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Monkey Magic wrote: ↑Thu Sep 18, 2025 4:00 am I hadn't realized in the 6 defeats of Razor, we've never trailed at half time, amd have led in 5 of them,

https://www.1news.co.nz/2025/09/18/anal ... -collapse/

… wow

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We still run it back, just not very well.

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I would say Ruben Love would be a better bet. He certainly could not be any more lame than BB currently. It makes zero difference if the pack is getting man shamed. It makes plenty of difference. The idea is to keep the ball. When we had the ball we made ground and scored points. I don’t think that...

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Yeah Mounga is the obvious one. AC keeps beating this drum but when pressed for examples of other players that would be selected from overseas to alleviate our current woes he deflects by saying he doesn't watch overseas 'easy' rugby. :lol: I’d rather win and Barrett is our best 10 so pick him. The...

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Agree. But this NZ team is so up and down, I back us to win the second match. I was just hoping that the match the ABs shat the bed in would be the one at Eden Park. Never seen them play so badly. Their focus on Eden Park had been building for a long time. Pressure was immense to not be THE team to...

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Eugenius wrote: ↑Tue Sep 16, 2025 2:09 am Barrett’s lame chip kick against the flow when there were 6 players outside him was atrocious.

Remember when Jordan blew two golden opportunities? I do, but they have little to do with why we lost.

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Yeah Mounga is the obvious one. AC keeps beating this drum but when pressed for examples of other players that would be selected from overseas to alleviate our current woes he deflects by saying he doesn't watch overseas 'easy' rugby. :lol: I’d rather win and Barrett is our best 10 so pick him. The...

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Really? What were they? They mattered more than the two botched attacking lineouts?

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Who are the players that are currently not eligible for AB selection but would possibly come into the squad. I can only think of Mounga. Who else is there? Sorry, genuine question. Yeah Mounga is the obvious one. AC keeps beating this drum but when pressed for examples of other players that would b...

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I feel like sabbaticals answer this.

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This conversation has become so ridiculous. Who do advocates of relaxing the rules think would have saved us in that defeat? I would only pick Mounga and maybe Retallick of all those playing overseas. No one is saying it would have saved us in that defeat. Don’t conflate that with an open minded lo...

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It’s just the crusaders vs the rest of nz shit fight that has been repeating for years. It’s unfortunate it ramped up so much when bb and foster blocked mounga and Robertson from their “birthright.” The split in ab fans continues to be the worst it’s ever been I pretty sure most if the concern with...

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It’s just the crusaders vs the rest of nz shit fight that has been repeating for years. It’s unfortunate it ramped up so much when bb and foster blocked mounga and Robertson from their “birthright.” The split in ab fans continues to be the worst it’s ever been

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If you allow selection of players from overseas, then more players will go overseas, therefore making you more reliant on overseas players. It’s circular. Everyone would keep all their players and coach’s if they could but $. Ironically we do allow overseas selection, but it’s on the terms set by n...

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Catch the box kicks and have a functioning lineout we probably stay in that game and manage to exert our own pressure which would fatigue the boks We did put some pressure on. Two lineouts in very good positions (one with the commentators screaming about an overlap) to start with. Then Jordan’s biz...

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Boredies who have been talking up the potential of Williams, Holland, Newall, Scooter have now flip-flopped and have come out saying we have no players who can play test rugby. That our expectations should be much lower than they were up till (checks calendar) the beginning of the 2024 season. I mu...

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jdogscoop wrote: ↑Sun Sep 14, 2025 1:45 am
mrbrownstone wrote: ↑Sun Sep 14, 2025 1:42 am Will this be the impetus we need to finally try something different at 10?

It’s just becoming definition of insanity stuff with BB.
Unlikely. He seems locked in at 10, regardless of performance.

Yep, with mounga at ten we win that by twenty.

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Yes, thats it. I think part of the problem is the execution ain’t great (from us).

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That's what happens against the top sides if you don't have the ball. I honestly think it’s part of this shit defensive strategy we have of putting people in their attacking line . If they can go over them (or just run the ball) it creates easy momentum. You're going to have to explain that one to ...

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I don’t think head on works in this day and age. It’s much more high risk than it used to be. The lowest risk way of gain metres seems to be kicking. Especially high balls if the abs are the opponent. It will rain high balls on us till we find a way to fix it. The boks ran around us as much as they...

