Springboks v All Blacks I
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@Kruse said in Springboks v All Blacks I:
@Victor-Meldrew said in Springboks v All Blacks I:
You almost think they'd do better if they said "Fuck it, let's just go out there and have some fun - we might not win, but at least we'd be enjoying ourselves a bit"
B.Barrett in particular - whenever he has a blinder, it looks like he's just having a bit of a laugh with his mates and a rugby ball.
I don't know in which direction the Cause-Effect relationship is... but I've thought for a while that yeah... "give some basic strategy, but don't overfill their stupid little rugby-player heads - then pat them on the arse and let them go out on the field and have some fun" might be a decent coaching approach for some (not necessarily all) players.We hear they are a pretty together bunch off the field, but there seems a lot of tension and stress in the team on the field which is translating to their play. I noted Ardie being given a talking to by the Ref for back-chat - can't remember the last time I say that with a snr AB.
It's like riding the Honda on a gravel road. If you concentrate on not falling off you tense up, you will.
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@African-Monkey said in Springboks v All Blacks I:
@Canes4life God he wasn't that bad lol. I thought the loose trio worked hard out there on defence and it wasn't the reason why we lost either. You clearly have an agenda against the guy. Its the coaching thats the problem.
I actually see a bit of light at the end of the tunnel once we get new coaches in. We're simply not direct enough and are still playing our outdated gameplan which went out of fashion in 2017 of Smith giving it to Havili/Savea in the midfield to set up first phase, Smith then going back down the blindside to the next pod hoping to create a mismatch which we haven't actually seen created from this in a while which leads to our second phase, and from that phase, Smith then goes short to the next pod to go round the back to either the blindside winger/Jordie Barrett who receives it at 10 to try and create extra numbers out wide which again, looked the part about 7 years ago, but rush defences from about 2017 have figured a way to counter it and yet we still persist with it. Its ok to still use that play every now and again, but we aren't creating any mismatches out wide, we just use it as a default play and it gets used religiously both here at test level and at SR too. It looks great doing it at an inferior level like SR, but at the big boys level, international sides adapt quickly, they're not stupid, and this play has also become a problem because our forwards have almost been trained so much to move the ball once receiving it to the point that they have forgotten how to carry the ball into contact.
We seriously need to get our forwards carrying closer to the ruck as we certainly have players in there who can carry, but we don't do it. We have a more than capable halfback who is not being allowed to give our forwards a license to do it as well. Smith needs to do a lot more to get our backs some better ball and it needs to start by getting guys like Barrett, Akira, Ardie, Taukeiaho etc. running off him, and forcing guys like Marx to tackle a bit more, instead of him just scanning around David Pocock style. Its as if these coaches have no trust in our forwards to string phases together to grind us up field as we don't seem to like going more than 2 phases before going wide no matter what the situation is. Simply put, we need to earn the right to go wide which we seem hellbent on not doing, and everyone is being affected by it.
I think we do have the players at our disposal, obviously with a few that need to be moved on and quickly, and results will be positive, but the tactics are outdated and a new coaching team is needed asap which we all pretty much know.
Great post mate, agree completely. I'd actually go as far to say that ball in hand we have one of the better AB packs - ST (who is a very special player), SB, Akira, and Ardie are all very effective close in to the ruck, they all make good yardage the majority of the time and we could really build a game plan around that ability. But we just don't use it at all, which is probably the most frustrating thing about this whole mess.
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@Victor-Meldrew said in Springboks v All Blacks I:
@Kruse said in Springboks v All Blacks I:
@Victor-Meldrew said in Springboks v All Blacks I:
You almost think they'd do better if they said "Fuck it, let's just go out there and have some fun - we might not win, but at least we'd be enjoying ourselves a bit"
B.Barrett in particular - whenever he has a blinder, it looks like he's just having a bit of a laugh with his mates and a rugby ball.
I don't know in which direction the Cause-Effect relationship is... but I've thought for a while that yeah... "give some basic strategy, but don't overfill their stupid little rugby-player heads - then pat them on the arse and let them go out on the field and have some fun" might be a decent coaching approach for some (not necessarily all) players.We hear they are a pretty together bunch off the field, but there seems a lot of tension and stress in the team on the field which is translating to their play. I noted Ardie being given a talking to by the Ref for back-chat - can't remember the last time I say that with a snr AB.
