All Blacks vs Springboks I
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We can agree to disagree. If one side wants to play slow rugby and is willing to have continuous injury stoppages, there's not much the ref can really do about it. Questioning his fitness is a little bit silly IMO.
A good way to speed up the game is to avoid stoppages and set pieces. Unfortunately for the ABs they decided to drop the ball a thousand times, which isn't the smartest tactic if you want to play fast.
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@barbarian said in All Blacks vs Springboks I:
We can agree to disagree. If one side wants to play slow rugby and is willing to have continuous injury stoppages, there's not much the ref can really do about it. Questioning his fitness is a little bit silly IMO.
A good way to speed up the game is to avoid stoppages and set pieces. Unfortunately for the ABs they decided to drop the ball a thousand times, which isn't the smartest tactic if you want to play fast.
I agree with most of that, but not the injury part. Play on, like it is in game. We don’t stop for someone going down when balls in play - stoppage should be the same. The ref called them to get a move on several times, but never enforced it. He can, like a slow put in to the scrum, turn things over with a free kick then penalty next time.
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@barbarian said in All Blacks vs Springboks I:
We can agree to disagree. If one side wants to play slow rugby and is willing to have continuous injury stoppages, there's not much the ref can really do about it. Questioning his fitness is a little bit silly IMO.
A good way to speed up the game is to avoid stoppages and set pieces. Unfortunately for the ABs they decided to drop the ball a thousand times, which isn't the smartest tactic if you want to play fast.
Don't disagree with that at all. We didn't help ourselves.
You may have misunderstood the 'fitness' comment though, it was deliberately silly. The ref used a style that favoured one side. His reasons could only be that he didn't want to (or couldn't) adjust that style to a team that wanted to take taps etc when they had earned the right OR that he was unfit. As he obviously shouldn't be unfit then the former is the answer and not high quality reffing. On a number of occasions he either walked slowly to make the mark or even walked away from it when we obviously wanted to go quickly.
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Two stand out player observations from Saturday night.
George Bridge. Can't beat a man, can't find a gap. Generally safe and has some wheels but that's simply not enough and I wouldn't play him in any significant tests any longer. Between Jordan, Reece, Ennor and Ioane we don't need to use him.
Akira Ioane. I was glowing in my praise for his efforts this year but tempered that with waiting to see how he'd go against SA. My, how he disappointed. Actually, he fucking shit the bed and Mommy has to throw out his sheets and make a brand new bed and hope he learns from it and proves himself in the next test vs SA. If he sharts or even so much as does a little tinkle in the bed this weekend then he too can go and play against the US and Italy with Bridge and stay the fuck away from the games against the big boys.
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@shark seriously, George Bridge showed wheels in that game? I honestly just don't recall seeing that. Agree with the rest, Akira didn't have a great game but 2/3 of the loosies didn't...
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@nostrildamus said in All Blacks vs Springboks I:
@shark seriously, George Bridge showed wheels in that game? I honestly just don't recall seeing that. Agree with the rest, Akira didn't have a great game but 2/3 of the loosies didn't...
No, but he has wheels.
Akira didn't have a great game? Ok, I'll give you that, if anonymity interspersed with handling clangers is simply not a great game.
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@shark said in All Blacks vs Springboks I:
Akira Ioane. I was glowing in my praise for his efforts this year but tempered that with waiting to see how he'd go against SA. My, how he disappointed. Actually, he fucking shit the bed and Mommy has to throw out his sheets and make a brand new bed and hope he learns from it and proves himself in the next test vs SA. If he sharts or even so much as does a little tinkle in the bed this weekend then he too can go and play against the US and Italy with Bridge and stay the fuck away from the games against the big boys.
Yikes
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How would you prove it anyway? That's impossible.
Of course we know faking injuries feeds into the Bok game plan of slowing the game down. In fact, faking an injury give them a LONGER breather than simply walking to a lineout.
What would be interesting is for someone to count how many times the Boks go down in games but the "injured" player then continues playing vs how many times this happens for other teams. Perhaps this was just a one-off, but I doubt it.Exactly, it is impossible to prove. But the fact that it "feeds into our plan" doesn't make it so either. I just think this general line is being overcooked a bit. It started with the Lions tour (where the Bok boring rugby narrative also took hold) and now seems to be something for everyone to bitch about every week. Agree one would need some stats on it to get a real view....I also think the Boks are too negative on tempo and they need to up it. The slow walk everywhere and trudging to the line outs is just too defensive. Get some fucking spring in your step man!
The Boks probably can't stay with us in a speed game. So it is logical that they would try everything to slow and shorten the game. I blame the ref for letting them do it. He was shockingly bad
The ref was fine. Your pommie or Irish origins are shining thru there.
I don't blame the ref for letting them do it. He doesn't have the tools to stop them with regard to injury feigning.. I do blame him for not allowing the ABs the ability to play their preferred way when they have won the right though.
