All Blacks vs Wallabies Bledisloe 2 Eden Park 14th Aug

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@booboo said in All Blacks vs Wallabies Bledisloe 2 Eden Park 14th Aug:

@kiwimurph said in All Blacks vs Wallabies Bledisloe 2 Eden Park 14th Aug:

Is Aaron Smith the best AB 9 of all time?

Yes

absolutely

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@kirwan said in All Blacks vs Wallabies Bledisloe 2 Eden Park 14th Aug:

@nta mostly smart people of Auckland not sitting in the likely rain under cover. Pretty protected on the sides.

Unlike me.

Look at you go, you stoic, manly Kiwi icon.

[Bones]

@booboo said in All Blacks vs Wallabies Bledisloe 2 Eden Park 14th Aug:

@broughie said in All Blacks vs Wallabies Bledisloe 2 Eden Park 14th Aug:

I can see Akira’s getting a bit of confidence and jawing. Long as some one is there to modulate I’m good with it.

Aha. The Akira stink face. Drop him.

Was quite cool to see Rieko run in and pull him away from Hooper after that scrum pen.

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@kirwan said in All Blacks vs Wallabies Bledisloe 2 Eden Park 14th Aug:

@kev said in All Blacks vs Wallabies Bledisloe 2 Eden Park 14th Aug:

@kirwan low numbers for a Bledisloe. Maybe cost is too much 2 weeks in a row? Nothing better than seeing the ABs deal to the Wallabies.

Wasn’t enough warning I suspect. Think of it this way, it was like playing Oz in Hamilton.

respect to you and my ageing parents who made the most to get out there, the rest of you within 2 hour travel are soft fluffybunnies

[Tim]

@bones If a time-shift had occurred and Eden Park was transported back 25 years ago, I would have fucking loved to have seen biff tonight.

[Tim]

@tim said in All Blacks vs Wallabies Bledisloe 2 Eden Park 14th Aug:

For Taylor's first try, Akira Ioane got mediocre ball but attracted 3 defenders and got over the advantage line with a fairly quick recycle. Whitelock came in with a hell of a cleanout, which helped create space for Smith. Oz were also very slack on covering the blindside. Space seen, heads-up play activated, gas off the mark, great try.

That clean-out from Whitelock was fucking beautiful.

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@tim said in All Blacks vs Wallabies Bledisloe 2 Eden Park 14th Aug:

@bones If a time-shift had occurred and Eden Park was transported back 25 years ago, I would have fucking loved to have seen biff tonight.

@Kirwan would have run on and cleaned up. So manly.

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@victor-meldrew said in All Blacks vs Wallabies Bledisloe 2 Eden Park 14th Aug:

Whisper it not, but in the 2nd 40, Foster's ABs are starting to look and play like a really good team.

Heresy

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Just watched the highlights

Bloody fucking hell all round

Tempo of the match
Attacking intent
Tremendous skills, even more so when it started pissing down
ABs ruthless

But fuck me every time Australia made it interesting they went and fucked it right up

Great watch

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@canerbry said in All Blacks vs Wallabies Bledisloe 2 Eden Park 14th Aug:

@act-crusader but CanTaB PlaYEr BaD

[Tim]

@tim said in All Blacks vs Wallabies Bledisloe 2 Eden Park 14th Aug:

@tim said in All Blacks vs Wallabies Bledisloe 2 Eden Park 14th Aug:

For Taylor's first try, Akira Ioane got mediocre ball but attracted 3 defenders and got over the advantage line with a fairly quick recycle. Whitelock came in with a hell of a cleanout, which helped create space for Smith. Oz were also very slack on covering the blindside. Space seen, heads-up play activated, gas off the mark, great try.

That clean-out from Whitelock was fucking beautiful.

Also, that dumb aussie trying to go for the ball when it came out of the ruck.

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@kev said in All Blacks vs Wallabies Bledisloe 2 Eden Park 14th Aug:

@gt12 said in All Blacks vs Wallabies Bledisloe 2 Eden Park 14th Aug:

@kiwimurph said in All Blacks vs Wallabies Bledisloe 2 Eden Park 14th Aug:

Ta'avao is THAT shit

I could copy and paste this every week.

I love him but he’s not good enough to be an All Black.

Foster

And your alternative is?

[Tim]

In case you hadn't realised, that try was Tim's TSF Gold Plated Solid Gold Moment of the Century of the Week®.

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@kev said in All Blacks vs Wallabies Bledisloe 2 Eden Park 14th Aug:

Reiko better on wing

Yep. But who was the better alternative at 13 this week?

[Tim]

@booboo Best passing centre in NZ. As born out by the Super Rugby stats.

[Tim]

Combined with his turnover penalty, Whitelock was huge when we were a man down.

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@tim said in All Blacks vs Wallabies Bledisloe 2 Eden Park 14th Aug:

@booboo Best passing centre in NZ. As born out by the Super Rugby stats.

You are going to have that article screen printed on your coffin.

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@gt12 said in All Blacks vs Wallabies Bledisloe 2 Eden Park 14th Aug:

I absolutely love seeing Akira in the midfield like that.

Can't possibly gave been coached to do that ...

(Can't wait to catch up to the thread where I pilloried for suggesting the coaches had anything to do with a 35 point win.)

[Tim]

I remember in the build up to the 2011 world cup, old poster French Sniper was interviewed on NZ sports radio, and made the moronic claim that NZ wouldn't win because we just didn't have the tight forwards, especially the locks. I thought: "Okay fucknuts, when has France had a better lock in the professional era than Whitelock?" Never. And don't forget Thorn, Woodcock, Mealamu, and Franks. Retard.

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@booboo said in All Blacks vs Wallabies Bledisloe 2 Eden Park 14th Aug:

@kev said in All Blacks vs Wallabies Bledisloe 2 Eden Park 14th Aug:

Reiko better on wing

Yep. But who was the better alternative at 13 this week?

Thin stocks. He is a fine player and his best position is wing.