It's like riding the Honda on a gravel road. If you concentrate on not falling off you tense up, you will.
Yeah.... I wonder - Having somebody like Frizell in the team can't help...
I can't help but think that either he's provided some very convincing context to his story that the coaches/players believe, OR... the coaches don't care, think they something in him (that we don't)... and in that case... I can't see many of the players feeling cool about having a guy like that there.
Sevu Reece - reading between the lines of the court hearing, circumstances, etc - I can understand. Frizell... not so much.In any case - yeah... they just don't seem like a "together" team. Almost like a collection of professionals, but not a "team".
And with that - I nearly threw up a little in my mouth - as it's that sort of bullshit talk that I despise in MY job, but....Edit: oh. and yeah it's not just Hondas... I did an offroad riding course on a purpose-built BMW... and every time I tensed up on green-lanes, river-crossings, etc - next thing I knew... I was on the ground, with the bike either on its side, or - in one case - upside-down.
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@No-Quarter said in Springboks v All Blacks I:
@African-Monkey said in Springboks v All Blacks I:
@Canes4life God he wasn't that bad lol. I thought the loose trio worked hard out there on defence and it wasn't the reason why we lost either. You clearly have an agenda against the guy. Its the coaching thats the problem.
I actually see a bit of light at the end of the tunnel once we get new coaches in. We're simply not direct enough and are still playing our outdated gameplan which went out of fashion in 2017 of Smith giving it to Havili/Savea in the midfield to set up first phase, Smith then going back down the blindside to the next pod hoping to create a mismatch which we haven't actually seen created from this in a while which leads to our second phase, and from that phase, Smith then goes short to the next pod to go round the back to either the blindside winger/Jordie Barrett who receives it at 10 to try and create extra numbers out wide which again, looked the part about 7 years ago, but rush defences from about 2017 have figured a way to counter it and yet we still persist with it. Its ok to still use that play every now and again, but we aren't creating any mismatches out wide, we just use it as a default play and it gets used religiously both here at test level and at SR too. It looks great doing it at an inferior level like SR, but at the big boys level, international sides adapt quickly, they're not stupid, and this play has also become a problem because our forwards have almost been trained so much to move the ball once receiving it to the point that they have forgotten how to carry the ball into contact.
We seriously need to get our forwards carrying closer to the ruck as we certainly have players in there who can carry, but we don't do it. We have a more than capable halfback who is not being allowed to give our forwards a license to do it as well. Smith needs to do a lot more to get our backs some better ball and it needs to start by getting guys like Barrett, Akira, Ardie, Taukeiaho etc. running off him, and forcing guys like Marx to tackle a bit more, instead of him just scanning around David Pocock style. Its as if these coaches have no trust in our forwards to string phases together to grind us up field as we don't seem to like going more than 2 phases before going wide no matter what the situation is. Simply put, we need to earn the right to go wide which we seem hellbent on not doing, and everyone is being affected by it.
I think we do have the players at our disposal, obviously with a few that need to be moved on and quickly, and results will be positive, but the tactics are outdated and a new coaching team is needed asap which we all pretty much know.
Great post mate, agree completely. I'd actually go as far to say that ball in hand we have one of the better AB packs - ST (who is a very special player), SB, Akira, and Ardie are all very effective close in to the ruck, they all make good yardage the majority of the time and we could really build a game plan around that ability. But we just don't use it at all, which is probably the most frustrating thing about this whole mess.
I team toured NZ not 3 fucking weeks ago with an attacking pattern that would make ST SB AI AS and our outside backs look like all time greats.
But we stick wedded to this players across the whole width of the field stand shallow shit
Today there was more hands and guys put the back like 7s but they were minor and pretty rubbish tweaks to a substandard plan.
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@JC said in Springboks v All Blacks I:
What exactly did Ardie say to Gardiner that wound him up so much?
Edit, talking about when BB had just been poleaxed
My guess would be something like
'Did you fucking see that Angus?'
