MotM vs Australia III
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This will be the only time I vote for a player who does a shitty grubber kick in the opposition's 22 when we are chasing a game. It is not going to happen again. It probably wouldn't be happening now if he hadn't won that penalty with one minute to go.
Cane and Read are the other votes. No one else is deserving.
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Read, Reiko, SBW
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@kiwimurph said in MotM vs Australia III:
@hydro11 youll happily vote for Cane who knocked on at the end I see.
Knock ons happen. SBW chose a terrible option. I can get over mistakes - dumb passes, kicks and penalties are tougher to deal with.
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@hydro11 said in MotM vs Australia III:
@kiwimurph said in MotM vs Australia III:
@hydro11 youll happily vote for Cane who knocked on at the end I see.
Knock ons happen. SBW chose a terrible option. I can get over mistakes - dumb passes, kicks and penalties are tougher to deal with.
Cane made a poor decision at the end as well. He didn’t just knock it on. He should’ve let TJ be the halfback. Cane had a rush of blood also.
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@act-crusader said in MotM vs Australia III:
@hydro11 said in MotM vs Australia III:
@kiwimurph said in MotM vs Australia III:
@hydro11 youll happily vote for Cane who knocked on at the end I see.
Knock ons happen. SBW chose a terrible option. I can get over mistakes - dumb passes, kicks and penalties are tougher to deal with.
Cane made a poor decision at the end as well. He didn’t just knock it on. He should’ve let TJ be the halfback. Cane had a rush of blood also.
You are probably right but I don't think doing a pick and go is that bad in the grand scheme of things. I'm pretty much against kicking in the other teams 22 in most circumstances.
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Hee hee, my takeaway from this thread is that no one should be MOTM.
Clearly it can't be SBW because he did a chip kick and just cos he's SBW.
Clearly it can't be Cane because he turned over that last ball.
Clearly it can't be Read because he gave away a couple of stupid penalties.As those 3 were better then everyone else over 80 minutes we might as well cancel the vote this week.
Although TBF, if the ball was passed to Ioane in space one more time in the game then he probably would have been the pick. TBH, after those 4 I think Whitelock and Naholo had solid games.
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@hydro11 said in MotM vs Australia III:
@kiwimurph said in MotM vs Australia III:
@hydro11 youll happily vote for Cane who knocked on at the end I see.
Knock ons happen. SBW chose a terrible option. I can get over mistakes - dumb passes, kicks and penalties are tougher to deal with.
Was it a terrible option? He was chipping ahead for Ioane, who we would back for pace..
His offload leading to Ioane's try was high risk, but when it came off it was amazing..
If the grubber came off, people would be lauding SBW for his array of skills.I went with SBW, Read and Cane.
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@mimic said in MotM vs Australia III:
@hydro11 said in MotM vs Australia III:
@kiwimurph said in MotM vs Australia III:
@hydro11 youll happily vote for Cane who knocked on at the end I see.
Knock ons happen. SBW chose a terrible option. I can get over mistakes - dumb passes, kicks and penalties are tougher to deal with.
Was it a terrible option? He was chipping ahead for Ioane, who we would back for pace..
His offload leading to Ioane's try was high risk, but when it came off it was amazing..
If the grubber came off, people would be lauding SBW for his array of skills.he has a worldwide reputation for his offloading game.
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@mimic said in MotM vs Australia III:
@hydro11 said in MotM vs Australia III:
@kiwimurph said in MotM vs Australia III:
@hydro11 youll happily vote for Cane who knocked on at the end I see.
Knock ons happen. SBW chose a terrible option. I can get over mistakes - dumb passes, kicks and penalties are tougher to deal with.
Was it a terrible option? He was chipping ahead for Ioane, who we would back for pace..
His offload leading to Ioane's try was high risk, but when it came off it was amazing..
If the grubber came off, people would be lauding SBW for his array of skills.I went with SBW, Read and Cane.
You might, I wouldn't. I hated the praise Garden-Bachop got for his stupid chip kick the other week.
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@hydro11 said in MotM vs Australia III:
@mimic said in MotM vs Australia III:
@hydro11 said in MotM vs Australia III:
@kiwimurph said in MotM vs Australia III:
@hydro11 youll happily vote for Cane who knocked on at the end I see.
Knock ons happen. SBW chose a terrible option. I can get over mistakes - dumb passes, kicks and penalties are tougher to deal with.
Was it a terrible option? He was chipping ahead for Ioane, who we would back for pace..
His offload leading to Ioane's try was high risk, but when it came off it was amazing..
If the grubber came off, people would be lauding SBW for his array of skills.I went with SBW, Read and Cane.
You might, I wouldn't. I hated the praise Garden-Bachop got for his stupid chip kick the other week.
I guess you weren't a fan of Goldie who used to do it and seemed like he had the ball on a string.
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SBW had a really good game, I gave him a MOTM vote and he didn't cost us the game, but the grubber in their 22 in the final minutes when we were only 2 points behind was an incredibly low percentage option. Very hard to justify.
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@taniwharugby said in MotM vs Australia III:
@hydro11 the fortuitous one off the cross bar? Was under penalty advantage so had nothing to lose I guess.
Fair enough. Didn't actually realise that.
