All Blacks 2024
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@Victor-Meldrew Indeed - but I was looking for some leadership late in those SA games, and I wasn't seeing it at all. Headless chook stuff from experienced leadership group players, and SB not saying or doing much of anything. Same deal with the Argie loss.
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Discipline was a problem. There didn't seem to be a message to maintain our discipline and we gave away yellows.
We don't seem to adapt well with the yellows as well defensively or try and dominate possession.
Doesn't help that leaders like the Barrett's and Cane have a history of cards.
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@brodean Personally I think Cane gives away cards when he's fatigued - though that's just a feeling rather than any data on when his cards occur.
Barrett almost looks like a bit he's been playing a bit gun-shy to avoid cards himself.
But yeah, the team yellows are shit. Again I think fatigue plays a part with our poor use of the bench - though that doesn't excuse the otherwise excellent Caleb Clarke. -
I agree with all of that - except the last two cards Cane received for the AB's were in the first half so he shouldn't be fatigued. Maybe he was? ¯_(ツ)_/¯
An interesting write up here which includes some footage of some of Cane's missed tackles - though not the ones that lead directly to tries.
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@pakman said in All Blacks 2024:
LSL is good scrummaging LH lock. Is Frost top dog of the local TH locks?
I think LSL actually has the mongrel to do both.
Frost is a big lad and important to securing scrum ball.
Williams has surprised me - he's not the biggest but he's very capable and handy around the park as well.
Potentially Skelton in the mix on EOYT as we toss up opening the borders in preparation for Lions 2025.
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@brodean Yeah I've read that. You could easily pick and choose moments from games this year to make Savea or any other AB pretty much look like a retard too, so I'm not a big fan of the cherry-picking game moments type of article.
A hard man and a legend for coming back from a broken neck - but Cane's well and truly done in my eyes, we can't have a tight forward playing in the AB 7 shirt, no matter how loose our 8 is.
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@NTA said in All Blacks 2024:
@pakman said in All Blacks 2024:
LSL is good scrummaging LH lock. Is Frost top dog of the local TH locks?
I think LSL actually has the mongrel to do both.
Frost is a big lad and important to securing scrum ball.
Williams has surprised me - he's not the biggest but he's very capable and handy around the park as well.
Potentially Skelton in the mix on EOYT as we toss up opening the borders in preparation for Lions 2025.
Agree on LSL.
Will keep an eye out on Frost.
Will/Nella is a helluva lot of beef!
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@SBW1 said in All Blacks 2024:
@SBW1 Saw this today, Frizzel and Mounga are being chased.
Why are we chasing these proven failures?
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@BerniesCorner said in All Blacks 2024:
@Victor-Meldrew and with the sub system available now players can get experience without compromising results.
By not scoring points in the final 20mins?