Bledisloe 1
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@kiwiinmelb fair
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@Crucial unfortunately he does drift with indecision and then he shoots out of the line to try and make up for it. It was actually surprising to watch live how exposed he got himself on at least two occasions.
Hopefully he can work on that.
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@Donsteppa And that other guy.
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@Donsteppa said in Bledisloe 1:
So 60-ish minutes of last night was how the All Blacks defence and breakdown looks without Sam Cane and Ardie Savea. A bit sobering...
To be fair - it has also looked like that with both of them on the field.
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@ACT-Crusader said in Bledisloe 1:
@Crucial unfortunately he does drift with indecision and then he shoots out of the line to try and make up for it. It was actually surprising to watch live how exposed he got himself on at least two occasions.
Hopefully he can work on that.
Interesting to hear that live perspective. On camera all you see is the act which looks deliberate.
Maybe it is the defensive plan but his indecision is causing the failure. I do think it is a dumb idea but, as I mentioned in another post, it is a flavour of the moment for a lot of coaches at the moment.
I won't mention searchable names here but I do know of one FPC team that is definitely employing this theory. I know because I have questioned an affected player and asked why they are shooting in on an angle and leaving the outside and the have explained that is what the coach is telling them to do. Then I have seen it in other games. I'm putting two and two together here and giving Clarke the benefit of doubt but I will also temper that with knowledge that he is hesitant.
Probably because it is so stupid a theory that it doesn't come instinctively
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@Chris-B said in Bledisloe 1:
@Donsteppa And that other guy.
Ah yes, some bloke from Ta$man
@Toddy said in Bledisloe 1:
@Donsteppa said in Bledisloe 1:
So 60-ish minutes of last night was how the All Blacks defence and breakdown looks without Sam Cane and Ardie Savea. A bit sobering...
To be fair - it has also looked like that with both of them on the field.
True, though at the 20 minute mark I wasn't expecting us to need the World's Jammiest Finish to win that match...!
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@No-Quarter said in Bledisloe 1:
@ACT-Crusader said in Bledisloe 1:
@No-Quarter said in Bledisloe 1:
This game again showed that we desperately need a 10 that can take some control of the game. Beauden hasn't been in good form and Mo'unga is just all over the shop. If Beauden doesn't recapture his form, which seems likely given he is getting on in years now, I just can't really see how we win the RWC. We're going to be put under the pump and we are just too flakey in that position to handle any sort of pressure it seems.
We may or may not win the RWC. I thought he did a lot of good things tonight and moved the ball swiftly and created space and opportunities for us. He communicated well and made some good kicks at goal. But he’s rocks and diamonds like many of our players right now, in particular our backs, including our good ones like Ioane and Jordie.
And you are in the running for broken record award no doubt 😉
Yeah, I know I'm a broken record, but it's such an important position and I've been so disappointed with Mo'unga after all the hype. He continues to put us under huge pressure every match with really basic mistakes - dogshit kicks/clearances, kick offs out on the full etc, and multiple times this season the other team has scored on the back of them. We're just not going to win knockout rugby with a 10 that does that every game. I think 10 is our biggest weakness right now.
You'd think that it is pretty basic to understand that if in attack your aim is to work the ball wide into space it would be a really dumb thing to kick the ball directly to the opposition out wide and in space. Doh!
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haven't read the thread but i bet it's spittle-flecked and angry. Seriously if you didn't find that fun you need some joy in your lives
When there is a bit of chaos, rugby is the best sport on the planet. Give me the carnage of last night over a robotic chess game any day. Cracking tries. Card drama. ref drama. some incredible pieces of individual skill on both sides of the ball. An after-the-hooter try to win. fuck what more do you want??
Firstly i would like to at the same time apologise, congratulate, and commiserate with the Wallabies. I didn't think that team was capable of that result. They were fucking excellent. Down 10-zip in the same number of minutes, they rallied straight away. They scored some incredible tries. Their loose forwards were beasts and just smashed ours. That was as one-sided a battle as you will see. Foley played a bit of a blinder really. Outside backs were a handful. A great performance cruelly not rewarded by a strange (but probably correct i guess?) call. You throw a couple of their missing pieces in to that team and they are going along not too bad are they?
For us Sami T was a fucking beast. In to everything, running like a train. Huge game. So glad he didn't get towed early. Our veteran locks were bloody good too, probably the next cabs off the rank for AB MoTM voting. Jordan seemed to find that spark again as well. Lots of stuff to fizz about in Black.
Enormous fun game. I am going to have to put up with a shit ton of whinging about the ref over here for a few days. And you know what? I reckon i'll let 'em. We won, and it was really harsh. So it's pretty easy to be magnanimous about it
A great Thursday night's TV
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@mariner4life Great summary.
That's exactly what it felt like at the ground with a rowdy split crowd and the roof keeping the noise (and the smoke) in. Enormous fun.
As they say in boxing styles make fights.
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Only going off one 'real time' viewing but I think Aussie were lucky to dodge another card when Jordan has his legs taken out from under him when going for a high ball. I think it was Koroibete. We scored a few phases after that so it was forgotten about. At the time the ref seemed to ignore it, then it sounded like he was told it was something that should be revisited and then we scored. Unsurprisingly there were no replays of it.
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@Crazy-Horse said in Bledisloe 1:
Only going off one 'real time' viewing but I think Aussie were lucky to dodge another card when Jordan has his legs taken out from under him when going for a high card. I think it was Koroibete. We scored a few phases after that so it was forgotten about. At the time the ref seemed to ignore it, then it sounded like he was told it was something that should be revisited and then we scored. Unsurprisingly there were no replays of it.
Comms said that Whitelock questioned him about it and was waved away. Same thing with the mystery of the obvious forward pass. Ref got into a real tangle with TMO and then forgot that he can still go back after the conversion (the changed a little while back)
It would be great fun to be sitting in on the post match ref review. "Here's a 20 page list of all of your fuck ups and inconsistencies"......met with a gallic shrug.
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@mariner4life well said bro. It was really enjoyable to watch live. Had a couple of funny (half cut) Wallaby supporters sitting behind me that weren’t afraid of some good friendly banter. All good fun and nothing nasty like it sometimes gets at the AFL! It’s always fun watching rugby in Melbourne because at some point (when the Wallabies are losing) a couple of locals will yell out Go the Storm.
Sure we made mistakes and the Wallabies made mistakes, but the contest was there and to scrape the win was obviously the icing.
Happy for the players to seal the win in those final seconds. No matter how poorly or good they may have played, winning like that does do something positive
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@MajorRage said in Bledisloe 1:
A quick scrounge around the NH scribes would seem to suggest an agreement with Raynal on what happened ...
Except for Stuart Barnes
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@Billy-Tell said in Bledisloe 1:
@Stargazer said in Bledisloe 1:
It’s a scrum not free kick. Law 20 “taking a penalty or free kick”
This literally comes from the World Rugby website (Law 9.7.d)!
