Bledisloe One: Wellington, October 11

akan004

@bayimports said in Bledisloe One: Wellington, October 11:

Anyone want a bet this is starting XV?

Moody, Taylor, Tuungafasi, Tuipulotu, Whitelock, Frizell, Cane (cpt), Savea, Smith, Mounga, Bridge, Goodhue, Ioane, J.Barrett, B.Barrett.

Let’s just say not my pick, but wouldn’t bet against it

Good sauce.

Yeetyaah

What are they thinking? Goodhue isn't a 12. Jordie is the form fullback and he gets chucked on the wing? Big yikes.

number9

@Machpants said in Bledisloe One: Wellington, October 11:

The matchday 23 is as follows (test caps in brackets):

Joe Moody (46)

Codie Taylor (50)

Ofa Tuungafasi (35)

Patrick Tuipulotu (30)

Samuel Whitelock (117)

Shannon Frizell (9)

Sam Cane (68) - captain

Ardie Savea (44)

Aaron Smith (92)

Richie Mo'unga (17)

George Bridge (9)

Jack Goodhue (13)

Rieko Ioane (29)

Jordie Barrett (17)

Beauden Barrett (83)

Dane Coles (69)

Karl Tu'inukuafe (13)

Nepo Laulala (26)

Tupou Vaa'i - debut

Hoskins Sotutu - debut

TJ Perenara (64)

Anton Lienert-Brown (43)

Caleb Clarke - debut

Very safe Team, happy for Clarke, Sotutu and Vaa'i . The only thing out of the ordinary is Reiko at Centre and ALB on the bench.

Donsteppa

Jordie on the wing and not at 15?

@Donsteppa said in Bledisloe One: Wellington, October 11:

It still feels like we have the wrong Chiefs coach in charge of each team...

booboo

I am not whelmed at all by the backline, particularly the wings.

I said Reece/Bridge was the least whelming of the possible wing combinations ... I was wrong.

12 is our best 13
13 is our best 11
14 is our best 15

I'll accept the loosies ... But not my preferred.

Machpants

Is the weather due to absolute dogshit welly wet and windy? Nope, pedestrian wings

mariner4life

get fucked

our 3rd best 8. picking two 7s.
the best fullback shunted to the wing in order to select the 2nd best fullback
neither of the two wingers are really the best in the country

and it's one of the last physically imposing back 3s i have ever seen

this is a shit team selected by fuckheads.

Donsteppa

They could have played DMac on the left wing, and brought in David Havili and Josh Ioane to the midfield so that we had enough fullbacks and first fives on the park.

Canes4life

This is the sort of team I expected Foster to pick. Playing it safe and not rewarding form at all, apart from maybe Ioane at centre. Are the All Blacks really going to innovate themselves by picking the same old crop?

DMX

He went the conservative route that I had been expecting. I had thought it would be the same backline as the semi, but I guess given that Jordie was in that 22 and ALB will be available off the bench he is not taking too many risks. Like I said in another thread he does not have many tests to play with , he has to win early to have any hopes of getting his contract renewed.

Chris

Not a fan of this selected team, I don’t like to see players picked out of position it smacks of not being strong enough to make the tough selection decisions.
Foster has underwhelmed me once again.

Crucial

The wing selections beggar belief.

mariner4life

@Canes4life said in Bledisloe One: Wellington, October 11:

This is the sort of team I expected Foster to pick. Playing it safe and not rewarding form at all, apart from maybe Ioane at centre. Are the All Blacks really going to innovate themselves by picking the same old crop?

innovate?? innovate?? when was the last time the ABs were about innovation? The ABs now are all about continuity of intellectual capital.

If fucking SBarrett was fit he would have started, and it would have looked even more like last year.

Yeetyaah

@Canes4life I don't even think it's safe. Goodhue isn't a 12. Jordie is a great fullback and the one time he played fullback for the AB's it was only against Italy.

Machpants

@Yeetyaah said in Bledisloe One: Wellington, October 11:

@Canes4life I don't even think it's safe. Goodhue isn't a 12. Jordie is a great fullback and the one time he played fullback for the AB's it was only against Italy.

Wing vs Italy, but yeah

Chris

Makes sense now why the Crusaders persisted with Goodhue at 12 a Foster plan by the looks of it.

No Quarter

What did we expect with them just passing the buck to Foster instead of taking the applications for the top job seriously?

It was a bullshit decision to appoint him head coach and he'll provide plenty of bullshit selections like this where he picks favourites over form.

Wallabies coach is significantly better than ours.

Canes4life

@mariner4life #IVOTEFORSCOTTROBERTSON

The All Blacks need a shake up.

Rapido

@nzzp said in Bledisloe One: Wellington, October 11:

@Rapido and a typo with 'quaratined'.

But great work that man (if it's legit)

can blame the sub editors ....

gt12

When you look at this team, you can see that we’ve really fallen off a cliff in the last few years (say, since 2015).

We’ve got some oldies hanging on, some newbies not being given the chance, and a mish-mash of quality to make up a very 1999 fit-in-all-the-best players back line - except they aren’t even necessarily the best players.

And, for someone who said he’d pick specialists, how many players are not playing in their absolute specialist positions? What a farce.

The Silver Fern

Bledisloe One: Wellington, October 11