All Blacks vs Springboks - Twickenham
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I understand those wanting to defend S Barrett. He's been good this year and mostly shelved the brain farts.
But that dive into the ruck - which was already decided mind you, and on which he would have zero effect - with a leading shoulder was the pinnacle of fucking idiocy
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@sparky said in All Blacks vs Springboks - Twickenham:
@NTA That Second Try was an absolute shocker. Sheer lunacy to try and play like that near our own line.
Our guys seemed to think it was some sort of Barbarians game. South Africa had come to play a Test match.
That may be the "saving grace", that they didn't treat it as a legit test and got hammered accordingly. But if so that's a very sad reflection on the ABs these days.
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Haven't finished the game
Haven't read the threadI assume everyone is taking the advantage to blame this on Ian Foster
That's deluded. This is 100% an individual performance issue. The players let themselves down very fucking badly tonight. Very fucking badly. Dumb fucking penalties, missed tackles, missed ruck assignments, dropped balls. Have a look in the fucking mirror boys because you let your coaches down today.
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@gt12 said in All Blacks vs Springboks - Twickenham:
Quick stat look shows we only won 66% (10/15) of our lineouts. Fuuuuck.
We tackled at 83%. Won't win like that.
Apparently, 554 metres run for SA and 474 for us, why so close? 98 for Roigard making that looking much better than it should do.
DeGroot conceded 5 penalties. Ouch.
ALB stat line: 1 pass, 2 runs, No metres, 1 turnover, no tackles made, 1 tackle missed. Not exactly the impact we are looking for from the bench. Sadly, I don' think there are other options that provide enough cover.
When I think Jersey 23 historically I think a DMAC or Beaudy type.
ALB?????
Jesus Christ. Vanilla stuff. Meh. Nothing.
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@Stag said in All Blacks vs Springboks - Twickenham:
And equally as bad on the field when the players are looking around for real leadership from the captain and all they see is Cane looking like a possum in headlights, again.
and hooked.....again.
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oh, something that seriously pissed me off, Vermulen in that opening passage, feigning injury to avoid a pen for lying on our side, then several minutes later we get pinged for the same thing (sans pretending we were injured)
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Finally finished
Holy shit.
Positives
Goal line defence in the first half
Mark Telea
RoigardNegatives
Literally everything elseSmashed physically, absolutely smashed.
Jacobson, and savea and even Cane unable to stop momentum in the tackle. Every ruck.a mess because they hit them and we didn't. No power running. In the 2nd half everyone delegated first phase running to Sam fucking Cane, that's awful.
Then off the back of that Barrett and mounga got in each other's way and shovelled shit.
Jordie is dumb. Reiko didn't see the ball and if he did also shovelled it.
The bench came on and made everything worse.
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@mariner4life said in All Blacks vs Springboks - Twickenham:
Finally finished
Holy shit.
Positives
Goal line defence in the first half
Mark Telea
RoigardNegatives
Literally everything elseSmashed physically, absolutely smashed.
Jacobson, and savea and even Cane unable to stop momentum in the tackle. Every ruck.a mess because they hit them and we didn't. No power running. In the 2nd half everyone delegated first phase running to Sam fucking Cane, that's awful.
Then off the back of that Barrett and mounga got in each other's way and shovelled shit.
Jordie is dumb. Reiko didn't see the ball and if he did also shovelled it.
The bench came on and made everything worse.
Sloppy. Error ridden and embarrassing.Its easy in hindsight but dropping Finau looks a mistake.
Vaii is powder puff.
I still don't have an opinion on Jacobsen....has he been given a fair shake?
Lord looks better than Vaii.
Id even be looking for a Blackadder sized hole in the squad somewhere.
Bringing 5 wingers looks like insanity when you bear in mind Beaudy is the teachers pet.
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Front row okay at the scrum considering the shitshow behind them. But cooked from being on their heels
Sam Whitelock a huge shift
Scott Barrett welcome back. 3 dumb blatant penalties and a red card worthy piece of rubbish. Fuck entirely off
Luke Jacobson non entity
Cane did fuck all, but abandoned by those around him
As bas as you will see Ardie play. An overall negative in attack and defence
Smith given nothing
Mounga is the worst 10 in the world to.have behind that "platform"
Jordie? Doesn't pass except to green shirts. Missed a one on one to give up a 40m linebreak. Awful
Ioane may as well have not played
The wings were good!
BBarrett was shit. At least try and tackle you fucking fairyBench? Dropped balls. Shit set piece. ALB knocked on
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The non selection of Finau is a huge mistake IMO. In a game of this intensity, against a massive forward pack, you need a big bruiser at 6. Jacobson isn't but I wouldn't mind see him wear the 7 jersey as he tackles well. Papali'i miss on Smith was a shocker.
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On the game overall, it took an age!!!! Fuck ref and TMO that was a shit spectacle. The first half especially was NFL. Set piece to set piece and whistle.
No issue with the penalties they were there, but with the TMO it just takes so fucking long. And I'm not sure all really needed to be blown.
If this is the standard for the world cup it's gonna be a bit of a grind
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Kolisi is fucking class. Often underappreciated glue player. Great leader of a national side.
There is no one in NZ rugby with this level of mana right now.
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@Steve I think we will absolutely be better, don't think it is possible to be that poor again, but if we will be good enough to win a 1/4 and back it up to win a semi, that is the bigger question (without even thinking about a final)
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I wouldn't have Beauden Barrett in the 23 on current form.
I really want to be wrong and I repeatedly read or hear things about how he has quietly played a blinder or organises the D better than anyone else but I just don't see it. I think his incumbency is taking the place away from in form game breakers.
- Telea
- Jordie
- Rieko
- Narawa
- Jordan
Roigard DMAC and Leicester on the bench if a 5/3 split
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@mariner4life said in All Blacks vs Springboks - Twickenham:
Haven't finished the game
Haven't read the threadI assume everyone is taking the advantage to blame this on Ian Foster
That's deluded. This is 100% an individual performance issue. The players let themselves down very fucking badly tonight. Very fucking badly. Dumb fucking penalties, missed tackles, missed ruck assignments, dropped balls. Have a look in the fucking mirror boys because you let your coaches down today.
You fucking assume wrong. Fucking.
The players seem to be copping the vast majority of the blame.
