Bledisloe Two: Auckland, October 18
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@Bones said in Bledisloe One: Wellington, October 11:
@gt12 said in Bledisloe One: Wellington, October 11:
@Bones said in Bledisloe One: Wellington, October 11:
@gt12 said in Bledisloe One: Wellington, October 11:
Fair point. Clarke plays in 14.
What’s next?
You're not getting it, Foster wants specialists.
Clarke is locked in at 12.
No, the solution is to put Ardie there. It’s time.
Now we're getting somewhere, I guess Clarke can shuffle out. So we're getting close to completing the Fozzie specialist backline:
9 DMac
10 Perenara
11 Beauden
12 Savea
13 Clarke
14 Jordie
15 Bridge.About right?
Utterly ridiculous. Julian Savea is well past it.....
Oh, you mean Ardie ? As you were
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@PecoTrain said in Bledisloe One: Wellington, October 11:
I can see why Fozzie doesn't like Will Jordan - he's inexperienced. I'm sure Fozzie will pick him once he's got 20 international caps under his belt.
In fairness to Fozzie, I'm not convinced that rushing young guys into the starting line-up is the way to go. There's been a few that we've ruined over the years by throwing them in the deep end. Ideally, you ease them into the team with games against a few lesser lights (this year, the Argies).
But, you also need plenty of people who offer significant offensive threat so that they can't just heavily mark a few players.
Thinking about Sunday's team, I reckon we telegraphed plenty of plans to Rennie - who doubtless knows plenty about our players anyway.
Mo'unga is going to take it to the line - smash him - hard and often.
Bridge and Jordie on the wings - they're going to kick and contest. Make sure we get plenty of blockers in.
Rieko - he's a green centre, run some deception at him.
But, overall, our main attack weapons were Richie and Rieko - the others are more glue guys (DMac's a bit of a wild card). Not enough firepower.
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@Chris-B said in Bledisloe One: Wellington, October 11:
In fairness to Fozzie, I'm not convinced that rushing young guys into the starting line-up is the way to go. There's been a few that we've ruined over the years by throwing them in the deep end. Ideally, you ease them into the team with games against a few lesser lights (this year, the Argies).
Foster clearly went for experience, and minimal disruption to the backline after BB's withdrawal. You can question whether the right experienced players were picked in each position but that is a different argument.
Those calling for Jordan to start only need to look at the Crusaders. When Ennor and Havili were fit, he wasn't starting for them either.
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@No-Quarter A few too many rookies and a bit much trust in those Blues forwards for my taste.
Lose this one and Fozzie is ringing Courier Post to find the cost of mailing large cups to Oz.
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@gt12 said in Bledisloe Two: Auckland, October 18:
Ha ha. Not in my top five All Blacks, but top five favorite players.
I’m a Waikato fan who played 13/12 and went through HS while he was playing. After uni, I then lived in Japan and was here from 2004 - 2009 when he was one of the better players running around the Top League.
He was awesome and I forgive him for not playing for TA sports.
But he’s a bit of a crap defensive coach from what we’ve seen so far.
His hot girlfriend used to live next door to my mates, and she'd often change with the curtains wide open. That's my main memories of him.
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I do prefer the mix of starting a couple of newbies with backup experience on the bench though. Provides the opportunity to have a cool untired head out there in the closing stages. Also that if the newbie is finding it tough you can switch them out.
I'd like to see Whitelock slide into that role with Vaii getting a start. Would put the heat on PT to step up as well.
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@Chris-B said in Bledisloe Two: Auckland, October 18:
@No-Quarter A few too many rookies and a bit much trust in those Blues forwards for my taste.
Lose this one and Fozzie is ringing Courier Post to find the cost of mailing large cups to Oz.
Because playing not to lose worked out so well for Fozzie in Game 1?
4 test rookies in @No-Quarter team (if you count Akira) but there were 3 rookies in Rennie's XV in Game 1.
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@Nepia said in Bledisloe Two: Auckland, October 18:
@gt12 said in Bledisloe Two: Auckland, October 18:
Ha ha. Not in my top five All Blacks, but top five favorite players.
I’m a Waikato fan who played 13/12 and went through HS while he was playing. After uni, I then lived in Japan and was here from 2004 - 2009 when he was one of the better players running around the Top League.
He was awesome and I forgive him for not playing for TA sports.
But he’s a bit of a crap defensive coach from what we’ve seen so far.
His hot girlfriend used to live next door to my mates, and she'd often change with the curtains wide open. That's my main memories of him.
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@Chris-B said in Bledisloe One: Wellington, October 11:
@gt12 I don't think Will is really in contention for a spot this week - more likely that we see Rieko shuffled onto a wing.
But, my bet is we'll see Bridge and Reece with Clarke on the bench again.
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@Crucial said in Bledisloe Two: Auckland, October 18:
@Nepia said in Bledisloe Two: Auckland, October 18:
@gt12 said in Bledisloe Two: Auckland, October 18:
Ha ha. Not in my top five All Blacks, but top five favorite players.
I’m a Waikato fan who played 13/12 and went through HS while he was playing. After uni, I then lived in Japan and was here from 2004 - 2009 when he was one of the better players running around the Top League.
He was awesome and I forgive him for not playing for TA sports.
But he’s a bit of a crap defensive coach from what we’ve seen so far.
His hot girlfriend used to live next door to my mates, and she'd often change with the curtains wide open. That's my main memories of him.
Her window was about 2m from the lounge so that would have been slight overkill.
