RWC SF: All Blacks v Argentina
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@LagerLout said in RWC SF: All Blacks v Argentina:
Oh it's definitely NZR. If we can't pay more, and as a country we define ourselves through our top sportspeople, why doesn't the government embrace professional athletes by offering them tax breaks to stay in the country. The All Blacks are our most recognised International brand, by a country mile, and are responsible for a huge slug of revenue coming into the country. Of course it would never happen, but there's certainly governmental opportunities to support our stars, not just actions NZR could take. It's definitely not Razor's problem to deal with, it just speaks volumes of the outmoded thinking in NZR. A lot more could be done to help develop the grass roots game as is being doing throughout Europe at the moment. Just look at what TNZ have done, I'm sure they didn't want to take the Cup offshore, but with little incentive here and as a commercial entity they didn't have a lot of choice if they wanted to keep winning. I think we will continue to struggle if we don't embrace how the world has changed and keep pace with it.
What the fuck is the Silver Lake deal about if we're facing a player exodus?
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Every Irish journalist complaining about the uncompetitive blow out would be furiously wanking over Ireland if they scored seven tries to nil.
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@98blueandgold wasn't that the long stoppage in the 1st half, for a boot? Wonder if it was the same player.
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@mariner4life said in RWC SF: All Blacks v Argentina:
"This wasn't how it was supposed to beeee" they wailed
"It was our time!" They cried
"Deseeeeerved" they sobbed
Delicious salty tears making the inevitable NZ v SA final even sweeter. Salted caramel if you will.
Lost count of how many times I heard the Irish sya they deserved more. Fuck them.
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@mencey said in RWC SF: All Blacks v Argentina:
@taniwharugby said in RWC SF: All Blacks v Argentina:
Mounga denies Jordan a record
Yep that was bad. Fucking shame
I think he was gassed. It was definitely on. Had that been in min 32, he scores. But he didn't. And that was shit.
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@98blueandgold said in RWC SF: All Blacks v Argentina:
Will be interesting who gets to ref the final. I’m guessing both England or Sth Africa won’t advocate for Gardner, especially his attempts to not let the game slow down. Loved his interaction at the end when he told the prop to get up as the scrum was being formed “you can’t run over here and take you boot off”. Unfortunately I think the ref will play a big part in final in dictating the speed of the game rather than calls. Will either be Gardner or French guy I would imagine
Gardner was tres fucking merde. Didn’t matter in the end, but not his best outing.
Exits were awful from the ABs and their fringe defence was not great.
Jordan & Frizzel were pretty fucking good
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@Duluth said in RWC SF: All Blacks v Argentina:
@voodoo said in RWC SF: All Blacks v Argentina:
@stodders said in RWC SF: All Blacks v Argentina:
@voodoo Argentina to score 31?
Damn you! 😀
But seriously, I have us WINNING by 30 tomorrow. All this talk of overconfidence in the team is nonsense. They’ll have prepared well, they know what’s ahead.
I’m going with 42-10
Well done.. not far off
Ha!
I think that other drunken prediction I posted during pool play might be slowly coming true also 🙏
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Maybe the piss poor exits and bombs without chasers are more powder dry? It is a huge concern going into the final.
What I do find astonishing is the transformation in this forward pack from the first game until now. They are now direct, physically uncompromising, efficient and disciplined. Have they just suddenly clicked or were they faking it for 4 years? I mean, you could barely trust them to go 3 phases in that first game and ball retention was dreadful. Now nobody gets a sniff. It's absolutely awesome, but again, where tf was that before?
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@Rancid-Schnitzel said in RWC SF: All Blacks v Argentina:
I mean, you could barely trust them to go 3 phases in that first game and ball retention was dreadful
Well in fairness Frizell, Cane and Lomax weren't playing - Vaai was at 6.
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@Rancid-Schnitzel said in RWC SF: All Blacks v Argentina:
Maybe the piss poor exits and bombs without chasers are more powder dry? It is a huge concern going into the final.
What I do find astonishing is the transformation in this forward pack from the first game until now. They are now direct, physically uncompromising, efficient and disciplined. Have they just suddenly clicked or were they faking it for 4 years? I mean, you could barely trust them to go 3 phases in that first game and ball retention was dreadful. Now nobody gets a sniff. It's absolutely awesome, but again, where tf was that before?
Was Cody Taylor being shit last year part of the plan too? They would have been 100% justified getting rid of him permanently and no one would have batted an eyelid…..but look how he went tonight !
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@kiwiinmelb said in RWC SF: All Blacks v Argentina:
Feel pretty happy,
Are we supporting England tomorrow?
Yes I am.
I feel that if England get up they will be spent for the final.
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@KiwiMurph said in RWC SF: All Blacks v Argentina:
@Rancid-Schnitzel said in RWC SF: All Blacks v Argentina:
I mean, you could barely trust them to go 3 phases in that first game and ball retention was dreadful
Well in fairness Frizell, Cane and Lomax weren't playing - Vaai was at 6.
Taylor and MynameisDeGroot were. Night and bloody day.
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@Smuts said in RWC SF: All Blacks v Argentina:
@98blueandgold said in RWC SF: All Blacks v Argentina:
Will be interesting who gets to ref the final. I’m guessing both England or Sth Africa won’t advocate for Gardner, especially his attempts to not let the game slow down. Loved his interaction at the end when he told the prop to get up as the scrum was being formed “you can’t run over here and take you boot off”. Unfortunately I think the ref will play a big part in final in dictating the speed of the game rather than calls. Will either be Gardner or French guy I would imagine
Gardner was tres fucking merde. Didn’t matter in the end, but not his best outing.
Exits were awful from the ABs and their fringe defence was not great.
Jordan & Frizzel were pretty fucking good
Their D was so bad they conceded
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@MN5 said in RWC SF: All Blacks v Argentina:
@Victor-Meldrew said in RWC SF: All Blacks v Argentina:
@MajorRage said in RWC SF: All Blacks v Argentina:
Who cares?
I do. Walrus tears are yum.
On a consistent basis he has proven himself to be the biggest dickhead in Rugby
I refuse to even read his stuff. He's the epitome of a click bait 'journalist' so I won't click on his stuff.
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Well what a difference a week makes. I would have been shocked if we had managed to maintain that intensity two weeks running. Let's hope we can get it back for the final.
In the end it didn't matter Argentina no where near semi final standard. But boy did we play below ourselves. Short exits, dumb kicks, average chase line, bombed tries and very average goal kicking. The only high points were set piece and our defence.
Thought the reffing was decidedly average as well especially around the rucks. That yellow card was firstly total stupidity from Scott then total over reaction from Gardner. If costing your team a scrum basically on their line not punishment enough?
I can already hear the northern hemisphere jurnos now looking up how to spell arrogant with our decision to play at 14 and you know what they are right. But let's own it for a change. We can talk about protecting Barrett from a red but if we really cared about preparing for the final we would have pulled Ritchie and not Beauden. So I say we were arrogant and so what if you don't like it put a team in front of us we don't rack up nearly 50 on for a world cup semi.
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