All Blacks vs Wallabies Bledisloe 2 Eden Park 14th Aug
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@bones said in All Blacks vs Wallabies Bledisloe 2 Eden Park 14th Aug:
@machpants said in All Blacks vs Wallabies Bledisloe 2 Eden Park 14th Aug:
Ten is so important, I don't think you can be a dilettante and be awesome.
What?
a person who cultivates an area of interest, such as the arts, without real commitment or knowledge.
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@bones TSF cultivates?
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@nostrildamus said in All Blacks vs Wallabies Bledisloe 2 Eden Park 14th Aug:
@bones TSF cultivates?
I'll be honest, approximately half of your posts are a riddle to me.
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@nostrildamus said in All Blacks vs Wallabies Bledisloe 2 Eden Park 14th Aug:
@bones TSF cultivates?
Spreading manure is not cultivating.
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@act-crusader said in All Blacks vs Wallabies Bledisloe 2 Eden Park 14th Aug:
@nostrildamus said in All Blacks vs Wallabies Bledisloe 2 Eden Park 14th Aug:
@act-crusader said in All Blacks vs Wallabies Bledisloe 2 Eden Park 14th Aug:
I actually don’t mind the team. Glad they kept the starting loose trio. Midfield makes sense given the ALB injury.
ABs by 20+.
Dmac at 15 and Ardie still at 8... I raise one finely chiselled eyebrow. Nah, make that two hairy caterpillars.
I don’t mind Ardie at 8. I’d prefer BB at 15 but given how much Foster likes DMac, it’s no surprise he is there.
I'd also swap BB or JB for DMac and just don't understand JB being on the bench with Dmac at 15. Sure he can cover wing, but I just don't think he's a proper utility player.
On the positive side, Foster seems to have decided on his top team and stopped the mucking around - 6/7/8 looked good last week as did DH/ALB. Pity ALB is injured as it means 12/13 are pretty much a rookie pairing. Hope DH doesn't have a shocker and blows his confidence.
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@delicatessen said in All Blacks vs Wallabies Bledisloe 2 Eden Park 14th Aug:
We have 3 fullbacks, 2 wings and 2 halves in the backline. I don't think they're bad selections for this game, but I think they're a serious reflection on who NZR have invested in for the centres in the last few years. Yes we have Goodhue and ALB and Ennor in the wings, but 3 midfielders is nowhere close to enough depth.
Honestly, who else is up and coming? Quinn Tupaea? So why isn't he getting game time? There's literally no-one else - Aso and Laumape have been pushed overseas, and most of the other prospects are still at least 3 years off test level. Blues only have two true midfielders in their entire squad for goodness sake.
We get annoyed at the trend of playing 10s at 15, but I think the trend of playing outside backs in the midfield is worse tbh. It's no wonder our backline seems so much more clunky than it should - we're using finishers as distributers.
Spot on analysis.
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@delicatessen said in All Blacks vs Wallabies Bledisloe 2 Eden Park 14th Aug:
We have 3 fullbacks, 2 wings and 2 halves in the backline. I don't think they're bad selections for this game, but I think they're a serious reflection on who NZR have invested in for the centres in the last few years. Yes we have Goodhue and ALB and Ennor in the wings, but 3 midfielders is nowhere close to enough depth.
Honestly, who else is up and coming? Quinn Tupaea? So why isn't he getting game time? There's literally no-one else - Aso and Laumape have been pushed overseas, and most of the other prospects are still at least 3 years off test level. Blues only have two true midfielders in their entire squad for goodness sake.
We get annoyed at the trend of playing 10s at 15, but I think the trend of playing outside backs in the midfield is worse tbh. It's no wonder our backline seems so much more clunky than it should - we're using finishers as distributers.
Havili is a genuine midfielder that can play fullback. I don’t mind our midfield stocks - ALB, Havili, Goodhue, Ennor, Ioane and then Tups. I think the Jordie Barrett at 12 is fantasy.
Jordan has played a bit of both fullback and wing, so I think even at this stage of his career he would be akin to where Howlett was when he made the ABs - mainly wing for Super rugby and some fullback at NPC level.
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@voodoo said in All Blacks vs Wallabies Bledisloe 2 Eden Park 14th Aug:
@kiwiinmelb said in All Blacks vs Wallabies Bledisloe 2 Eden Park 14th Aug:
I drove 9 hours to sydney in 2014 to sit in the rain and watch the Allblacks draw with Wallabies 12 all in a shit game .
Made me think, if I had the option to jump in a car tonight, and drive somewhere to watch an ABs game and have a night out with mates, what's the line on kms I'd be prepared to travel?
Right now, I think I'd set the line at about 10,000kms.
I would drive that far to see Foster resign in the post match news conference
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@act-crusader said in All Blacks vs Wallabies Bledisloe 2 Eden Park 14th Aug:
@delicatessen said in All Blacks vs Wallabies Bledisloe 2 Eden Park 14th Aug:
We have 3 fullbacks, 2 wings and 2 halves in the backline. I don't think they're bad selections for this game, but I think they're a serious reflection on who NZR have invested in for the centres in the last few years. Yes we have Goodhue and ALB and Ennor in the wings, but 3 midfielders is nowhere close to enough depth.
Honestly, who else is up and coming? Quinn Tupaea? So why isn't he getting game time? There's literally no-one else - Aso and Laumape have been pushed overseas, and most of the other prospects are still at least 3 years off test level. Blues only have two true midfielders in their entire squad for goodness sake.
