Bledisloe I (All Blacks team room bugged)
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<p>Were their also individual models too for each player?</p> -
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<p>I think there is another 35 points and more margin coming up!</p>
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<p>Among other interesting odds NZ TAB has</p>
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<p>ABs at $1.07; Wallabies at $7.50.</p>
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<p>Wallabies to take the Bledisloe $31</p>
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<p>They're giving the Wallabies 19.5 points headstart at evens.</p>
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<p> Ta$man are at $3.75 to beat Canterbury in ChCh, which looks bloody unlikely to me - but apparently twice as likely as the Wallabies!</p>
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<p>Might be worth a small bet on the Wallabies and some prayers for yellow cards. :)</p> -
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<p>Yep, the guy is a farking unit and a half. He should be wrecking ball but I'm not sure I've seen him ever break a tackle. His ball skills are also incredibly limited for a guy who used to be a back and used to force his brothers into help him practice passing.</p>
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<p>Not really - when you've got a private school system as blinkered as ours, as long as he was a bit bigger and stronger than most of his opponents, he'd be a great back in GPS.</p> -
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<blockquote class="ipsBlockquote" data-author="Virgil" data-cid="608383" data-time="1471935703"><p>Richie, Dan, Conrad, Ma'a, Kevin, Tony..</p></blockquote>And a bunch of the replacements are out too, and our hooker had a bunch of painkilling injections and couldn't scrummage or tackle that hard...
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<p>Also weirdly not physical in the tackle either.</p>
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<p>Obviously the bloke would take my head off, but in the tackle you don't see him able to be as dominant as a guy like Read or McCaw was and there really is no physical reason for that - it's simply technique/mindset. He doesn't wrap the potential offload and very rarely gets a guy moving backwards.</p>
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<p>I think part of that is his pilfer technique. Richie & George Smith were outstanding at making the tackle, sort of letting go, leaping to their feet & grabbing the ball. Pocock almost seems to want to give guys a little shove & let their momentum take them down while he remains standing the whole time - so he can then get straight on the ball. It works well for the 3 or 4 turnovers he gets, but it means his other 10 or 15 tackles have zero bite & let the opposition get front foot ball. Or worse bury him in a ruck.</p>
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<p>Its not helped by the overall lack of bite in the backrow, a lot of our turnovers to Read or Rodney or McCaw over the years came as they stepped in after Kaino or Collins had smashed a player backwards delaying the support players. No one is doing that hit for the Wallabies right now.</p> -
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<div style="font-family:inherit;"><span style="font-family:inherit;">But then their defence was a disaster, dropping off 38 tackles and conceding six tries.</span></div>
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<div style="font-family:inherit;"><span style="font-family:inherit;">So, almost as if the Wallabies coaches <em>thought</em> they had some new information about how the ABs might attack, but then that information turned out to be false...</span></div>
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<div style="font-family:inherit;"><span style="font-family:inherit;">Reminder: there was a six day gap between that bug in the AB rooms being discovered and being reported.</span></div>
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The bugging saga continues, with Aussie police not ruling out the bug being planted by someone in the NZ camp...
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I think they alerted the Hotel promptly but it was them that delayed telling the police?
I suspect you would want to find the source wouldn't you? ARU would want their 'good name' cleared, Hotel would want themselves cleared of any part in it....?
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The media love a good headline eh. "So have you ruled out the possibility that the ABs bugged themselves??" "We haven't ruled anything out, we are still investigating".
Headline: ABs bugged their own room!!!!!
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If only the players put as much effort in their skills sessions as the media does making asinine suggestions.
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@No-Quarter said in Bledisloe I (All Blacks team room bugged):
The media love a good headline eh. "So have you ruled out the possibility that the ABs bugged themselves??" "We haven't ruled anything out, we are still investigating".
Headline: ABs bugged their own room!!!!!
Aussie media desparate to make the ABs the villains.
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Man charged over All Blacks hotel bug
A man has been charged after a listening device was located in a room at a hotel in Sydney’s east last year. Police have been investigating allegations a listening device was located in a room at a hotel in Double Bay. They say a 51-year-old man had been arrested for public mischief to appear at Waverley Local Court on March 21. At the time of the alleged offence, the man was employed as a security consultant. The ABC says he was contracted by the All Blacks. The All Blacks stayed in the hotel in August last year and the discovery of a listening device dominated headlines on the day of the match against the Wallabies.
