All Blacks v Pumas 1
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@MiketheSnow said in All Blacks v Pumas 1:
@NTA said in All Blacks v Pumas 1:
@ACT-Crusader said in All Blacks v Pumas 1:
A nice side step run beating numerous players from the sideline bench to the middle of the park where the ball didn’t come near him.
Difficult when the ball can't even leave the lineout.
I think @antipodean commented above about Jordan not beating a single defender - TBH it would help if the inside ball did enough work to create space. Tonight the Argies were reading the attack well because it is basic as shit, 2nd-man dropoff pass stuff.
Test rugby has lately a dearth of creative set piece play due in part to improved defences. I think it is time some smart rugby people figured out how to bring it back.
Watch the Australia match
I have. We are largely the same but add a few angles. That try to McReight was great tho - excellent use of variation and putting the ball into space in front of the man, rather than at the man was lovely.
The first try was just pace that the Boks couldn't handle.
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Y'know what pisses me off about this game? We were the better team throughout.
It was like one one those soccer games where the inferior team just kept in touch and snuck a breakout goal then did just enough to stay in front.
Same here. We were the better team but couldn't land the killer blow.
We just kept leaving the door open for them.
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@Tim said in All Blacks v Pumas 1:
Sam Cane gets by from being a nice guy from the middle of nowhere. He is an absolutely terrible rugby player. He should get the fuck out of the All Blacks.
I really like him. I think it was circa 2016 he put on the most dominant tackling display I've ever seen against Wales in Cardiff. It was frightening.
But those days are long gone and he is yesterdays man.
He should have been picked for the RWC semi final but Hansen Guardiola'd himself by trying something mental in a knockout game.
The talk about succession planning is a farce when Hansens assistant gets the head coach role and then gives the same bloke that was dropped for the semi the captains armband.
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@Steve said in All Blacks v Pumas 1:
@Tim said in All Blacks v Pumas 1:
Sam Cane gets by from being a nice guy from the middle of nowhere. He is an absolutely terrible rugby player. He should get the fuck out of the All Blacks.
I really like him. I think it was circa 2016 he put on the most dominant tackling display I've ever seen against Wales in Cardiff. It was frightening.
But those days are long gone and he is yesterdays man.
He should have been picked for the RWC semi final but Hansen Guardiola'd himself by trying something mental in a knockout game.
The talk about succession planning is a farce when Hansens assistant gets the head coach role and then gives the same bloke that was dropped for the semi the captains armband.
Somebody made a highlight reel of those tackles and it was stunning viewing. I really want to find it again. it was on planet rugby.
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@booboo said in All Blacks v Pumas 1:
Y'know what pisses me off about this game? We were the better team throughout.
It was like one one those soccer games where the inferior team just kept in touch and snuck a breakout goal then did just enough to stay in front.
Same here. We were the better team but couldn't land the killer blow.
We just kept leaving the door open for them.
By making the same stupid mistakes, over and over and over and over
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@Tim said in All Blacks v Pumas 1:
Sam Cane gets by from being a nice guy from the middle of nowhere. He is an absolutely terrible rugby player. He should get the fuck out of the All Blacks.
Jeepers this is about your tenth post about Cane.
No more ferning for you tonight, go and have a lie down.
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@booboo said in All Blacks v Pumas 1:
Y'know what pisses me off about this game? We were the better team throughout.
It was like one one those soccer games where the inferior team just kept in touch and snuck a breakout goal then did just enough to stay in front.
Same here. We were the better team but couldn't land the killer blow.
We just keot leaving the door open for them.
It's almost like our individual players are good but the team is not working together. I wonder where the buck stops with taht?
Yup McLeod, the bus driver, and the physio. Sack the incompetent piston wristed gibbons
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@Steve said in All Blacks v Pumas 1:
@Steve said in All Blacks v Pumas 1:
@Tim said in All Blacks v Pumas 1:
Sam Cane gets by from being a nice guy from the middle of nowhere. He is an absolutely terrible rugby player. He should get the fuck out of the All Blacks.
I really like him. I think it was circa 2016 he put on the most dominant tackling display I've ever seen against Wales in Cardiff. It was frightening.
But those days are long gone and he is yesterdays man.
He should have been picked for the RWC semi final but Hansen Guardiola'd himself by trying something mental in a knockout game.
The talk about succession planning is a farce when Hansens assistant gets the head coach role and then gives the same bloke that was dropped for the semi the captains armband.
Somebody made a highlight reel of those tackles and it was stunning viewing. I really want to find it again. it was on planet rugby.
it was this game. Terminator stuff.
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@Tim said in All Blacks v Pumas 1:
@MN5 He was fucking shit!
And despite what you want, Ardie should be in his shirt and role. Then we can get a proper 8, and a 7/captain that plays the full 80, leads from the front and has been the ABs best player for years. Yes his captaincy is not the best, but neither was McCaws when he started
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@MN5 said in All Blacks v Pumas 1:
@Tim said in All Blacks v Pumas 1:
@MN5 He was fucking shit!
He was no Codie Taylor
Thank fuck there's only one
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BTW... am contemplating staying off the Fern for a few days.
I know what we're all thinking...
Will mark all as inread about Tuesday.
So not disagreeing with you, doesn't mean I agree with you ... just means I haven't read you ...
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@Steve said in All Blacks v Pumas 1:
it was this game. Terminator stuff.
And, like the last Terminator movie, several years ago. When you look at the team list, I'd suggest there is a better balance to that back row that allows Cane to get on with his job in that instance.
Team list:
1 Kane Hames
2 Codie Taylor
3 Nepo Laulala
4 Patrick Tuipulotu
5 Samuel Whitelock (Captain)
6 Liam Squire
7 Sam Cane
8 Luke Whitelock
9 Aaron Smith
10 Beauden Barrett
11 Rieko Ioane
12 Sonny Bill Williams
13 Ryan Crotty
14 Waisake Naholo
15 Damian McKenzieReplacements
16 Nathan Harris
17 Wyatt Crockett
18 Ofa Tu'ungafasi
19 Scott Barrett
20 Matt Todd
21 TJ Perenara
22 Lima Sopoaga
23 Anton Lienert-Brown -
@NTA said in All Blacks v Pumas 1:
@Steve said in All Blacks v Pumas 1:
it was this game. Terminator stuff.
And, like the last Terminator movie, several years ago. When you look at the team list, I'd suggest there is a better balance to that back row that allows Cane to get on with his job in that instance.
Team list:
1 Kane Hames
2 Codie Taylor
3 Nepo Laulala
4 Patrick Tuipulotu
5 Samuel Whitelock (Captain)
6 Liam Squire
7 Sam Cane
8 Luke Whitelock
9 Aaron Smith
10 Beauden Barrett
11 Rieko Ioane
12 Sonny Bill Williams
13 Ryan Crotty
14 Waisake Naholo
15 Damian McKenzieReplacements
16 Nathan Harris
17 Wyatt Crockett
18 Ofa Tu'ungafasi
19 Scott Barrett
20 Matt Todd
21 TJ Perenara
22 Lima Sopoaga
23 Anton Lienert-BrownBetter balance ? More like two extremely forgettable All Blacks.
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@Machpants said in All Blacks v Pumas 1:
@MN5 said in All Blacks v Pumas 1:
@Tim said in All Blacks v Pumas 1:
@MN5 He was fucking shit!
He was no Codie Taylor
Thank fuck there's only one
They could clone him just like Star Wars Stormtroopers. For accuracy.
Paul: 'One of the great ABs defensive performances'
