All Blacks vs Springboks I

[Tim]

Just a reminder that unavailable were Smith, Whitelock, Mounga, Papalii, and Jacobson.

[Chris]

Put in Smith, Whitelock and Mounga and we would have gotten a better performance.

[Machpants]

@pukunui said in All Blacks vs Springboks I:

Absolutely pathetic performance from the ABs. I honestly can’t remember a worse performance across 80min. So glad we already extended the contract of the coach who got them up for the big occasion.

Hopefully that is George Bridge’s last test. Ben Blair mk2.
He was meant to be the high ball guy. If he can’t do that, what does he do?

ABs Very lucky Boks showed no interest in playing rugby. Even doing that they should have won. Those who said they were going to be easy beats are looking pretty stupid right now.

Short memory, Argentina 1 2020. Much worse and we lost that

[broughie]

@kiwiwomble I wasn’t blaming him just saying he was off.

[chimoaus]

@tim and ALB.

[Chris]

@machpants said in All Blacks vs Springboks I:

@pukunui said in All Blacks vs Springboks I:

Absolutely pathetic performance from the ABs. I honestly can’t remember a worse performance across 80min. So glad we already extended the contract of the coach who got them up for the big occasion.

Hopefully that is George Bridge’s last test. Ben Blair mk2.
He was meant to be the high ball guy. If he can’t do that, what does he do?

ABs Very lucky Boks showed no interest in playing rugby. Even doing that they should have won. Those who said they were going to be easy beats are looking pretty stupid right now.

Short memory, Argentina 1 2020. Much worse and we lost that

And England WC when it really counted,
Same game plans against us and we don’t cope well.

[Machpants]

@chris said in All Blacks vs Springboks I:

Put in Smith, Whitelock and Mounga and we would have gotten a better performance.

Sure but there was still so many unforced individual errors. Would've still been there

[chimoaus]

I'm confident next week will be much better.

[Kirwan]

For all the shit Patrick got this week , he was great today. Very physical

[Chris]

@machpants said in All Blacks vs Springboks I:

@chris said in All Blacks vs Springboks I:

Put in Smith, Whitelock and Mounga and we would have gotten a better performance.

Sure but there was still so many unforced individual errors. Would've still been there

Hopefully cooler heads under pressure.

[Tim]

@chimoaus Yep. Him at 13 and Rieko at 11 would have been nice.

[Canes4life]

I think the number one thing at training this week will be accuracy.

[Chris]

NH tour could be very interesting . I

[Chris]

@canes4life said in All Blacks vs Springboks I:

I think the number one thing at training this week will be accuracy.

Under pressure.

[Kirwan]

@hooroo said in All Blacks vs Springboks I:

Bizarrely, Bridge catching the ball would have stopped this being so close. That howler was the reason for such an awful game

As soon as he made his Micheal Collins impersonations and cost the try, the Boks weren’t doing anything else.

[broughie]

@kirwan he tattooed one bok.

[gt12]

@tim said in All Blacks vs Springboks I:

@chimoaus Yep. Him at 13 and Rieko at 11 would have been nice.

With the performance of Havili tonight, we might need ALB at 12.

[antipodean]

@chimoaus said in All Blacks vs Springboks I:

@kirwan said in All Blacks vs Springboks I:

@nta said in All Blacks vs Springboks I:

Why can't you guys play that shit against us?

Boks always lift for us. This has happened before.

Do you think it was the Boks pressure or were we just really shit?

That was mainly us. The Boks have been poor all year and the Argies played like them. We put them to bed.

For all the ref was mystifying, it wasn't him dropping passes or being absent at breakdowns. That's on us.

[Kirwan]

When Ritchie comes back, I’d be tempted to keep Jordie kicking. Has a longer kick and takes pressure of RM.

[Tim]

@kirwan Yep, very physical when he came on against our most physical opponents.