Who is to blame?
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@nzzp said in Who is to blame?:
@No-Quarter said in Who is to blame?:
Overall I think we are still very vulnerable and we don't react particularly well when things aren't going our way. I think teams will back themselves to play basic, aggressive rugby and wait for us to start making mistakes
That is hard to do well for 80 minutes though. Accurate rush defences are bloody hard to break down, but hard to get right. I hope someone will find a way of unlocking them, and it'll be attack happy again, with good rugby being rewarded.
I still think it's Lions 1 - slashing diagonal runs near the base of the breakdown that'll get them. Have supporters, just make the defence go up and back, upd and back
Yep that shooter has to work pretty hard to keep going up and back when he's not the one making a tackle. Eventually, he's likely to find himself offside and conceding points for his team.
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@mariner4life said in Who is to blame?:
@ACT-Crusader said in Who is to blame?:
@mariner4life said in Who is to blame?:
@ACT-Crusader said in Who is to blame?:
@Chris-B said in Who is to blame?:
@No-Quarter said in Who is to blame?:
@Bovidae said in Who is to blame?:
@No-Quarter said in Who is to blame?:
In terms of cards we came out better off. Reece committed an obvious professional foul on our 22 in the first half, just flopping on the ball and hanging onto it to stop them clearing. Similar to Koroibete but probably worse and got away with just a penalty.
I said before I'm not a fan of the card happy refs but it didn't end up benefiting Aus.
The red card situation definitely favoured Australia. They only lost Swinton but the ABs lost Ofa and Akira. The consequence of that was that Lomax played much more minutes than he was expected to, and faded in the 2nd half, and it removed one of the better performing players through no fault of his own. Losing a front rower to a red card early in a game is always a double whammy.
That's a fair point. Though we didn't have to lose Akira. We just went with the cookie cutter "sub off your 6 if you lose a front rower" despite Akira being one of our most effective players on the park.
Teams train to play without a 6 though and I'm pretty sure it's been clearly thought through that that is where you can best hide the gap.
I guess you could have chosen Ardie instead, but that would be losing one of our best players over the past couple of years for a guy on debut who had had a bright 20 minutes.
I don't think it's a very valid argument.
And yes Sevu was having a stinker but you don’t replace a back in that circumstance unless you are willing to have a forward defend in the backline at set piece.
we took Kaino off for SBWs explosion against the Lions didn't we? That says pretty much everything.
Yep and Laumape came on.
no wonder we fucking lost.
actually, as another black mark on the many, many marks of TJP's career, if A Smith played 80 that day, we win.
And the week after too
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@Bones said in Who is to blame?:
@number9 said in Who is to blame?:
Same day travel to and from the ground does not help preparations. It is a question of mindset and regular patterns.Yeah Australia were much better prepared as a result of travelling to the ground on the same day...oh wait.
The red not taking control ffucked everything up, red and yellows sucked
Yeah Australia were much less fucked up as a result of having a different ref...oh wait. The ref was fine, quit whining.
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You have obviously never prepared for anything in your entire life.
The Blues play in Hamilton, they travel the night before if they just drove down the road to Edwn Park it does not mean the same thing .... [EDITED]
Now that ref had shit all control from the get go. The Sam Cane elbow to the head should have been a yellow based on how he he was dishing it out. Oh wait, he called push and shove.
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It is all about parity. The most telling was the red card on Ofa and Foster's decision to remove Akira and not Reece. Depowered the scrum and took away our dominace up front.
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@reprobate said in Who is to blame?:
I take it everyone suggesting taking a back off for Ofa played in the forwards then?
You cant play without a winger, unless you want to play the entire rest of the game inside your own 22.Bollocks imo. We have lose forwards like Ardie more than capable of covering the back field /wing when required.
Also
Eddie Jones’s forwards selection ploy 'quite weird', says Georgia captain
The Georgia captain, Merab Sharikadze, has described Eddie Jones’s ploy of selecting nine forwards as ‘quite weird’
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@number9 said in Who is to blame?:
@Bones said in Who is to blame?:
@number9 said in Who is to blame?:
Same day travel to and from the ground does not help preparations. It is a question of mindset and regular patterns.Yeah Australia were much better prepared as a result of travelling to the ground on the same day...oh wait.
The red not taking control ffucked everything up, red and yellows sucked
Yeah Australia were much less fucked up as a result of having a different ref...oh wait. The ref was fine, quit whining.
Yeah and oh wait your a tosser.
You have obviously never prepared for anything in your entire life.
