MotM vs Australia I
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Amazing from Coles to play that well when in truth still injured and in lots of pain. BB was also fantastic and is developing rapidly into a great All Blakcs first five. All the forwards were excellent, but I thought Kaino deserved the nod for that extra bit of Beast.
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<p>Hard to pick with the forwards but looking at Kaino it was like he is not that old. Great defence and of course the charge down try combo. Read for being in the grind and plain exceptional in all phases of the game. Barret because he creates things and really no one could complain about his option taking as first five. He is all that and more. A caveat on things though was that the Aussies were shite.</p>
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<p>Read, Kaino and Barrett but could just have easily been Crockett (who I focused on for a good while, ambling about being bloody useful) and both Crotty and Cane for being pedestrian and past it.</p>
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<p>BB, Read and BBBR. Always good to see the forwards dominate this poll.</p>
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<p>Very tough to pick this week, so many standouts. These were my picks too. Honourable mentions to Cane and A Smith.</p>
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<p>Even the players getting a little bit of grief: Dagg and Fekitoa, I reckon went alright. Personally, I don't think Fekitoa would be playing if we didn't have so many injuries, but we did so he stepped up and went pretty good. If you play the game at 100mph, you'll make mistakes but hopefully the good outweighs the bad. I'm sure he played a big role in all the errors Aus made with his linespeed.</p>
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<p>I thought Dagg went well. Yep, he made mistakes... but as a result of him attacking and trying things, which I can handle.</p> -
<p>I'm waiting until I can watch a replay after only seeing the game at the ground. But, got home last night and my recordings of this match and the SA v Arg match fucked up but the Warriors didn't. Stupid Foxtel box, also had to re-set it twice this morning to find all my recordings.</p>
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<p>At the ground I thought Retallick, Broden, and Coles were the best three but I'd prefer to vote after watching tv version. I also thought Read and Cane went well, although from the distance I was at I sometimes muddled them up!</p> -
<p>BB, Aaron Smith and Kaino for me. Read hot on their heels. Kaino is playing like he's getting younger!!</p>
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<p>our 3rd string hooker ended up playing a fair chunk of that game
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<p>Barrett, Retallick and Read but it could have been Coles, Kaino and Whitelock !</p>
<p>Barrett did the spectacular but the forwards paved the way for him. The Nr.10 jersey is his now despite his kicking issues (Cruden not better anyway in that department). He is currently the most influental player in the world IMO.</p> -
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<p>Kaino, Coles and Cane and only Cane because it roles off the tongue better after Kaino and Coles.</p>
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<p>I was on Cane watch and after a couple of early mistakes he was huge. Fuck that man has a motor on him.</p> -
<p>Whitelock, Barrett, Read</p>
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<p>Kaino would be 4th</p> -
<p>When Kaino retires, he will be hard to replace. I know there are a lot of good sixes in NZ (Dixon, Squire, Luatua, Taufua, Shields, Seu, Fifita, Sanders) but none of them can terrorize the ball carriers as Kaino does. None of them has his physicality (Luatua maybe) nor his technical abilities. I think he is the perfect 6 while most of the others have issues in their game (Dixon and Squire can go missing sometimes, Taufua is not big enough, Shields has tits for hands, Seu and Fifita do not have the required physicality yet, Sanders misses too many tackles). Luatua is the one who resembles most to Kaino IMO.</p>
