@Jailbreak7 said in All Blacks v England:
@Wairau said in All Blacks v England:
@canefan Now?
Pack down a scrum, waste 5 minutes, keep England in their 22 and win the match, or take a stupid DG. Mistake by BB.That's what I actually thought we were going to do, some sensible stuff. Then I saw BB set for the DG.....
To be fair to BB he probably didn’t have a crystal ball telling him he would be sent off in the next minute. 25-6 should have been a winning margin for a good team
Also I reckon Scott Barrett is probably the best kicker in his family at the moment
I would just like to commend Shag for going to go and have a chat to the Wallaby lads recently. Now mate if you could just do the same over at the Irish, Saffa and French camps also that would be much appreciated.
Couldn’t let the day go by without a special mention to one of our GOAT athletes - inspirational person over her career and deserves all of the accolades that came her way. I am sure she will be around to carry on her good work with many more up and coming stars for a long time to come. Thanks Dame Val and enjoy some quality family time.
Cracker of a day for it
Not sure if this got mentioned earlier in thread but well done to French Rugby for showing some in the Northern Hemisphere still embrace and respect the Haka by literally putting it in the spotlight
thought this looked pretty awesome - well done team
@Crucial said in RWC: Wales v France (QF 3):
@Billy-Tell said in RWC: Wales v France (QF 3):
I for one am disappointed. SA vs FRA is more appetising than Wales. I haven’t sent anything from Wales this RWC to suggest they’ll beat SA.
I would have liked to see SA v ENG. Reckon that would be a hard battle of similar styles.
jesus be careful what you wish for!!
Francois Steyn I think deserves the credit for that win
Surely Lisa Carrington is our greatest Olympian of all time
@Kirwan said in Final: Blues vs Crusaders:
@Chris-B said in Final: Blues vs Crusaders:
@taniwharugby said in Final: Blues vs Crusaders:
@Jailbreak7 thing was, the Crusaders denied the blues any opportunity to show thier game plan.
It started with the lineout, Whitelock owned it, psyched out Eklund and the blues jumpers, allowing total domination, then everything flowed on from there.
It was a masterclass from the senior players in the saders and Razor, hopefully will give Fozzie some ideas cos the Blues looked overawed like the ABS were at times last year.
I thought the starting point was the rain.
My biggest concern was the Blues speed through the midfield - Ioane and Barrett aided by RTS and Perofeta. The rain shut down opportunities for slick handling to put these guys in any space and the smothering defence took care of the rest.
The lineout starving the Blues of possession and territory obviously a serious factor.
For us pretty much everyone played well or very well - I thought probably one exception who shall remain nameless.
Some of the wet weather handling was phenomenal, but even then we struggled getting the ball wide regularly
Interesting to hear Sam Whitelock giving the credit for the defensive lineout tactics to Strange and Grace.
You have to wonder whether Fozzie might have reconsidered his front row selections if he was picking his team tomorrow.
Pretty fair, and I sort of alluded to that as well. In dryer weather, our backs could build pressure to respond to any issues in the forwards. The last two games have blunted that with poor weather and needed to rely more on set piece.
An area to improve, and we’ve been seeing incremental improvements each year. Blues are still a good team, Crusaders were better on the night, and in those conditions.
Of course it bloody blue skys and lovely today. FFS.
Can you blame the weather though? Crusaders backs still seemed to be able to run and pass well in the same conditions
ahh so that is what happens when you pressure them at the lineout
@ploughboy said in All Blacks 2022:
@duluth said in All Blacks 2022:
from the nzh article posted earlier:
It is thought his role will likely see him help head coach Ian Foster analyse opposition sides and develop strategic plans to help the All Blacks build the tactical blueprints they will need to succeed against teams who stylistically present a different challenge to the ruck and run rugby preferred throughout Australasia.sounds like a attack coach
So from that paragraph I can deduce that they (NZRFU) have realised that Foster needs help in what are probably his core responsibilities i.e analysing oppositions and developing plans and tactics
Looks like he is winning off the field also
I thought Bridge had a pretty handy game, always took a couple of defenders to take him down and even then he would make a few extra metres in the tackle, total metres carried was over 100, safe under the high ball and even scrapping at the breakdown on a few occassions
@pakman said in Bledisloe #2:
@Chris-B said in Bledisloe #2:
Best effort by us for a while - but, where was Australia?
I was expecting a titanic effort to finally snatch away the Bled, but from the first kick-off that nearly went out on the full, they just looked resigned to losing. A very meek effort!
After all the smoke blown up their razoos Wobblies were resting on their laurels.
keeping their powder dry?