All Blacks vs Wallabies I

Machpants

@KiwiInLondon said in All Blacks vs Wallabies I:

The mental strength of this team is pathetic

I can visualise Lansdowne, Stade de France and Twickenham.

I'll be at the game in Dublin.

We are in big big trouble.

My step dad is Irish., Gran channel Islands (close to France), mum is English

Sorted

LatsToTheMax

We left i think 4 tries. A couple of absolute howlers of last passes and a couple wiped off and Ardie being held up. This game should have been put to bed categorically by half time. Yet again in the 2nd 40 just shat the bed. It's beyond ridiculous now.

Jet

Gregan must be filthy losing the record to such mediocrity.

nostrildamus

Does anyone else think SB doesn't have the venom and impact he had last year, is he carrying a niggle or scared of a card?

sparky

@pjay said in All Blacks vs Wallabies I:

Having watched that I can’t see us winning a game on EOYT. Maybe we’ll see Robertson paid out then

I think we might scrap past Italy, but it will be a close game.

mariner4life

@nostrildamus said in All Blacks vs Wallabies I:

Does anyone else think SB doesn't have the venom and impact he had last year, is he carrying a niggle or scared of a card?

He's invisible.

Kruse

Shit, that really feels like a loss.
Sorry aussies - that sounds really arrogant even to myself.
But it does... I've genuinely got that empty feeling that comes with a loss.

nostrildamus

@sparky said in All Blacks vs Wallabies I:

@pjay said in All Blacks vs Wallabies I:

Having watched that I can’t see us winning a game on EOYT. Maybe we’ll see Robertson paid out then

I think we might scrap past Italy, but it will be a close game.

I don't think Italy have the tipsy topsy weaponry of Australia.

canefan

Mils is saying we are trying too hard, and playing too much. That there's a time and place for percentage rugby. I agree with all of that

sparky

@nostrildamus said in All Blacks vs Wallabies I:

Does anyone else think SB doesn't have the venom and impact he had last year, is he carrying a niggle or scared of a card?

He's Samsonite Mark 2.

nostrildamus

Our midfield defense seemed to fold in the second half.

kev

That TMO decision could have been really important….

Rancid Schnitzel

I'm just here for the meltdowns. Jesus fellas

Frank

@canefan said in All Blacks vs Wallabies I:

Mils is saying we are trying too hard, and playing too much. That there's a time and place for percentage rugby. I agree with all of that

Game plan seems to have been built around DMac's rather chaotic playing style.

kev

Celebrating success? That was a shit show.

barky1

@nostrildamus He's too dumb to even consider that

Kirwan

Argentina put 67 on this team

canefan

@Frank said in All Blacks vs Wallabies I:

@canefan said in All Blacks vs Wallabies I:

Mils is saying we are trying too hard, and playing too much. That there's a time and place for percentage rugby. I agree with all of that

Game plan seems to have been built around DMac's rather chaotic playing style.

Razor has gone on record saying things such as Test rugby should be entertaining, he wants to play champagne rugby as well. Just not respecting the basixs IMHO

Victor Meldrew

Well, whatever the problems are with the ABs, from what we've seen so far, Robertson really doesn't look to be the rugby savant, the super-coach with the magic solution, game-plans and blender of teams with mental skills for tough moments, does he?

After the peak of the RWC Final, we've gone backwards at an alarming rate and the excuses about players like Whitelock and Smith retiring don't wash. The best players today were their replacements.

Give Robertson more time by all means, but NZR needs a drains-up review of this team's performance to find what exactly is wrong, how to fix it, and - if the coaching team is up to the job - give them the support they need.

MN5

@nta will be gutted he missed that comeback, especially when you consider he’s gone to watch a band who’s sole claim to fame is a shitty cover of ‘Black Betty’

The Silver Fern

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