All Blacks vs Wallabies Bledisloe 2 Eden Park 14th Aug
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@tim said in All Blacks vs Wallabies Bledisloe 2 Eden Park 14th Aug:
Our kick-off reception was very bad, and high ball reception was poor too. Cannot do that against Boks.
Not those Boks again 🙂
By the way are we actually going to get to play these other teams?
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@act-crusader 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:
Our kick-off reception was very bad, and high ball reception was poor too. Cannot do that against Boks.
Not those Boks again 🙂
By the way are we actually going to get to play these other teams?
Only if we lose to them. If we win it's obviously a different team.
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@rancid-schnitzel might have to change your profile pic ,it’s starting to age 😂
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@bones 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:
Our bench still sucks.
I like Taukieaho
Yes, he just looks like he is meant to be there. Just gets it done.
I guess he will get left in NZ now.
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@unite said in All Blacks vs Wallabies Bledisloe 2 Eden Park 14th Aug:
@bones 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:
Our bench still sucks.
I like Taukieaho
Yes, he just looks like he is meant to be there. Just gets it done.
I guess he will get left in NZ now.
Duck to water springs to mind eh. Really stepped up.
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@act-crusader said in All Blacks vs Wallabies Bledisloe 2 Eden Park 14th Aug:
Stay tuned Stan viewers we’ve got half time entertainment with the Sonny Bill comedy show.
I think they have employed Sonny because he suits their stereotypes of Kiwis not being too intelligent and uninteresting
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I thought Coles and BB were much better tonight. Despite the scoreboard we had some defensive gaps, score would have been much tighter on a dry paddock and if Rennie didn't play musical chairs with key positions.
I dont know how Jordan can do so many tin-arse flukey plays.
Still don't think Ardie is best at 8 and better off bench as 7 against tiring forward legs.
Smith fantastic player but the workhorse was arguably Whitelock and the best fullback on the paddock was Havili (at key dangerous times he kicked like one). RIoane was keen again but I'm guessing and despite early days a DH-ALB combo >ALB-RI>DH-RI.Why do they still hide RM? He tackled well when required and it must take a toll constantly rearranging the backline to suit.
NB Didn't think SBW said anything especially stupid but not a particularly insightful sports analyst, yet.
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@nostrildamus said in All Blacks vs Wallabies Bledisloe 2 Eden Park 14th Aug:
I thought Coles and BB were much better tonight. Despite the scoreboard we had some defensive gaps, score would have been much tighter on a dry paddock and if Rennie didn't play musical chairs with key positions.
I dont know how Jordan can do so many tin-arse flukey plays.
Still don't think Ardie is best at 8 and better off bench as 7 against tiring forward legs.
Smith fantastic player but the workhorse was arguably Whitelock and the best fullback on the paddock was Havili (at key dangerous times he kicked like one). RIoane was keen again but I'm guessing and despite early days a DH-ALB combo >ALB-RI>DH-RI.Why do they still hide RM? He tackled well when required and it must take a toll constantly rearranging the backline to suit.
NB Didn't think SBW said anything especially stupid but not a particularly insightful sports analyst, yet.
I think he's had better games than what he showed today.
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@gt12 Coles? Yes but I meant regards 2021. Whoosh. I keep writing Coles and meaning Taylor. Apologies.
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Deadset, your confidence in those posts made me wonder whether he’d played tonight!
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@tim said in All Blacks vs Wallabies Bledisloe 2 Eden Park 14th Aug:
Papalii did well to get wide from a collapsing scrum, but completely overran his mark with Smith taking the 8. Left clutching at thin air from a misread.
Yeah nah, he abandoned his prop then mis-read on defence, he had a huge role play in that try.
Made a few pretty ordinary errors tonight I thought
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First point, that was a shit crowd, there is no defence, it wasn't bigger than it looked, it was awful. I cannot believe I just watched an empty Bledisloe.
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@mariner4life 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:
Papalii did well to get wide from a collapsing scrum, but completely overran his mark with Smith taking the 8. Left clutching at thin air from a misread.
Yeah nah, he abandoned his prop then mis-read on defence, he had a huge role play in that try.
Made a few pretty ordinary errors tonight I thought
Both tries tonight came from Pap missed tackles. He only missed 3 (I think) and made more than 20 (rugby pass) but they were costly.
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2nd point
Do people think that was good?
The wallabies put in 40 minutes. And most of that was off our errors. For all the talk of playing tighter o saw the same old shit this week.
If those two guys are the best we have at 10, then we are Kinda fucked. Headless, chuck it around bullshit from the start.
Our forwards look like they could be good, but aren't given the opportunity to be. Our set piece creaks.
When it opens up by christ there is running talent to burn out there. The retallic try was gorgeous. And we punished errors repeatedly. But a good team wouldn't give us those opportunities.
If Aaron Smith gets hurt, shit will get very real, very fast.
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3rd point
The wallabies are a mile off.
There is talent
And they want to have a go. And I thought the half time score flattered usBut jesus when it goes wrong they fall apart fast. They hit hard, but fall out of shape very easily. They lack the skill to play the enthusiastic shit they want to play.
Even if it's all played in Aus, they are in a fight for 4th. Too many kids. Too many players want to play the small percentages, nowhere near enough guys in the trenches with Hooper.
