All Blacks vs England I

Frank

Blackadder may not be much of a lineout option, but he'd be a better pick at six.

He was used very effectively as a front of lineout option by Foster. (in the one or two games he played).

Tim

@Frank Could do that and use four man lineouts as well to mix it up.

chimoaus

What made the Blues loose tri so good. Multiple lineout options, multiple running options and the ability to play tight.

nostrildamus

@BerniesCorner said in All Blacks vs England I:

@nostrildamus said in All Blacks vs England I:

if only we had a big 6 who could tackle and carry and has form! If only!

Sititi

He's young, let him earn his stripes at his specialist position, I mean he's played 6 right but mostly at 8 for the Chiefs?

Gunner

Looked like a continuation of the Fozzie era to me.

No noticeable changes in game plan really, except for our first try, where we worked bloody hard in closer before sending it wide.

Unfortunately there was way too much of going sideways, ruck, sideways again, ruck, sideways once more, then kick aimlessly away and let England chew up easy metres on the counter attack.

Thought both wingers were busy, and did the best with the shitty ball they were getting.

TJ was great, sucks he’s injured again, as now we’re stuck with Christie. Positive is now there is no option, Ratima will get game time.

Thought both locks got stuck in, Papalii was hitting anything that moved, Aumua good when he got on, the rest of the pack a bit meh.

Perofeta went better than expected.

And fuck that ref made some very interesting calls / non calls.

Take the win (could have very easily been a loss), hope to start seeing some innovation with the game plan and improvement in physicality from here on in.

nostrildamus

@Gunner said in All Blacks vs England I:

Looked like a continuation of the Fozzie era to me.

No noticeable changes in game plan really, except for our first try, where we worked bloody hard in closer before sending it wide.

Unfortunately there was way too much of going sideways, ruck, sideways again, ruck, sideways once more, then kick aimlessly away and let England chew up easy metres on the counter attack.

Thought both wingers were busy, and did the best with the shitty ball they were getting.

TJ was great, sucks he’s injured again, as now we’re stuck with Christie. Positive is now there is no option, Ratima will get game time.

Thought both locks got stuck in, Papalii was hitting anything that moved, Aumua good when he got on, the rest of the pack a bit meh.

Perofeta went better than expected.

And fuck that ref made some very interesting calls / non calls.

Take the win (could have very easily been a loss), hope to start seeing some innovation with the game plan and improvement in physicality from here on in.

Well said.

kpkanz

People are talking nonsense here if they think there's no difference to the Foster era from tonights game.

Also the blatant disregard of the quality of the English team, this is a really good England team who beat Ireland 2 games ago and were about to beat France in France if not for a penalty right on full time.

To beat them first up with a brand new coaching setup and all the noise that would have come with it is extremely impressive.

I'm also amazed at some people here genuinely asking for Plummer over Dmac.

Gunner

@kpkanz said in All Blacks vs England I:

People are talking nonsense here if they think there's no difference to the Foster era from tonights game.

Feel free to enlighten us on the differences?

mariner4life

Shit that pissed me off for the last few years:
Rubbish kick chase
No ruck pressure

Tonight was exactly the same. Fucking trash.

Tim

@mariner4life They actually did it at the end of the game, but there was a long period of aimless kicking.

mariner4life

I know it's generally negative but I thought that was a great game of rugby. Both teams had a real crack, and in the main the accuracy was high.
We won which is awesome.

And it was miles in front of the next game.

Congratulations to the ABs on a good win

Bones

It's an England team with a shithouse coach and Wish Mounga at first five. Whoop de doo.

Bones

And now it's an England team that scraped past a team that just got mullered by Australia

kpkanz

@Gunner Please link ONE game under Foster against a northern rush defense that we found that much space out wide.

Not even close, I have not seen us create that level of space since before the Lions came down in 2017 and suffocated us with their defense, which was to be a precursor for the next 8 years of games against northern opposition.

Darth Sader

Also, they’ve only had a couple of weeks together under the new coaching regime. Jesus, give them some time before passing final judgement.

nostrildamus

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nostrildamus

@Darth-Sader said in All Blacks vs England I:

Also, they’ve only had a couple of weeks together under the new coaching regime. Jesus, give them some time before passing final judgement.

You talking to us or praying to Razor?

Bones

Hard to fault that I guess, the massive amount of tries scored out wide was unbelievable.

mariner4life

It's not Foster v Razor

It's DMac has a better passing game than BB and Mo'unga and thus we unlocked it

I'm still astounded that he's copping shit playing 10 outside a beaten pack and rubbish halfbacks.the boy is a wizard

Darth Sader

@nostrildamus time will tell if he’s the Messiah

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