O Captain! My Captain!
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@antipodean said in O Captain! My Captain!:
@stodders what do the other camera angles show?
Either they'll show his forearm magically elongating 50 cm and not in line with his upper arm like this one, or they'll show that some cheeky Saffa fan has been mucking around with the video editing software again
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@stodders said in O Captain! My Captain!:
@MiketheSnow said in O Captain! My Captain!:
@mariner4life said in O Captain! My Captain!:
AWJ has been an ordinary lock for probably 6 years but a good captain
Discuss
Comedy Gold
But I'll play
Better than ordinary lock, exceptional captain
What's interesting (to me at least) and which is working for Wales (except when shit referees YC him for nothing whatsoever) is starting with fitter and now better locks and bringing AWJ on at the business end of the match when clear heads and game management is needed.
Are you referring to this when you say "nothing whatsoever"?
Either Sir AWJ has the Force running through his body and can move the ball without touching it, or he got caught being a cheating fluffybunny 😉
We’ll just ignore the two prone Boks sealing off shall we?
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Not a great deal.
AWJ wouldn't have had to grow an extra arm though. Can't see through Liam William's leg
I'd like to know if AWJ frequents grassy knolls 🤣
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@MiketheSnow said in O Captain! My Captain!:
@stodders said in O Captain! My Captain!:
@MiketheSnow said in O Captain! My Captain!:
@mariner4life said in O Captain! My Captain!:
AWJ has been an ordinary lock for probably 6 years but a good captain
Discuss
Comedy Gold
But I'll play
Better than ordinary lock, exceptional captain
What's interesting (to me at least) and which is working for Wales (except when shit referees YC him for nothing whatsoever) is starting with fitter and now better locks and bringing AWJ on at the business end of the match when clear heads and game management is needed.
Are you referring to this when you say "nothing whatsoever"?
Either Sir AWJ has the Force running through his body and can move the ball without touching it, or he got caught being a cheating fluffybunny 😉
We’ll just ignore the two prone Boks sealing off shall we?
On that you would have a point. As has been discussed, the Boks like to flop.
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@Darth-Sader said in O Captain! My Captain!:
I have a lot of respect for Same Cane, but Peter O’Mahoney wasn’t wrong.
Peter O’Mahony’s dig was not specific to Cane though was it ? We are all just shit compared to Richie McCaw
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@MiketheSnow said in O Captain! My Captain!:
The hardest fluffybunny in the team
What do you mean by hardest fluffybunny? There wouldn't be many, if any, in the team harder than Cane.
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@MiketheSnow said in O Captain! My Captain!:
@stodders said in O Captain! My Captain!:
@MiketheSnow said in O Captain! My Captain!:
@mariner4life said in O Captain! My Captain!:
AWJ has been an ordinary lock for probably 6 years but a good captain
Discuss
Comedy Gold
But I'll play
Better than ordinary lock, exceptional captain
What's interesting (to me at least) and which is working for Wales (except when shit referees YC him for nothing whatsoever) is starting with fitter and now better locks and bringing AWJ on at the business end of the match when clear heads and game management is needed.
Are you referring to this when you say "nothing whatsoever"?
Either Sir AWJ has the Force running through his body and can move the ball without touching it, or he got caught being a cheating fluffybunny 😉
We’ll just ignore the two prone Boks sealing off shall we?
Oh the persecution!
But yeah why not, if ABs are supposed to, then surely others can follow suit?
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@Bones said in O Captain! My Captain!:
@MiketheSnow said in O Captain! My Captain!:
@stodders said in O Captain! My Captain!:
@MiketheSnow said in O Captain! My Captain!:
@mariner4life said in O Captain! My Captain!:
AWJ has been an ordinary lock for probably 6 years but a good captain
Discuss
Comedy Gold
But I'll play
Better than ordinary lock, exceptional captain
What's interesting (to me at least) and which is working for Wales (except when shit referees YC him for nothing whatsoever) is starting with fitter and now better locks and bringing AWJ on at the business end of the match when clear heads and game management is needed.
Are you referring to this when you say "nothing whatsoever"?
Either Sir AWJ has the Force running through his body and can move the ball without touching it, or he got caught being a cheating fluffybunny 😉
We’ll just ignore the two prone Boks sealing off shall we?
Oh the persecution!
But yeah why not, if ABs are supposed to, then surely others can follow suit?
It’s fact
The ref was wrong
End of
Move on
That doesn’t diminish the possible tactical advantage of finishing with AWJ rather than starting with him
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@Nepia said in O Captain! My Captain!:
@MiketheSnow said in O Captain! My Captain!:
The hardest fluffybunny in the team
What do you mean by hardest fluffybunny? There wouldn't be many, if any, in the team harder than Cane.
