TRC 2022: All Blacks v Argentina

[Pfitzy]

Sam Cane will be dragged kicking and screaming out of the All Blacks cos he knows, travelling the world playing for the All Blacks, national heroes etc,

 

[Dismal Pillock]

 

[waiopehu oldboy]

Gotta give The Boys a chance to Redeem Themselves & show their Resilience. That's the Learnings from last week. Resilience & Redemption.

 

[A mutterer]

And, who the hell judges a player on stats?? Stats, well the ones they tend to use on tv are so random as to mean nothing. Hell if you looked at Richie McCaw's stats , they didn't make great reading at times, but look at the game and what he did that was meaningful, was a a whole different story.

Maybe ritchie's stats were skewed because of his cloak of invisibility?

I'll see myself out ....

 

[waiopehu oldboy]

Remind me who lost last week...

Argentina: Juan Cruz Mallia, Emiliano Boffelli, Matias Moroni, Matias Orlando, Santiago Cordero, Santiago Carreras, Tomas Cubelli, Pablo Matera, Marcos Kremer, Santiago Grondona, Tomas Lavanini, Guido Petti, Joel Sclavi, Julian Montoya (c), Thomas Gallo. Reserves: Santiago Socino, Mayco Vivas, Eduardo Bello, Matias Alemanno, Juan Martin Gonzalez, Samso, Gonzalo Bertranou, Benjamin Urdapilleta, Lucio Cinti.

I don't think any of those changes are injury related.

 

[Pfitzy]

Thing is, the chances of the ABs being that poor with the Argies that good are probably low.

Foster Victory March To Glorious Uncertainty.

 

[Bullrush]

And, who the hell judges a player on stats?? Stats, well the ones they tend to use on tv are so random as to mean nothing. Hell if you looked at Richie McCaw's stats , they didn't make great reading at times, but look at the game and what he did that was meaningful, was a a whole different story.

Someone on G&GR used to do a breakdown after each Test of the Top 3 players to every breakdown and their effectiveness at the breakdown. Even in his last year, McCaw was consistently in the Top 3 - often at No. 1. His workrate and his motor even at the end of his career was amazing...

 

[Bullrush]

Not one actual No.8 in the entire match-day squad....

 

[Dan54]

Well apart from the No8 named of course. A former 7 who has played at 7 for a while.

 

[dru]

Someone on G&GR used to do a breakdown after each Test of the Top 3 players to every breakdown and their effectiveness at the breakdown. Even in his last year, McCaw was consistently in the Top 3 - often at No. 1. His workrate and his motor even at the end of his career was amazing...

ForceFan

 

[Bullrush]

ForceFan

They were great stats. I used to look forward to seeing them after each Test.

 

[dru]

They were great stats. I used to look forward to seeing them after each Test.

Yep, it ws quality work from ForceFan.

 

[waiopehu oldboy]

Met Service forecasting it to be raining in The Tron by lunchtime & for it to get heavier as the day goes on - possibly torrential by late evening. But at least it won't be cold or windy. God I hope we don't try to play dry-track footy: just pretend it's CheeChee at the business end of Super Rugby & keep it tight, please.

 

[Dan54]

One thing WOB, the ground at FMG is usually bloody good and doesn't as rule cut up, so that helps.

 

[waiopehu oldboy]

^ true that but if the rains as heavy as predicted it's gunna get really slippery out there.

 

[dru]

^ true that but if the rains as heavy as predicted it's gunna get really slippery out there.

I'm not sure that Foster would be welcoming rain, but I suspect Cheka might see it as an opportunity.

 

[waiopehu oldboy]

Good news is that it only started raining an hour or so ago & isn't all that heavy yet so the really heavy stuff may not arrive until after the game.

 

[Equalizer]

Having Dalton Papalii in the side will go a long way to raising the toughness and high motor effort needed by the All Blacks.

 

[Derpus]

Argentina playing like shit. If they don't sort it out they are fucked.

 

[Derpus]

Yeah based on this first 10 minutes it could be 50 nil.