Bledisloe One: Wellington, October 11
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11 Oct 4:00 pm, Wellington.
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@Tim both kickoffs now 4pm; they changed the time (not sure why)
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Apparently, that 30 mins makes a big difference to Aussie TV audience.
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Juicy odds for the Wallabies.
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@KiwiMurph said in Bledisloe One: Wellington, October 11:
Juicy odds for the Wallabies.
I think so - first outing for new combinations, new coaches, disrupted buildup - we could be ripe for the plucking.
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@nzzp Oz has no test locks, just promising youngsters.
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@nzzp said in Bledisloe One: Wellington, October 11:
@KiwiMurph said in Bledisloe One: Wellington, October 11:
Juicy odds for the Wallabies.
I think so - first outing for new combinations, new coaches, disrupted buildup - we could be ripe for the plucking.
Or be well up for it. Is it the first game for the oz as well?
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Got my ticket a couple of hours back.
Hoping for a great game to wash the taste of my last live rugby from memory. Fucking fuck Yokohama bullshit fluffybunny pommy twats. -
Interesting note - Deans and Cheika both won their first Bledisloe games as coach of Aus.
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@Kruse said in Bledisloe One: Wellington, October 11:
Got my ticket a couple of hours back.
Hoping for a great game to wash the taste of my last live rugby from memory. Fucking fuck Yokohama bullshit fluffybunny pommy twats.Yeah that wasn't what we had in mind.... 😔
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@canefan said in Bledisloe One: Wellington, October 11:
@Kruse said in Bledisloe One: Wellington, October 11:
Got my ticket a couple of hours back.
Hoping for a great game to wash the taste of my last live rugby from memory. Fucking fuck Yokohama bullshit fluffybunny pommy twats.Yeah that wasn't what we had in mind.... 😔
I nearly mentioned you in that post... to say thank you VERY much for that ticket (sarcasm emoji).
Bastard.
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@Kruse said in Bledisloe One: Wellington, October 11:
@canefan said in Bledisloe One: Wellington, October 11:
@Kruse said in Bledisloe One: Wellington, October 11:
Got my ticket a couple of hours back.
Hoping for a great game to wash the taste of my last live rugby from memory. Fucking fuck Yokohama bullshit fluffybunny pommy twats.Yeah that wasn't what we had in mind.... 😔
I nearly mentioned you in that post... to say thank you VERY much for that ticket (sarcasm emoji).
Bastard.
(but seriously, cheers, even if the game turned out to be shite).Haha. Yeah, me and the boys spent a fair amount of cash on that trip. Turned out that our team performed about as well as our 5 man haka in front of a bunch of Sony corporate guys in Golden Gai the next night
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@Kruse said in Bledisloe One: Wellington, October 11:
Got my ticket a couple of hours back.
Hoping for a great game to wash the taste of my last live rugby from memory. Fucking fuck Yokohama bullshit fluffybunny pommy twats.Couple of mates are heavy advertisers with NZME, so have got free tickets for the game, including a spare for me - happy days.
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@Smudge said in Bledisloe One: Wellington, October 11:
@Kruse said in Bledisloe One: Wellington, October 11:
Got my ticket a couple of hours back.
Hoping for a great game to wash the taste of my last live rugby from memory. Fucking fuck Yokohama bullshit fluffybunny pommy twats.Couple of mates are heavy advertisers with NZME, so have got free tickets for the game, including a spare for me - happy days.
My last job - in London, I asked in the interview whether the company had a box at Twickenham (as a half-joke, and a mate had dared me to). The answer was no, but they had heavy sponsorship of Wimbledon, Arsenal, various art galleries, etc - all the useless shit.
I completely forgot to ask about the Caketin in the job I just started. Unfortunately, I'm guessing the only similar thing these fluffybunnies might do is something to do with the America's Cup.
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@Kruse My boss in the UK didn't have a corporate box but had season tickets in great spots for both Twickers and Lords, unfortunately my visits to Twickers were all sad affairs...