As mentioned earlier he didn't allow quick taps, didn't enforce the 'hurry up' messaging, walked to the mark after an advantage....
He was very quick to try and stamp his authority on other aspects of the play eg no warning for closing space while a lineout was being set up. Pinging Moody for repositioning his feet for stability. Why couldn't he stamp his mark for delaying tactics at the set piece.
The AB leaders need to more onto it as well. Keep showing that you want to play quickly by being ready at lineouts, make sure you are last to stand up at scrum setups, take taps then when called back make the point that the ref needs to be quicker.....Because the ref wanted the breather too! Anyway surely he can just whistle time on and play on? Used to happen fairly often in club games, is it different at 1st class?
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@shark said in All Blacks vs Springboks I:
@nostrildamus said in All Blacks vs Springboks I:
@shark seriously, George Bridge showed wheels in that game? I honestly just don't recall seeing that. Agree with the rest, Akira didn't have a great game but 2/3 of the loosies didn't...
No, but he has wheels.
Akira didn't have a great game? Ok, I'll give you that, if anonymity interspersed with handling clangers is simply not a great game.
I love how you twist and insert words mate. I'd said in an earlier post of two botched catches, one may have been more difficult than it looked but the other was inexcusable. But he actually did have dominant tackles in that game if you bothered looking..
Edit: Bridge may have wheels, but they'd be training ones. The only time he has shown a clean pair of heels is when he goes straight down in contact. This year. Possibly still injured. But wheels? I guess as far as the Boks are concerned, sure. Meals on Wheels.
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@kiwimurph said in All Blacks vs Springboks I:
Might have been his best game in black. He did everything that was asked of him and more, without the brain farts that have plagued him in the past
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@kiwimurph this is brill, thanks, I was just wondering what % of their kicks were successful, probably best though not to look at the % for Bridge...
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@nostrildamus said in All Blacks vs Springboks I:
@shark said in All Blacks vs Springboks I:
@nostrildamus said in All Blacks vs Springboks I:
@shark seriously, George Bridge showed wheels in that game? I honestly just don't recall seeing that. Agree with the rest, Akira didn't have a great game but 2/3 of the loosies didn't...
No, but he has wheels.
Akira didn't have a great game? Ok, I'll give you that, if anonymity interspersed with handling clangers is simply not a great game.
I love how you twist and insert words mate. I'd said in an earlier post of two botched catches, one may have been more difficult than it looked but the other was inexcusable. But he actually did have dominant tackles in that game if you bothered looking..
Edit: Bridge may have wheels, but they'd be training ones. The only time he has shown a clean pair of heels is when he goes straight down in contact. This year. Possibly still injured. But wheels? I guess as far as the Boks are concerned, sure. Meals on Wheels.
What did I twist, or insert? Did I mis-quote you or something? You might need to explain what you're insinuating here, because I've only made my own observations. Making up shit like that only serves to distract from the debate.
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@majorrage said in All Blacks vs Springboks I:
@shark get a grip. Two posts on diff threads of excessive hyperbole on our so far POTY after a poor match.
Wow, seven likes from the Akira Ioane brigade.
For the record, I'm hopeful he can make up for that effort this weekend. If he does, he has that 6 jumper for life. If not, I will wait with bated breath to see how many of you are willing to accept he might not be up to it.
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@shark said in All Blacks vs Springboks I:
@majorrage said in All Blacks vs Springboks I:
@shark get a grip. Two posts on diff threads of excessive hyperbole on our so far POTY after a poor match.
Wow, seven likes from the Akira Ioane brigade.
For the record, I'm hopeful he can make up for that effort this weekend. If he does, he has that 6 jumper for life. If not, I will wait with bated breath to see how many of you are willing to accept he might not be up to it.
While I don't think Saturday Nights game will decide either way if he is the future, after last weeks performance there were a lot of people saying that the bully was put in his place and was made to sit in the corner.
Maybe he will always be prefaced with 'Flat track....'
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@shark said in All Blacks vs Springboks I:
@majorrage said in All Blacks vs Springboks I:
@shark get a grip. Two posts on diff threads of excessive hyperbole on our so far POTY after a poor match.
Wow, seven likes from the Akira Ioane brigade.
For the record, I'm hopeful he can make up for that effort this weekend. If he does, he has that 6 jumper for life. If not, I will wait with bated breath to see how many of you are willing to accept he might not be up to it.
Cool. I'm in the 'Brigade'. Do we get badges?
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@hooroo I think there were always comments at Super that he used to go missing against the better teams (Crusaders) but he was better this year.
TBF I think the occasion possibly got the better of a number of players, the history, first time facing our old foe, thier tactics.
I expect several players performances will ratchet up this weekend after a 'disappointing' win.
