All Blacks vs Fiji
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Yup, the team who have beaten England and Australia in the last 9 months 😉
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@Canes4life said in All Blacks vs Fiji:
@antipodean said in All Blacks vs Fiji:
@Canes4life said in All Blacks vs Fiji:
@reprobate said in All Blacks vs Fiji:
@Bones said in All Blacks vs Fiji:
Tosi made almost as many tackles as Blackadder, Blackadder accounts for almost 20% of missed tackles.
Yeah he had a great game.
Or, attempted more tackles than anyone else - despite lacking match fitness and 'couldn't keep up', 'struggled with the pace'.
Meanwhile Proctor misses 3 and is the messiah who needs to urgently replace one of our best players from the WC (and I say that as a long time Ioane doubter).Read into those stats all you like but a couple of those misses weren't necessarily one on one misses. Proctor put himself into a few situations where, because of his high work rate off the ball he made a couple lunges on the next player out after covering the guy he was marking up on. Maybe he shouldn't have made those attempts and let the player who was meant to be covering those guys take the hit, but that's the sort of player Proctor is, he always pushes hard.
He's the best defensive centre in NZ and that's the biggest reason he's been picked.
He got easily stepped and beaten in the last play of the game.
What, the last play where he managed to nab back possession anyway? You’re really knit picking his performance.
It think it was quite refreshing to have a centre actually executing the core skills of a centre.
It was. Proctor had an outstanding game. Of course against limited opposition but he couldn't have done more
Two of his misses were, as you said, VG attempts. Unsure about the third miss
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@antipodean said in All Blacks vs Fiji:
He played reasonably well against Fiji
So one rating was 9/10. Another 8/10. Don't agree with all rating but maybe you need to understand centre play better. Or watch more closely
All Blacks player ratings: Debutant sends ‘warning’ to Rieko Ioane after ‘remarkably’ good shift
Following the All Blacks’ 47-5 win over Fiji in San Diego, here are our player ratings for the New Zealand side.
13 Billy Proctor: Player of the match on debut and some warning to Rieko Ioane that his jersey is not safe. Proctor looked potent as if he was going to cut through the defence with every carry, beating eight defenders and nearly making 100 metres with the ball. This all culminated in a try and two try assists for a man who has just made Scott Robertson’s selection process a lot harder. A remarkably good start to his Test career. 9
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I thought Proctor was great but kudos to ALB for giving him some quality ball and space.
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Ahh the joys of statistics.
EB tackles 7/4 horrific and almost 20% of all missed tackles
Aumua great performance but still only has a 50% tackle rate.
Not happy for a 7 to have a 7/4 tackle rate but equally amazed that a hooker only manages 50%It was such a different game from the last two weeks, pressure, space, defensive approach that its very hard to compare the performances.
Well done the new guys who had their chances and performed well though.
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@Lancaster-Park At least the lineout functioned!
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@Machpants said in All Blacks vs Fiji:
@Lancaster-Park At least the lineout functioned!
Itoje wasn't playing for Fiji, and I don't remember Fiji competing in the lineouts too often. Let's wait until the RC before knowing if the lineout is functioning.
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@Bovidae said in All Blacks vs Fiji:
@Machpants said in All Blacks vs Fiji:
@Lancaster-Park At least the lineout functioned!
Itoje wasn't playing for Fiji, and I don't remember Fiji competing in the lineouts too often. Let's wait until the RC before knowing if the (insert aspect of the game) is functioning
This feels like the comment that should be on auto reply to anyone blowing Proctor or any of the players (even my boy ALB).
Fiji barely showed up and had almost no line speed. Unsurprisingly, our backs looked a million dollars with plenty of clean front-foot ball and no rush defence.
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@gt12 said in All Blacks vs Fiji:
@Bovidae said in All Blacks vs Fiji:
@Machpants said in All Blacks vs Fiji:
@Lancaster-Park At least the lineout functioned!
Itoje wasn't playing for Fiji, and I don't remember Fiji competing in the lineouts too often. Let's wait until the RC before knowing if the (insert aspect of the game) is functioning
This feels like the comment that should be on auto reply to anyone blowing Proctor or any of the players (even my boy ALB).
Fiji barely showed up and had almost no line speed. Unsurprisingly, our backs looked a million dollars with plenty of clean front-foot ball and no rush defence.
yeah, yeah I know that, but MY player was amazing! Didn't you see them!