We get annoyed at the trend of playing 10s at 15, but I think the trend of playing outside backs in the midfield is worse tbh. It's no wonder our backline seems so much more clunky than it should - we're using finishers as distributers.
Havili is a genuine midfielder that can play fullback. I don’t mind our midfield stocks - ALB, Havili, Goodhue, Ennor, Ioane and then Tups. I think the Jordie Barrett at 12 is fantasy.
Jordan has played a bit of both fullback and wing, so I think even at this stage of his career he would be akin to where Howlett was when he made the ABs - mainly wing for Super rugby and some fullback at NPC level.
I agree with all of this, except that when we need Ennor on the bench (which is this week), he is nowhere to be seen.
So we should have had extra 13 cover in the original squad or just not selected him.
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@delicatessen said in All Blacks vs Wallabies Bledisloe 2 Eden Park 14th Aug:
Honestly, who else is up and coming? Quinn Tupaea? So why isn't he getting game time?
I assume he's the 5th midfielder picked in the squad which will explain why he's not getting gametime in the big match? I think they see ALB, Goodhue, Havilli and Ioane definitely ahead of him currently, and for some reason probably Ennor too.
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@act-crusader said in All Blacks vs Wallabies Bledisloe 2 Eden Park 14th Aug:
@delicatessen said in All Blacks vs Wallabies Bledisloe 2 Eden Park 14th Aug:
We have 3 fullbacks, 2 wings and 2 halves in the backline. I don't think they're bad selections for this game, but I think they're a serious reflection on who NZR have invested in for the centres in the last few years. Yes we have Goodhue and ALB and Ennor in the wings, but 3 midfielders is nowhere close to enough depth.
Honestly, who else is up and coming? Quinn Tupaea? So why isn't he getting game time? There's literally no-one else - Aso and Laumape have been pushed overseas, and most of the other prospects are still at least 3 years off test level. Blues only have two true midfielders in their entire squad for goodness sake.
We get annoyed at the trend of playing 10s at 15, but I think the trend of playing outside backs in the midfield is worse tbh. It's no wonder our backline seems so much more clunky than it should - we're using finishers as distributers.
Havili is a genuine midfielder that can play fullback. I don’t mind our midfield stocks - ALB, Havili, Goodhue, Ennor, Ioane and then Tups. I think the Jordie Barrett at 12 is fantasy.
Jordan has played a bit of both fullback and wing, so I think even at this stage of his career he would be akin to where Howlett was when he made the ABs - mainly wing for Super rugby and some fullback at NPC level.
He's had one good season (this one) in the midfield, but his best work has been at fullback over his career. I think it's still his best role.
I don't consider Ioane a part of our midfield stocks at all - he's clearly twice the player on the wing - why swap a world-class wing for a passable centre?
Agree re J Barrett and Jordan, although I think Jordan can excel at fullback at test level.
My main point though, is why haven't we nurtured our midfield stocks? Why turn away established midfielders in order to raid our outside back pantry? Yes we have a glut of great outside backs, but why dilute that by trying to change their natural game to suit midfielding?
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@delicatessen said in All Blacks vs Wallabies Bledisloe 2 Eden Park 14th Aug:
Yes we have a glut of great outside backs, but why dilute that by trying to change their natural game to suit midfielding?
getting 1999 PTSD reading this
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just an "overall state of the game" thought based on this match
27 penalties awarded
Not sure the ball-in-play stat, but isn't it usually around 35 minutes? That ratio sounds way off from a viewing perspective
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Geez - do posters realise it is a 23 player game these days and the All Blacks learned over a decade ago that a lack of a plan B at RWC could have them out. Fern posters have gone on and on about not having plan B's too,
So, the current coaches are addressing this by training for scenarios where they lose a key player through injury or a card early, and making sure that the players slotting into another position can do so relatively seamlessly. Seems intelligent to me and a big tick for this regime. You can only have 8 on the bench. I have assumed that Jordie is seen as potential cover at 12 this week, else they would have most likely promoted Quinn Tupaea. There will be a planned scenario for the loss of any player.
The AB's will likely have a pecking order of 4 players minimum for any jersey number, and will do their best to build experience of each of those candidates in that jersey within the RWC leadup campaign. I see nothing wrong with that, and am happy for us not to be winning by 50 points with out best 15 playing 80 minutes every week, if we are progressing forward our troops for the RWC battle. Then, they will pick the best 23 players to deal with whatever the opposition are expected to throw at them that week, and will continue their admirable philosophy (big tick for current regime) of not picking players who are injured, but seeing it as an opportunity to further develop an understudy in preparation for what may come.
All these posts wanting Foster to be dumped for not keeping players in their preferred jersey number at all times would seem to based on nasty agendas and not on reason....
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@arhs said in All Blacks vs Wallabies Bledisloe 2 Eden Park 14th Aug:
All these posts wanting Foster to be dumped for not keeping players in their preferred jersey number at all times would seem to based on nasty agendas and not on reason....
There's nothing nasty about wanting the best possible players in their most preferred (and by that I mean what they're best at) positions.
I also reject the idea that you start hamstrung because your plan is to have a range of plans, rather than one really good one. Identify your bench better to cover for a player getting injured. Plan A, B and C didn't work against England. Certainly didn't work against Ireland and now we've lost to Argentina. What's next on this road trip to mediocrity?
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@darren said in All Blacks vs Wallabies Bledisloe 2 Eden Park 14th Aug:
So with DMac off to Japan next year, will they start playing BB or JB at 15 now? I’m betting DMac onto the bench next week.
If he hasn't re-signed with NZ rugby, I don't see any reason why they should invest any more tests in him.
