The Silver Fern

Very poor from Lakai, was space to burn outside throughout that attack.

Absolutely horrendous tackling technique from Finau, will have Razor pulling his hair out.

@akan004 and it’s also weird that England look good on attack but are now absolute pants on defence

Pretty weak looking squad to be honest

Bit bemused by the Reiko talk. He made 7 runs for not many meters, 5 tackles missing 1 of them and conceded a turnover. He didn’t have a bad game but was the same average centre he has been for his entire midfield career.
Amua had a great game and McKenzie was very good. Wallace had the same high level performance he always has and Scooter was good leading from the front.

@canefan totally disagree. He aims at the waist and the player gets an offload away and puts someone into a gap or even a try. He hit on shoulder first and it rode up, just unlucky.

There is no way Berry will be reffing next week after this performance

Fucking dirty Irish pricks

The commentators insistence of calling them the All Blacks every 30 seconds is pretty tiresome…

@sparky settle down, Shane Phillpot would have scored those 2 try’s…

The cold hard fact is that if McKenzie starts any of the of the next 3 tests we will lose them, comfortably.

The NZRU must be so pissed that they missed out on having this game played in front of a packed stadium in Tauranga with an actual atmosphere, and where it’s still not raining yet…

O’Keefe making plenty of questionable calls already, certainly more than you would expect from a ref of his experience…

@MN5 if you’re to slow to realise that he clearly has the ability to play even better at the position he has specialised in for most of his high level rugby then I can’t help you…

@Dan54 because that’s his best position, 6 is Blackadder’s best position and he has been a stellar performer there as well, and 7 is Ardies best position.

@Canes4life Sititi will be the AB number 8 for a long time, Blackadder the 6 and Savea the 7.

I really like Havilis directness at 2nd five, would like to see him and ALB have a crack with Proctor on the bench to cover both positions.

@Jet Richie developed into an all round first five, the other two never have. He had an excellent short and long kicking game to.

They AB’s are going blind far to much when there is massive space on the open.

Great All Black Cane, but time to hang it up. Don’t take him on the end of year tour, time for new blood.