All Blacks MOTM v Wales

[Duluth]

Current standings

27 Taukeiaho
21 Savea
17 R Ioane
13 Whitelock
12 S Barrett
10 Retallick
6 Papali'i
6 Clarke
6 J Barrett
6 Smith
4 A Ioane
4 Sotutu
4 Jordan
3 Reece
3 Bower
3 Cane
3 de Groot
3 Lomax
2 Tupaea
1 RTS

[booboo]

Ardie, Aaron and Dalton

[sparky]

Lots to choose from, but my top 3 were:

Ardie Savea, Dalton Papali'i, Jordie Barrett.

[No Quarter]

Ardie, Smith, Jordie and Dalton our best for mine, all very influential

[African Monkey]

@booboo This.

Pretty straightforward for me.

[Victor Meldrew]

Ardie, Smith & Ritchie.

Honourable mentions to Jordie, Scooter & Taylor. Good to see the latter have a good game and improve the cover at 2.

[mencey]

Ardie Savea, Dalton Papali'i, A Smith for mine, in that order.

[scribe]

Ardie, Aarodie, Daltardie in that order

[ACT Crusader]

Dalton - my MOTM. Tackled hard, hit the rucks with a bit of force and had the odd run too.

Savea - high energy and workrate and the team really get in behind him when he had those runs.

Taylor - sure he scored a couple of tries, but I thought his tackling was excellent. Must’ve been close to top tackler or just behind Dalton who was a demon.

HM: Smith, Jordie and Mo’unga
I couldn’t go for Smith in my top 3, even though he was good, because three plays of his really irked me - that chip kick when we had turned the ball over. We had good field position and a number of Welsh players were caught in that ruck. That really low pass put us under quite a bit of pressure. He didn’t have to go for the long cut out ball when he had a carrier that was closer than Frizell. And a ruck where the ball was there to be cleared and he stood there and two Welsh players drove over (one on his knees mind you) and we lost the ball as a result. They scored shortly after.

[Bones]

Scooter, Savea, Smith.

Lynchpins.

DP just doing what you'd expect of an AB openside, but the others went above and beyond.

[Canes4life]

Hands down Ardie, and then Dalton and Jordie for me.

[BerniesCorner]

Whitelock outstanding as well. Heading for Sir imo
Has to stay captain No other option

[Machpants]

@BerniesCorner said in All Blacks MOTM v Wales:

Whitelock outstanding as well. Heading for Sir imo
Has to stay captain No other option

Injuries put in our better front row, our better 12, will it see foster be ruthless enough to drop his pet cane for a better open side and captain? Hope so

[Machpants]

@Canes4life said in All Blacks MOTM v Wales:

Hands down Ardie, and then Dalton and Jordie for me.

Ardie is getting up there with DC, Goat, and nonu as greatest in the modern age. He's coming into another players best award, so three? In a row (edit nope cane got it 2020, Ardie 2019)

[Bovidae]

Savea, Smith and Papalii. HMs to Whitelock and JB.

[ARHS]

Easy today. Ardie and A Smith. Jordie pips Papalii for third.

[KiwiMurph]

Ardie, Smith, Papalii.

Jordie 4th

[Rancid Schnitzel]

Ardie was absolutely ridiculous today. How he remains standing at the end of a game is a mystery to me.

[mariner4life]

Lol at anyone picking a number higher than 9

A Savea easiest (though get out of halfback sometimes)
A Smith was excellent organising a forward game.
D Papalii put in a massive massive shift and was why we had phase after phase of quick ball.

[Crucial]

Ardie, Smith and Whitelock for me. Quite astonished that at the time of voting I am the only Whitelock voter tbh.