Rugby Championship 2019 chat

Thrashssacre

Scoreline very flattering to the all blacks at the moment.

NeonWolf

Scrummed the ****e out of them with 7 men.

That has to be demoralising for the Aussie scrum.

davepatr07

Expecting a closer game though conditions aren't helping. Be interesting to see how the Aussie's respond.

Kauto

NZ not a patch on the side they were a few years ago. Scoreline very flattering.
Find it hard to see NZ winning the World Cup. Would fancy Aus against them in a neutral venue.

NeonWolf

Did Peyper get that wrong? Coleman played it, fair game? Any laws experts here?

NeonWolf

Some scrumming here

NeonWolf

Awesome from Savea. Is that Legal?

NeonWolf

Good reffing from Peyper.

Thrashssacre

Fair play to jaco there quick reaction to stop play.

davepatr07

NeonWolf wrote: »

Awesome from Savea. Is that Legal?

Yea was wanting to know that myself even before the ball goes into scrum, maybe Ireland could deploy that tactic..

Dave_The_Sheep

davepatr07 wrote: »

Yea was wanting to know that myself, maybe Ireland could deploy that tactic..

No, then it would be illegal.

NeonWolf

davepatr07 wrote: »

Yea was wanting to know that myself, maybe Ireland could deploy that tactic..

it only works when you are down a man, the flanker would already be there normally.

NeonWolf

NeonWolf wrote: »

Did Peyper get that wrong? Coleman played it, fair game? Any laws experts here?

Only law I can see is this:

If the ball reaches the 10-metre line but is then blown back or if an opponent plays the ball before it reaches the 10-metre line, play continues.

They played it before it reached the line, play continues....they knocked it on, AB's scrum. Could be wrong

Thrashssacre

Unlucky from the Australian player there made a fantastic effort to hold up that ball

NeonWolf

The TMO/ref conversations are so cagey. Both parties trying say something without saying anything at all and hoping the other fella makes a decision. They should do it rugby league style where you talk through your decision as you watch it

davepatr07

Facepalm, Wallabies lose another chance, no support.

NeonWolf

They don't like it up em this week . Cowards

NeonWolf

Judo throw from LSL on mo'unga?

davepatr07

Great try

NeonWolf

Sevu Reece , take a bow.

NeonWolf

31-0 NZ

NeonWolf

Reece again but disallowed.

Clegg

It didn't take much for the old Ozzie arrogance in the media in the build up. Calling this NZ side 'old and slow'.

Never, ever poke the bear.

Jump_In_Jack

Clegg wrote: »

It didn't take much for the old Ozzie arrogance in the media in the build up. Calling this NZ side 'old and slow'.

Never, ever poke the bear.

To be fair, the two new wings have revitalized them.

Digifriendly

NZ forwards irresistible and NZ defence magnificent.

NeonWolf

36-0

Kauto

Aus threw in the towel after 20 mins. Say they were happy enough with the win last week. Nothing went for them k the the game.
Think NZ are extremely flattered by this and this performance is covering a lot of cracks.

davepatr07

AB's find their mojo and the Eden Pk reign continues.

Thrashssacre

Think the all blacks have looked better in the second half, Absolutely clinical. The clash with South Africa in the World Cup is gonna be an absolute classic.

NeonWolf

Jump_In_Jack wrote: »

To be fair, the two new wings have revitalized them.

Thats why 46 tries is the Allblacks try scoring record.

Hardest spot to keep your jersey.

Digifriendly

Jump_In_Jack wrote: »

To be fair, the two new wings have revitalized them.

To be fair its more than the wings. Whole team revitalized.

NeonWolf

Kauto wrote: »

Aus threw in the towel after 20 mins. Say they were happy enough with the win last week. Nothing went for them k the the game.
Think NZ are extremely flattered by this and this performance is covering a lot of cracks.

