Bledisloe I: All Blacks vs Wallabies: MATCH THREAD: Oct 11

[Fat Old Git]

At the pub. Good atmosphere, but annoyed at non grounding of that last chance.

And now they're showing a replay showing our first try probably should have been called back as well.

[Ted.]

That grounding was unforgivable

Yep. Mind you, until then he'd been playing bloody well.

I beg to differ. He's butchered at least one overlap by going himself, looked to run before passing and been caught out of position, called for t6he ball when it was never his and subsequently knocked it on. Now this.

[npradmin]

Really dumb rugby from the wallabies, why are they not looking to exploit Jordies lack of pace, Koribete would skin him ball in hand

[FujiKiwi]

Yeah. Stupid from Rieko. But as someone points out above, he’d been playing reasonably well.

[Carter's Choice]

Reiko Ioane is such a dickhead. Gave away a certain try simply because he wanted to look good whilst scoring it. The only positive is that he didn't try and start a fight immediately after knocking on. He should be replaced immediately and dropped for next week for that indiscretion.

[Gumboot]

That grounding was unforgivable

Yep. Mind you, until then he'd been playing bloody well.

I beg to differ. He's butchered at least one overlap by going himself, looked to run before passing and being caught out of position, called for t6he ball when it was never his and subsequently knocked it on. Now this.

Fair enough. How do you rate Goodhue's contribution so far?

[Ted.]

At the pub. Good atmosphere, but annoyed at non grounding of that last chance.

And now they're showing a replay showing our first try probably should have been called back as well.

It's nice that Sky are showing some replays now. They've done fuckall of that during the game, instead favouring us with Justine's wisdom as people walk around in circles or the ball is recovered for a kick. They used to have one of the best sport broadcasting units around, now it seems their producers are infatuated with Tic toc.

[Carter's Choice]

Overall I think the Wallabies are playing a bit better. The AB's lineout and breakdown work is keeping them ahead, but this match is very even.

[Ted.]

Yep. Mind you, until then he'd been playing bloody well.

I beg to differ. He's butchered at least one overlap by going himself, looked to run before passing and being caught out of position, called for t6he ball when it was never his and subsequently knocked it on. Now this.

Fair enough. How do you rate Goodhue's contribution so far?

Average. He would do far better at centre. Come on down ALB.

[Jb1981]

Interesting seeing John Kirwan at halftime. He was a butcher before becoming an All Black. Based on Rieko Ioane‘s bounce, he has gone the other way.

[Ymx]

That grounding was unforgivable

Yep. Mind you, until then he'd been playing bloody well.

I beg to differ. He's butchered at least one overlap by going himself, looked to run before passing and being caught out of position, called for t6he ball when it was never his and subsequently knocked it on. Now this.

Indeed. Need ALB.

[Kiwias]

Bring ALB on for 2H and let Reiko stew on his stupidity

[Gumboot]

It wouldn't surprise me to see a couple of backs come off the bench early. Not sure Ioane will be the first one replaced, though.

[Ymx]

Overall I think the Wallabies are playing a bit better. The AB's lineout and breakdown work is keeping them ahead, but this match is very even.

With the wind at our backs, would have expected better tactics to keep ball down the other end.

[Ymx]

Bring ALB on for 2H and let Reiko stew on his stupidity

I imagine none of those to take place unfortunately

[stemoc]

aRDIE be like, "shit my brother would have scored that" .

[Enzedder]

The Reiko experiment is a failure in my view (even without the cock-up) - our wingers may as well go and watch the game on telly.

TuiP is also a bit too quiet for my liking.

And DMac fucks up a kick and then gives away a kickable penalty.

Misses. Phew

[stemoc]

Bring ALB on for 2H and let Reiko stew on his stupidity

might for goodhue, he doesn't look good

[Enzedder]

Snecky you beauty

[Taranaki Snapper]

Nugget!

[Kiwias]

Bring ALB on for 2H and let Reiko stew on his stupidity

might for goodhue, he doesn't look good

He is not the one who bombed a certain try

[Kiwias]

20th test try for Snecky!!!!

[Carter's Choice]

Great work by Taylor and Bridge in the lead up to that try.

[Ymx]

Aus shuffled over to nz side in that lineout nothing Taylor could do there.

[stemoc]

Bring ALB on for 2H and let Reiko stew on his stupidity

might for goodhue, he doesn't look good

He is not the one who bombed a certain try

jack looks injured.

[Kiwias]

Hooper seond to McCaw in number of tests played in 7 jersey, bloody impressive stuff

[Ymx]

Advantage over ... wtf.

[Ymx]

It was.a pen advantage right??

[Ted.]

Reiko's try. He turned in rather than staying his man

[Kiwias]

Should have gone open side there

[Carter's Choice]

That try was caused by a terrible defensive misread by Reiko Ioane that created a yawning gap for James O'Connor to run into.

[Carter's Choice]

Reiko's try. He turned in rather than staying his man

Yep, the type of misread that you'd expect from a winger who is pretending to be a centre.

[Kiwias]

ALB on for Reiko 'the try bomber" Ioane

[Enzedder]

That try was caused by a terrible defensive misread by Reiko Ioane that created a yawning gap for James O'Connor to run into.

Yep - all round shit game for him so far

[Ted.]

Now McJenzie being an idiot.

See ya Reiko.

[Ymx]

Phew. ALB for Ioane.

[Ted.]

Now McJenzie being an idiot.

See ya Reiko.

[Kiwias]

WTF is Tu'ungafasi's haircut?

[Carter's Choice]

This has been a terrible 2nd half for the AB's

[Auckman]

Very poor