All Pinks vs Boks - Christchurch
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What the hell! I thought we played them every year. Oh that is annoying. Right cancel the rugby calendar lets do that North vs South island thing but make it a 3 test series. And lets really over-hype the crap out of it maaaaaaaateeeeeee!
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@Rembrandt said in All Pinks vs Boks - Christchurch:
What the hell! I thought we played them every year. Oh that is annoying. Right cancel the rugby calendar lets do that North vs South island thing but make it a 3 test series. And lets really over-hype the crap out of it maaaaaaaateeeeeee!
Justin Marshall to do an on-field, 3-minute monologue about passion before every game.
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not that that appears to have stopped Steddie from getting a few digs in early...the ABs have weaknesses we will exploit, but I wont tell you about them now...I guess in case they try to fix them in the next 27 months (I seem to recall hearing we don't play them next year either?)
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@MN5 said in All Pinks vs Boks - Christchurch:
Well yeah, Nonu used to do that at will as he was coming up the ranks but the reason he is regarded as a great ( rightly so ) is cos of all the skills he added along the way.
Difference being he was in an environment where he came up against guys in his league. This kid, being in Melbourne, just might never see a tough opponent until he plays interstate.
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@taniwharugby Ha no wonder he is talking tough now. That is actually really annoying, nothing better than the AB's absolutely destroying another coach's theories. If we don't play them for 2 years and they keep progressing then the eventual meetup would be quite the event.
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@mariner4life said in [All Pinks vs Boks \- Christchurch](/post/100210): > seriously this is so fucking boring. This year was supposed to be fun, with new players, new combinations, we would come back to the field a bit, and test matches would be entered with trepidation by AB fans drunk on success. The Fern would be full of acrimony and in-fighting as any stumble was blamed on someone new who should never have been there over *insert better player from my team* > > And it turns out everyone who has needed to step up has; the opposition have got worse, not us; we're picking the same fucking team every week, and it's full of players too good for whoever we are playing. >Yeah - the ABs are paying $1.04 to win this test and the TAB might not even be offering odds on us winning TRC now.
Worse - Canterbury is paying $1.35 to win the Mitre10 Cup and something similar to end the season with the Ranfurly Shield and unless they get a raft of injuries I can't see those odds lengthening.
It's so predictable I've signed a new contract to do work.
Let's hope the cricket in India is interesting.
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@Chris-B. said in All Pinks vs Boks - Christchurch:
@mariner4life said in [All Pinks vs Boks \- Christchurch](/post/100210): > seriously this is so fucking boring. This year was supposed to be fun, with new players, new combinations, we would come back to the field a bit, and test matches would be entered with trepidation by AB fans drunk on success. The Fern would be full of acrimony and in-fighting as any stumble was blamed on someone new who should never have been there over *insert better player from my team* > > And it turns out everyone who has needed to step up has; the opposition have got worse, not us; we're picking the same fucking team every week, and it's full of players too good for whoever we are playing. >Yeah - the ABs are paying $1.04 to win this test and the TAB might not even be offering odds on us winning TRC now.
Worse - Canterbury is paying $1.35 to win the Mitre10 Cup and something similar to end the season with the Ranfurly Shield and unless they get a raft of injuries I can't see those odds lengthening.
It's so predictable I've signed a new contract to do work.
Let's hope the cricket in India is interesting.
Make no bones about it, that Springbok team is shiiiiiiiiiitttttttttt.
I don't even bother giving one of my really good Saffa mates shit about them now, more a sympathetic ear for him to whinge about the politics of his once beloved team.
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The Auckland Herald and Stuff articles quoting Eddie Jones' jabs have both referred to the ABs and England not meeting 'til 2018. That has to be shit. You can bet the house on the ABs playing England at Twickenham in November 2017.
I agree...the current state of affairs is sad. This Boks test figures to be a cakewalk unless the weather is so dire that we only win by 10 points.
We are all already counting down to the Lions next year (though I don't seriously give them a chance of winning a test) and even more so 'til we play England whenever. And we're assuming that England won't have fallen apart by then.
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@Rembrandt said in All Pinks vs Boks - Christchurch:
Yep agree that this test is probably the least captivating encounter between these two teams ever and I think Hansen is so good now that I don't think we're likely to be overconfident and screw it up like previous AB teams at various incredibly memorable times in the past. I am still very interested in our march to pass that elusive 17 straight win hurdle though. Looking forward to playing England at the end of the year, think I read an article where Eddie Jones said he only needs to improve player performance by 3% to beat us. (The article's editor probably rounded that from 3.468129% because Eddie isn't that inexact)
The build up to the 2007 Christchurch test before the RWC where they sent their B/C team was pretty uninspiring
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So do the Abs tweak thier gameplan with Ardie starting, or does Ardie have to play differently to fit the game plan at the start or is his play able to just slot into the current AB gameplan?
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@taniwharugby said in All Pinks vs Boks - Christchurch:
So do the Abs tweak thier gameplan with Ardie starting, or does Ardie have to play differently to fit the game plan at the start or is his play able to just slot into the current AB gameplan?
@Canes4life thoughts on this ? obviously the ABs have the best lineout target ever to pull on a black jersey with that additional height but what else will he bring to the table ?
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@MN5 said in All Pinks vs Boks - Christchurch:
@taniwharugby said in All Pinks vs Boks - Christchurch:
So do the Abs tweak thier gameplan with Ardie starting, or does Ardie have to play differently to fit the game plan at the start or is his play able to just slot into the current AB gameplan?
@Canes4life thoughts on this ? obviously the ABs have the best lineout target ever to pull on a black jersey with that additional height but what else will he bring to the table ?
Turnovers. The All Blacks will let the Springboks win every lineout and then Ardie will swoop on them and steal it right back. Saves our tight five for the scrums.
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@taniwharugby said in All Pinks vs Boks - Christchurch:
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/sport/news/article.cfm?c_id=4&objectid=11710301
Some interesting info there. Other than the WC final the only really close one was where DC did the droppie v Ireland to break the tie right at the end (that one point win over England in Dunedin not really that close as they were 15 points up and the game was won - England's last try came after the hooter).
