All Blacks & All Blacks XV Tours 2022

[Dctarget]

Would've loved some Welsh commentary instead of the Kiwis there, just sounded like another super rugby rout of the rebels.

 

[waiopehu oldboy]

Perfect illustration of why no-one should ever take anything Gregor Paul writes seriously:

Nov 5: Hurld piece titled "How Wales Can Beat Vulnerable All Blacks"

Nov 6: Hurld piece that includes the phrase "...supposedly vulnerable All Blacks..." without acknowledging in any way that he himself labelled them as such.

I'll have to remember this next time someone on an SRP (Super Rugby Pacific)- or RA vs NZR-related thread gets their knickers in a twist over something GP has written...

 

[Bullrush]

Did anyone else think there was obstruction in the first try to wales?

 

[waiopehu oldboy]

Codie Taylor lmao.

Had his best day in Black in a long time I thought. That said I'd like to see Aumua get a run next week & Samisoni start v Ringinland with Codie on the bench.

 

[waiopehu oldboy]

Did anyone else think there was obstruction in the first try to wales?

Nah, two AB went for the decoy runner leaving a hole I could've run through. Can't recall if it was checked live but TMO would surely have had a look while the conversion was being taken & players were getting set for the restart. Just a bad read IMO.

 

[Bullrush]

Nah, two AB went for the decoy runner leaving a hole I could've run through. Can't recall if it was checked live but TMO would surely have had a look while the conversion was being taken & players were getting set for the restart. Just a bad read IMO.

I’ll have to watch it again, but the few times I did a review it, it looks like the decoy runner took out Mo’unga who was in a good position to defend the try scorer.

i reckon in league it would have been called obstruction because the decoy makes contact with the defender but I’m not sure exactly how they look it at in rugby…. hence my question LOL

 

[waiopehu oldboy]

^ Mo'unga initiated the contact IMO so the decoy runner is fine. Or that's my understanding of how they'd have looked at it: have heard refs talking to TMO along the lines of "defender initiated the contact therefore there's no obstruction?" & TMO replying "correct".

 

[KiwiM]

The forwards performance and the performance of Jordie at 12 is very encouraging.

The performance of the defence - not so much.

 

[Dan54]

The forwards performance and the performance of Jordie at 12 is very encouraging.

The performance of the defence - not so much.

I liked that Jordie backed up last performance with a good one, looked quite comfortable there I thought.

 

[Dismal Pillock]

All credit to Joe Schmidt for getting the boys home.

ZERO credit to Reek.

Tough to judge that game. How shit were Wales? They made the ghost of Codie Taylor look like Malcolm Marx with his tits on fire.

Even Afterdavid looked up from the base of the scrum/ruck for the first time in years and actually ran with the rugby football in hand.

Poor Sam Cane. Dashed his brains out for the cause but no need for him now. We've got The Fargo Woodchipper.

 

[Dctarget]

Poor Sam Cane. Dashed his brains out for the cause but no need for him now. We've got The Fargo Woodchipper.

Dalton was incredible, forgot that you go down when you get tackled.

 

[Slim 293]

The live match report from the Guardian...

20h ago03.43 AEDT
60 mins. The All Blacks try to get their carrying game going in the middle of the park, with Shannon Frizzell taking a break from hitting women to have a run, before the ball is kicked towards Sevu Reece who also takes a break from hitting women to not catch it cleanly.

Gotta love the All Blacks’ famous “no dick-heads” culture, eh?

Wales 23-55 New Zealand: Autumn Nations Series – as it happened

Wales 69-year wait for a win over the All Blacks goes on after the visitors ran in eight tries at the Pricipality Stadium

www.theguardian.com

 

[waiopehu oldboy]

In what Foster says was always part of the plan, TJP & Weber have swapped squads for this week's matches. Not sure why it would be part of the plan, seems to me you'd want your squads to be as stable as possible.

 

[Dan54]

In what Foster says was always part of the plan, TJP & Weber have swapped squads for this week's matches. Not sure why it would be part of the plan, seems to me you'd want your squads to be as stable as possible.

Yep, also Leicester F goning to have run with XV, perhhaps wanting to give him some gametime. Personally I would of swapped Christie to XV match, but guess keeping ot to original squad is also sense.

 

[waiopehu oldboy]

Scotland have recalled Finn Russell to replace Adam Hastings who has a head injury from the Fiji game.

 

[waiopehu oldboy]

Barbarians: Facundo Bosch (Argentina), Camille Chat (France), George Henri Colombe (France), Cedate Gomes (France), Joe Marler (England), Zach Mercer (England), John Ryan (Ireland), Romain Sazy (France), Lekima Tagitagivalu (Fiji), Aaron Wainwright (Wales), Lauret Wenceslas (France), Luke Whitelock (New Zealand), George Bridge (New Zealand), Antoine Hastoy (France), Tawera Kerr-Barlow (New Zealand), Dillyn Leyds (South Africa), Joe Marchant (England), Charlie Ngatai (New Zealand), Remi Picquette (France), Raymond Rhule (South Africa), Teddy Thomas (France), Rhys Webb (Wales), Ihaia West (New Zealand)

 

[Dan54]

Geez there's some names from past, I didn't realise some were still playing. CharlieNgatai still going around, and Luke Whitelock? Hell teeth!

 

[waiopehu oldboy]

^ unbelievable as it sounds, Whitelock is only 31 & Ngatai 32.

 

[waiopehu oldboy]

AL-B is back & Mark Telea becomes AB # 1207.

 

[waiopehu oldboy]

All Blacks XV: 1-Aidan Ross, 2-Brodie McAlister, 3-Tamaiti Williams, 4-Josh Dickson, 5-Patrick Tuipulotu (c), 6-Dominic Gardiner, 7-Tom Christie, 8-Luke Jacobson, 9-Brad Weber, 10-Damian McKenzie, 11-Leicester Fainga'anuku, 12-Alex Nankivell, 13-Levi Aumua, 14-Bryce Heem, 15-Shaun Stevenson. Replacements: 16-Andrew Makalio, 17-Finlay Brewis, 18-Pouri Rakete-Stones, 19-Zach Gallagher, 20-Christian Lio-Willie, 21-Cortez Ratima, 22-Josh Ioane, 23-Bailyn Sullivan.