All Blacks vs Ireland
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No Procter again. Cam should have started. Love should have been on the bench.
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@Jailbreak7 Proctor went home for the birth of his child
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@Jailbreak7 said in All Blacks vs Ireland:
No Procter again. Cam should have started. Love should have been on the bench.
I'm not convinced Roigard is 100% match fit - took a while to get up to full speed when he came on against England Think they are being very careful with him.
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@Jailbreak7 said in All Blacks vs Ireland:
No Procter again. Cam should have started. Love should have been on the bench.
I'm a gazillion times more comfortable with Perofeta covering ten. Love hasn't played there in years has he? And he was pretty poor.
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@Billy-Tell 100% correct.
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@Jet said in All Blacks vs Ireland:
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@Kiwidom said in All Blacks vs Ireland:
@KiwiMurph LOL , yeah am sure the allblacks are pretrified this week. Kearney is the same eijit who said before the quarter final last year not one single allblacks player was better than any Irish player
Why would the All Blacks be scared of a team that's never made it further than a WC quarter-final? Kearny is a moron.
I really hope the ABs pull out their performance of the year and put these guys in their place. The Irish fans on social media are even worse than the English, they believe their own hype and are still dining out on that test series win in New Zealand which now feels like a decade ago.
They have a selective morality too.....
No mention of breaking Retallicks eye socket, Aki concussing Tungafasi with a head high dangerous cleanout or Sean O Brien sparking Naholo out in the Lions tour with his Matfield esque padded forearm.
And they are just off the top of my head.They are a whinging bunch of Karmeichel Hunts.
They should tarmac the kip to make a car park for England.
The SOB incident ought to have been straight red.
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@JayCee said in All Blacks vs Ireland:
Man, what did EDG do, or is he injured this time?
Edit: nope! "Unavailable due to injury: Codie Taylor (concussion), Beauden Barrett (concussion), Ethan Blackadder (calf), Luke Jacobson (fractured thumb) and Dalton Papali'i (upper hamstring) "
Odd that the three crocked loosies referred to despite not being in Dublin?
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@Victor-Meldrew said in All Blacks vs Ireland:
@Jailbreak7 said in All Blacks vs Ireland:
No Procter again. Cam should have started. Love should have been on the bench.
I'm not convinced Roigard is 100% match fit - took a while to get up to full speed when he came on against England Think they are being very careful with him.
Quite rightly.
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@JayCee said in All Blacks vs Ireland:
Man, what did EDG do, or is he injured this time?
Edit: nope! "Unavailable due to injury: Codie Taylor (concussion), Beauden Barrett (concussion), Ethan Blackadder (calf), Luke Jacobson (fractured thumb) and Dalton Papali'i (upper hamstring) "
They should have sent him home, unless he is there for live scrummaging practice only.
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The AB's are in town with a lot of matches under their belt and improving every game. Ireland haven't played together since July, bench is weak and Furlong is a big loss. On the other hand, Ireland haven't lost at the Aviva since Feb '21 in a two point defeat to France.
Without Schmidt's influence, who was a big factor in the quarter final win, I feel this is a weaker side. Ireland are generally more cohesive. AB's have the better individual players and without doubt this is the game they will have targeted most in the november series. Lots of contradictions but it makes up for one very interesting game. Hopefully more entertaining than last week's which was pretty dire.
Edit: I also have tickets for this game so will be the first time ever seeing the haka in person and cannot bloody wait!
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Massive game for razors coaching set up .
Ireland are a team that play smart
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@The-Irishman said in All Blacks vs Ireland:
@Frye They will drown it out with The Fields of Athenry, no booing.
They version is not a patch on ‘the fields of Anfield road’ 😃
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Vaa’i was pretty ineffective around the park on Saturday but the lineout completely fell apart after he left the field in the 41st minute. The same scenes of a comically bad lineout reappeared for the first time since the Eden Park game against England. The common theme isn’t the hooker (Taylor at Eden Park, Aumua at Twickenham) but Scott Barrett’s role as lineout caller. On Saturday, he was at times massively overcomplicating the calls – the NZ lineout around 52 minutes took nearly 10 seconds after the call and consisted of multiple fakes none of which fooled the English lineout defenders, only for Aumua to throw it way over the top – and when he wanted to go quick by calling for a throw to the front, his timing with Aumua was completely off.
So it makes sense that Vaa’i starts because he has become central to the NZ lineout being somewhat functional, and the ABs cannot afford a completely dysfunctional lineout against Ireland. But I think Tuipulotu has made enough of a case to start. At 31 years old, he’s now the Blues captain, a Super Rugby champion and a one-time AB captain, and he has reached his prime years as a tight five forward. While Wallace Sititi fully deserved his Man of the Match-award on Saturday, there were really two Men of the Match, with Tuipulotu being the other. People have (strangely enough) compared Sititi to Kaino but there was only one All Black channeling his inner Jerome on Saturday and that was when Tuipulotu pretty much murdered George Furbank at the 77th minute in broad Twickenham daylight. While many have now claimed that the bench issue is finally resolved, I don’t really see how you can leave his carrying and tackling on the bench.
So, for me, it would’ve made sense to put Tuipulotu at five, shift Scott Barrett to six, Savea to seven and Sititi to eight, with Cane taking a spot on the bench. Cane played reasonably well against England (his second half breakdown turnover was crucial) and several players have complimented his leadership, but Sititi is the most dangerous player at the moment, Tuipulotu is dominating the collisions and Ardie Savea is still playing at a really high level. Scott Barrett has his detractors but I think he is playing well enough in his role. While he would be wearng the six jersey on his back, in reality Tuipulotu would be carrying out the hard carrying and tackling more typically associated with the blindside. And until someone else comes along who can effectively call lineouts, Vaa’i will keep on starting. So Cane is the one who would drop out.
By putting Tuipulotu on the bench, Robertson has made it harder for himself against Ireland than I think it needed to be. That said, the Crusaders with Razor at the helm were able to ride the waves of emotional victory better than any team I’ve seen, even when his teams didn’t always seem that convincing on paper. It’ll be interesting to see what happens on Friday.