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@Winger said in All Blacks vs Fiji:
@antipodean said in All Blacks vs Fiji:
He played reasonably well against Fiji
So one rating was 9/10. Another 8/10. Don't agree with all rating but maybe you need to understand centre play better. Or watch more closely
Given I played at centre more than any other position I feel I understand it well enough.
Again for the slow: It was a game destined to make the All Blacks look competent when contrasted against the England series. The team that played against England would've revelled in the acres of time and space afforded them by Fiji's defence.
But maybe you need to understand rugby better, or watch more closely.
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@reprobate said in All Blacks vs Fiji:
There are times when I come here and feel like I must have watched a completely different game to others.
Thought Blackadder was good. He showed more running and linking than any loose forward in our first 3 tests. Yes, short of a gallop, but that's to be expected. Yeah, it's only an understrength Fiji. But for chrissakes people are claiming he lost the ball twice because he made ground and the cleaners didn't get there? terrible play getting yourself isolated with all that go-forward that people have been crying out for there mate, better reign it in.
Sititi looked good too, but needs an even stronger disclaimer as that's against an understrength Fiji that were beaten about 40 minutes before he even took the field.
Jacobson won some lineouts; against an understrength Fiji who weren't really competing. Doesn't really strike me as a compelling argument. I don't really see why you would pick all three of Dalton, Cane, Jacobson.
Proctor is getting raved about, but I saw several instances where he didn't find his outsides - pretty similar to those that created discussion of Ioane being dropped last week...against a far better side. I thought he played solidly, and generally a debutante choosing to hang onto the ball rather than throw a pass he's not confident of isn't a bad thing - but fuck me the provincial bias in posting is strong this year.
ALB was good.
Clarke was good.
Aumua was good.
Hope Ratima's head is okay.Don't agree with all points, (thought EB was below par) but plenty enough for an upvote.
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@DaGrubster said in All Blacks vs Fiji:
Yup, the team who have beaten England and Australia in the last 9 months 😉
Worth a mention but the gap between the top five and the rest is pretty big these days
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@nzzp Pretty much what this thread has become.
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@antipodean said in All Blacks vs Fiji:
@Winger said in All Blacks vs Fiji:
@antipodean said in All Blacks vs Fiji:
He played reasonably well against Fiji
So one rating was 9/10. Another 8/10. Don't agree with all rating but maybe you need to understand centre play better. Or watch more closely
Given I played at centre more than any other position I feel I understand it well enough.
Again for the slow: **It was a game destined to make the All Blacks look competent when contrasted against the England series * . The team that played against England would've revelled in the acres of time and space afforded them by Fiji's defence. *
But maybe you need to understand rugby better, or watch more closely.
Can sort of agree with this (but that wasn't the issue). But what about Reece. And even in a game like this players can still show skills they have that others lack. Like Proctor and his distribution and decision making. Maybe these will desert Proctor in a tight match but I hope he starts next match so we can see
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@African-Monkey said in All Blacks vs Fiji:
@nzzp Pretty much what this thread has become.
yeah, yeah I know, but MY posts are awesome and totally right
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If we are going to move RI to the wing ....... which of the four current squad wings does he replace?
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@nzzp said in All Blacks vs Fiji:
yeah, yeah I know that, but MY player was amazing! Didn't you see them!
I thought all the All Blacks played good. But how good was Newell, Williams, Bell, Scott Barrett, Darry, Blackadder, Hotham, Reece
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@ACT-Crusader said in All Blacks vs Fiji:
@nzzp said in All Blacks vs Fiji:
yeah, yeah I know that, but MY player was amazing! Didn't you see them!
I thought all the All Blacks played good. But how good was Newell, Williams, Bell, Scott Barrett, Darry, Blackadder, Hotham, Reece
Darry?
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@African-Monkey said in All Blacks vs Fiji:
@ACT-Crusader said in All Blacks vs Fiji:
@nzzp said in All Blacks vs Fiji:
yeah, yeah I know that, but MY player was amazing! Didn't you see them!
I thought all the All Blacks played good. But how good was Newell, Williams, Bell, Scott Barrett, Darry, Blackadder, Hotham, Reece
Darry?
Darry plays for Canterbury?
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@ACT-Crusader said in All Blacks vs Fiji:
@nzzp said in All Blacks vs Fiji:
yeah, yeah I know that, but MY player was amazing! Didn't you see them!
I thought all the All Blacks played good. But how good was Newell, Williams, Bell, Scott Barrett, Darry, Blackadder, Hotham, Reece
Made to look good by their North Island teammates...
