Thank goodness a crippling injury rate has allowed the likes of Lakai and Love to finally get a chance...
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@nzzp said in New Zealand is a top sporting nation for its size":
@Windows97 said in New Zealand is a top sporting nation for its size":
Well, we can hold this title until someone from Naru, Liechtenstein or the Vatican City wins something, then all our stats are meaningless
Jamaica has us beat all ends up
Dammit!! I knew there was some statistical anomaly that would trip us up!!
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Well, we can hold this title until someone from Naru, Liechtenstein or the Vatican City wins something, then all our stats are meaningless
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Had to give it to the White Ferns really, lost 10 on the bounce and then win a WC is some sort of Cinderilla story and a WC is a WC, they are notoriously hard to win.
But yes we were certainly spoiled for choice this weekend!!
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Pleasently surprised, the BOP has always had the danger out wide but lacked startch/execution up front to really match it with the big boys consistently.
The final presents the neutral fan with a golrious oppertunity to watch two teams famous for losuing things up as soon as they get tagged as favourites desperatly trying to out-do each other on the big stage,
I'll be watching this one from behind the couch...
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Good to see our forward pack step up and win us a game, was a very competitive match.
Anytime were favourites it's an immenent loss, so picking a semi-final exit
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Well I'm glad to see that Johnny is being the bigger man and not stooping to Reiko's level and instead of keeping his gripes man to man and leaving them on the field has published them in a book so he can whinge and moan to the absolute maximum amount of people he possibly can.
Such class...
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TJ and BB starting just makes me weep, I'd prefer Hotham and Plummer as at least then it would show an intent to try and build something for the future. The coaching pharse I believe is "wasting reps" and this is a complete waste.
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@Duluth That's a very good point, SA avoid fatigue by basically replacing their entire forward pack in the second half and always end the game fresher than what we do.
I also note we tend to drip feed our subs on, often late in the game where other teams (Arg and SA) make 3-4 subs all at the same time.
It feels like were running our starting XV till they're gassed, then bringing on people too late to work their way into the game and be effective.
Our attack also seems quite heavily dependant on a lot of off the ball activity, backdoor option passing with a lot of double loops etc which expends a lot of energy on attack.
However if the above is true then it would point to a complete blunder in terms of team preperation and tactics on behalf of the coaching group.
If the team only has the gas in the tank to carry out the attcking pattern for 50 minutes then its absolutely essential that your bench can slot into that exact same pattern for the remaining 30 minutes without that pattern breaking down.
But we see our attcking pattern past the 50 minute mark completly going to kak in terms of execution, which is baffling.
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Just trying to scratch my head in regards as to why our bench is so ineffective and one possible theory either by bad luck or co-inicedence are all of them (forward reserves esp) just poor at the clean-out?
Amua for instance has been awful at clearing bodies, in Aus1 we had a huge break on in the second half and both him (and I think Tosi) both with fresh legs couldn't shift a singular Aussie defender who then got the turnover.
However this is just a singular instance I remember and cartainly not a concise video analysis.
It's just baffling because theyre all "impact" players - at least when it comes to carrying the ball, but if they come on and can't clear the ruck effectively and we continually concede turnovers then no wonder we can't build anything on attack?
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Robertson appears to be rapidly descending into the rugby version of Jacinda Arden.
Fluffed by the media as "the person that's going to put everything right" and defended by a staunch fan-base and overly docile media with cries of "it's not that bad" and "it will all get better" all whilst a raging dumpster fire gets increasingly brighter in the background....
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I just can't help but think Wellington + Mentally weak AB team = Defeat.
I hope they play the first half but for the full 80 minutes this time.
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@NTA said in All Blacks vs Wallabies I:
@Windows97 said in All Blacks vs Wallabies I:
The AB's used to be about excellence, about trying to play the perfect game and chasing perfection in each moment of the game.
Under McCaw, they were about excellence.
After that, they were about experience.
As that eroded, they were about BBBB*.
Now that is on the downslide, what next?
*Beauden Barrett Bullshit Bounces
What next appears to be throwing the ball around furiously and hoping someone finds a gap.
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This team is just absolutely fucked mentally.
It's not so much this player, or that player but as a team they crumble under pressure and are unable to maintain consistency throughout the game.
They play like they don't want to lose, rather than that they want to win, there's some odd saying like "the dirve to win must overcome the fear of loosing" and this team is abjectily petrified of loosing to the point they freeze totally in the last 20 minutes NO MATTER WHO THEY PLAY.
The AB's used to be about excellence, about trying to play the perfect game and chasing perfection in each moment of the game.
This bunch of clowns is chasing their own shadows.
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I think DMac is the best we have, his quick feet and hands at least give us a little bit of a counter against the rush defence. Put anyone else in and it would only be worse.
You could criticsie his decision making and error rate and that's fair but I would say a lot of that is him tryng to pull a rabbit out of the hat because his forwards aren't giving him a platform or go-forward ball to work off.
Simply put I think anyone less nimble than DMac would simply get hammered behind the advantage line and we'd be even worse off.
Our forward pack need to find some go-forward and fast, otherwise all we have left is frantic scrambling trying to make something out of very little.
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@African-Monkey said in All Blacks vs Wallabies I:
@Windows97 said in All Blacks vs Wallabies I:
Yet another conservtive selection in I guess what is pitched as a "must win" game.
Form in SR seems totally irrelevant now.
Same issue of "favourites" being picked and others playing out of position to accommodate, especially in the loose forward trio.
At this rate we won't get any new talent in the team until someone retires or is hideously injured.
Which is exactly what people used to constantly criticise Foster for.
Exactly my point, it doesn't appear that anything has changed.
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Yet another conservtive selection in I guess what is pitched as a "must win" game.
Form in SR seems totally irrelevant now.
Same issue of "favourites" being picked and others playing out of position to accommodate, especially in the loose forward trio.
At this rate we won't get any new talent in the team until someone retires or is hideously injured.
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@OomPB said in ABs picking overseas players - inevitable?:
@Windows97 I am just trying to paint the Springboks picture. Sorry if it upset you.
Didn't upset me in the slightest, I genuinely think it's an interesting point and can see the logic behind it.
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@antipodean I've upvoted your post due to the wit in it alone.
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@OomPB That's an interesting insight to be fair.
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