All Blacks Non-Bledisloe Matches 2024

[Dismal Pillock]

What a classic at Ellis Pawk

Never really felt like NZ could stop the bokke close to the goalline all match. Handy lead but run the fuck down. OTOHLOL Bongo dropped it. No try ffs. 7 pts gifted in a 4pt margin match = FFS

Bit of squeaky bum time for clever clogs Rassie though, too smart for his own good with all his squaddie bullshit. Maybe start Handre Pollard next week ya ****** ********

Bladders ignoring CC on his wing for a stroll-in try early doors was a War Crime of satanic proportions Overall though seemed like the loosie trio held their own and did the biz.

AB's hot on attack and get penalised for Flapa fucking nara screaming shit at the ref. So much for wise old heads. He's STILL like a pumped-up bug-eyed brainless teenager who just got his first-ever stiffy

Vaai really stood up and owned it. Lot of work done on that lineout

Will Goldenballz and BBarrett were both a special shade of shit

Had Justin Marshall been on the cough syrup in the 1st hawf? He only chipped in with about 3 comments and sounded half wasted

 

[Dismal Pillock]

lol, sound on.....

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1829903956404826308

 

[Shiggins]

Had Justin Marshall been on the cough syrup in the 1st hawf? He only chipped in with about 3 comments and sounded half wasted

Hahaha mate he couldn't talk. Thought he was having a stroke

 

[Dismal Pillock]

It all went pear-shaped on the scoreboard when the subs came on. That being, when Rieko went off.

Again.

Seems to have happened a few times now. Starting to think he might be the defensive glueguy. @zer0 will know.

 

[Dan54]

Reiko didn't go off, he just moved to the wing. But I do tend to agree, he gets nowhere enough credit for his defence at centre.
I actually get pissed with a lot of the shit he been copping ,he actually a bloody good 13 in my opinion anyway.

 

[John S]

What are people's thoughts on the Sam Cane tackle on Kolisi? Siya went off with a broken cheek bone.

It looked ok to me in real time, shoulder on shoulder, but been hearing calls it should have been a card.

 

[Strewthcobber]

Who'd be a ref? I think there are are probably 10 collisions like this a match. If no injury, it wouldn't be commented on. However there was an injury and now we try and fit grey into a world of black and white. I think it's probably an indirect impact (Kolisi's head whiplashes forward after first impact) - which apparently reduces danger and mitigates down. But I could be convinced either way.

 

[Dismal Pillock]

All Blacks tries scored in the last 20 minutes of their 6 test matches this year:

0

 

[KiwiM]

Enjoyed the test match - felt like the one that got away for the ABs. Should have closed it out.

The leaders were nowhere to be seen in the last 20 minutes. Worrying.

I don't see how ABs fix their issues in the last 20 minutes. Perhaps Beauden to the bench would be a start.

Clarke was excellent but I wouldn't be surprised to see him out with injury as he landed badly late in the game.

The attacking shape looked better without Leon I thought

 

[Dctarget]

Yep Clarke is out as is Blackadder. Telea isn't a bad replacement though.

 

[Dismal Pillock]

Yep Clarke is out as is Blackadder.

 

[waiopehu oldboy]

Marc Hinton from stuff.co.nz also reporting Beaugan to bench, Jordan to 15 & the starting & finishing 9's being swapped. All TBC at 5pm NZT.

 

[waiopehu oldboy]

And here it is:

Will Jordan, Sevu Reece, Rieko Ioane, Jordie Barrett, Mark Tele’a, Damian McKenzie, Cortez Ratima, Ardie Savea, Sam Cane, Wallace Sititi, Tupou Vaa’i, Scott Barrett, Tyrel Lomax, Codie Taylor, Tamaiti Williams. Reserves: Asafo Aumua, Ofa Tu’ungafasi, Fletcher Newell, Sam Darry, Luke Jacobson, TJ Perenara, Anton Lienert-Brown, Beauden Barrett.

 

[Dan54]

Intereting team. Would of thought perhaps Paps instead of Sititi just for experience, but bit of a surprise that Blackadder injured. Definitely see the sense of BB an TJP at end of game. Likewise with Jacobson. Anyway we'll miss Caleb Clarke, but bring it on. It's the team we got!

 

[Dctarget]

Fuck yeah, all aboard the Sititi train. Long career ahead.

 

[Tazzmania]

South Africa: 15 Willie le Roux, 14 Canan Moodie, 13 Jesse Kriel, 12 Damian de Allende, 11 Cheslin Kolbe, 10 Handre Pollard, 9 Grant Williams, 8 Jasper Wiese, 7 Pieter-Steph du Toit, 6 Siya Kolisi, 5 Ruan Nortje, 4 Eben Etzebeth, 3 Frans Malherbe, 2 Bongi Mbonambi, 1 Ox Nche
Replacements: 16 Malcolm Marx, 17 Gerhard Steenekamp, 18 Vincent Koch, 19 Kwagga Smith, 20 Elrigh Louw, 21 Jaden Hendrikse, 22 Sacha Feinberg-Mngomezulu, 23 Lukhanyo Am

 

[Dismal Pillock]

Congrats to The Cantab Cartel in charge.

They have now successfully shorn the AB pack of ALL of the TABLE-TOPPING SUPER RUGBY CHAMPION Auckland Blues forwards.

It took them a while but they finally got there.

What part of All-Conquering Killdozer did the coaches miss willfully ignore during the soup season?

D Paps not even in the XXIII, Akira awaiting deportation at Auckland airport and poor old Hoskins The Hated wandering around Manukau Mall on weekday afternoons questioning his life choices.

Instead we get Work Experience Wallace, veteran of 2-and-a-half minutes of Super Rugby biffed into a position he's probably never played before v the BOKS IN CAPE TOWN, next to tenured undroppable "1 game on/1 game off" Ardie and Sam Cane who will literally be GONE FOREVER from test rugby in about 8 weeks. Planning!​

 

[John S]

Who's to say they're just foxing the Wallabies, lulling us into a false sense of security, then come the Bledisloe *bam* killdozer is back

 

[Dismal Pillock]

LOL, Aus v NZ games are Soup Rugby style fuck-arounds. Run and gun, chuck it around, final score 42-31.

No need to diesel up death and krush your way to Stalingrad an inch at a time for a frolicless final score of 17-0.

 

[Dismal Pillock]

On the bright side at least Ratima and Sititi and Will Wonderballz (at FB) are bold non-Fozzie selections.



ps where the HELL is @zer0 ? I'm starting to forget english words without my supervisor forward slash matron on hand. Maybe he's suffering from Post Traumatic Auckland Blues Koronation Killdozer Withdrawal Symptoms (PTSDKKK). Understandable. To go from the glorious & victorious high of weekly instalments of murderously-executed boomfa train wreckage with oodles of team camaraderie and consistency to the hodge podge of agenda-riddled stasi machinations of this dogs breakfast of an All Blacks setup may have caused him irreparable mental brain damage in the mind cortex area.