The Silver Fern

@Landers92 said in Italy v All Blacks:

@frugby said in Italy v All Blacks:

I would have liked to have seen Bell, Holland etc. get a game, but other than it being nice for them and their families, I am not sure it proves anything, because of the level of opposition, and the fact the next test is 9 months after this

And playing your near full strength squad does?

ALL BLACKS: v ITALY 2004 EOYT
S. Taumoepeau
A. D. Oliver
C. J. Hayman
C. R. Jack
N. M. C. Maxwell
J. Collins
R. H. McCaw
M. M. Tuiali'i
B. T. Kelleher
D. W. Carter
J. T. Rokocoko
J. F. Umaga (C)
C. G. Smith
R. L. Gear
J. M. Muliaina

@Landers92 said in Italy v All Blacks:

22 David Havili

L’Arma

@BerniesCorner said in Italy v All Blacks:

@brodean said in Italy v All Blacks:

None of those teams played as well as France. None of them have the same ceiling.

I'm still frustrated with the French result. We had it.
DMac first five, Love at 15, Jordan and Clarke on the wings. Our attack certainly would've been different with those players.
Anyway it's done

Not that I think he was playing a stormer, watching a replay, when we lost Jordie the French backline defence did change. For whatever reason we had a bit more space to work with when he was on. These are small margins but that’s often the difference with these sort of matches. We looked sped up rather than playing more methodical.

@mariner4life said in All Blacks v France:

@BerniesCorner said in All Blacks v France:

What was the point in subbing Roigard

I reckon it was fitness. He just doesn't have the miles in the legs to play at that level yet.

There was a play around the 46-47th minute that I thought he missed his assignment. Standard sort of play. Not a reason to get subbed, but I think they knew that short of injury or something else, they wanted/needed 50 solid minutes.

Cortez had more in his tank. He’s had some lessons over the last couple of months. The highs and lows of test footy and playing very well (with little expectation as a NKOTB) to closing out a big test in a hostile atmosphere.

@Number-10 said in New Zealand v Italy:

They could’ve at least timed it for 11:59pm NZT on THURSDAY 21 Nov

One of the more disgusting reffing displays I’ve seen for some time.

Well done France for being on the better end of it.

Neck roll?????

Forward

Even that one we just won, he was so quick to call it. Very inconsistent.

Now on third restart we just need to run into a French player.

We warned this would happen - just run to a player on a kick and you will milk a penalty

Williams didn’t need to make that pass though. He had beat the man and just needed to keep going forward with his momentum.

This ref screaming instructions instead of blowing his whistle.

@Jet said in All Blacks v France:

@akan004 said in All Blacks v France:

Fuck France scores. Reece is such a liability.

They left the “access” for him under the new rules. Kahui or Corey Jane or Julian Savea would have folded him like a deck chair.

Haha Jane never folded anyone, spent his career tackling guys around the boot laces. The other two yes.

Better from Reece around the fringes.

Bring PT on

@Mattasaurus said in All Blacks v France:

@ACT-Crusader said in All Blacks v France:

This ref……

whats the issue?( i am not trolling- genuinely interested to hear )

Took him what 30+ minutes to call his first offside against the French who had been camping on our side for the whole half.

Then his unwillingness to call obvious infringements at the breakdown. Not surprised by that because watching him ref previously he’s shown to be out of his depth in that area.

This ref……

@gt12 Sivivatu is the one I remember from that test too. Had the swerve and power game going on.

Interestingly looking at the match review, we barely played our bench that test. 5 of the 7 bench players came on less than 8 minutes to play. Boric and Owen Franks came on with 15 minutes to go and Franks got YC’d with 5 to go.

@canefan said in All Blacks v France:

@Canes4life said in All Blacks v France:

@His-Bobness said in All Blacks v France:

Oh no, not the white jerseys again. They’re like kryptonite, draining the power of the blackness. And don’t France know that? We used to play them all the time without the need to change strips. Think back to the 1987 WC final. France were in their mid-blue jerseys with the racing stripes down the arms. Then at some point they decided to go the deepest navy blue. Isn’t there a colour coordinating commandant employed by World Rugby to prevent these clashes? How can they be All Blacks if not all in black? It’s a conspiracy I tell you! Although at least they have not reverted to the revolting grey kit they wore in the 2007 QF against the French. The All Greys.

I recall a game the ABs played out of their skins in Marseille back in 2009 when they were in white, a lot of players saw that game as a turning point which eventually lead to the success at the 2011 WC.

Hopefully a similar result in the weekend will be the making of this side as well.

Much better than the game in 2007 when we played in grey

In saying that 2007 was probably a turning point for our coaches

Sunday morning prediction: Beauden Barrett MOTM, All Blacks win by 17 points.