Australia v All Blacks - Bled I
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@kiwiinmelb said in Australia v All Blacks - Bled I:
I’m starting to think this game might be tighter than the form suggests .
Aussies will surely improve with the increased time together with the new coach, and not so certain we will go into it with the same ferocity that we did against the boks .
All Blacks also tend to bring the best out in the Wobblies
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@booboo said in Australia v All Blacks - Bled I:
@NTA said in Australia v All Blacks - Bled I:
I've been in Backofuckingnowhere QLD for a week. How would I know?
Didn't see you.
Not that far from you actually. South Burnett to visit my mum after her surgery for a broken femur.
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Hells Bells it is gonna be a long week....
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@KiwiMurph said in Australia v All Blacks - Bled I:
Sounds like it could be 9 McDermott 10 Gordon 13 Petaia 15 Kellaway and 23 Perese for the Wallabies.
I think it's the right call. I can see Wallabies wide game stressing the ABs defence.
Eddie is not going to die trying. Stuff continuity he’s going to use the run up to RWC to find his best team, mix and match. Good on him.
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@TheMojoman said in Australia v All Blacks - Bled I:
@KiwiMurph said in Australia v All Blacks - Bled I:
Sounds like it could be 9 McDermott 10 Gordon 13 Petaia 15 Kellaway and 23 Perese for the Wallabies.
I think it's the right call. I can see Wallabies wide game stressing the ABs defence.
Eddie is not going to die trying. Stuff continuity he’s going to use the run up to RWC to find his best team, mix and match. Good on him.
Die wondering, not trying
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@NTA said in Australia v All Blacks - Bled I:
@booboo said in Australia v All Blacks - Bled I:
@NTA said in Australia v All Blacks - Bled I:
I've been in Backofuckingnowhere QLD for a week. How would I know?
Didn't see you.
Not that far from you actually. South Burnett to visit my mum after her surgery for a broken femur.
- Broken femur, ouch. Hope she is OK. Wish her well.
- What made me think your rural origins was SA?
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What time is the team named ?
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@kiwiinmelb heard 11.45 NZT, but don't rely on that
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@booboo said in Australia v All Blacks - Bled I:
@kiwiinmelb heard 11.45 NZT, but don't rely on that
According to Stuff it 11.30, which is earlier than usual (2pm?), but guess they want it before team gets on plane?
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The first Bledisloe test of a RWC year have produced some interesting results:
2019 - big loss in Perth
2015 - loss in Sydney
2011 - win at EP
2007 - loss in Melbourne
2003 - big win in Sydney
1999 - win at EP
1995 - win at EP
1991 - loss in Sydney
1987 - win in Sydney -
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@ACT-Crusader said in Australia v All Blacks - Bled I:
The first Bledisloe test of a RWC year have produced some interesting results:
2019 - big loss in Perth
2015 - loss in Sydney
2011 - win at EP
2007 - loss in Melbourne
2003 - big win in Sydney
1999 - win at EP
1995 - win at EP
1991 - loss in Sydney
1987 - win in Sydney91 and 95 both post RWC
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@ACT-Crusader so the years we won the RWC, we have won 2 and lost 1...
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@sparky said in Australia v All Blacks - Bled I:
This game has banana skin written all over it.
Yep. That's why it could be a big and key test. Someone above opined that Foster and co. see the shortened RC as a test run for the knock-out stages of RWC2023 and I think they may be right.
Win this one and we'll know the current upward path is a solid one
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@taniwharugby said in Australia v All Blacks - Bled I:
@ACT-Crusader so the years we won the RWC, we have won 2 and lost 1...
All we need now is for Ritchie, DMac and BB to get injured and David Havilli to be slotted in at 10 and we'll be home and dry....
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The old saying “it’s the breakdown stupid”
No secret if you mess up AB’s ball at breakdown you force them out of their preferred game plan. Expect the Wallabies to mimic the Boks and flood breakdown with big bodies etc.
How breakdown fury can boost Australia's odds against All Blacks
The breakdown needs to be a contest in Melbourne if the Wallabies want to have any chance of besting the All Blacks.
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My Guess of Ian Foster's All Blacks to play the Wallabies:
- de Groot
- Taylor
- Lomax
- Retallick
- Whitelock
- Frizell
- Cane (I think he is fit??)
- Savea
- Smith
- Mo'unga
- Telea
- J Barrett
- ALB
- Jordan
- B Barrett
- Taukei'aho
- Williams
- Newell (I think he is back, seemed to be training? If not will be Lord Nepo)
- S Barrett
- Papalii
- Roigard
- McLeod (Rumour was his parents were Aussie bound)
- R Ioane
