Has Hansen gone stale?
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@rancid-schnitzel said in Has Hansen gone stale?:
@donsteppa said in Has Hansen gone stale?:
The “we were holding something back” argument is always nice wishful thinking, but often bollocks.
I can’t easily remember the last time a team suddenly pulled off a triple scissors esque move for the first time ever in an RWC knockout game.
If we were holding any cards close to our chest this weekend then we’ve been doing so for about 15 months. Perhaps we’ve been holding back having a kicking game that isn’t pedestrian/custard footed. Maybe some of our forwards won’t play in leaden shoes or without buttering their fingers next year...
The hopeful comparisons with the 2015 pool games are all well and good, except this time they all had the Japan game off.
Ultimately it's not smart to have untested hidden genius tactics if they prove to be utterly shit.
But worth it for the gems that Tony Woodcock and the 2011 final provided
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Well of course no one knows what's going on inside the camp.
Therefore there is some logic in looking at reality.
Hansen says there's more to come
1014 and other such armchair analysts really get some sophisticated strategies and data (e.g..ABs rely on 3 second rucks, pods, defence lines, with 2 at the back the 4 or 5 rucks and their field position before unlocking the money move, no one runs the ball in the field quarter behind halfway etc.)
That means every opposition has that data or patternsGiven these logistics versus the fucken chip kicking dross and side to side bollocks we saw on Sat and suggesting a powder dry scenario isn't illogical.
Might not be true, sure, but totally illogical to think that that performance against Ireland is all we got.
Powder dry is a possible suggestion to what we've seen and a coach telling us that.
It's not 100% bollocks or 100% correct.
Don't see too many creditable explanations as to why the best pro team ever played a huge game with no discernible scoring tactics or points of difference.
To wander into the illogical, it occurred to me that the game looked like an episode from Last Chance U where the coach sent them in to fail in order to dilute player power, laziness or complacency.
I don't think that happened but by Christ they looked under prepared, tactically -
@mariner4life said in Has Hansen gone stale?:
will it be tomorrow or wednesday when the fingers start getting pointed across provincial lines?
Why wait!
Look at who the players were who did 90% of the stupid little chip kicks. Look at which franchise they play for. Is it synonymous with rugby intelligence?
Maybe we've seen the failure of Hansen's Plan A - and now it's time to move to Plan A...CT - i.e. just roll out the Crusaders and a Token Brodie (he shoulda been one of us anyway) and a Token Ioane.
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look at those fucking idiot Crusader captains giving away repeated dumb penalties. retards...
And i note that without our yeoman BOP flanker we had no one with the stones and the power to sit Irish runners on their asses. Too many pussy South Islanders...
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@kiwiinmelb said in Has Hansen gone stale?:
We need a scapegoat ,
I nominate Fozzie ,
I blame Fozzie .
Ireland have two world class coaches in Schmidt and Farrell. We have a world class coach in Shag who might be a bit stale atm, and two clowns as assistants. That's where the game was lost, we were out coached.
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@mariner4life That's Hansen's cunning plan. When we play in the RWC he'll just go, "Sammy, no stupid penalties today right. Or, you Reado."
"Heh, heh. Sorted. Now where's my fish 'n chips, Fozzie?" .
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@chris-b said in Has Hansen gone stale?:
@mariner4life That's Hansen's cunning plan. When we play in the RWC he'll just go, "Sammy, no stupid penalties today right. Or, you Reado."
"Heh, heh. Sorted. Now where's my fish 'n chips, Fozzie?" .
easy job this coaching.
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further on Hansen, he has said he will be making an announcement on his future in the next 4 weeks or so....
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@taniwharugby said in Has Hansen gone stale?:
further on Hansen, he has said he will be making an announcement on his future in the next 4 weeks or so....
I hope Schmidt calls in the removalists immediately after that announcement.
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@mariner4life Not if you forget Steve's crab stick!
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Ian Foster, All Black head coach
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@chris-b said in Has Hansen gone stale?:
@mariner4life said in Has Hansen gone stale?:
will it be tomorrow or wednesday when the fingers start getting pointed across provincial lines?
Why wait!
Look at who the players were who did 90% of the stupid little chip kicks. Look at which franchise they play for. Is it synonymous with rugby intelligence?
Maybe we've seen the failure of Hansen's Plan A - and now it's time to move to Plan A...CT - i.e. just roll out the Crusaders and a Token Brodie (he shoulda been one of us anyway) and a Token Ioane.
I think most observers have highlighted our lack of a decent punishing 6 this year and lets look at where we get all our 6s from.
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@mariner4life Well it would help the ABs if 20% of the professional players had been properly developed over the last few years ...
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@mariner4life I reckon he and McLEod are the biggest losers over the weekend in terms of value.
Sure Crons scrum took a few hits, but it did get back up and put up a fight.
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@taniwharugby said in Has Hansen gone stale?:
@mariner4life I reckon he and McLEod are the biggest losers over the weekend in terms of value.
Sure Crons scrum took a few hits, but it did get back up and put up a fight.
Cron has a lot of credit in the bank. We've got like 6 test quality props now, with huge development in all of them. Jesus look at Ofa! All anyone used to remember of him were those scrums against the Waratahs. Then he became a very good tight head prop, but no one wanted a bar of him at loosehead. Last two weeks he's been a fucking good loosehead as well. That's coaching right there.
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@rocky-rockbottom said in Has Hansen gone stale?:
@mariner4life said in Has Hansen gone stale?:
look at those fucking idiot Crusader captains giving away repeated dumb penalties. retards...
Too many pussy South Islanders...I thought we had a moratorium on blaming provinces that ran until late Tuesday afternoon? Oh well, maybe's it's Tuesday already on the fucken moon FUCK THE CANTAB FORWARDS, rudderless tenured knackered old dogs #2019_Akira6_Toeava8_Papali'i7
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