All Blacks vs Springboks - Twickenham

[BerniesCorner]

@Steve said in All Blacks vs Springboks - Twickenham:

The first half took 60 minutes to complete.

110 Queen Quids to watch the refs, touch judges and TMO take centre stage.

This, bloody frustrating

[taniwharugby]

@Chris still don't feel the scrum is as bigger concern, biggest is if we can get up off the canvas.

[Chris]

@ploughboy

B Barrett poor
D Coles poor
A Smith poor

They were all fucking poor

[sparky]

Ok, the game meant a helluva a lot more to the Boks than our boys and they have been in Europe for much longer. One of those games under Foster and there have been a few where the All Blacks looked hideously under-prepared for some reason.

Flush the toilet and move on. The real business starts in two weeks time when there is a lot more at stake than the Qatar Airways Cup. A lot to work on ahead of France. Go Black!

[NTA]

Lol Scott Barrett is perhaps the dumbest fluffybunny to ever pull on a black jersey.

[kev]

@sparky our history is that we bounce back. The high number of cards combined with the bunker is the rogue factor.

[sparky]

@NTA I see your Scooter Barrett and raise you to Ali Williams…..

[booboo]

@sparky said in All Blacks vs Springboks - Twickenham:

@NTA I see your Scooter Barrett and raise you to Ali Williams…..

How many red cards did Ali ever get?

[kev]

@NTA said in All Blacks vs Springboks - Twickenham:

Lol Scott Barrett is perhaps the dumbest fluffybunny to ever pull on a black jersey.

He got tackled into half back. The clean out was aggressive not dirty. Unlucky. He is the best forward by a mile.

[Steve]

@sparky said in All Blacks vs Springboks - Twickenham:

Ok, the game meant a helluva a lot more to the Boks than our boys and they have been in Europe for much longer. One of those games under Foster and there have been a few where the All Blacks looked hideously under-prepared for some reason.

Flush the toilet and move on. The real business starts in two weeks time when there is a lot more at stake than the Qatar Airways Cup. A lot to work to on ahead of France. Go Black!

While true, its still unacceptable.

They went there to cash in with an exhibition doubling up as a RWC warm up. They put on an exhibition of pure scutter and succumbed to their biggest ever defeat. To a team with a debutant (at centre) a rookie ten and Kolisi coming back off serious injury. They slapped them around.

And a couple of our usual suspects have reverted to type.

This batch (under this coach) are creating all sorts of negative records.

The crest on the front is bigger than any name on the back.

[sparky]

@kev There have been lots of cards in the last four or five Six Nations. Ireland and France will be used to it.

[Bovidae]

@kev SB's cleanout wasn't too different to Perth, and we know how that ended up.

[KiwiMurph]

Imagine the circus currently if NZR had decided to hold off on the coach decision until after the World Cup.

Thank fuck that's settled.

[game_film]

@Steve True, indeed. This was a silver lake sponsored money game. Nothing more, nothing less. I’m glad I never considered going and usually when the ABs are in town I’m automatically a couple hundy out of pocket.

[kev]

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[Steve]

A few of our squad have been under utilised in the run up to this RWC.

DMAC, Roigard, Jacobsen, Fainga'anuku for example.

When they finally get called upon we could be in deep water.

[kev]

@Bovidae said in All Blacks vs Springboks - Twickenham:

@kev SB's cleanout wasn't too different to Perth, and we know how that ended up.

You can’t have it both ways. We want guys hitting rucks and clearing bodies. He is our best by a long way. Sure he got it wrong because he had moved to side. But wasn’t dirty. He is the best NZ forward.

[sparky]

One consequence of today. Unless Foster wins the World Cup, I can’t see him getting the big European pay day for his next gig that he’s hoping for. It will be a consultancy in Japan or another Super Rugby job at best.

[kev]

@sparky said in All Blacks vs Springboks - Twickenham:

One consequence of today. Unless Foster wins the World Cup, I can’t see him getting the big European pay day for his next gig that he’s opening for. It will be a consultancy in Japan or another Super Rugby job at best.

Or Australia

[Wurzel]

Mark Robinson's leaving it a bit late to call in Wayne Smith