All Blacks vs Ireland
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The only changes to the starting XV I expect are due to the concussions to Taylor and Barrett.
Can see Lakai getting a shot from the bench in place of Finau (though it's possible Blackadder is back). Otherwise, Bell and Perofeta joining the bench if Aumua and McKenzie start.
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Nic Berry (Australia)
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If you don’t pick your best 15 to start then it doesn’t matter who you bring on to finish the game will be done.
Ireland are not England.
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@MiketheSnow said in All Blacks vs Ireland:
If you don’t pick your best 15 to start then it doesn’t matter who you bring on to finish the game will be done.
Ireland are not England.
True, England beat Ireland at Twickenham earlier this year...
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@BerniesCorner said in All Blacks vs Ireland:
1
De Groot
2 Taylor
3 Lomax
4 S. Barrett (c)
5. Vaii
6. Sititi
7. Lakai
8. Savea
9. Roigard
10. DMac
11. Caleb Clarke
12. Jordie Barrett
13. Proctor
14 Reiko Ioane
15. Will JordanHearing that won't happen.
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@kidcalder said in All Blacks vs Ireland:
Leave Roigard on the bench as we need impact and he can bring it.
Ratima may not have been great v England but has played well all year
Poss look at bringing CR on with 30min to go rather than 20?I think Cam gets them moving quicker and is more aggressive, be a shame for him to have less minutes.
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@kidcalder said in All Blacks vs Ireland:
Leave Roigard on the bench as we need impact and he can bring it.
Ratima may not have been great v England but has played well all year
Poss look at bringing CR on with 30min to go rather than 20?No way.
Cam is just better.
A more confident player and leader.
Ratima can come in to speed the game up (although he was too slow clearing in this game) -
@nostrildamus said in All Blacks vs Ireland:
@kidcalder said in All Blacks vs Ireland:
Leave Roigard on the bench as we need impact and he can bring it.
Ratima may not have been great v England but has played well all year
Poss look at bringing CR on with 30min to go rather than 20?I think Cam gets them moving quicker and is more aggressive, be a shame for him to have less minutes.
Or do we stop looking at this in terms of better players start? The second unit played very well to kill off the game. In fact I liked their pattern better than the first half team. Cam could come on at half time. DMac was very assured when he came on too, a real impact. Patty T too
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@canefan Exactly
The bench is the 2nd wave that can also contain what Joe public think as the better players - they come on and change the pace and tempo.
They lift the guys around them and thats what we have been missing all year in that final 20min....finally looks like we may have got it right and people want to change again to having lesser players coming off the bench -
@kidcalder I don't think that's the case at all. Pretty bizarre selecting a poor player to start, just so the guy that replaces him is better.
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@reprobate said in All Blacks vs Ireland:
25 minutes for the best players and 55 for the lesser ones? No thanks.
Genuinely how I see it, feels like I'm being gaslit.
Should we have brought in Lomu/Cullen/Carter off the bench because they'll be SUPER effective against tired defenders??
I was already pissed off enough that we only gave Roigard/Dmac 20 minutes to try get us out of the hole the starters put us in.
No surprise every game Dmac has started this year we were prone to building big leads and then our bench not finishing. I don't think the reverse of that is better by bringing in inferior bench players to START the first 60.
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