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@KiwiMurph said in Bledisloe One: Wellington, October 11:
Interesting note - Deans and Cheika both won their first Bledisloe games as coach of Aus.
Both of those games were in Australia though, it's worth pointing out.
The odds are juicy for a reason. We've had a similar post-RWC turnover of key positions and coaches. Ours may prove more beneficial in the long run, but we're very much at square one of a 3-4 year process.
Expect to see a few inexperienced youngsters thrown in the deep end, a few new faces and combinations that may still be a year or two away. Guys like Noah Lolesio, Harry Wilson, Irae Simone, Filipo Daugunu.
We won't win, and supporters have their expectations suitably low. What we want to see is attitude - work ethic, enthusiasm, mongrel. It may lack polish (which will see us lose in the end), but at least if the attitude is there we will be happy. Or, as happy as you can be when you lose to NZ.
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@barbarian Dave Rennie.
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Those odds are well worth a punt on Aussie. Messed up year, and a very young team which will be fearless.
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I hate the 4pm Sunday kick off times. Such a fucken shit time for people with young kids. Alternative is to watch at a bar with mates and be hungover at work to start the week.
Grumpy.
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@shark said in Bledisloe One: Wellington, October 11:
I hate the 4pm Sunday kick off times. Such a fucken shit time for people with young kids. Alternative is to watch at a bar with mates and be hungover at work to start the week.
Grumpy.
You must be a terrible drinker if a 90 minute session is enough to get you hungover the next day.
I think Sunday avo is an outstanding time particularly in the warmer more bbq friendly months.
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@MN5 said in Bledisloe One: Wellington, October 11:
@shark said in Bledisloe One: Wellington, October 11:
I hate the 4pm Sunday kick off times. Such a fucken shit time for people with young kids. Alternative is to watch at a bar with mates and be hungover at work to start the week.
Grumpy.
You must be a terrible drinker if a 90 minute session is enough to get you hungover the next day.
I think Sunday avo is an outstanding time particularly in the warmer more bbq friendly months.
You try meeting 8 people at Aikmans at 3pm on a Sunday and escape unscathed. You'd have to be a bit of a dry balls not to tuck in a little.
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@shark said in Bledisloe One: Wellington, October 11:
@MN5 said in Bledisloe One: Wellington, October 11:
@shark said in Bledisloe One: Wellington, October 11:
I hate the 4pm Sunday kick off times. Such a fucken shit time for people with young kids. Alternative is to watch at a bar with mates and be hungover at work to start the week.
Grumpy.
You must be a terrible drinker if a 90 minute session is enough to get you hungover the next day.
I think Sunday avo is an outstanding time particularly in the warmer more bbq friendly months.
You try meeting 8 people at Aikmans at 3pm on a Sunday and escape unscathed. You'd have to be a bit of a dry balls not to tuck in a little.
You can’t go that early though and you have to leave right on full time cos the kids need looking after. It’s not the 80s. You can’t just leave them in the car with coke and chippies.
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@MN5 I'd never let the kids near my coke.
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@MN5 said in Bledisloe One: Wellington, October 11:
You can’t just leave them in the car with coke and chippies.
Oh, umm...
When did that change?I thought that you just had to leave the windows down a bit.
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Sparky's Team
Moody, Taylor, Laulala, S Whitelock, Tuipulotu, Frizell, Cane, Sotutu, A Smith, Mo'unga, Clarke, ALB, R Ioane, Jordan, J Barrett.
Subs: Aumua, Karl T, Ofa T, Vaa'i, A Savea, TJP, B.Barrett, Goodhue
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@sparky I see little value in Goodhue off the bench he starts or isnt in the 23 IMO.
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@sparky No Coles?
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@sparky That's probably about right.
I think they might pair either Clarke and Reece or Bridge and Jordan (or they might go for the conservative Bridge and Reece), so as not to have debutants on both flanks.
Coles over Aumua if fit.
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@taniwharugby said in Bledisloe One: Wellington, October 11:
@sparky I see little value in Goodhue off the bench he starts or isnt in the 23 IMO.
