I knew that the Ellis Park result was the worst thing to have happened to the ABs. Foster has single handedly destroyed the AB legacy.

Akira must be feeling great right now. Poor guy.

The judge clearly hates the ABs since he wants SF to remain in the team.

Is there a point in playing Whitelock until the 80th minute when they are clearly going to lose? Razor sure loves to run him into the ground and leave the ABs with a burnt out player.

Thank you Hansen, Henry, NZR and the senior ABs. This is on you clowns.

@booboo said in Ireland II:

Interesting contrast in reaction to the two results, Chicago and Dublin.

Winners, losers, magnanimity and shit loss.

The Irish have been terrible losers today. All the kiwis who were happy for Ireland and their fans after the Chicago loss should hopefully now realise that others won't ever reciprocate that level of magnanimity towards us. I hope we will never ever see another day where an AB loss is accepted and even celebrated by many AB fans.

ABs ability to stop mauls already a lot better under Ryan.

@taniwharugby said in When should Foster go?:

think the point is he was kicking for the 5m lineout, that is the difficult part, but given how far out he was kicking from, he shouldnt have been going for that lower % play...irony is, if he had gone for say 10-15m out, he woulda put it into the 5m....

I know he has said that he is happy to take the risk and go for extra metres and if it doesn't come off then he can live with it. That's fine if we are in the lead or at least are in the game, however this was a crucial time in the game where we were well behind and needed to score. It was definitely not the time to take a risk. This team lacks rugby IQ and Mounga displayed that perfectly with that kick.

@pukunui said in All Blacks v BI Lions Test #3:

Fucking disgrace. I thought it couldn't get any worse than last weeks deciding penalty but that was a complete farce.

Fully expect WR to stay completely silent.

Has anybody ever seen a referee change his mind about a penalty from a non foul related incident? First time in history I reckon.

I thought the big work on after the semi was to improve our physicality. We looked even less physical than last year.

@Bovidae said in England vs Springboks:

It was frustrating that every English pass stuck last week in the final 10 mins whereas today they looked rather clueless when chasing the game, and made numerous errors.

A lot of those mistakes were caused by SA's incredible line speed as opposed to our passive D last week.

Lol how dumb is this English team. Trailing by 21 and are slowing the game down. Going for the lineout on 3 occasions against a good maul defence was moronic.

@ARHS said in All Blacks v England:

@akan004 said in All Blacks v England:

@Nepia said in All Blacks v England:

@Damo said in All Blacks v England:

BB's stupid drop goal did not help but it was the defence out wide that let us down.

Huh? If he missed the kick we likely would have gone for the penalty anyway.

It was a dumb play and he's done it many times before. It's a free play when on advantage, go for maximum points.

We were up by 16 at that stage, taking the dropkick meant England still had to score 3 tries to win it. Surely the better option was to take it outside the 3 try margin by scoring a try. Even if nothing eventuated from it we would have then gone back to the penalty and more importantly killed off a couple of minutes.

Surely not. Take the 3 points. Then you are just seeking 3 more points to make the game safe.

It's a free play though. What do you have to lose by attempting to score a try? If you don't score you still get the penalty and then can go for the 3, and you would have killed a few minutes in doing so.

Whitelock may have even decided to go to the corner, BB took that option away from him by going for the drop kick. Poor game management imo.

@Nepia said in All Blacks v England:

@Damo said in All Blacks v England:

BB's stupid drop goal did not help but it was the defence out wide that let us down.

Huh? If he missed the kick we likely would have gone for the penalty anyway.

It was a dumb play and he's done it many times before. It's a free play when on advantage, go for maximum points.

We were up by 16 at that stage, taking the dropkick meant England still had to score 3 tries to win it. Surely the better option was to take it outside the 3 try margin by scoring a try. Even if nothing eventuated from it we would have then gone back to the penalty and more importantly killed off a couple of minutes.

Wallabies are defending the Irish attack pretty well, so much better than we did mid year.

@Old-Samurai-Jack said in All Blacks v England:

Nepo is a serious defense liability. Both breaks have been down his channel

That was a ridiculous selection as well. This over emphasis on experience needs to stop. Shit players need to be dropped, no matter how experienced they are. Newell is a superior player atm.

@Crazy-Horse said in All Blacks v England:

It's been said ad nauseum but our issues stem from the defence. And not just the last 10 minutes of this game.

Realistically, who do we have available that's a good alternative to Mcleod? Fix that and things will look pretty good I reckon.

How that clown survived the chop is beyond me. Apparently he didn't review well last year too. I would have gone with Mitchell as soon as he parted ways with England.

Can't believe Nisbo thought it was a smart kick from TJ.

@sparky said in All Blacks v England:

Eddie Jones has done us an enormous favour there. Our current defence is no where near good enough for the last ten minutes of a RWC knockout. A big rethink of that area is needed.

Should have sacked McLeod years ago. They will never learn, we are stuck with this shit defence till the RWC.

Our defence when teams go wide is still terrible