All Blacks v France 2025

[ACR]

French backfield asleep. Love had an area of 30 square metres to regain that.

You'd expect Dupont to be cleaning that up all day.

 

[ACR]

Surely you take the 3 there.

 

[The 6 Seat]

Rueben Rueben Rueben…

 

[Micheal]

Where the fuck is the French fullback? Literally every kick finds grass and has a Frenchie sprinting back to clean up the mess.

 

[ACR]

Rueben Rueben Rueben…

Braindead. Guaranteed 3 points given away just before, 3 points given away by chip kicking off the 10 metre line. No excuses in test rugby for that.

 

[The 6 Seat]

Forward!!!

 

[Micheal]

God damn it I hate seeing the All Blacks win. Anyone but New Zealand

 

[The 6 Seat]

Dont feel like the ABs should have won this one. France fought like warriors. Credit to them. Doesnt matter though.

 

[Willin1]

God damn it I hate seeing the All Blacks win. Anyone but New Zealand

I’ll still be cheering on the Aussies against the lions!

 

[ACR]

AB's have a pretty good 23, bit of a drop off to the next batch though. (against this French side..)

Good luck Wallabies!

 

[Willin1]

Feeling a bit hollow after that. Thought the French looked the better team mostly.

 

[Dismal Pillock]

took D.Paps to sub on and jolt the stupid Chiefs coterie out of their collective sleepwalk towards an ignominious loss

 

[Dismal Pillock]

God damn it I hate seeing the All Blacks win. Anyone but New Zealand

 

[waiopehu oldboy]

Some good fortune there & not confident we'd have beaten SA on that performance but a win is a win, take it & move on I s'pose.

 

[Micheal]

I’ll still be cheering on the Aussies against the lions!

If we win every game for the next 15 years - including three a year against the All Blacks - you might change your mind on that.

 

[Dan54]

Hope the haters noticed. We got in front once there was a Barrett boy on the field.

@waiopehu oldboy ,I don't think we beat Boks with that, but doubt whether we will use those players.

 

[KiwiM]

Got there in the end

Jeez there was some brain dead play by the ABs. They kept trying to bash in close when close to the line when the opportunity was wider.

Positives

- Jordie match winning bench turn
- Papalii was excellent when he came on at 6
- Hotham made a big difference
- Ardie pulled his head out of his arse at halftime
- Jordan doing Jordan things
- For a first test start Love played well

Was not impressed by Chiefs 9-10-12-13.

 

[Dismal Pillock]

Was not impressed by Chiefs 9-10-12-13.

ALB & Tupeau, ffs. They get gifted a dead rubber test, on their home track, home fans, and they respond with that.

Ratima was perfunctory at best. Unthreatening and way off Roigard.

 

[zer0]

Most perturbatory.