All Blacks vs Wallabies Bledisloe 1 Eden Park 7th Aug
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@antipodean not sure we need to worry about golden point.
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@antipodean said in All Blacks vs Wallabies Bledisloe 1 Eden Park 7th Aug:
@mariner4life said in All Blacks vs Wallabies Bledisloe 1 Eden Park 7th Aug:
@victor-meldrew said in All Blacks vs Wallabies Bledisloe 1 Eden Park 7th Aug:
@kiwi_expat said in All Blacks vs Wallabies Bledisloe 1 Eden Park 7th Aug:
Play him against tier-two opponents and he looks a million dollars, play him against big imposing physical sides and he'll get flattened, time and again.
I guess the England team I saw at Twickenham in 2018 were all midgets then....
he was seriously good on that tour, arguably our best player. You could see, even if he didn't make a break, his pace was giving defenders kittens. And i completely changed my opinions of him as a test player on that tour.
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injury, and form slide put him back. His play this year probably earned his spot. Problem is, that last performance was a shocker, and his limitations were bought to the fore.
The mitigation is i don't think much of the other options at this stage. JB has just as many limitations to his game. BB is an okay FB, but seems to fuck up backline balance because, from the outside, he still wants to be the 10.
I'm not as sold on Jordan as some. And then we are out of fullbacks. The problem with 5 pro teams is our options to bring through and develop talent are limited.
Jordan's defence isn't anywhere near good enough to be a Test fullback.
Jordan is a big, keen and fast player. Can't the AB coaches teach him how to defend and tackle effectively? He is only 23 and a half.
So JB BB DMac and Jordan can play FB. Actually there is a fifth one as well. Are people saying we have 5 potential fullbacks and none of them are quite good enough?
NB I don't fully understand why JB is seen as a limited fullback, he does most of the basics well, generally is one of the best super 15s in the country, and has a huge boot. And I've been a critic of him in the past-I think he has improved (but putting him at wing was and still is in hindsight, the height of stupidity.) -
@mariner4life said in All Blacks vs Wallabies Bledisloe 1 Eden Park 7th Aug:
@tim said in All Blacks vs Wallabies Bledisloe 1 Eden Park 7th Aug:
@antipodean said in All Blacks vs Wallabies Bledisloe 1 Eden Park 7th Aug:
compound the complaints about subjective judgements
This is the problem, and it's such a blight on the game.
and, as the bore-a-thon in the Republic is showing, giving the refs and TMO more to look at is exactly what the game need
3 hours tests ya-all!!
Great value for money, like when I play pub pool, my $2 good a long way!
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it's not really the thread for it, but rugby really does have far too many rules to ever have broad appeal. you either already love it, or you're not picking it up without someone dragging you along.
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@mariner4life And yet it seems to be a growing sport everywhere except Aus and NZ. Any perceived malaise with the sport around these parts is because we couldn't sort a root in a brothel.
These two tests a case in point. Two tests at Eden park in a row? Didn't realise it was the only stadium in NZ.
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@stargazer although some you just know they are doomed to fail, so why does WR not see it?
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@derpus said in All Blacks vs Wallabies Bledisloe 1 Eden Park 7th Aug:
@mariner4life And yet it seems to be a growing sport everywhere except Aus and NZ. Any perceived malaise with the sport around these parts is because we couldn't sort a root in a brothel.
These two tests a case in point. Two tests at Eden park in a row? Didn't realise it was the only stadium in NZ.
is it growing?
It can't grow in Australasia because where has it got to go?
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@taniwharugby Because of the purpose of some of them: player safety. And I doubt they'll agree with you that they are doomed to fail.
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@stargazer said in All Blacks vs Wallabies Bledisloe 1 Eden Park 7th Aug:
The new "rules" are part of trials. They aren't law, yet. Let's hope a few of them disappear in the bin by the end of the year.
Do you know if they have been trialed at lower levels?
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The best way World Rugby could ensure player safety is to make amendments that actually increase the amount of time the ball is in play. And a good way to start is penalise teams that fuck around time wasting at restarts and actually make players stay on their feet at rucks.
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@stargazer they obviously 'see' the game differently to many of us.
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@mariner4life There is plenty of growth potential in Aus.
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@mariner4life said in All Blacks vs Wallabies Bledisloe 1 Eden Park 7th Aug:
@derpus said in All Blacks vs Wallabies Bledisloe 1 Eden Park 7th Aug:
@mariner4life And yet it seems to be a growing sport everywhere except Aus and NZ. Any perceived malaise with the sport around these parts is because we couldn't sort a root in a brothel.
These two tests a case in point. Two tests at Eden park in a row? Didn't realise it was the only stadium in NZ.
is it growing?
It can't grow in Australasia because where has it got to go?
Tasmania! Got the paddocks for it (just not sure how they'll fit the extra heads into the front row).
