RWC Week 1: France v All Blacks

[mencey]

@Daffy-Jaffy said in RWC: France v All Blacks:

@mencey According to a graphic I found re: team announcement times and posted in the RWC discussion thread, the AB's are named at 3:30am NZ time, 5:30pm Paris time. Soon.

THX Mate

[Tim]

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[JayCee]

[Tordah]

About as expected. No Roigard is a bummer.

[JayCee]

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[KiwiMurph]

I can't imagine that team puts a great deal of fear into the French.

Will be bloody impressive if ABs can snag the W.

[akan004]

Narawa ruled out of the RWC. Here's your chance Foster to undo your initial fuck up, pick Finau as a replacement.

[Tim]

@akan004 Long time to wait on it when he's been injured since the first test of the year! He's just a fucking wing FFS.

[akan004]

@Tim Makes the decision to select him when he was nursing a chronic back injury seem even more ridiculous now. Foster is just so unbelievably stupid.

[Tordah]

@akan004 said in RWC: France v All Blacks:

Narawa ruled out of the RWC. Here's your chance Foster to undo your initial fuck up, pick Finau as a replacement.

Not that I don't believe you, but where did you get the info (Narawa's injury) from? AB team infos are difficult to get sometimes. Thanks

[akan004]

@Tordah

[Tim]

@akan004 I cannot come up with new ways of describing the incompetence. A player who was completely expendable for this campaign.

[DaGrubster]

@Tim

That seems very strange.

It’s not as if he is a world class player with 50 tests behind him and you know what you are getting.

Finau or Lord to be named replacement

[Tim]

@DaGrubster Yeah, a one test rookie. Never going to make a difference in this WC, especially with the other wings we have.

[Daffy Jaffy]

If they are bloody minded and go like for like maybe Stevenson, or maybe Blackadder leapfrogs Finau to reinforce the Loose forwards?

[Tim]

If they want an actual six it's Finau or Ioane. If they want a lock it's Lord or Tuipulotu.

[pakman]

@JayCee said in RWC: France v All Blacks:

Apart from Jordie injury ommission I got everything except had DMac instead of Leicester. Hard to argue that isn't strongest available starting XV.

[Tim]

@pakman Taukei'aho should've started every test this year. He was our best tight forward over the last two seasons.

[akan004]

@pakman That pack worries me. Not much go forward. Need forwards that make the gaineline consistently. Apart from Barrett and Ardie, I don't think the rest of the pack can do that.

[Billy Tell]

Lol if they choose a winger to replace narawa.