The Blues play in Hamilton, they travel the night before if they just drove down the road to Edwn Park it does not mean the same thing .... dick head!
Now that ref had shit all control from the get go. The Sam Cane elbow to the head should have been a yellow based on how he he was dishing it out. Oh wait, he called push and shove.
Do you shower before you bang the misses???? Oh wait, your dog does. Dickhead.
It is all about parity. The most telling was the red card on Ofa and Foster's decision to remove Akira and not Reece. Depowered the scrum and took away our dominace up front.
*You’re
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@Catogrande surely it's also *dickhead?
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@Bones said in Who is to blame?:
@Catogrande surely it's also *dickhead?
No. A definite sentence albeit brief, so capital D is correct.
Wait. Are you suggesting that you’re a small d dickhead? If so apologies. You know best.
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@Catogrande one word, not two. Word economy.
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@raznomore said in Who is to blame?:
@number9 chill out mate it’s only Tuesday.
Fuck you, it’s Monday here and we all know Monday is shit. So yeah @Bones tosser and Dick head
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@Catogrande said in Who is to blame?:
@raznomore said in Who is to blame?:
@number9 chill out mate it’s only Tuesday.
Fuck you, it’s Monday here and we all know Monday is shit. So yeah @Bones tosser and Dick head
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@Catogrande said in Who is to blame?:
@raznomore said in Who is to blame?:
@number9 chill out mate it’s only Tuesday.
Fuck you, it’s Monday here and we all know Monday is shit. So yeah @Bones tosser and Dick head
What kind of posh prick showers once a week anyway?
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@Bones said in Who is to blame?:
@Catogrande said in Who is to blame?:
@raznomore said in Who is to blame?:
@number9 chill out mate it’s only Tuesday.
Fuck you, it’s Monday here and we all know Monday is shit. So yeah @Bones tosser and Dick head
What kind of posh prick showers once a week anyway?
I played rugby with a bloke like you. Awful muddy game but didn’t shower. Reason? “I had a bath this morning “. No wonder we get the rep as soap dodgers.
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@Machpants said in Who is to blame?:
@reprobate said in Who is to blame?:
I take it everyone suggesting taking a back off for Ofa played in the forwards then?
You cant play without a winger, unless you want to play the entire rest of the game inside your own 22.Bollocks imo. We have lose forwards like Ardie more than capable of covering the back field /wing when required.
I reckon that would be extremely accurate.
Not that it would have mattered much.
If the Aussies hadn't got their matching red card we were probably heading for something pretty similar to Perth.
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@Chris-B said in Who is to blame?:
@Machpants said in Who is to blame?:
@reprobate said in Who is to blame?:
I take it everyone suggesting taking a back off for Ofa played in the forwards then?
You cant play without a winger, unless you want to play the entire rest of the game inside your own 22.Bollocks imo. We have lose forwards like Ardie more than capable of covering the back field /wing when required.
I reckon that would be extremely accurate.
Not that it would have mattered much.
If the Aussies hadn't got their matching red card we were probably heading for something pretty similar to Perth.
Haha, fkn phone
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@number9 said in Who is to blame?:
@Bones said in Who is to blame?:
@number9 said in Who is to blame?:
Same day travel to and from the ground does not help preparations. It is a question of mindset and regular patterns.Yeah Australia were much better prepared as a result of travelling to the ground on the same day...oh wait.
The red not taking control ffucked everything up, red and yellows sucked
Yeah Australia were much less fucked up as a result of having a different ref...oh wait. The ref was fine, quit whining.
Yeah and oh wait your a tosser.
You have obviously never prepared for anything in your entire life.
The Blues play in Hamilton, they travel the night before if they just drove down the road to Edwn Park it does not mean the same thing .... dick head!
Now that ref had shit all control from the get go. The Sam Cane elbow to the head should have been a yellow based on how he he was dishing it out. Oh wait, he called push and shove.
Do you shower before you bang the misses???? Oh wait, your dog does. Dickhead.
It is all about parity. The most telling was the red card on Ofa and Foster's decision to remove Akira and not Reece. Depowered the scrum and took away our dominace up front.
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Private Equity to blame.
According to this BBC article the All Blacks, last week:
Coronavirus: All Blacks rugby looking at private equity bids.
The All Blacks rugby team is in talks with private equity investors as it struggles with the financial impact of the Covid-19 pandemic
No surprise they forgot to tackle below the shoulder. Ofa probably missed the tackling practice session to work on his microsoft power points.
Reiko missed his remedial grounding practice (again!!) to calculate ratios of liquidity injection to ownership percentages.
