All Blacks vs Wallabies 2
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Have become major fanboi of Wallace Sititi
Now has major expectations to be the next AB captain.
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Mehrts has lost weight
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It seems obvious already that the players who are going thrive most in Robertson's All Blacks environment are those who work hardest.
Which makes it all the more baffling and frustrating that some selections are based on reputations from three or four years ago.
Personally, I'm not worried of provincial bias, more out of date reputations and ultimately bad selections.
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How good is Caleb Clarke playing. Him and Jordan are on fire atm.
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How the All Blacks rated in Wellington win over Wallabies
OPINION: Who shone in the All Blacks' drought-ending win in the capital?
Ratima ranked a 5?
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@Darth-Sader said in All Blacks vs Wallabies 2:
How good is Caleb Clarke playing. Him and Jordan are on fire atm.
Caleb to 12, Rieko to 11...............or did I pick the wrong day to start taking Fentanyl.
Id love a Clarke type body at 12.
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@Jet said in All Blacks vs Wallabies 2:
@Darth-Sader said in All Blacks vs Wallabies 2:
How good is Caleb Clarke playing. Him and Jordan are on fire atm.
Caleb to 12, Rieko to 11...............or did I pick the wrong day to start taking Fentanyl.
Id love a Clarke type body at 12.
Ok John Mitchell. Settle down.
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@Jet said in All Blacks vs Wallabies 2:
Id love a Clarke type body at 12.
Sorry, this is the youngest-looking photo of her widely available, still quite a bit older than 12.
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@Horatio said in All Blacks vs Wallabies 2:
This is a classic Bledisloe fluffer match for the ABs. An awful, awful Wallabies side to give them confidence they aren't on the wrong trajectory ahead of an EOYT.
A real team would have punished them for some of the silly mistakes they made out there.
It's the same Wallabies side that didn't entirely get humped by the Springboks, and won away against Argentina. For 120 minutes we owned the Springboks. It may have just been the game they needed to answer some questions.
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@junior said in All Blacks vs Wallabies 2:
@Jet said in All Blacks vs Wallabies 2:
Beauden Barrett was NEVER a flyhalf.
His pace was so freakish that Wellington and the Allblacks just shrugged their shoulders and went with it.
He cannot control a game to save his life.
Hansen’s decision to bin off Cruden and pick BB as his 10 cost him a Lions series and a World Cup.
Ben Smith out of the team...
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@Jet said in All Blacks vs Wallabies 2:
@NTA said in All Blacks vs Wallabies 2:
The ABs won, and probably would have won without those couple of lapses by the Wallabies, however I think this AB team is papering over cracks, and running out of glue.
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Your scrum got slapped around by a guy on one leg. I think perhaps you're missing a big grunter with technical nous in your second row.
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I thought - besides Sititi's tearing runs - your backrow got outplayed. Savea did a couple of nice things but you surely can't keep Cane on.
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Your defensive lineout is good. Attacking lineout generally OK but if the 10th ranked team is picking you off, the top 6N sides are going to be licking their lips.
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This helter-skelter bullshit in general play isn't going to cut it against top opponents with patience and cohesion. There aren't many guys in the starting 8 who are rolling up their sleeves and smashing blokes TBH. I don't think the ABs were dominant in contact as many times as the scoreline might otherwise suggest.
I think Razor needs to be a bit honest with himself and his coaching panel and get these blokes to knuckle down or fuck off.
Agree with all of this.
I am really concerned about the EOYT particularly with your 4th point in mind.
Think about those final 38 or so phases against Ireland in the RWC that ended the game.
This iteration of the Allblacks concedes a try or gets a bloke carded after 4 or 5 of those phases.
We are all fur coat and no knickers.
We dont have bread and butter players like Kaino, or Nonu who we can just drop it off to, to make a guaranteed 4 yards and then recycle and go again. And even if we did have those players we dont have a pragmatist in the ten shirt who wont just kick it away at the first sight of pressure.
Similarly we dont have Kainos or Brad Thorns or Mealamus who dont take a backward step in defence.
Ardie for example seems to always want a judo match on D.
Remember when Read used to just bend at the hips and empty people in the midriff. Ardie wants to have a cuddle and a wrestle. For all his leg drive exploits too, I yearn for a Harry Wilson or Vermuelen type who winds up for a big carry and just plays with a bit of spite.
We lack starch on both sides of the ball, and that gets you nowhere against England Ireland and France away from home.
It was a step forward for this test no?
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@LatsToTheMax said in All Blacks vs Wallabies 2:
@Horatio said in All Blacks vs Wallabies 2:
This is a classic Bledisloe fluffer match for the ABs. An awful, awful Wallabies side to give them confidence they aren't on the wrong trajectory ahead of an EOYT.
A real team would have punished them for some of the silly mistakes they made out there.
It's the same Wallabies side that didn't entirely get humped by the Springboks, and won away against Argentina. For 120 minutes we owned the Springboks. It may have just been the game they needed to answer some questions.
It's the same Wallabies side that's ranked 10th in the world. The one we came close to losing to 2 weeks ago after leading 28-7 when we went to shit in the second half
In a dead rubber with nothing to lose this was the perfect game to try new players. Instead Robertson went safety-first with players past their best, learned little and, as far as questions are concerned, answered little
Some improvement in focus overall in this game (not hard considering the nadir of 2 weeks ago) but still nowhere near as good as we were this time last year.
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@Victor-Meldrew said in All Blacks vs Wallabies 2:
@LatsToTheMax said in All Blacks vs Wallabies 2:
@Horatio said in All Blacks vs Wallabies 2:
This is a classic Bledisloe fluffer match for the ABs. An awful, awful Wallabies side to give them confidence they aren't on the wrong trajectory ahead of an EOYT.
A real team would have punished them for some of the silly mistakes they made out there.
It's the same Wallabies side that didn't entirely get humped by the Springboks, and won away against Argentina. For 120 minutes we owned the Springboks. It may have just been the game they needed to answer some questions.
It's the same Wallabies side that's ranked 10th in the world. The one we came close to losing to 2 weeks ago after leading 28-7 when we went to shit in the second half
In a dead rubber with nothing to lose this was the perfect game to try new players. Instead Robertson went safety-first with players past their best, learned little and, as far as questions are concerned, answered little
Some improvement in focus overall in this game (not hard considering the nadir of 2 weeks ago) but still nowhere near as good as we were this time last year.
There goes the Chicken Little attitude. Was waiting for it. Dooomed I say, dooooomed!
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@Old-Samurai-Jack Bigger challenges are to come in the form of England, Ireland and France away. Today's performance against Australia was passable, but my advice is not to get carried away. We are going to be facing much better sides soon enough.
