Auckland cleaned out well ( or illegally ), we didn't - lost so many rucks, or ended up with really slow ball. Their line speed was good and some of our backs looked off the pace running sideways - disappointed with Johnson at centre, his fumble to give the intercept early on was poor. That said when you are going backwards its hard to look good.

Its requires a massive turn around and we don't have the cattle the All Blacks have. So big week for Coaches - we need to work on speed - doing things quicker and cleaning out better, and making sure we have the best team on the field to start with.

Bridge and Reece booked their tickets. Energy and accuracy.

@BerniesCorner said in Bledisloe #2:

Sam Whitelock and Pat T huge. K Read MOM.

Pat had a huge game. One offload when he didn’t need to but some bigs hits and dominant in contact.

@canefan said in Bledisloe #2:

Sonny quietly had one of his better games in black

I had written him off but a big man running at the line with front foot ball looks very good.

So the Aussies only have one game in them.

Read has been quality. Captains knock.

Simmons in from side and no penalty?

Go for scrum penalty

Scrum them.

Moody needs to work on his accuracy. Can’t be giving away penalties and dropping the ball (last week). Impressive scrum time today though.