All Blacks v Ireland, 2021 NH Tour

[Tim]

51 minutes, pathetic tackle attempt by from Taylor. He isn't great physically, is he. 3rd best hooker in NZ shouldn't be starting tests.

[pakman]

@sparky said in All Blacks v Ireland, 2021 NH Tour:

@duluth Havili shoved out of the way off the ball before the Dorris try. Created the gap. Try shouldn't have stood.

Do you mean Bladder who was cleaned out well past the ruck?

[Tim]

@kev said in All Blacks v Ireland, 2021 NH Tour:

But we do lack running prop options

We really don't get much out of Moody and Laulala, and we aren't generating scrum penalties either.

[akan004]

@tim said in All Blacks v Ireland, 2021 NH Tour:

43 minutes and Irish hooker goes through tackle of Blackadder to score. Passive defense again. Can't play guys like him at 6 against big packs. Ineffective.

Yeah, I am struggling to see why so many people rate him so highly.

[Tim]

@akan004 Plays like a seven so his name gets mentioned a lot by the commentators. He was the new thing, so was talked up by the media. Otherwise, no idea!

[Tim]

Finally. ABs get a little bit of go forward ball from the lineout, allows Savea to hit it up and make progress, then quick ball with space out wide.

[Tim]

Then the little forward pass with the try begging. So frustrating.

[Tim]

Should've taken the scrum at 68 minutes. Needed to try to get a try in a rare visit to the 22. Didn't back themselves when they were looking good.

[Tim]

Man, those exits. Like watching a bad Blues or Auckland team.

[Tim]

Havili won't be missed. A lot of mistakes in this game.

[taniwharugby]

@tim he has been wildly inconsistent this season, some great stuff then looks out of his depth.

Samisoni should get bench spot or start next week, probably the find (if you can call him that) of the season.

[Tim]

@taniwharugby said in All Blacks v Ireland, 2021 NH Tour:

@tim he has been wildly inconsistent this season, some great stuff then looks out of his depth.

Samisoni should get bench spot or start next week, probably the find (if you can call him that) of the season.

Yeah, he plays a genuinely good game about one in three starts. It's been the same for about three or four years now. Not up to it.

[Rancid Schnitzel]

Still want Foster? Ireland were immense but what a fucking debacle. Clueless and shit.

And btw it doesn't freaking matter who we have at 10. With these clowns and tactics its lateral bullshit regardless.

[bobily2]

Easy to say after the fact (and someone might've already), but I really felt Taukei'aho should have been involved in some capacity. His ball-running and accurate lineout throwing would've been useful in a tight gam e like this.

Restarts have been shoddy at times this year, lineouts have been bad. Our scrum isn't dominant as it once was (to be fair, I don't think Franks was ever that dominant - not like Hayman). And our basic skills seem to fall apart under pressure - not an easy fix!

[nzzp]

@bobily2 said in All Blacks v Ireland, 2021 NH Tour:

Easy to say after the fact (and someone might've already), but I really felt Taukei'aho should have been involved in some capacity. His ball-running and accurate lineout throwing would've been useful in a tight gam e like this.

a fair few said that before the game.

Hooker suddenly has some depth; lock not so much. At 12, the cupboard is just bare.

[taniwharugby]

@rancid-schnitzel said in All Blacks v Ireland, 2021 NH Tour:

Still want Foster? Ireland were immense but what a fucking debacle. Clueless and shit.

That ship has sailed, he is there through to 2023 RWC.

@Tim just reading some of the stats, 50 tackles by our starting loosies, 42 by Blackadder and Dalton.

[Tim]

Retallick shouldn't have come straight back into the ABs. He should have demonstrated he still had it in the NPC. Buggered off for two years then handed a jersey on little basis. Has been weak this year.

[Duluth]

@taniwharugby said in All Blacks v Ireland, 2021 NH Tour:

@Tim just reading some of the stats, 50 tackles by our starting loosies, 42 by Blackadder and Dalton.

Unfortunately the Irish dominated the contact area. Momentum wasn’t stopped and the ball wasn’t slowed down. They made easy metres through the tackle & clean out and the resulting quick ball kept us on the back foot

[canefan]

Jesus that ref loved the sound of his own voice didn't he?

[bobily2]

@duluth said in All Blacks v Ireland, 2021 NH Tour:

@taniwharugby said in All Blacks v Ireland, 2021 NH Tour:

@Tim just reading some of the stats, 50 tackles by our starting loosies, 42 by Blackadder and Dalton.

Unfortunately the Irish dominated the contact area. Momentum wasn’t stopped and the ball wasn’t slowed down. They made easy metres through the tackle & clean out and the resulting quick ball kept us on the back foot

Yup. Static defense (except for TJ) from us didn't help, either. And if it wasn't static we were giving away penalties