All Blacks XV vs Ireland A
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Was it a very poor Irish side or was it poor because the AB XV made it look poor ? These Irish players are performing well each week for their respective provinces. Their forwards were expected to crush their NZ counterparts before the game started ... You can make a good side look poor when you put it under extreme pressure and this is what the AB XV did : competing in the LO, aggression in defence, counter rucking at each occasion, commitment at the breakdown with more than two players. This is unfortunately not the All Blacks do under Foster's direction.
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@cgrant said in All Blacks XV vs Ireland A:
Was it a very poor Irish side or was it poor because the AB XV made it look poor ? These Irish players are performing well each week for their respective provinces. Their forwards were expected to crush their NZ counterparts before the game started ... You can make a good side look poor when you put it under extreme pressure and this is what the AB XV did : competing in the LO, aggression in defence, counter rucking at each occasion, commitment at the breakdown with more than two players. This is unfortunately not the All Blacks do under Foster's direction.
- someone here said they had less time to prepare than the AB XV?
- they were geared up for Foster-lite not Leon-Heavy?
- their forward depth is not that great?
- got on the back foot and didn't manage/have the firepower to get out of it?
Edit/add: Farrell didn't have much time to prepare them as his main game is tomorrow?
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@Stargazer said in All Blacks XV vs Ireland A:
@nostrildamus I don't quite understand why you'd want to move a player who plays well at 6 to no. 8? Just keep him where he's playing well.
Like Kieran Reid?
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@booboo said in All Blacks XV vs Ireland A:
@Stargazer said in All Blacks XV vs Ireland A:
@nostrildamus I don't quite understand why you'd want to move a player who plays well at 6 to no. 8? Just keep him where he's playing well.
Like Kieran Reid?
Who's that?
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@MiketheSnow was it good refereeing though?
I mean let's say we took a further 8 or so phases, ireland turn it over, then Ireland had a continual half dozen phases and we get it back for multiple phases...possibly 5+ minutes, where do you draw the line to go back?
And if Ireland turned over and score does he still wind back the clock?
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@ACT-Crusader said in All Blacks XV vs Ireland A:
Enjoyed the game. Thought our starting front row were pretty good. Lots of activity and involvement. Nice to see Patty T full of running. Gardiner and MMT were excellent. Quite like how our backline formation worked. Had our 2nd 5 slightly deeper. Nice to see Ennor use that size in defence! Back 3 were excellent.
There were some calls in this game that seemed very questionable. I’m not sure who the ref was or what they were for (I had the sound down because of the commentary), but was this a ‘development’ ref?
Both Bay props outstanding early, loosies worked well as a unit and forwards in general were very good.
The much maligned RTS and Ennor doing ok as well and I must admit I DMac ran the show well at 10. For me Stevenson was superb, almost a touch of Will Jordan about him the way he has been gliding through the line this year. Hope to see more of him
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@MiketheSnow said in All Blacks XV vs Ireland A:
@akan004 said in All Blacks XV vs Ireland A:
Ffs how is that a yellow
YC every day and twice on Sunday
Came at speed, in from the side, and hit the man late
WTF is this 'came at speed' bullshit.. saw the same thing with Brodies card
didn't realise there was a speed limit in rugby
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@WillieTheWaiter said in All Blacks XV vs Ireland A:
@MiketheSnow said in All Blacks XV vs Ireland A:
@akan004 said in All Blacks XV vs Ireland A:
Ffs how is that a yellow
YC every day and twice on Sunday
Came at speed, in from the side, and hit the man late
WTF is this 'came at speed' bullshit.. saw the same thing with Brodies card
didn't realise there was a speed limit in rugby
Maybe they are using speed to stop unfairly penalizing big players.
If they use force as a measure, it is mass * acceleration, so the bigger you are, the more force for the same amount of acceleration. Whereas speed is distance/time, so they can just use field markings and the timestamps on the replays to determine a players speed upon impact...
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@WillieTheWaiter said in All Blacks XV vs Ireland A:
@MiketheSnow said in All Blacks XV vs Ireland A:
@akan004 said in All Blacks XV vs Ireland A:
Ffs how is that a yellow
YC every day and twice on Sunday
Came at speed, in from the side, and hit the man late
WTF is this 'came at speed' bullshit.. saw the same thing with Brodies card
didn't realise there was a speed limit in rugby
Wasn't a tap
Brought his full force from distance; illegally in from the side where the Irish player was unsighted so couldn't defend himself; and hit him late
That's a pretty shit thing to do and deserves a YC
