All Blacks v Ireland - 2nd Test
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@gt12 said in All Blacks v Ireland - 2nd Test:
Can we stop picking non specialists now?
Pick a goddamn six who is also a proper line out target. Develop Paps to be the next 7.
Weird take. Our lineout was good tonight, better than Ireland's. It's a waste of a player to have one 6 to take lineout ball. There is a lot more we need from that position.
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@Bovidae said in All Blacks v Ireland - 2nd Test:
Big questions will be asked about the decisions of who to sub for the YC and RC. Between the coaches and manager they fucked that up.
Plenty of other concerns but why was Ofa not replaced? He was a passenger when on the field.
If Ofa was replaced, we would have to go down to 13.
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@nzzp they both played well below their best and were fair to poor.
Midfield wasn’t great.
Fainga’anuku would’ve learned some lessons.
Jordie okay, Reece defensively good.
Not Sam Cane’s greatest game.
Brodie what’s up with the hungus??? Scott Barrett some good, some errors but no dumb cardable stuff.
Bower toiled. Both of our hookers were below par. Ofa is good for 30-40 minutes max. He was poor.
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@chimoaus said in All Blacks v Ireland - 2nd Test:
@Kirwan said in All Blacks v Ireland - 2nd Test:
@MN5 said in All Blacks v Ireland - 2nd Test:
The Irish defence is rather good
Or is our attack really bad?
Considering BB try was a fluke then yes.
Take away his flukey stuff and you take away his game.
Then again I don't remember him gifted an intercept before and not being able to run at least 20 metres with it. -
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@Kirwan said in All Blacks v Ireland - 2nd Test:
@Canerbry said in All Blacks v Ireland - 2nd Test:
Richie woulda kicked that
He has pretty average tonight too.
Richie was pretty good when he came on. Trouble is we were playing catch-up rugby with 14 men. He wasn’t dropping his passes and getting the ball thrown behind him.
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@nostrildamus said in All Blacks v Ireland - 2nd Test:
@chimoaus said in All Blacks v Ireland - 2nd Test:
@Kirwan said in All Blacks v Ireland - 2nd Test:
@MN5 said in All Blacks v Ireland - 2nd Test:
The Irish defence is rather good
Or is our attack really bad?
Considering BB try was a fluke then yes.
Take away his flukey stuff and you take away his game.
Then again I don't remember him gifted an intercept before and not being able to run at least 20 metres with it.When it's a penalty advantage to the opposition? Sounds like a massive waste of energy
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@canefan said in All Blacks v Ireland - 2nd Test:
@booboo said in All Blacks v Ireland - 2nd Test:
@KiwiMurph said in All Blacks v Ireland - 2nd Test:
Cane is used to losing speeches
Taine Randell anyone?
Give Cane time....
We have no time !! just not AB captain material IMHO !!
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@KiwiMurph said in All Blacks v Ireland - 2nd Test:
Cane is used to losing speeches
Then I'd expect better ones. The interview in particular lacked any modicum of insight.
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Ireland should have scored a lot more points given how they dominated us.
We need to learn how to exit properly, have an accurate kicking game, reduce errors. Pretty much a completely different gameplan to whatever you call the shit we put out tonight.
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@Damo said in All Blacks v Ireland - 2nd Test:
Ireland would have to be the least likeable international team. What a bunch of whining plums.
As for the game, we are right in this. Ireland don't seem to be able to score and will be deflated by the last 15 minutes.
Oh I don't know about that.