The act first, ask questions later type of hard fluffybunny
The Judge Dredd of the team
There’s no doubting Cane’s ‘tough as teak’ physical play & dogged commitment, but as I commented in the match thread different characters with different captaincy skills would have reigned RM in on punishment of a good hiding
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@MiketheSnow be a really good idea to admonish your ten who has completely changed the effectiveness of your backline in one week and is helping provide the targets and go forward the team has been yearning for.
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@Bones said in O Captain! My Captain!:
@MiketheSnow be a really good idea to admonish your ten who has completely changed the effectiveness of your backline in one week and is helping provide the targets and go forward the team has been yearning for.
And who handed the ball to an opposition player....
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@Bones said in O Captain! My Captain!:
@MiketheSnow be a really good idea to admonish your ten who has completely changed the effectiveness of your backline in one week and is helping provide the targets and go forward the team has been yearning for.
Your forwards did that, through continued hard graft.
And there’s nothing forwards hate more than their hard graft being wasted.
RM did some great things yesterday
But he also kept the game close when NZ should have been pulling away, either by running up his own arse or shipping shit ball to DH
DH with even less time & space unsurprisingly made massive errors
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@Rancid-Schnitzel said in O Captain! My Captain!:
@Bones said in O Captain! My Captain!:
@MiketheSnow be a really good idea to admonish your ten who has completely changed the effectiveness of your backline in one week and is helping provide the targets and go forward the team has been yearning for.
And who handed the ball to an opposition player....
Yeah at least Beauden doesn't do that eh. Repeatedly. Behind the advantage line.
I hope we go with RM so that we can carry on losing, it really sucks seeing a functioning backline and players given space.
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@MiketheSnow ok Mike, what do you think should have been said to Barrett the last 4 matches?
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@Bones said in O Captain! My Captain!:
@MiketheSnow ok Mike, what do you think should have been said to Barrett the last 4 matches?
Exactly the same
And it was
He was dropped
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Cane was bloody good in first half, even if he faded a bit in second. Fully justified selection.
He combined well with Frizell, as I've previously noted.
My hunch is that the most physical teams require a while to break down. Cane and Frizell were hard hitting and no frills in first half, with great back up from locks. That allowed Ardie to seagull, from which he can provide his flair.
Cane covered lots of ground, in particular to be in position to score his try.
That said, the way the game is going, forwards need to be swapped out by 55, including one loosie. With this team selection, Cane needs to be substituted at that point, engine drained. At that stage Ardie to 7 and Akira to 8.
In theory, Ardie can take over arm band at that point, but certainly not the way ABs have traditionally worked with captaincy.
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@MiketheSnow said in O Captain! My Captain!:
@Bones said in O Captain! My Captain!:
@MiketheSnow ok Mike, what do you think should have been said to Barrett the last 4 matches?
Exactly the same
And it was
He was dropped
After 3 losses....I spy something different 😉
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@MiketheSnow said in O Captain! My Captain!:
@Bones said in O Captain! My Captain!:
@MiketheSnow said in O Captain! My Captain!:
@stodders said in O Captain! My Captain!:
@MiketheSnow said in O Captain! My Captain!:
@mariner4life said in O Captain! My Captain!:
AWJ has been an ordinary lock for probably 6 years but a good captain
Discuss
Comedy Gold
But I'll play
Better than ordinary lock, exceptional captain
What's interesting (to me at least) and which is working for Wales (except when shit referees YC him for nothing whatsoever) is starting with fitter and now better locks and bringing AWJ on at the business end of the match when clear heads and game management is needed.
Are you referring to this when you say "nothing whatsoever"?
Either Sir AWJ has the Force running through his body and can move the ball without touching it, or he got caught being a cheating fluffybunny 😉
We’ll just ignore the two prone Boks sealing off shall we?
Oh the persecution!
But yeah why not, if ABs are supposed to, then surely others can follow suit?
It’s fact
The ref was wrong
End of
Move on
That doesn’t diminish the possible tactical advantage of finishing with AWJ rather than starting with him
England 2007 called and want their game plan back
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@MiketheSnow said in O Captain! My Captain!:
@Nepia said in O Captain! My Captain!:
@MiketheSnow said in O Captain! My Captain!:
The hardest fluffybunny in the team
What do you mean by hardest fluffybunny? There wouldn't be many, if any, in the team harder than Cane.
The act first, ask questions later type of hard fluffybunny
The Judge Dredd of the team
There’s no doubting Cane’s ‘tough as teak’ physical play & dogged commitment, but as I commented in the match thread different characters with different captaincy skills would have reigned RM in on punishment of a good hiding
We just don’t have those characters in the team anymore - they all like each other too much and want to be liked as well. The only one who could come close to the guy who gives everyone a spray would be Whitelock, but even then he’s probably not free enough from sin to be dishing out steely eyed glances to his teammates when they fuck up
