Australia v All Blacks - Bled I
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I give no real prospect of a Wallabies win for this fixture. They're just two games into trying to change the way they play. Some of their good players are injured or coming back from injury and hence aren't in form.
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It will be interesting how the Wallabies play. They cannot persist with kicking possession to the ABs backs.
Eddie is going to have to change tactics
ABs have yet to be tested by up tempo wide play this year - that feels like a better option for the Wallabies.
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@NTA said in Australia v All Blacks - Bled I:
@Rancid-Schnitzel said in Australia v All Blacks - Bled I:
It's the Wallabies coached by EJ and we're still coached by Foster. I won't be counting any chickens until the Bled is behind lock and key.
It'll be a 50-point flogging in Melbourne and a 30-point flogging in Dunedin when you run out your B team.
Except test rugby rarely works that way. Sure between tier 1 and 2, but I think it will be closer, much closer. Hopefully an abs win but by 10 or less
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@NTA said in Australia v All Blacks - Bled I:
@Rancid-Schnitzel said in Australia v All Blacks - Bled I:
It's the Wallabies coached by EJ and we're still coached by Foster. I won't be counting any chickens until the Bled is behind lock and key.
It'll be a 50-point flogging in Melbourne and a 30-point flogging in Dunedin when you run out your B team.
Not going to happen. Aus will win one of them. Happens before every RWC.
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@Steve said in Australia v All Blacks - Bled I:
@taniwharugby said in Australia v All Blacks - Bled I:
Stevenson has been released, so he won't be playing.
All Blacks hopeful Shaun Stevenson will leave the team before their Bledisloe Cup trip to Melbourne in a fortnight, despite impressing in training.
Mafileo is still with the squad though.
Rugby World Cup: Coach Ian Foster gives squad update on All Blacks hopeful Shaun Stevenson | Newshub
The Chiefs star was originally called up to the Rugby Championship squad as injury cover.
Ah Jesus . What a waste.
Foster is an idiot.
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@NTA said in Australia v All Blacks - Bled I:
@Rancid-Schnitzel said in Australia v All Blacks - Bled I:
It's the Wallabies coached by EJ and we're still coached by Foster. I won't be counting any chickens until the Bled is behind lock and key.
It'll be a 50-point flogging in Melbourne and a 30-point flogging in Dunedin when you run out your B team.
Nice try Nick. I still remember flying to Syd for RWC 2003 semi-final and being stunned by the Wallaby turnaround 😀
I’m picking 1-1 split but I hope we take the first match. Wallabies always compete against us, they know our game, our players, we play a similar fluent game and no matter how dominant the AB’s have been I’ve never not known a Wallaby side who weren’t confident of winning ie, there is no fear or being over awed.
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We need to retain Bled first..RWC comes later. This means rolling out the same team minus injuries. Continuity.
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@taniwharugby said in Australia v All Blacks - Bled I:
Stevenson has been released, so he won't be playing.
All Blacks hopeful Shaun Stevenson will leave the team before their Bledisloe Cup trip to Melbourne in a fortnight, despite impressing in training.
Mafileo is still with the squad though.
Rugby World Cup: Coach Ian Foster gives squad update on All Blacks hopeful Shaun Stevenson | Newshub
The Chiefs star was originally called up to the Rugby Championship squad as injury cover.
That fucken sucks for Stevenson. Absolutely shafted.
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@TheMojoman said in Australia v All Blacks - Bled I:
@NTA said in Australia v All Blacks - Bled I:
@Rancid-Schnitzel said in Australia v All Blacks - Bled I:
It's the Wallabies coached by EJ and we're still coached by Foster. I won't be counting any chickens until the Bled is behind lock and key.
It'll be a 50-point flogging in Melbourne and a 30-point flogging in Dunedin when you run out your B team.
Nice try Nick. I still remember flying to Syd for RWC 2003 semi-final and being stunned by the Wallaby turnaround 😀
I’m picking 1-1 split but I hope we take the first match. Wallabies always compete against us, they know our game, our players, we play a similar fluent game and no matter how dominant the AB’s have been I’ve never not known a Wallaby side who weren’t confident of winning ie, there is no fear or being over awed.
The kiwi munters ( from Palmy and the Hutt if I remember rightly ) that I worked with in Sydney at the time thought that game was in the bag too. Saying things like “see youse in the final” to the Poms we all worked with.
Those comments aged pretty badly.
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@MN5 said in Australia v All Blacks - Bled I:
@TheMojoman said in Australia v All Blacks - Bled I:
@NTA said in Australia v All Blacks - Bled I:
@Rancid-Schnitzel said in Australia v All Blacks - Bled I:
It's the Wallabies coached by EJ and we're still coached by Foster. I won't be counting any chickens until the Bled is behind lock and key.
It'll be a 50-point flogging in Melbourne and a 30-point flogging in Dunedin when you run out your B team.
Nice try Nick. I still remember flying to Syd for RWC 2003 semi-final and being stunned by the Wallaby turnaround 😀
I’m picking 1-1 split but I hope we take the first match. Wallabies always compete against us, they know our game, our players, we play a similar fluent game and no matter how dominant the AB’s have been I’ve never not known a Wallaby side who weren’t confident of winning ie, there is no fear or being over awed.
The kiwi munters ( from Palmy and the Hutt if I remember rightly ) that I worked with in Sydney at the time thought that game was in the bag too. Saying things like “see youse in the final” to the Poms we all worked with.
Those comments aged pretty badly.
Similar sentiments in 1999 and 2007. We were guilty of looking too far ahead
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Thinking Foster & co are pretty settled on their RWC squad bar 2-3 positions and who plays where, and wants to give those players as much game time as possible.