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@MiketheSnow said in Springboks v All Blacks I:
@JC said in Springboks v All Blacks I:
What exactly did Ardie say to Gardiner that wound him up so much?
Edit, talking about when BB had just been poleaxed
My guess would be something like
'Did you fucking see that Angus?'
I was thinking "Can I see that gold watch, Angie?"
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have to think that is a min of 3 weeks off for the winger?
Expect BB likely to miss next week, even if just precautionary.
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@taniwharugby said in Springboks v All Blacks I:
have to think that is a min of 3 weeks off for the winger?
Expect BB likely to miss next week, even if just precautionary.
Fuck him off for 5. It won't hurt us
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@mariner4life I dont have any issues dropping him, but we know Fozzie is reading a different book...one with big pictures of Frizzell
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@taniwharugby said in Springboks v All Blacks I:
@mariner4life I dont have any issues dropping him, but we know Fozzie is reading a different book...one with big pictures of Frizzell
That fluffybunny did fucking nothing except get that try. Work all done by Clarke and whoever cleaned the ruck.
Just an awful selection.
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@stodders said in Springboks v All Blacks I:
@kev said in Springboks v All Blacks I:
@stodders you have to win the contact.
I thought ABs did that at times. Problem was, ABs committed too many men to breakdown, so after 2 or 3 phases they were running out of players and Boks were picking them off.
ABs body angles at clearout aren't good enough to clear bodies, so it is taking an extra man to effect it. It doesn't help that refs are allowing players to slow ball down whilst clearly not supporting their bodyweight, but hey, c'est la vie.
What seems to be issue is that oppo tacklers good at impeding ball placement. Then second man patient and gets the latch. Our cleaners aren’t taking him out.
Noticed Ardie several times looking to do same, but all but once Boks body smashed into him, in some cases arguably before he’d joined the ruck.
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@ACT-Crusader said in Springboks v All Blacks I:
@MrDenmore said in Springboks v All Blacks I:
Yet none of the Springboks’ tactics was surprising. It’s how they beat us last year after all. But we still have no effective response, no ideas, no confidence and absolutely no future under this coaching regime.
They beat us last year with a last minute penalty and kick at the death. We had better attack last year to put pressure on the Boks. This year we couldn’t put any scoreboard pressure on them allowing them to just settle into their game.
The striking thing is that the main changes in backs from 100th win, were Nugget in and Clarke for Bridge! And Boks backs almost identical.
10-12-13 same for both sides as that game. What has gone wrong in that 11 months? Has Bok defence got a lot better, or have our guys just lost the plot?
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@No-Quarter Excellent post. I’ll be watching next week, because things can only get better.
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@pakman said in Springboks v All Blacks I:
@ACT-Crusader said in Springboks v All Blacks I:
@MrDenmore said in Springboks v All Blacks I:
Yet none of the Springboks’ tactics was surprising. It’s how they beat us last year after all. But we still have no effective response, no ideas, no confidence and absolutely no future under this coaching regime.
They beat us last year with a last minute penalty and kick at the death. We had better attack last year to put pressure on the Boks. This year we couldn’t put any scoreboard pressure on them allowing them to just settle into their game.
The striking thing is that the main changes in backs from 100th win, were Nugget in and Clarke for Bridge! And Boks backs almost identical.
10-12-13 same for both sides as that game. What has gone wrong in that 11 months? Has Bok defence got a lot better, or have our guys just lost the plot?
I think you answered your own question. We no longer have Bridge.
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@stodders said in Springboks v All Blacks I:
'As a halfback, it is pretty noticeable': Aaron Smith on All Blacks' breakdown issues
The breakdown was an area that plagued the All Blacks at home against Ireland at times and has been a key work-on for Ian Foster's team.
So who are the dodgy cleaners, the props? Think Scooter and Big Sam are fine. Advantage of former at 6 was we got some cleaning there.
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@pakman said in Springboks v All Blacks I:
@No-Quarter Excellent post. I’ll be watching next week, because things can only get better.
Yeah, I probably will too, getting up with my boy is something I really enjoy doing as I used to do it with my old man. But far out it is tough viewing at the moment.
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@game_film maybe get him in as a high ball consultant...