Quite like @sparky s team. I would probably have come up with the same.
With RIoane starting and BB on bench, the back three are well covered. Goodhue can either come in if Ioane has to move or if either of the starting midfielders is having an off day.
We need midfield cover on the bench. Not an area we can cover with an allrounder.Maybe ALB could go bench, mainly due to Rennie knowing his game so well.
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Canes4life's team:
- Moody, 2. Taylor, 3. Tu'ungafasi, 4. Tuipolotu, 5. Whitelock, 6. Sotutu, 7. Cane, 8. Savea (only because Cane is captain) - if he wasn't then I would go Grace, Savea Sotutu) 9. Smith, 10. Mo'unga, 11. Ioane 12. ALB 13. Goodhue 14. Jordan 15. J Barrett 16. Aumua (if Coles is out) 17. Tu'unukuafe 18. Lomax 19. Vaa'i 20. Grace 21. Perenara 22. B Barrett 23. Reece
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@Canes4life said in Bledisloe One: Wellington, October 11:
Canes4life's team:
- Moody, 2. Taylor, 3. Tu'ungafasi, 4. Tuipolotu, 5. Whitelock, 6. Sotutu, 7. Cane, 8. Savea (only because Cane is captain) - if he wasn't then I would go Grace, Savea Sotutu) 9. Smith, 10. Mo'unga, 11. Ioane 12. ALB 13. Goodhue 14. Jordan 15. J Barrett 16. Aumua (if Coles is out) 17. Tu'unukuafe 18. Lomax 19. Vaa'i 20. Grace 21. Perenara 22. B Barrett 23. Reece
That's a fucked loose forward mix
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@Crucial it's only fucked because Cane automatically gets selected so you need to fit everyone else around him. Savea is too good to bench IMO, so I have left him at 8, and Sotutu is someone that I think could move to 6 fairly easily.
Take Cane away and my loose forward trio would be 6. Grace 7. Savea 8. Sotutu. If they selected Boshier I would have him on the bench aswell.
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@sparky said in Bledisloe One: Wellington, October 11:
Sparky's Team
Moody, Taylor, Laulala, S Whitelock, Tuipulotu, Frizell, Cane, Sotutu, A Smith, Mo'unga, Clarke, ALB, R Ioane, Jordan, J Barrett.
Subs: Aumua, Karl T, Ofa T, Vaa'i, A Savea, TJP, B.Barrett, Goodhue
probably wouldn't argue with much, maybe Reece on the right but a bit of a coin flip
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@Canes4life said in Bledisloe One: Wellington, October 11:
@Crucial it's only fucked because Cane automatically gets selected so you need to fit everyone else around him. Savea is too good to bench IMO, so I have left him at 8, and Sotutu is someone that I think could move to 6 fairly easily.
Take Cane away and my loose forward trio would be 6. Grace 7. Savea 8. Sotutu. If they selected Boshier I would have him on the bench aswell.
I suppose you think Cullen could move to 13 fairly easily as well?
No way in our home advantage Bled game do you start two untried (at test level) loose forwards.
Especially Grace, who deserves his squad selection but has very light game experience at top level. He needs to be introduced off the bench or against a lesser team. -
So does this game actually exist? This weekend?
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@mariner4life said in Bledisloe One: Wellington, October 11:
So does this game actually exist? This weekend?
4pm Sunday. Time for a few drinks over 80 minutes, and a hangover on Monday and Tuesday
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2pm on a sunday when you're currently in lockdown anyway? perfect!
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@Kiwiwomble said in Bledisloe One: Wellington, October 11:
probably wouldn't argue with much, maybe Reece on the right but a bit of a coin flip
Yep, I think it will be Clarke and Reece on the wings. Rioane at centre.
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@taniwharugby said in Bledisloe One: Wellington, October 11:
@sparky I see little value in Goodhue off the bench he starts or isnt in the 23 IMO.
Hansen described Midfield as a Three Card Trick. Goodhue can slot in at Centre and Reiko Ioane can play the Second Half on the Wing.
