Bledisloe I (All Blacks team room bugged)
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<br><br><blockquote class="ipsBlockquote" data-author="pakman" data-cid="607573" data-time="1471699099"><p>Are you implying,NTA, that it is rare that you can catch up with friends?<br>
As a fan lows come with the territory and in fact improve it. Just as long as not too low!!<br>
You may enjoy Kearns on scrummaging in second half. He's got his own personal overhead camera screen.</p></blockquote>
<br><br>- yeah it is unfortunately. In between all of us being in full-time work, the extracurricular shit with kids, family events, and associated rubbish, lining up everyone's calendar is actually quite difficult even for a Saturday night.<br><br>
- talking about "lows" is great when you've had practically none in the last 8 years I suppose :think: <br><br>
- doubt whether I'll find out. Unlikely to see a replay on FTA and have better things to spend two hours on, to be perfectly honest. The people whose opinions I respect have said basically everything I need to know on social media.
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Apparently this just happened <br><span style="color:rgb(50,61,79);">[font='Lucida Grande']<span style="font-size:8px;"><span style="background-color:rgb(220,225,229);"><br>
Merhts being asked for Oz needs to address: "I don't know. I'm trying to think of positives. The first positive is the game is over tonight. The second positive is that they did have one combination that worked really well. That was their thrower with the All Black jumpers. </span></span>[/font]</span></p></blockquote>
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Also, lineout steals make my dick hard</p></blockquote>
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<p>Yeah, kind of confused. Were the Wallabies that bad or were we that good. A bit of both I suspect. The Wallabies were so passive they wouldn't have beaten anyone tonight. Not sure club rugby in France is a good build up for a Bledisloe game. Kind of different to a World Cup where you can have a few warm up games and get up to speed.</p>
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<p>Thought Bono's try in the final was from the lineout AFTER Smith's card. Could be wrong though.<br><br><br>
On the game, great win. Good to not let the Wallabies get whatseems to be their traditional first win of the series.<br>
Hope we can back it up next week and secure the cup.<br><br>
Thought BB was good as was Cruden when he came on. Read back to his best. Most guys were good come to think of it. Except Fekitoa. Typical game from him really, some decent stuff but some panicy shit. He totally bombed that try before coles saved the day. Looked like he thought he could stroll in.<br><br>
Coles didn't look 100% (for onvious readons) there was one point in the first half where gave the ball early to his winger where he would usual try and draw the defender first. Having said that he was still pretty good.<br><br>
For all the talk of ABs midfield being the weakness, did Kuridrani catch a ball all night? Folau for me continues to rival Bono as the most over hyped player in the world. Went missing AGAIN. He is good but nowhere near as good as he gets hyped as.<br><br>
Will wait to see how the rest of the series goes before commenting on the wallabies too much but they appear to have some big issues. Bringing back semi retired guys who couldn't win the Bledisloe in their prime seems short sighted. Having a whinging captain who only plays 60mins seems like a silly choice and playing two garden gnomes in the back row and wondering why your lineout sucks seems idiotic.</p>
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<p>That is a pretty good summary I say, Pukunui.</p>
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<p>The hype about our littlies who attend the mid week scrum practice is a local phenomenon driven, I venture, by excitable schoolboys who have invested too heavily in selected player trading cards and who need to talk up their resale value. They see Folau take the high ball well and extrapolate from that like a man with malaria having hallucinations.</p>
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<p>Steve Hansen has the luxury now, and the vexing problem, of what to do with a team which is starting so well that it is capable of having the win in the bag by half time. Tonight they fell away markedly in focus, application and precision during the second half. The modern game is built around replacements so old excuses about combinations being disturbed no longer hold water.</p>
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<p>My comparative example is from another age however I don't recall Gary Whetton's blokes doing that - they were brutes by comparison. Not satisfied to merely wound the other side they went on with the slaughter right to the end.</p> -