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The day after and I feel like I have a hangover, and yet I didn't drink anything. The ABs have multiple problems at the moment, their performance issues can't be resolved by one thing alone. The top two for me after watching the game live are: scrum and catching high balls. You can't win the game i...

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:shock: :( What are the causes for this? That is sad and very serious. More children not participating in any sport. The rise of basketball/other sports. The rise of concussion awareness. I don’t see this getting better. I dont believe the numbers for Basketball. I reckon they're less than what the...

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I take your point Pakia but we had a bit of a luxury with players absolutely owning their positions back then.

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The All Blacks wont consistently beat the Boks and the other first choice packs until we can go through them. Making game plans to go wide and run around the rush defence is like admitting defeat before kick off. Need to change the mentality to head-on. I don’t think head on works in this day and a...

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I don’t buy the cattle argument. Looking through the squad, there is plenty of talent there. A well coached team plays greater than the sum of their parts. We’re seeing the opposite. Yep, the same 'cattle' were good enough to win against the same opposition the week before. I wouldn't have selected...

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BlueThunder wrote: ↑Sat Sep 13, 2025 10:36 pm
OupaStruisbaai wrote: ↑Sat Sep 13, 2025 10:17 pm The Springboks had no Willie, no Mampimpi, no Kriel, no Ellende, no Pollard, no Mostert, no Etsebeth, no Malherbe, no Bongi today.
And they looked a lot fresher for it.

I think those players would have held them back.

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Is it a mental problem? Last week we looked hungrier.... at least for an hour. And won. This week... we were leading at half time... but still didn't look hungry like last week... Today SA were hungrier... and NZ were too satisfied with last week... no hunger. SA don't win every match either.. they...

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I don’t think it was a lack of hunger, the players were shellshocked. All sense of structure went out the window and any sort of passion was misdirected.

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How many bok tries can we put down to bad and/or lazy defence? Snyman waltzed through, Willemse was flat footed off an awful pass, the kick to the wing was stifled but the first man on the scene was a bok for the offload (where was our support?), there was definitely a break where DMac was covering ...

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I don’t buy the cattle argument. Looking through the squad, there is plenty of talent there. A well coached team plays greater than the sum of their parts. We’re seeing the opposite.

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So our defence is a bit shit isn’t it? Anyone else unconvinced with our players standing in their attacking line? I really don’t think it works.

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This thread is a totally expected dumpster fire. Considering we all know America will react the same way but dialled to 11… well… fucken hell.

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Plusses - backline has plenty of attacking potential. Downside - back three are all only average under the high ball and defensively lightweight. Forwards largely predictable, just a matter of who starts or is off the bench, though some picked Kirifi to be replaced DMac is pretty handy under the hi...

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On the subject of Bok centric analysis, I've seen a few people questioning Smith's yellow card as they're saying the ball was out. TAS for instance (biased I know) but also this article on the main page. https://www.planetrugby.com/news/opinion-springboks-were-outfoxed-outboxed-and-deserved-to-lose...

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Get Leroy Carter in there, all the young bolters are coming up trumps so far. His energy would be awesome against the Boks. Honestly, all this talk about experience and super rugby doesnt prepare players for tests. Its outdated, look at all these players who have debuted over the last 3 years. Ther...

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Reikos strength in stopping that try was immense , but his absolute lack of verve when given the outside of his marker absolutely disappointing. He’s just about done his chips are an attacking weapon, simply running into tacklers . Yep, Rieko of old would have streaked away that time. He looked lik...

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The great thing with Love is that he seems to be becoming a better player in the eyes of many with every game he doesn’t play. You’d think we had Cullen 2.0 and were holding him back and not a guy who can’t even cement a 10 shirt over Brett Cameron. That would be because he brings a strength that h...

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Will Jordan is an attacking savant and calls to drop him from the team are over the top. He isn’t consistent under the high ball though. Luckily McKenzie, who is infinitely better in this regard, was able to defuse the aerial bombardment. Jordan should be relegated to the wing, with McKenzie or Lov...

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Australia have better broken field runners than us though... their back four can all do it.. we only have Jordan really. Even DMac has lost that art these days. Rieko hasn't done it for years and Narawa we don't know enough about at test level to see if he can. Australia have better broken field ru...

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You really must live a joyless life if your only take-away from that epic test match is to attack Will Jordan. Newsflash, it was a wet night and both teams dropped lots of kicks. Do you consider Jordan’s performance under the high ball last night to be acceptable? Acceptable is a strange choice of ...

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