected.
Encouraged?
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@broughie said in Bledisloe Two: Auckland, October 18:
@BerniesCorner I understand your appreciation Laumape but i I think he’s a one trick pony. If he diversifies his game he might be something to reckon with.
He was dropping goals and doing kick passes in the warm up
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@chimoaus said in Bledisloe Two: Auckland, October 18:
@sparky Could easily be the next Nonu and end his career at 12.
Dear Caleb
If you stumble across the Fern in your google search, and read this, no pressure aye bro...😎
You’ve played 80 minutes of test rugby over the past two weeks and made an awesome start to your career. One test at a time. Your old man was a hell of a player, but he knows the ups and downs of form and selection so don’t worry about being the next Lomu, Nonu or Eroni, keep doing your thing young fella. Keep working hard and that will put the pressure on the selectors to keep selecting you. The rest will take care of itself
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@Machpants exactly
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I wasn't totally convinced but much improved from the team today. We seemed a bit out of control on attack in the first half and a bit too passive in our tackling as well. But we grew into the game and a number of players performed individually strong. It all clicked in the second half and the aussies frayed as the game went on. Much needed win but plenty to work on as they say
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@Kirwan Not convinced yet. Looked like a reversion to type to me. I knew we would lose, but i was keen to see the DR tactics which we used to good effect employed again. But we just dropped all the good stuff from our game like the sniping at the base and intelligent out of hand kicking and threw in even worse stuff like throwing hail mary out the back pop passes and aimless kicking to the most dangerous players in the field.
Oh and trying to exit our 22 right after the half time restart by spinning it wide. It all felt very Michael Cheika.
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@Derpus said in Bledisloe Two: Auckland, October 18:
Oh and trying to exit our 22 right after the half time restart by spinning it wide. It all felt very Michael Cheika.
My mind was blown at that point - low percentage rugby executed well keeps you in games.
