Australia v New Zealand - Sydney 16 Aug

[KOB1987]

crossover point is Saturday night..

 

[The_Brown_Hornet]

crossover point is Saturday night..

Hope so, but feel it might be a little too soon for us. I do genuinely feel, however, that the squad Link has assembled (with reinforcements to come) is on the cusp of being a bloody good outfit.

 

[FrankLind]

I think either Moore or TPN would have outplayed Dan Cole so its a shame neither is available.

Probably, because Dan Cole plays for England, and he's a prop

Danes Coles is coming on nicely actually, but I agree you were stronger at hooker. We may see Richie subbed for Sam Cane at some point.

Looking for Ben Smith to carve it up.

 

[KOB1987]

Sorry it's a bit messy, but caps comparison

1. Wyatt Crockett (27) James Slipper (52)
2. Dane Coles (18) Nathan Charles (2)
3. Owen Franks (57) Sekope Kepu (41)
4. Brodie Retallick (27) Sam Carter (1)
5. Samuel Whitelock (54) Rob Simmons (40)
6. Jerome Kaino (51) Scott Fardy (13)
7. Richie McCaw (c) (127) Michael Hooper (31)
8. Kieran Read (62) Wycliffe Palu (51)
9. Aaron Smith (29) Nic White (13)
10. Aaron Cruden (32) Kurtley Beale (42)
11. Julian Savea (22) Rob Horne (16)
12. Ma'a Nonu (91) Matt To'omua (13)
13. Conrad Smith (77) Adam Ashley-Cooper (94)
14. Cory Jane (48) Pat McCabe (22)
15. Ben Smith (29) Israel Folau (18)
Reserves:
16. Keven Mealamu (113) James Hanson (1)
17. Ben Franks (31) Pek Cowan (7)
18. Joe Moody * Ben Alexander (62)
19. Steven Luatua (11) Will Skelton (1)
20. Sam Cane (14) Scott Higginbotham (24)
21. TJ Perenara (3) Nick Phipps (17)
22. Beauden Barrett (19) Bernard Foley (7)
23. Malakai Fekitoa (2) Tevita Kuridrani (11)

 

[Pfitzy]

Bad guys 944 (751 starting XV)
Good guys 579 (449 starting XV)

 

[fatprop]

Steve Hansen, a truly great shit stirrer

http://www.smh.com.au/rugby-union/u...lacks-coach-steve-hansen-20140814-103zn7.html

"Or if you really think about it, the other guy (Beale) is under contract and league are chasing him so you might start to think maybe the ARU has told him he's got to pick him.

 

[Braveheart81]

Has Steve Hansen been told to pick Richie because he's a national treasure?

What a load of rubbish. The guy makes trollish comments before every test.

 

[The_Brown_Hornet]

Ahhh Hansen, he's the best troll in the rugby world. He's always good for a quotable quote.

 

[Sully]

He just doing a fantastic job of promoting the game.

 

[ACT Crusader]

Has Steve Hansen been told to pick Richie because he's a national treasure?

What a load of rubbish. The guy makes trollish comments before every test.

You seem surprised Braveheart. Hansen's been doing this for years, even before he was head coach.

 

[wamberal]

Steve Hansen, a truly great shit stirrer

That's dumb, frankly. The ARU pick Kurtley ahead of Foley, just to keep Kurtley in rugby, at the expense of missing out on a possible Bledisloe victory. Makes a lot of sense.

 

[Lindommer]

Must be contagious among Kiwi coaches: Blackadder reckoned the Tahs gave up home ground advantage in the final for a fistful of $s. Nice try, boys.

 

[Braveheart81]

You seem surprised Braveheart. Hansen's been doing this for years, even before he was head coach.

I'm not surprised. Hence the last sentence where I said he does it before every test.

Tempted to make a fake Steve Hansen twitter account...

 

[terry j]

Or did you mean

Tempted to make a fake Steve Hansen twit account...

?

 

[Bullrush]

Has Steve Hansen been told to pick Richie because he's a national treasure?

What a load of rubbish. The guy makes trollish comments before every test.

If you read the whole article, you see he's actually pretty complimentary of Beale, Foley and the Wallabies overall.

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/sport/news/article.cfm?c_id=4&objectid=11308859

 

[Train Without a Station]

Come on Bullrush, an editor wouldn't just go make a headline sound far more inflammatory and controversial than the content of the interview. This people in the media industry have far too much credibility for that sort of thing.

 

[FrankLind]

If you read the whole article, you see he's actually pretty complimentary of Beale, Foley and the Wallabies overall.

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/sport/news/article.cfm?c_id=4&objectid=11308859

Here's the audio -
http://www.radiosport.co.nz/audio/1621719277-the-devlin-radio-show-podcast--thursday-august-14

 

[scaraby]

Sitting at camp trying to focus not on the world record,stay under the radar,don't give the opposition any motivation.......then my coach opens his mouth....the bookies make us 1.40 favourites..the whole country including most of the expats over here don't give the Wobs a chance....Steve should just come out and say that he has no respect and that the Wobs forward pack are a bunch of soft nambie pambies...keep it up guys...

 

[fatprop]

If you read the whole article, you see he's actually pretty complimentary of Beale, Foley and the Wallabies overall.

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/sport/news/article.cfm?c_id=4&objectid=11308859

Yeah, but that is his true skill, he adds that little dig with a smirk while being pretty complimentary elsewhere

 

[Viking]

That's dumb, frankly. The ARU pick Kurtley ahead of Foley, just to keep Kurtley in rugby, at the expense of missing out on a possible Bledisloe victory. Makes a lot of sense.

If true, would be funny if Beale still went to League anyway...