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If To'omua is unavailable as well. Then 12 will be Kerevi or Hodge. I put my money on Kerevi since he already has experience there. I'd rather start Kerevi at 13 too until he develops but when you got an injury crisis then you play the next best man, and if he's also a potential long term 12...

Harsh on DHP. Can't judge for one bad Test. His other 3 verse England he was solid on attack. He does get caught out in defence often but I put that down to being played out of position on the wing, he has maybe 3 games experience on the wing. He would be a solid option at fullback. Although...

Kerevi has a whole season at 12 for the reds last year. Plus he played their in 2 games in the England series. He has wayyyyy more experience at 12.

Folau should have stayed on the wing with a roving commission like Digby. Then at least we could use him for cross field kicks - oh wait we need a flyhalf who can kick for that.

and tackling.

3. Genia 2. Pocock 1. Folau

Absolutely. From a Cheika team which is suppose to all be about aggression and intensity it reeked of a lack of effort. Especially on defence. No attitude in the tackle and no work off the ball. Then there's the usual lack of skill and execution we are use to seeing. But most disappointing...

And give Jake White a call and ask him how to build an effective exit strategy since it seems so foreign to current lot of coaches.

Hire the Hurricane's coach as Defensive coach. There defence was outstanding this year. Hire Jim McKay as attack coach, Think he was attack coach for the Reds in 2011 when they won the super xv.

At least Genia looked alright on his return.

Bit harsh, he went to the sideline when he knew he couldn't shake it off.

This is a really good point. So many skillful players have came through and just haven't reached their potential. I wonder how players like Cooper, JOC (James O'Connor), KB (Kurtley Beale) would be like had they been in the NZ system. Or even a player like Godwin.

To be fair a 10 can't do much with a platform like that, or lack thereof. I think he had maybe 2 decent chances all game to do something... oh yeh but on those chances he decided to kick and get charged down, or cross kick straight to Dagg. Not sure Cooper could have done anything in a game...

Give credit where credit is due... he's only wrong 99.9% of the time, Still that 0.1% he gets it right... probably from chance.

I just didnt think the All Blacks looked that great tonight. Slower then usual. I actually thought a pace or two off their usual standard but they still managed that result.

Disagree. We were so passive in everything we did. No intensity in the contact zone. Inaccurate and no aggression at the breakdown. They put pressure on us but we can control the degree in which it is implied. We simple allow them to put too much pressure on us with poor work off the ball, a...

Matt Burke had a good point, No players on defence who could make a tackle to stop momentum. All it takes is either a good defensive read or a hard as f&*k tackle. Breakdown work was horrible too. Drop for being weak Simmons, McCalman, Moore Inject for intensity Arnold/Coleman, Timani, TPN...

Forward need to muscle-up. Backs can't do anything without a platform which was the norm tonight.

Agreed. One of the worst performances I seen. Zero intensity. Combined with the normal lack of skill and execution. But the intensity, usually always there in a Cheika team was non-existent. Even players like Hooper and Poey who normally make dominate tackles looked weaker then usual. I...

No. Wallabies were to blame for this one. Very passive in defence and attack. We made it easy for them.