RWC Week 5: All Blacks v Uruguay
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@Stargazer said in RWC Week 5: All Blacks v Uruguay:
@Crazy-Horse said in RWC Week 5: All Blacks v Uruguay:
@antipodean said in RWC Week 5: All Blacks v Uruguay:
@Stargazer said in RWC Week 5: All Blacks v Uruguay:
@WillieTheWaiter said in RWC Week 5: All Blacks v Uruguay:
@Stargazer said in RWC Week 5: All Blacks v Uruguay:
If LF doesn't start next week, he should be on the bench instead of ALB.
pretty unimpressed by him getting skinned on the outside then showing the pace of a president grades prop chasing back and being passed by Whitelock
that was ugly!LF is indeed not the kind of winger who has that explosive speed for the short and sharp runs, but he offers so much more that can't be matched by the other wingers and midfielders. He just has too many upsides to leave him out of the 23 in my opinion.
What would those upsides be?
He's handy in close to the ruck and wins collisions more often than not. That's about all I can think of. He wouldn't be in my 23.
And he's a great ball carrier who is hard to tackle, very strong, has a huge workrate, he's like a winger and loosie in one. To me that's a great example of a power winger, who happens to be pretty handy in the midfield, too.
Like I mentioned earlier, I would be very worried if he ended up playing decent minutes at centre in a big game. He has no distribution and he gets caught out in defence at 13. The Crusaders realised that and stuck with Ennor in the midfield and him on the wing.
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Obviously first minutes, early exchanges etc etc but it is concerning that we always seem to come off 2nd best in this regard. Against teams that can maintain that for a full game then we are in trouble. When that happens not even Dmac or Blackadder can save us.
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@Rancid-Schnitzel and yet we were fast out of the blocks v Arg and SA earlier in the year, so we can do it, maintaining and backing it up is another story.
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@Kirwan said in RWC Week 5: All Blacks v Uruguay:
I thought we had stopped picking slow wingers. So many better choices in the current squad.
It seems crazy to me. He has some talent but he's nowhere near the finished product given how error prone he is, AND he's pissing off after the RWC. Such a waste of a squad space.
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@Stargazer said in RWC Week 5: All Blacks v Uruguay:
And he's a great ball carrier who is hard to tackle, very strong, has a huge workrate, he's like a winger and loosie in one.
He's shit at both and as we've seen on defence he's a
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I'm a fan but I get the feeling LF could be targeted by the better teams for his lack of "nimbleness" in defense in the current environment. Clarke has a similar problem with added bonus of an inability to be in the right position more often than not. The only two options to start on the wing for a big dance(s) would have to be Jordan and Telea with the current AB "defense system".
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@Old-Samurai-Jack yeah an accurate kicking team would certainly pressure his turning circle, similarly a team like Ireland with thier disciplined (as in, the whole line is off side
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@Stargazer said in RWC Week 5: All Blacks v Uruguay:
@WillieTheWaiter said in RWC Week 5: All Blacks v Uruguay:
@Stargazer said in RWC Week 5: All Blacks v Uruguay:
If LF doesn't start next week, he should be on the bench instead of ALB.
pretty unimpressed by him getting skinned on the outside then showing the pace of a president grades prop chasing back and being passed by Whitelock
that was ugly!LF is indeed not the kind of winger who has that explosive speed for the short and sharp runs, but he offers so much more that can't be matched by the other wingers and midfielders. He just has too many upsides to leave him out of the 23 in my opinion.
i get what your saying and have been asking to see him play more...but i got really nervous when that Uruguayan winger drops the ball, regathers on the back foot...and then just straight up smokes LF on the outside....i start questioning how much effort he was putting in to get back
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@Kiwiwomble Yep - and the effort thing applies to his kick chase too.
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@Tim said in RWC Week 5: All Blacks v Uruguay:
That's a bit shit. I don't think we can win without him.
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@Stargazer said in RWC Week 5: All Blacks v Uruguay:
Jermaine Ainsley started both games for ABs XV, this year, that was after Oli Jager withdrew from the squad.
Ainsley has been pretty average during the NPC.The reserve TH's were Rakete-Stones (1st game) and Dyer (2nd).
i think thats a little harsh, Otago has had a shit season in general but our scrum as been pretty good, forward sin general have been much better than our backs, i still think he could do a good job
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@antipodean said in RWC Week 5: All Blacks v Uruguay:
@Tim said in RWC Week 5: All Blacks v Uruguay:
That's a bit shit. I don't think we can win without him.
It certainly will be a struggle to compete without our best tighthead. We need to get at least parity in the scrums to be a chance with the way the game is at the moment.
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@antipodean said in RWC Week 5: All Blacks v Uruguay:
@Stargazer said in RWC Week 5: All Blacks v Uruguay:
And he's a great ball carrier who is hard to tackle, very strong, has a huge workrate, he's like a winger and loosie in one.
He's shit at both and as we've seen on defence he's a
Lenny McLean. What a character. Pretty much played himself in that movie. Not a fellow you’d want to mess with……
But yeah, back on topic, Both CC and LF aren’t quite Jonah on attack to make up for any other deficiancies.
LF looked like he was wearing fishing waders when that Uruguayan ( I’m still not sure that’s a word ) winger went round him and CCs propensity to trip over his own feet and generally do dumb shit is a huge concern.
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@game_film said in RWC Week 5: All Blacks v Uruguay:
@MN5 1,000 miles off topic here, but I was watching footage of Lenny McLean in old unlicensed boxing matches in a Frank Warren doco last week. Goodness me, he was almost as hard as Ethan Blackadder.
Stop talking shit. Lenny McLean is a fucken choirboy compared to Rangioras finest
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@game_film said in RWC Week 5: All Blacks v Uruguay:
@MN5 1,000 miles off topic here, but I was watching footage of Lenny McLean in old unlicensed boxing matches in a Frank Warren doco last week. Goodness me, he was almost as hard as Ethan Blackadder.
And almost as big
