All Blacks 2023
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I just had a look at the draw.
So if we win or lose to France and qualify A1 or A2, I don't see much difference between playing Ireland or SA in the QF
If we win that game we will be on either side of the draw depending on our pool position
The opponents will either be England, Oz, Wales or Argentina.
So I guess it's possible for us to lose the opener, and meet France in the final if we were to win through?
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@canefan said in All Blacks 2023:
I just had a look at the draw. So if we win or lose to France and qualify A1 or A2, I don't see much difference between playing Ireland or SA in the QF
Am not sure what to make of your post Canefan.
You been following this whole World Cup draw thing over the last three years at all?
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@booboo said in All Blacks 2023:
@canefan said in All Blacks 2023:
I just had a look at the draw. So if we win or lose to France and qualify A1 or A2, I don't see much difference between playing Ireland or SA in the QF
Am not sure what to make of your post Canefan.
You been following this whole World Cup draw thing over the last three years at all?
Not really, no
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Strategy smategy. Get through the pool, win the must-win sudden death matches including the final. There, fixed it for Foster.
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Current rankings - assuming Oz don't beat France & not including minnows
Pool A (who play Pool B in QFs of Death!)
NZ 4th
France 3rd
Italy 13thPool B Pool of Death for good teams
SA 2nd
Ireland 1st
Scotland 5th
Tonga 15thPool C Real Pool of Death
Wales 10th
Aus 9th
Fiji 7th
Georgia 11thPool D
England 8th
Japan 14th
Argentina 6th
Samoa 12thSo it may be shit for teams ranked 1-5 that one can't make quarters and 3 can't make the semi. But they have ended up very tight pools, outside the real minnows
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i think Barrett is bloody lucky, not only was the guy prone on the ground and barrett dove off his feet to hit him, although the initial contact is shoulder i think it definitely slipped up to the head
I said the other week if i was an english fan id be a bit embarrassed when Farrell initially got off...im a bit embarrassed now
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@Machpants said in All Blacks 2023:
Current rankings - assuming Oz don't beat France & not including minnows
Pool A (who play Pool B in QFs of Death!)
NZ 4th
France 3rd
Italy 13thPool B Pool of Death for good teams
SA 2nd
Ireland 1st
Scotland 5th
Tonga 15thPool C Real Pool of Death
Wales 10th
Aus 9th
Fiji 7th
Georgia 11thPool D
England 8th
Japan 14th
Argentina 6th
Samoa 12thSo it may be shit for teams ranked 1-5 that one can't make quarters and 3 can't make the semi. But they have ended up very tight pools, outside the real minnows
Pool of Death seems to me to me a slight misuse of the term when the highest ranked team in the pool is Fiji at 7...if you can't make it out of that pool, one might question your right to be in a QF...
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@Kiwiwomble Why would you feel embarrassed by something that didn't happen (head contact)?
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@Stargazer said in All Blacks 2023:
@Kiwiwomble Why would you feel embarressed by something that didn't happen (head contact)?
because no matter how some try to sugar coat this
he dived pointed shoulder first at a player on the ground away from teh ball (it was in no way a "clean out") and it was good luck not good management that meant he missed the head. He still hit the base of the neck which is still dangerous and shitty.
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@Stargazer said in All Blacks 2023:
@Kiwiwomble Why would you feel embarressed by something that didn't happen (head contact)?
im a bit embarrassed he avoided any further punishment for the stuff he did even without head contact (dove off his feet, shoulder first at a player prone on the ground and not on the ball)
BUT, the footage ive seen looks like like the contact moves from the shoulder to the head
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@Kiwiwomble said in All Blacks 2023:
@Stargazer said in All Blacks 2023:
@Kiwiwomble Why would you feel embarressed by something that didn't happen (head contact)?
im a bit embarrassed he avoided any further punishment for the stuff he did even without head contact (dove off his feet, shoulder first at a player prone on the ground and not on the ball)
BUT, the footage ive seen looks like like the contact moves from the shoulder to the head
You haven't seen all the footage available to the judiciary. There was no direct contact with the head according to the available footage (so no reason for a red card). Why would you want to suspend someone for a yellow card offence? And why would you feel embarrassed by someone being correctly not suspended for a yellow card offence? He was already punished by being sent off and they found that sufficient. This is consistent with similar rulings.
@mariner4life said in All Blacks 2023:
he dived pointed shoulder first at a player on the ground away from teh ball (it was in no way a "clean out") and it was good luck not good management that meant he missed the head. He still hit the base of the neck which is still dangerous and shitty.
So you want to suspend someone because he had good luck (resulting in him missing the head) or in him potentially (not: certainly) hitting the head if he hadn't had that good luck? So for something hypothetical?
He was yellow carded. He got a red because he already had had a team yellow earlier. He was sent off. I don't see why he deserved further punishment for something that wasn't a red-card offence (either by intent, luck or otherwise).
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@Stargazer cant go back and forward if you not going to even pretend to understand what people are saying, you're happy...great
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@Kiwiwomble No, I fully understand what you're saying, but it just doesn't make sense to me that you want someone punished for something that is never punished with a suspension: a yellow card offence. It's the Law and the normal judicial process that has been followed.
