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Olympics too I’d say.

I did the express 20 minute mini on offer via Stan and got bored in that.

He’s one of those 0.5 ones.

That’s not what I said. It’s hard enough to beat the all blacks with a neutral ref, let alone with 4 x kiwis on the panel.

Valetini didn’t offer a lot of impact, I don’t mind your thinking but I’d be swapping him and Naisarani around, I reckon Valetini is the perfect bench player.

3 Paisami 2 Hooper 1 Kellaway

Just a bit of a left field aside from the game, I thought Retallick was a liability for the white ferns. He’s a smart player and knows how to push the edges, the cheap shot on hooper a case in point, but it looked like he was trying to play to his smarts rather than just play footy, probably...

This is my point on the match thread. We won’t win any games against NZ, especially in NZ, when the officiating team is also stacked with them.

I’ll back whatever side we put out next week. The all blacks could be better, but so could we. In fact, we have more upside.

Agree. Form and performance weren’t Ikitau’s friends tonight. He wasn’t terrible but we aren’t looking for ‘OK’ at test level. If JOC (James O'Connor) was fit the solution would be easy, but he ain’t.

Well that won’t happen. Not criticising the the thinking though.

well I’m already loading up on the ABs on Betfair then. Why weren’t there overseas officials already in the country for tonight’s game? I doubt they planned to use only Aus/NZ ones, in which case there are already some in quarantine.

I wasn’t being tough on Ikitau, we need some experience in the backline and that is the most sensible solution. The other alternative is Hodge at 10. Worked last time out, Noah is the casualty though.

Starting yes, but I thought we went up a level in the pigs when we made the sub, I think we won all our set piece too. I think it works late in the game.

Ikitau has potential but I’m with you on this, push Paisami out one and start To'omua. I’m sceptical about off the bench appearances in general but we need some experience around Noah and this is the best solution.

Next week is predictable. We will be bold again but we can’t win when there are 4 kiwis adjudicating. Fair enough for this game as it all happened pretty quickly, but hopefully they had the foresight to fly some tier 1 officials in before the lockdown.

No problems with those blokes, there are a couple of others that can be/are in the squad justifiably. Can’t pick Argentinians though.

Yep, with you.

That’s the thing, I applaud the force for their performance this year but it’s hard to pick any of them when they’re ineligible.

Yep. Not a big difference on the scoreboard but a massive difference to the result.