@Bovidae said in 2019 RWC - Squads:

@Stargazer No Osbourne.

No Fish n Chips in Japan?

@mariner4life said in Bledisloe #2:

I think the biggest lessons for both teams out of the last 8 days are:

The Wallabies' best is good enough to win

NZ can no longer have an off day, as below our best probably isn't good enough.

I think they are lessons both coaches will be happy with

Agree. Lessons happily learned knowing the Bledisloe is locked away for another 12 months

I don’t see much similarity in Laumape and Sonny’s game. All of our midfielders take on the line but Sonny is a far more subtle than Laumape.

@akan004 said in Bledisloe #2:

Great performance but hard to truly assess where they are at. Australia brought so little line speed and made it easy for us, the other teams won't do this.

I thought we made it hard for them with the changes we made defensively around the fringes and also our territory game.

Much harder to try things with ball in hand when you are camped down in your half. That happened to us last week. Happened to OZ this week.

@African-Monkey said in Bledisloe #2:

@No-Quarter That's why I'd have JB on the right wing, and yes, I'm still shocked to this day that the Boks threw long with 10 to go 5 metres out and missed the target when I was certain they would go to their strength and go to front and rumble over or at the very least, win a penalty for Pollard to knock over because he wasn't missing that day.

Sam Whitelock winning that lineout ball is one of the great AB moments.

That was a nasty hit. Head turned, neck exposed and real pace from Archer.

What a day though, plenty of wickets, 250+ runs and some life in the wicket and bowling.

Scotland were very poor. On their heels in defence and didn’t really attack the breakdown.

French enigma continues.

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Ardie, ALB, Reece and SBW my next best.

@Canerbry you’re slipping mate. You forgot to mention Sam Whitelock and Codie

@Old-Samurai-Jack said in Refuge for the positive.....:

Still not convinced

But you’re a grumpy old fella