All Blacks vs England I
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I am pretty excited to see what we look like with more games under our belts. DMac was putting guys in holes, but as pointed out, our support wasn't quite clicking, and it was clunky when we switched from forwards to backs.
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@mariner4life Yeah - little mistakes killed us.
We gave up several sucker penalties with a dominant scrum. Some lineout glitches also cost plenty of field position. DMac's non-kick. Ardie's forward pass when we'd opened them up. Some fumbles in the backline. Three chip kicks that weren't close to being recovered.
We also got a couple of seemingly fortuitous calls from the ref. I still haven't worked out how we won that last penalty to end the game - but my eyes aren't as fast as they used to be.
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@Chris-B said in All Blacks vs England I:
I still haven't worked out how we won that last penalty to end the game - but my eyes aren't as fast as they used to be.
I think (??!) that the ref considered the tackler moved forward rather than place the ball - which was why Tupou and Dalts fell over. But yeah, it looked weird. We couldn't see if either of them got hands to the ball as the ref was on teh other side of the ruck.
I'll take it though!
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Watched a snippet on X from All Blacks (I think).
Had to watch several times.
Got to watch Vaa'i.
He releases, and grabs the ball.
Dalton then crashes into him as he's trying to lift.
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@Windows97 said in All Blacks vs England I:
if Papps job is to clear the ruck and make tackles he should be at 6 not 7,
Agree with everything but this.
I'm struggling to think of a time this millennium where that wasn't the job of the openside.
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All Blacks vs England takeaways: The Perenara fade away, Razor's defensive concern
We saw a number of new things from the All Blacks under Razor and his coaching staff, here are four takeaways from the first Test.
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@Bones said in All Blacks vs England I:
@Windows97 said in All Blacks vs England I:
if Papps job is to clear the ruck and make tackles he should be at 6 not 7,
Agree with everything but this.
I'm struggling to think of a time this millennium where that wasn't the job of the openside.
i agree although i took him to mean, and i may have read my own thoughts into it, if your 6 is doing that then he should be a 6...i.e. 7 not a jackal threat
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This was very nice work:
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@Tim said in All Blacks vs England I:
This was very nice work:
Not the videoing, filming a widescreen TV in portrait, fucking idiot.
He didn't get the penalty for that either, I don't think? Or am I misremembering?
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@Machpants I was just trying to recall too.
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@Machpants said in All Blacks vs England I:
@Tim said in All Blacks vs England I:
This was very nice work:
Not the videoing, filming a widescreen TV in portrait, fucking idiot.
He didn't get the penalty for that either, I don't think? Or am I misremembering?
Nah, they didn’t call it. I was wondering if the radio link between the touchy and the ref was playing up because it looks like the touchy was trying to say something but play went on.
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@pakman Q4
Also scrappy. Pressure led English to concede three kickable ruck penalties, of which two converted within time.
That said, English press nullified AB backline attack.
In last ten we also got no change from one-off runs from ruck, Aumua excepted. Vaa'i and three 6.5s not the best for that, although former made ground twice in looser play with some footwork.
Excellent scrum penalty at 70 with Newell drilling Bunter, with Itoje slipping off his butt. Ofa also forcing Cole back.
One bad throw in after Aumua baulked. Maul v. good.
Only one promising run in broken play, but BB went for one of his miracle chips when a fast ruck might have split the English.
Couple of excellent Christie box kicks with Reece supplying the hit on catching Furbank.
Winning rugby, against which England offered little in attack in last 30.
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@Tordah said in All Blacks vs England I:
Last two penalties were so bad, should have been exactly the other way around (1st one, Christie should have won it - game over, second one ABs should have been penalised for off their feet).
They were only off feet after England had conceded the penalty. In fact they were only off feet because England had conceded the penalty.