<p>Well Fekitoa had an up and down game, Dagg made a few mistakes but most of the regulars looked superb.</p>
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2) talking about "lows" is great when you've had practically none in the last 8 years I suppose :think:<br>
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<p>Well, 1987 to 2011 was along time between drinks. </p>
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<blockquote class="ipsBlockquote" data-author="pakman" data-cid="607590" data-time="1471701594"><p>Well, 1987 to 2011 was along time between drinks. <br><br>
And attended every one of the losses!</p></blockquote>
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Besides the game in 99 where there Wallabies won by 21, and 1998 in general, not many of those games were the equivalent of 40+ point embarrassments. <br><br>
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<p>Some of the handling tonight, even when they didn't score (like just after halftime) was just frighteningly good, esopecially when you go back and realise it was the fucking fatties doing it not the flash harry backs like you initially though watching it on a dodgy Sky UK internet feed</p>
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<p>Its disappointing how poor Aust is now. They would make a good super rugby squad but not much more</p>
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<p>I said before that NZ B could beat them. This though would be a good game but I would still back the B's. Test between NZ and Aust as with most NZ / Aust super rugby clashes are becoming boring now.</p>
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<p>this is bad news for NZ rugby. maybe we could help them with some coaching advise. Maybe someone like Plumtree coudl be sent across to help out.</p> -
Great to see Read the psycho back again. <br><br>
Congrats Hames, put in a good shift too. <br><br>
Thought Cane warmed into the game, the motor on him is almost as good as Richie. Made some great carries too. <br><br>
Dagg had a poor game for him, seemed just one of those days when things would just go wrong. <br><br>
Thought Fekitoa was MUCH better. His defence was exceptional, made a few errors with the ball as usual but also handled it a lot more I thought and made a lot more good decisions than usual. Showed quite a few nice touches I thought, in a few scoring movements. -
<blockquote class="ipsBlockquote" data-author="Bones" data-cid="607182" data-time="1471685817"><p>Cruden to come on and tear it up. Fekitoa to have a blazing game, Crotty to prove he belongs. Hames and Savea to come on and make a blunder or two.</p></blockquote>
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<blockquote class="ipsBlockquote" data-author="Bones" data-cid="607599" data-time="1471705360"><p>Great to see Read the psycho back again. <br>
Congrats Hames, put in a good shift too. <br>
Thought Cane warmed into the game, the motor on him is almost as good as Richie. Made some great carries too. <br>
Dagg had a poor game for him, seemed just one of those days when things would just go wrong. <br>
Thought Fekitoa was MUCH better. His defence was exceptional, made a few errors with the ball as usual but also handled it a lot more I thought and made a lot more good decisions than usual. Showed quite a few nice touches I thought, in a few scoring movements.</p></blockquote>
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I agree with you Bones, I thought Fekitoa very good, a couple of errors but overall a very strong performance. I am still not convinced about Dagg and having Ben Smith wasted on the wing but I guess Naholo's injury gives Dagg another lifeline. Backrow and second row were outstanding. BB can't do much wrong these days. -
Some interesting comments from Cheika post game.<br><br>
" Cheika was most disappointed with his side’s poor defence, which missed 31 tackles - a reflection of the lack of mental toughness in the team last night."<br><br>
“I don’t think it’s about changing everything, it’s about getting the focus clearly on what’s important,†Cheika said.<br><br>
“I take responsibility for that, the mental preparation, that’s my domain and I’ve got to make sure the players are switched on to what is in focus"<br><br>
“And that’s why you would see me being very down, because I feel like I’ve let them down because I haven’t put them into a space where they’re going to do whatever it takes, especially around defence."<br><br>
And what space did you put them in? Any side playing the AB will focus on D. <br><br>
Does Cheika really believe it's just mental? He had a month to focus on what's important. Defence and perhaps a functioning lineout.<br><br>
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Hilarity. Me favourite part was the rugby we played straight after halftime. We didn't score, but it looked like we were playing a club side we were that dominant. <br></p></blockquote>
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