Wallabies vs All Blacks 3 (Perth)
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@taniwharugby said in Wallabies vs All Blacks 3 (Perth):
@mikethesnow but they present a different challenge to Aus, plus, beat us last year...
@Crucial Broadhurst had to retire due to concussion didn't he? Don't think he was discarded
Yeah, had forgotten. Thought there was a gap but yes, he got his head knock in the NPC straight after his AB debut.
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@yeahtheboys said in Wallabies vs All Blacks 3 (Perth):
@landp who was that lock out of interest? That’s so Eddie
I'll post a link when I remember/find the name. I googled "Eddie Jones drops" and got about 50 million hits
To be fair, he normally lets them finish the game or their 60 minutes before he drops them after their England debut ... probably goes like "Nah mate, you're not what I'm after, see ya"
"Unique" is the word that comes mind ... but he has a razor sharp rugby brain.
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Recent 1 match All Blacks - missing last year I think. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_New_Zealand_national_rugby_union_players
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@taniwharugby said in Wallabies vs All Blacks 3 (Perth):
@mikethesnow but they present a different challenge to Aus, plus, beat us last year...
@Crucial Broadhurst had to retire due to concussion didn't he? Don't think he was discarded
If they come within 10 pts this year then they’ll have done well/you’ve shit the bed.
They’re really not that good
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Hope there is not a second shock result this weekend. Hard to believe Canada's second stringers convincingly beat USA last night in the World Cup qualifier. But it goes to show that anything can happen.
Not sure why Australia is being written off when AB's have so many first stringers out and they are playing a team with a huge home crowd advantage. It will be great merit if they win convincingly. -
@mikethesnow oh I agree, but I'm wary of them after last year and our indifferent form
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@yeahtheboys said in Wallabies vs All Blacks 3 (Perth):
@landp who was that lock out of interest? That’s so Eddie
Nick Isiekwe
I found this reference in a newspaper ...
"He made his third appearance for his country against South Africa but was hauled off before half-time in Johannesburg due to a tactical switch and has not featured for his country since."
I was wrong in that it was his first starting appearance (2018), he had handful of minutes off the bench in his prior two caps. Never played for England again after that "tactical switch"
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@arhs said in Wallabies vs All Blacks 3 (Perth):
Hope there is not a second shock result this weekend. Hard to believe Canada's second stringers convincingly beat USA last night in the World Cup qualifier. But it goes to show that anything can happen.
Not sure why Australia is being written off when AB's have so many first stringers out and they are playing a team with a huge home crowd advantage. It will be great merit if they win convincingly.There should be a few Kiwis in the crowd,Good base of us over there,Plus a lot of South Africans big contingent of them in Perth.And the Saffas seem to go to all the Rugby in WA.
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@chimoaus said in Wallabies vs All Blacks 3 (Perth):
Recent 1 match All Blacks - missing last year I think. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_New_Zealand_national_rugby_union_players
George of the Whitelocks! Forgot all about him.
A couple of class players there that could have had good careers if the circumstances worked.
Ngatai obviously. O'Halloran was a very good player kept at bay by much better ones. Hungus Masaga was a better player than Reece IMO -
@crucial said in Wallabies vs All Blacks 3 (Perth):
Hungus Masaga was a better player than Reece
nah, I dont buy that.
Reece might be a douche, but seems to have a very good grasp on the game and reads things pretty well, along with being pretty good with ball in hand, probably a bit stronger than Masaga, less hungus too, similar defenders but I think Reece is better at breakdowns than Masaga ever was as well.
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@taniwharugby said in Wallabies vs All Blacks 3 (Perth):
@crucial said in Wallabies vs All Blacks 3 (Perth):
Hungus Masaga was a better player than Reece
nah, I dont buy that.
Reece might be a douche, but seems to have a very good grasp on the game and reads things pretty well, along with being pretty good with ball in hand, probably a bit stronger than Masaga too, similar defenders but I think Reece is better at breakdowns than Masaga ever was.
Masaga had that ability to sniff out tries (a bit like Jordan). He was the polar opposite to Bridge.
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@taniwharugby said in Wallabies vs All Blacks 3 (Perth):
@crucial said in Wallabies vs All Blacks 3 (Perth):
Hungus Masaga was a better player than Reece
nah, I dont buy that.
Reece might be a douche, but seems to have a very good grasp on the game and reads things pretty well, along with being pretty good with ball in hand, probably a bit stronger than Masaga, less hungus too, similar defenders but I think Reece is better at breakdowns than Masaga ever was as well.
It's an absolutely absurd take. Defence is 50% of the game. Masaga had Roger Randle level tackling avoidance skills.
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@frye said in Wallabies vs All Blacks 3 (Perth):
@taniwharugby said in Wallabies vs All Blacks 3 (Perth):
@crucial said in Wallabies vs All Blacks 3 (Perth):
Hungus Masaga was a better player than Reece
nah, I dont buy that.
Reece might be a douche, but seems to have a very good grasp on the game and reads things pretty well, along with being pretty good with ball in hand, probably a bit stronger than Masaga, less hungus too, similar defenders but I think Reece is better at breakdowns than Masaga ever was as well.
It's an absolutely absurd take. Defence is 50% of the game. Masaga had Roger Randle level tackling avoidance skills.
This would work much better if Reece wasn't the other player in the discussion.
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AB’s with the most tries vs Aus:
11 – Beauden Barrett (20 tests)
11 – Ma’a Nonu (24)
11 – Richie McCaw (37)
9 – Rieko Ioane (11)
8 – Ian Kirkpatrick (8)
8 – Doug Howlett (12)
8 – Ben Smith (19)
