All Blacks vs Springboks - Twickenham

[Rancid Schnitzel]

Stopped watching after the RC. I'd seen this film before. If everything goes 100% right then this team can beat anyone, but are royally fůcked otherwise. Whatever happened to booting the shit out the ball when camped on your line? To win the RWC you have at least one game that's a trench warfare grind fest. I cannot see this team winning a game like that.

[sparky]

The Twickenham horror show…….

[Duluth]

@Chris said in All Blacks vs Springboks - Twickenham:

@ploughboy

B Barrett poor
D Coles poor
A Smith poor

They were all fucking poor

Ryan poor

[Chris]

@Duluth

yeah
Schmidt poor
Foster poor

The bus driver was shit they all were.

[Duluth]

@Chris

But Ryan in particular

[Steve]

@Rancid-Schnitzel said in All Blacks vs Springboks - Twickenham:

Stopped watching after the RC. I'd seen this film before. If everything goes 100% right then this team can beat anyone, but are royally fůcked otherwise. Whatever happened to booting the shit out the ball when camped on your line? To win the RWC you have at least one game that's a trench warfare grind fest. I cannot see this team winning a game like that.

Look at the 2015 semi as a case in point.

A Whitelock line out steal and a Carter drop goal won the game. And that was our team of GOATS.

This rabble are going to have to go on a mighty ducks style tear to get this over the line.

Without digging out any of them in particular you can see the team is devoid of thinkers.

There are too many loose canons in that team.

[gt12]

Quick stat look shows we only won 66% (10/15) of our lineouts. Fuuuuck.

We tackled at 83%. Won't win like that.

Apparently, 554 metres run for SA and 474 for us, why so close? 98 for Roigard making that looking much better than it should do.

DeGroot conceded 5 penalties. Ouch.

ALB stat line: 1 pass, 2 runs, No metres, 1 turnover, no tackles made, 1 tackle missed. Not exactly the impact we are looking for from the bench. Sadly, I don' think there are other options that provide enough cover.

[Chris]

@Duluth

I thought the bus driver was worse he ate all Fozzies sandwiches on the way to the ground.

[Duluth]

@Chris

That was an abysmally prepared forward pack

[kiwiinmelb]

@Rancid-Schnitzel said in All Blacks vs Springboks - Twickenham:

Stopped watching after the RC. I'd seen this film before. If everything goes 100% right then this team can beat anyone, but are royally fůcked otherwise. Whatever happened to booting the shit out the ball when camped on your line? To win the RWC you have at least one game that's a trench warfare grind fest. I cannot see this team winning a game like that.

No rocket science but We can tear any team apart if we win up front and can be made to look very very ordinary when we don’t .

And Our opposition know that

[NTA]

@antipodean said in All Blacks vs Springboks - Twickenham:

Passing without looking.

34 minutes in, that's what I've noticed. Especially looking for the offload around their own 22. Idiocy.

[Chris]

@Duluth

agreed very disappointing,we reverted back to the bad days of the last 3 years.
I was hoping we were making progress but it looks like we are back to the shit days.

[sparky]

@NTA That Second Try was an absolute shocker. Sheer lunacy to try and play like that near our own line.

Our guys seemed to think it was some sort of Barbarians game. South Africa had come to play a Test match.

[Stag]

And the great Fozz stamps his name on yet another abysmal record…

[sparky]

@Duluth Is Ryan locked in for the next coaching panel? If the forwards perform as poorly as that it the World Cup, there is no way NZRU should retain his services with the national side.

[BerniesCorner]

Stats meaningless Killed at the start, man down, playing catch-up whole game

[Stag]

And equally as bad on the field when the players are looking around for real leadership from the captain and all they see is Cane looking like a possum in headlights, again.

[sparky]

@BerniesCorner I really can’t see us coming back against a half decent side (and South Africa are a lot more than that) if we only have 14 men.

[Rancid Schnitzel]

@Steve said in All Blacks vs Springboks - Twickenham:

@Rancid-Schnitzel said in All Blacks vs Springboks - Twickenham:

Stopped watching after the RC. I'd seen this film before. If everything goes 100% right then this team can beat anyone, but are royally fůcked otherwise. Whatever happened to booting the shit out the ball when camped on your line? To win the RWC you have at least one game that's a trench warfare grind fest. I cannot see this team winning a game like that.

Look at the 2015 semi as a case in point.

A Whitelock line out steal and a Carter drop goal won the game. And that was our team of GOATS.

This rabble are going to have to go on a mighty ducks style tear to get this over the line.

Without digging out any of them in particular you can see the team is devoid of thinkers.

There are too many loose canons in that team.

"This rabble are going to have to go on a mighty ducks style tear to get this over the line."

Farking love this! Problem is Foster is no Gordon Bombay!

[NTA]

I understand those wanting to defend S Barrett. He's been good this year and mostly shelved the brain farts.

But that dive into the ruck - which was already decided mind you, and on which he would have zero effect - with a leading shoulder was the pinnacle of fucking idiocy