All Blacks Vs England, Twickenham
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F#%k I hate the Irish rugby team, they repulse my Irish DNA with their soccer antics, their rugby culture which seems to be a dramatic victim whingefest, and ........ the high priests of victimhood, O'Driscoll and Sexton used to play for them. POM currently plays but at least he is funny and can walk the talk..
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@Old-Samurai-Jack
Losing this game would have made for a dour tour.
Guaranteed drama for the next one.
I'm going to Paris the next game. Some great players there.
Really hope they ditch the aimless kicking, concentrate, reduce errors.
Give Proctor and Lakai a run.
Management have been so conservative this year -
@Old-Samurai-Jack said in All Blacks Vs England, Twickenham:
F#%k I hate the Irish rugby team, they repulse my Irish DNA with their soccer antics, their rugby culture which seems to be a dramatic victim whingefest, and ........ the high priests of victimhood, O'Driscoll and Sexton used to play for them. POM currently plays but at least he is funny and can walk the talk..
Testify brother
But POM is bog average
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@BerniesCorner said in All Blacks Vs England, Twickenham:
@Old-Samurai-Jack
Losing this game would have made for a dour tour.
Guaranteed drama for the next one.
I'm going to Paris the next game. Some great players there.
Really hope they ditch the aimless kicking, concentrate, reduce errors.
Give Proctor and Lakai a run.
Management have been so conservative this yearRuben Love can’t be far away from the 23 shirt.
Can cover 10,FB, wing
He looks the goods everytime I see him. Touches of class.
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Thought AJ Lam showed some nice touches at centre for the XV.
Admittedly at a lower level than test footy, but he was carrying the ball in two hands, and sold the Munster defender with a nice dummy to put us in for a try.
He showed subtle touches that I don’t see from Rieko anyway.
If Rieko wasn’t fast he would be bang average.
Where as Conrad smith was walking in porridge but could still put you into space.
Smoking Joe Roks woukdnt score outside Rieko.
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The problem with this whole "Reiko never puts anyone in to space" argument is that he is also never given the ball with any sort of time.
He was given it today once I can remember and he immediately gave it to Sititi, backed up and hit the ruck (we lost the ball because the rest of.pur loose forwards were again MIA).
If he was hungasing the ball and constantly blowing overlaps this argument would hold a lot more water. But he gets shit ball too because our pattern is both midfielders playing narrow flat and straight
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@mariner4life said in All Blacks Vs England, Twickenham:
The problem with this whole "Reiko never puts anyone in to space" argument is that he is also never given the ball with any sort of time.
He was given it today once I can remember and he immediately gave it to Sititi, backed up and hit the ruck (we lost the ball because the rest of.pur loose forwards were again MIA).
If he was hungasing the ball and constantly blowing overlaps this argument would hold a lot more water. But he gets shit ball too because our pattern is both midfielders playing narrow flat and straight
Another poster alluded to it earlier that he seems to be getting the ball and tackled
at the same time. Everything is crash bash.You are right, for whatever reason he never seems to get the ball in space.
I remember when Tupea gave it to him early against France in 2022 and he gassed them from 60 meters.
We just don’t see it enough.
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@MN5 said in All Blacks Vs England, Twickenham:
Watched some more highlights.
Shit a brick it is impressive how brilliantly Wallace Sititi has taken to test Rugby.
Hoskins who ?
Hoskins speed off the base of the scrum is something we could really use.
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@Old-Samurai-Jack said in All Blacks Vs England, Twickenham:
@BerniesCorner said in All Blacks Vs England, Twickenham:
Good win. Sets tour up
Yeah, against all odds really. Gardner and co. decided to go full "hometown". The crowd wanted blood, the lads with a bit of lady luck would have put 15 points on them but the bitch decided to disappear for the full 80. Even so the good guys won.
Having said that, if the lads don't improve against the whingy Green siths, things might come unstuck.Don't ever compare the Mics to the Sith. We maybe a bit dark and misunderstood but we're anything but whingy. Now Luke for that matter...
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Just saw the ABs IV game. How good is that jersey??? Much better than the ABs.
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DMac deserves a lot more love on here. Won the game for us.
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@mariner4life fair. Reiko isn’t a creative, polish an average ball and give his wing a golden ball type centre. He is a fucking lethal strike running 13 though.
So it’s stupid to look at him as the reason the ball’s getting hung up in his hands. That’s a symptom of the shit being shovelled by the bros inside him not a cause.
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@Smuts said in All Blacks Vs England, Twickenham:
@mariner4life fair. Reiko isn’t a creative, polish an average ball and give his wing a golden ball type centre. He is a fucking lethal strike running 13 though.
So it’s stupid to look at him as the reason the ball’s getting hung up in his hands. That’s a symptom of the shit being shovelled by the bros inside him not a cause.
Except he hasn't been lethal ball in hand either for bang on 2 years now. And this is at Blues level as well not just All Blacks.
I swear just replacing Jordie/Rieko with some of our inform midfielders would produce a 10x increase in attacking potency.
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@Chris said in All Blacks Vs England, Twickenham:
@Victor-Meldrew said in All Blacks Vs England, Twickenham:
@Chris said in All Blacks Vs England, Twickenham:
Sititi is a brilliant selection by Razor he was Hugh again.
That leg injury to Niggles which opened the door to Sititi was inspired.
Yep absolutely Brilliant.Of course Razor did pick him in the squad at the start of the year when a lot of people said why, not a great selection he is too raw etc.
"Lot of people?" Sititi was a stand-out in SR so really not a hard choice. It was the selection of Christie at 9 and Havili in the backline and the selection of Mr "Always Injured" over Sotutu that people criticised.
Had Christie not been injured and Roigard returned so quickly, we'd likely still be having TJP/Christie/Ratima discussions/moans for this match.
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@Tim said in All Blacks Vs England, Twickenham:
Re-watched the intercept try. Diabolically bad play from Ratima. It was quick ball off two very good carries, he wasn't looking at the defence at all. He really had a shocker.
I was thinking the same.
If he had been able to step Itoje, there was nothing in behind. Alternatively he could have taken the hit and then tried to offload to Jordan or a kick pass and no was behind if he executed it right.
Instead he failed to see that Smith has flown forward looking for the incept and took an age about his pass to make his intercept easy.
