All Blacks vs England 2

[Canes4life]

De Groot, Ratima, Beauden all brill. Barrett, Taylor, Savea, Christie and Finau were well off it tonight.

[Chris]

@antipodean said in All Blacks vs England 2:

Does anyone still think Christie is a benefit? Anyone?

No No No

[booboo]

Ok, a bit luckier than last week. But deserved win.

[Tim]

Let's hear no more BS about Beauden Barrett being finished. He won that game.

Ratima looked good.

[BerniesCorner]

MOMs: DMac BB Ratima

[nostrildamus]

@Tim said in All Blacks vs England 2:

Let's hear no more BS about Beauden Barrett being finished he won that game.

Ratima looked good.

Yes. And Ratima looked very good.

[Damo]

I dunno what the England captain was on about there at the end. Even if it wasn't a PK (which it was) it was still held up over the line with time up.

[Rancid Schnitzel]

That was 2016 Beauden. Nice to see him back after all these years.

[KiwiMurph]

The semi final performance from Ratima should have shown he deserves faith.

He's a talent

[MiketheSnow]

Well played NZ

As in the first test it was there for England but when it mattered they didn't capitalise on territory or possession.

NZ had the far better bench and it counted

Great teams find a way to win

[Kirwan]

@Tim said in All Blacks vs England 2:

Let's hear no more BS about Beauden Barrett being finished. He won that game.

Ratima looked good.

He was magnificent. He was the difference tonight, got us into the right areas and magic on attack.

[kiwiinmelb]

@Nepia said in All Blacks vs England 2:

Phew, I think I care more about Eden Park record than world cups. I was there for the try from the end of the world.

It’s funny , my first two test matches live were both losses at eden park ,

One to the Aussies and one to the frogs in the 70s

[ACT Crusader]

Great lift in the second half.

England played well for good portions of the game.

Nice to see our bench make the impact.

Beaudie’s much maligned kicking game gave us a some territory (finally)

[African Monkey]

Good finish. Obviously the credit all goes to the reserves, but for all the criticism that the starters are gonna get, they did their jobs at blunting things out there before the bench came on and struck.

[BerniesCorner]

Need to find a 6
Ratima starts
Impressed with Vaai too

[stodders]

@antipodean Vern Cotter? I’ll get my coat 😬

[chimoaus]

Ratima and Roigard. The double Rs will serve us well going forward.

[Frank]

Papalii was immense.
Honorable metions to Ratima, DMac and BB.

[Tim]

Super Rugby coaching doesn't mean much at international level. These guys look out of their depth. Forwards poor for a lot of the game.

I would say McKenzie is a poor game manager, but there wasn't much of a game plan to manage.

[Chris]

@Tim said in All Blacks vs England 2:

Let's hear no more BS about Beauden Barrett being finished. He won that game.

Ratima looked good.

Yeah Fair call he made a big difference.