RWC Week 1: France v All Blacks
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@Kirwan said in RWC: France v All Blacks:
We played that like it was super rugby, terrible game plan.
I can understand the tactics to want to play an uptempo game and tire the French. But that relies on holding onto the ball (not kicking it away) and the ref not wanting to stop the game all the time.
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@Mattasaurus said in RWC: France v All Blacks:
Well done France - good commitment to breakdowns and sensible options - play for territory and look what happens.
Basic rugby acumen won and lost this game - very poor options from key players. What was Fossies plan ?….. play in our own half as much as we can?
Key areas of concern:
Exits and playing in the right areas of the field. That's why the errors came - BB in particular is a piss poor liability - Dmac any day for me, or put Jordan at 15.Clean outs were piss poor today - Ardie was average for him and shown to be light weight in contact in my opinion. Definitively need another loose forward as we had very little presence at the breakdown. And got players isolated far to much. Please let it be Blackadder.
Might be a bit of a hot take - but felt the ABs lost this more than French won it. France wont win this world cup.
Talea and Scooter our best today.
BB and tactics / options our worst. (Christie off the bench was also poor)100% agree. Although I said it was rugby's version of a rope-a-dope. All they did was make tackles and kick long. 2nd half they just feed off poor exits and knock-ons.
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@Donsteppa yeah I don't think we have the smarts to win the rwc.
I think we have the players and ability, but we want to win it scoring a million tries and looking pretty doing so, we don't want to grind a win like 2011.
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I was expecting/hoping the AB’s to do more in the second half but it was the French who let loose and had that bit of extra in the tank. Bugger! Granted the conditions potentially suited them more (used to their heat/humidity whereas we are coming out of our Winter) but I thought they looked way more nervous in the first 40 than we did.
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Foster is the worst choice ever. Seems a nice guy but he is just not up to it. The icing on the cake would be losing to Ireland in a ¼ final.
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@allblackfan2 said in RWC: France v All Blacks:
I was expecting/hoping the AB’s to do more in the second half but it was the French who let loose and had that bit of extra in the tank. Bugger! Granted the conditions potentially suited them more (used to their heat/humidity whereas we are coming out of our Winter) but I thought they looked way more nervous in the first 40 than we did.
Using the weather as an excuse is really clutching pal
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@MN5 said in RWC: France v All Blacks:
@Kruse said in RWC: France v All Blacks:
Interviewing drunk kiwis in a FanZone. Fuck... I thought THAT was a new low.
And then they pull out the inane "up the wahs" - whatever the fuck that means.Some inane catchphrase about some other sporting organisation I believe
The wahine? Is this PC mandated supporting of ladies' sport gone mad?
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@taniwharugby said in RWC: France v All Blacks:
@Donsteppa yeah I don't think we have the smarts to win the rwc.
I think we have the players and ability, but we want to win it scoring a million tries and looking pretty doing so, we don't want to grind a win like 2011.
Razor would definitely get more out of this bunch.
There are a few players who need dropping and Foster hasn't the testicular fortitude to do it.
This lack of ruthlessness has been a hallmark of his tenure and quite soon it will be "4 more years boys".
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The Foster catastrophe was all so predictable. https://www.forum.thesilverfern.com/topic/3557/message-to-the-nzru?_=1694207553537
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@gt12 said in RWC: France v All Blacks:
Two people who need much greater criticism: Schmidt and Ryan.
They continue to select for and play this game.
I thought the forwards were OK for much of this game. The backs, Telea excepted, were crap.
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@Kruse said in RWC: France v All Blacks:
@MN5 said in RWC: France v All Blacks:
@Kruse said in RWC: France v All Blacks:
Interviewing drunk kiwis in a FanZone. Fuck... I thought THAT was a new low.
And then they pull out the inane "up the wahs" - whatever the fuck that means.Some inane catchphrase about some other sporting organisation I believe
The wahine? Is this PC mandated supporting of ladies' sport gone mad?
Wahs = Warriors.
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@Stockcar86 said in RWC: France v All Blacks:
New lows, interviewing fans for expert analysis of the game. Still probably better than Justin Marshall
Actually Marshy has been good. He's been calling for the same team to be played this year with minor tweaks. This team looks completely disjointed and with 3 easy games coming up Foster is going to change the phuck out of them.
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We lost the battle .. but we got a war to win.. wow some reasurrence from the Capt. Stay captain pls 🙏
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@Billy-Tell said in RWC: France v All Blacks:
Foster is the worst choice ever. Seems a nice guy but he is just not up to it. The icing on the cake would be losing to Ireland in a ¼ final.
Right now, I’m nervous about Italy.
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@Billy-Tell said in RWC: France v All Blacks:
Foster is the worst choice ever. Seems a nice guy but he is just not up to it. The icing on the cake would be losing to Ireland in a ¼ final.
The senior group of players who went to bat for him in the hotel in South Africa need an uppercut too.
We nearly had him out the door and they convinced Robinson not to pull the trigger.
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@Steve said in RWC: France v All Blacks:
Lose, but lose like you know what you are doing.
Yep. Sums things up for me 100%
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Shit way to start the weekend
