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Fair but when there is only one recent game to go off, you have to go with the fact that Fiji won, so they are currently the better team. That's how it works right? There are plenty of games where you could say the better team lost but even in that case, the point of keeping the score is to...

Clearly it's not a popular opinion and this thread might not be the place for it but I disagree on all fronts. He's had three starts this year where he did not offer enough to say he's one of our best or not to be considered for dropping in my opinion. If we're talking Super form too, he...

If you're going to phrase it like that sure. However his performance being one of our best is very subjective but more importantly I think he's suggesting that him being in the team makes the balance off. It's more him being the unfortunate victim of balance than suggesting he had a bad game...

Is it? What he said wasn't very deep but on face value it's true, wacked out seems pretty strong. We had two safe options that we're most likely going to on our line. I didn't go back and look to see if Arnold was heavily marked but considering he is 208cm, our only jumper of renown and the...

What is ludicrous is to think that going into a RWC campaign with one 10, a three test rookie, makes any sense at all. As said, I like Gordon and think he should be there but at this stage he should be coming off the bench and starting the lesser pool games. That’s not how I remember Noah’s...

He does have a history but it's far from a consistently good one. My line of thinking is that young players need time and nurturing, it's step up and very few players are going to come into a poorly performing team and instantly play the house down at this level. The one good thing I can say...

I mean there were good aspects and can't fault the effort but it looks like going deep into the RWC is very unlikely at this point. There is a lot of talent and if they manage to gel as a team throughout, then who knows. The standard seems really high across the board though. Getting out of the...

Pietsch has no experience at this level but was arguably better than Nawaqanitawase for the tahs this year. Potentially covers a lot of positions if there are injuries and is very consistent so I don’t mind him being there. I’m in the minority here but I get the Samu exclusion. He’s great in...

How about Pone! And Fez on debut, really good game from both. Our centres are obviously good players but our attack seems to break down there or get very little pay. Might be partially bad tactics/structure but they are not more than the sum of their parts currently. White and Cooper should...

The ruck penalties got me more than the advantages. No consistency and it really felt like NZ were just gifted so many in that 2nd half. Trying to be partial, both teams collapsed mauls, no penalties. Fraser had arms on the ground the end of the first half for his penalty. We were definitely...

How many meters you want? 60 should be good for you guys I reckon

Didn’t say anything about cheating. Watch it back, NZ not rolling and slowing our ball, no penalty. Our 5 literally rolled out, NZ got quick ball and we’re penalised.

I’m not one to whinge about reffs but genuinely what is going on!?

I'd tend to agree aside from Gleeson, as he hasn't played and is still in the squad. Unlike the others. Possibly in the same boat as Fez.

Results aside, I love that a coach has finally dropped some out of form (or just not as good as the less experienced) older players. Given his hand has been forced at 7 otherwise he's made some tough calls in backing the younger halves, arguably should have done it from the get go but everything...

Improvement and being very optimistic, it looked like there was possibly the start of some positive team elements taking shape. I say elements but all I could actually think of was the maul, maybe the scrum but also Arg were very weak there against the AB's right? There were a lot more good...

Pretty big fan of this.

This isn't going to happen but I think some hard calls need to be made with experienced players in particular. We potentially have the players to have a more dominant forward pack but for so long have been less than the sum of our parts in this area. Slipper and AAA have rarely been on par let...

Agree, he didn't stand out but he had 30 mins and literally no one in our pack stood out as test level. Aside from maybe the line out in which he was fine in. Which should reflect much more poorly on the experienced players. Slipper, AAA and M Hooper in particular are much bigger concerns...

I didn't think T Hooper was bad. From memory his defensive issues were because SA had numbers, we kept getting caught out numbers wise on that far side in particular. That's a team defensive issue, not a Hooper issue. Might be mistaken though. Anyway I wouldn't say he isn't up to scratch from...