AB Test Team v France.

[Stargazer]

@higgins said in AB Test Team v France.:

Penalty try, that fat tub of lard in the blue 13 jersey prevented a try by playing a certain try scorer without the ball

Oh, come on! No fat shaming here!

[Mokey]

Angus has been far too kind toward the shit French scrum this half.

[chimoaus]

I wonder how many halves we have lost this year? We have had some shockers.

[taniwharugby]

@chimoaus especially 2nd halves...which we used to own

[Crucial]

We are simply losing our cool out there.
The upshot is though that when we played well we made more points than we have given when making mistakes.
I know everyone will think I'm simply white knighting DMac but his good plays made more points than his errors gave away. That's a positive return.

[JC]

One of my takeaways from this game is that Romano looks to be an excellent scrumming lock. Another is that we should be playing Matt Todd as often as possible

[Victor Meldrew]

@donsteppa It's both. The Ref looks to be panicking and teh AB's are playing like shit

[westcoastie]

I do not want to see Beaudy going back to 15. Our bench balance is wrong. We're missing Ben Smith, Dagg & Jordie Barrett in that regards.

[chimoaus]

@crucial Any AB 15 should be able to catch and pass and run support. The mistakes and poor decision making he brings is not suited to this level imo.

[Rancid Schnitzel]

Is Tranny Duck still alive?

[Mokey]

Man I hope we score some points this half.

[JC]

@victor-meldrew Yeah, ABs scoreless in the 2nd half and to be fair haven’t looked like working a try.

[westcoastie]

Probably lucky ALB didn't cop a yellow for that offside... Angus has no fucking clue.

[Rancid Schnitzel]

Yes! Only good thing they've done this half.

[KiwiMurph]

Fuck yes what a scrum.

[Victor Meldrew]

@jc Worst 40mins of AB rugby I've seen since RWC2007 v France

Except we'll likely win this one

[Donsteppa]

@chimoaus said in AB Test Team v France.:

@crucial Any AB 15 should be able to catch and pass and run support. The mistakes and poor decision making he brings is not suited to this level imo.

Looking forward to Dagg and J Barrett being available again.

DMac is one of those players who ends up being very average on balancing his brilliance vs gifting the ball away.

[Crucial]

@gunner said in AB Test Team v France.:

@crucial the ref and the ABs deserve every bit of criticism they’ve received. It’s hard to know who of the two has been worse this half

ABs this time, but they have already put the points up so have credit to eat away at. FFS, they will still win this comfortably.

[Virgil]

Fucken nice

[rotated]

@crucial said in AB Test Team v France.:

I know everyone will think I'm simply white knighting DMac but his good plays made more points than his errors gave away. That's a positive return.

Leaving aside whatever the standard for a starting AB is.

There is a difference between being largely ineffective, but marginally positive and wildly hot and cold erring slightly on the positive side.

The game these days is built on capitalizing on those rare errors and it's tough carrying a guy when you know he is going to make four befuddling decisions per test (especially when we are carrying SBW who is good for one absolute boneheaded move).