Based on the last few games id agree , but I don't know what you saw today to make you make that comment. Murdered their scrum with a man down. Sent them backwards in all the collisions.

36-0 after dropping two world cup winners and Rieko Ioane.

What more do you want them to do?

Jump_In_Jack

NeonWolf wrote: »

Thats why 46 tries is the Allblacks try scoring record.

Hardest spot to keep your jersey.

There’s a clear improvement there from last week, plus SBW adds something in midfield. No coincidence that Kerevi stayed so quiet today.
That was the main difference to last week, and the rest just doing their jobs, Australia made too many handling errors to make any sort of match out of it.

sydthebeat

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Yeah_Right

Kauto wrote: »

Aus threw in the towel after 20 mins. Say they were happy enough with the win last week. Nothing went for them k the the game.
Think NZ are extremely flattered by this and this performance is covering a lot of cracks.

I don't think you realise what the Bledisloe Cup means to Aussies and Kiwis. It really hurts the Wallabies and their fans that they haven't held it for 17 years.

If 36-0 is papering over cracks then I say call decorator and work away.

Jump_In_Jack

Digifriendly wrote: »

To be fair its more than the wings. Whole team revitalized.

Read my post again.
You didn’t get the point I was making.
Yes the team was revitalised, and it was due to the new wings.
The rest of the team fed off the new players’ injection of pace and constant threat they posed.
I’d add SBW nullifying Kerevi into the equation and the fact that Australia played themselves out of the match with error after error.

It was a huge let-down of a match, the sparkling wings, particularly Reece, made it watchable.

Digifriendly

Jump_In_Jack wrote: »

Read my post again.
You didn’t get the point I was making.
Yes the team was revitalised, and it was due to the new wings.
The rest of the team fed off the new players’ injection of pace and constant threat they posed.
I’d add SBW nullifying Kerevi into the equation and the fact that Australia played themselves out of the match with error after error.

It was a huge let-down of a match, the sparkling wings, particularly Reece, made it watchable.

Fair point re your OP.
Concerning 'a huge let down of a match'. Yes it was in a sense for the neutral as it was so one sided but I thought NZ were superb. OK Australia were a shadow of last week but just as they forced NZ into uncharacteristic errors in Perth by their outstanding play the boot was on the other foot in Auckland. NZ's defence today was actually superior to the Aussie's last week.
We now need a match between both teams at RWC to settle any arguments.

Harsh call against Arg. I thought the player stood his ground.

AbusesToilets

Deleted User wrote: »

Harsh call against Arg. I thought the player stood his ground.

Yea, was fairly borderline, Argie 13 didn't even move. Debatable if the SA player could've made a strong tackle.

Shame, was a cracking score.

accensi0n

Deleted User wrote: »

Harsh call against Arg. I thought the player stood his ground.

Thought that at first. Looks like he backs up to give way and not cause accidental offside but end up affecting play.

NeonWolf

Former Former wrote: »

For those not familiar with the lingo, "all we want is consistency" loosely translates as "the ref got it right, but I really need to find some way that our defeat was a blatant stitch-up."

There is lots of consistency. There is just no willingness on the part of fans, coaches or the media to take it with any sort of grace when it's their player in the wrong.

Former Former wrote: »

The ref is never going to see everything. There are 30 players on the pitch, and each of them is trying to get away with as much as possible for 80 minutes. That's the nature of the game.

I absolutely hate this idea that as soon as a call goes against your team, you have to immediately start combing through the footage of the game to find something the ref missed so you can pretend to be unbiased by saying "I've no problem with X but what about Y?"

This isn't an NZ thing by the way. It's universal. Every time Ireland or a province lose a game we expected to win, the micro-analysis begins and you can be damn sure some salty Irish lad will find "inconsistency".

This is the inconsistency I and others are referring to. Also note referee is in shot with a full view of it from about 3 yards distance.
It's an absolute joke, and at time of writing he has not been sanctioned for it.

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