All Blacks vs Wallabies Bledisloe 2 Eden Park 14th Aug
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@machpants said in All Blacks vs Wallabies Bledisloe 2 Eden Park 14th Aug:
So, yellow or orange? Wallabies uniform was confused as their rugby. Neither is gold!
Doesn't look like they live in the "lucky country" to me.
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@machpants said in All Blacks vs Wallabies Bledisloe 2 Eden Park 14th Aug:
So, yellow or orange? Wallabies uniform was confused as their rugby. Neither is gold!
When I say some clothes or a haircut looks stupid my wife says ‘ it’s fashion ‘ like that makes it all ok ,
Maybe it’s fashion
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@frank said in All Blacks vs Wallabies Bledisloe 2 Eden Park 14th Aug:
Doesn't look like they live in the "lucky country" to me.
Well, I suppose they are bloody lucky they don't have a 10 with a haircut like Mounga's
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@nta said in All Blacks vs Wallabies Bledisloe 2 Eden Park 14th Aug:
Smith seems to like it.
With the demise of the Central Vikings (thank fuck) there's not many opportunities for players to get an orange jersey for their collection.
I reckon Tate's going to wear that AB jersey around the house.
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Watched the game again. Best ABs performance since the Quarter Final against Ireland in 2019. Not getting too carried away as Australia are a second-rung international side but nice to see some significant improvement from the ABs at last. Better physicality, good option taking, communication and execution.
Still areas for improvement: the scrum, defence, kick offs.
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Be interesting to see if there be many changes for the 3rd test. Personally I doubt it,maybe alb to come back in and ioane back on wing and jordie maybe to 15 as he looked good when he got on the field
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@family-man said in All Blacks vs Wallabies Bledisloe 2 Eden Park 14th Aug:
Be interesting to see if there be many changes for the 3rd test. Personally I doubt it,maybe alb to come back in and ioane back on wing and jordie maybe to 15 as he looked good when he got on the field
Reckon 8, 11, 15 are the likely change areas - which will lead to change at 13 as Rieko goes out again
Havili has come from nowhere to be a seriously good 12.
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The irony that he doesn't see how bad the media are in covering AB sport and his role in making things worse.
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@gt12 I'd say the quality of Aus has as much to do with the lack of interest as the late move to play back to back tests at EP.
If it had been SA playing on Saturday I reckon it sells out, especially since we havent played them in NZ since 2019.
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@sparky said in All Blacks vs Wallabies Bledisloe 2 Eden Park 14th Aug:
Watched the game again. Best ABs performance since the Quarter Final against Ireland in 2019. Not getting too carried away as Australia are a second-rung international side but nice to see some significant improvement from the ABs at last. Better physicality, good option taking, communication and execution.
Still areas for improvement: the scrum, defence, kick offs.
The ABs were really shit about taking the high balls there - bodes well against the boks…
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@taniwharugby said in All Blacks vs Wallabies Bledisloe 2 Eden Park 14th Aug:
@gt12 I'd say the quality of Aus has as much to do with the lack of interest as the late move to play back to back tests at EP.
If it had been SA playing on Saturday I reckon it sells out, especially since we havent played them in NZ since 2019.
And don't always play them at Eden Park like the Wallabies seen to get 🤔
Someone did they numbers and due to the agreements in place, wobs play at Eden Park nearly three times as often as any other visiting nation
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@nta said in All Blacks vs Wallabies Bledisloe 2 Eden Park 14th Aug:
Someone did they numbers and due to the agreements in place, wobs play at Eden Park nearly three times as often as any other visiting nation
Visiting fans I guess - a short flight from Sydney, and frequent enough compared to WLG or CHC. Or, maybe the Wobs don't like cold weather
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It's not a common thing for us in NZ and Aus to have a game like that in the same city two weeks in a row. Maybe it was a case of "the carnival has been to town and I've already been to the carnival". Given the expense, I wouldn't be going two weeks in a row. Although that's because I live in Brisbane and the ABs are usually shit when they play here.
