RWC QF: All Blacks v Ireland
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Like most, my first reaction is why TF Christie is there over Roigard. Absolutely baffling.
Looking at it overall, it's the best 23 aside from that one glaring selection (and Telea being unavailable).
My concern though is the starting props haven't had a lot of recent game time. They're our best, no doubt, but that is a worry.
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In all seriousness the one thing that pisses me off is that after reading these post team announcement headlines the Irish team will be shaking their heads with bemusement. I'm sick of coming second in the smart team stakes.
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@BerniesCorner said in RWC QF: All Blacks v Ireland:
In all seriousness the one thing that pisses me off is that after reading these post team announcement headlines the Irish team will be shaking their heads with bemusement. I'm sick of coming second in the smart team stakes.
Where's Razor.He's ready and waiting. In Chch...
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From what I have heard, this is not the first time Fozzie has been forced to drop a form player due to breach of protocol, at least he is consistent in that.
Why are players so daft to push these rules?
You are away, the biggest game of your career coming up and you decide to stay out late?
Assume he was out with someone else who was never in consideration for this match, surely not by himself?
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Well he ain't allowed in St Denis. Could be fake news though.
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@Bones have to say it must be reasonably major to be stood down for a RWC quarter final, when he is a form winger?
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P O'M will be smiling during the haka. I just know it. Damn
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@allblackfan2 said in RWC QF: All Blacks v Ireland:
I refuse to contemplate picking a ‘second’ team before this game. For me it would be like throwing in the towel early. Hell no! I have belief this AB’s team can beat the Irish side.
I don't pick a second team, they are (half English, lived there, and served there). But we could beat the Irish, but we aren't going to. It would be the biggest choke in a RWC for them to go (after England girls last year) nothing would beat it IMO. 2007 ABs come close but they were objectively screwed by the ref, tho they should have done better too.
I hope I have a battery farm's worth of egg on my face at 10AM Sun, but I think I will be still be sitting at the top of correct results picked in the Fern comp at that time
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@taniwharugby said in RWC QF: All Blacks v Ireland:
@Bones have to say it must be reasonably major to be stood down for a RWC quarter final, when he is a form winger?
No I don't think so, the rules don't change 'cos it is a 1/4, the ABs leadership group will have set the rules, and they will have given the punishment. Same as if it was Namibia on Sun.
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I'm assuming Telea was dropped as he told Foster to go fuck himself when he saw Christie was going to be selected ahead of Roigard.
Not sure where the blame lies with Samisoni not being there. Perhaps Samisoni first and foremost as his form has been nothing like last year.
I've really done my best not join the Fuck Foster brigade, but everybody has their limit.
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@taniwharugby said in RWC QF: All Blacks v Ireland:
@Bones have to say it must be reasonably major to be stood down for a RWC quarter final, when he is a form winger?
Right? But that mealy mouthed cunthole is saying it's minor and only for this week.
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@foobaNZ said in RWC QF: All Blacks v Ireland:
Like most, my first reaction is why TF Christie is there over Roigard. Absolutely baffling.
Looking at it overall, it's the best 23 aside from that one glaring selection (and Telea being unavailable).
My concern though is the starting props haven't had a lot of recent game time. They're our best, no doubt, but that is a worry.
I must admit I would go for Roigard, but I think (well and Foster says it) Christie is considered a better defender, which is hard to argue with or against as I haven't really taken a lot of notice, and with Irish you will see that Gibson-Parkes does cause problems for teams in and around breakdowns.
As for Telea, I guess if you break the rules , usually set by the leadership team, you have to cop it I suppose. And perhaps he wasn't desperate enough to play or he wouldn't of done it. -
@Machpants said in RWC QF: All Blacks v Ireland:
@taniwharugby said in RWC QF: All Blacks v Ireland:
@Bones have to say it must be reasonably major to be stood down for a RWC quarter final, when he is a form winger?
No I don't think so, the rules don't change 'cos it is a 1/4, the ABs leadership group will have set the rules, and they will have given the punishment. Same as if it was Namibia on Sun.
Exactly it was the leadership group that stopped Cruden going on a tour when he missed a team bus a few years back.
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MajorRage I'm stronger than you
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@Bones only this week...Will he be dropped from the flight home?
Being a few mins late to a meeting vs coming home later than curfew are different IMO, although without valid reasoning both speak to some ill discipline
I don't we will find out the exact detail given some of these often fly under the radar.
LF and FC to have blinders
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@BerniesCorner “you’re just a shit Mark Telea”
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Foster shat the bed with his selections in his first test as head coach against Australia in 2000, and it looks like he has done the same in what will probably be his last test as ABs head coach. That bench is average tbh.
Big fan of Telea but he has let the team down badly. He's been our most lethal back at the RWC and his absence will be felt.
