@nepia said in Bledisloe I:

@mariner4life said in Bledisloe I:

@nepia said in Bledisloe I:

@mariner4life said in Bledisloe I:

@no-quarter said in Bledisloe I:

@Nepia I'm a massive fan of Alaimalo, would love to see him brought in sooner rather than later.

Failing that we could just play a back two of Rieko and BFA. We've always backed ourselves as being innovative...

are we really innovative any more? Or do we just do the basics really well for longer?

Maybe we save out innovation for when we need it? The innovation at RWC 2015 was to spend the pool games testing shit for the finals which worked, just with the unfortunate side effect of nearly making all the fans meltdown.

probably something to that. Not sure i have seen too much innovation on the field for a while, but maybe it's the off-the-field stuff where we still lead. Which doesn't help the rampant speculators (ie us).

It was a serious question by the way.

I was being partially serious - I think that was innovative in that it prepared the players for the finals (well at least I think it did).

yea, because that team of players needed soooo much preparation. Seriously, considering the talent assembled, and how much footy they had played together the coaching required was how to get them to the ground on time

@mariner4life well from there we decided to fuck the winger off and just have our 10 hit it up from the scrum. Tries galore to BB and Dmac. Innovation.

Goibng from the discussion on Radio Sport, it seems big Karl is shifting to be reserve tighthead - and played a bit there in last year's NPC.

James Parsons apparently told them he'd be fine there, so I'm completely reassured!

@chris-b did he have his head gear on when he said that, he has no credibility when he takes it off!

While it would be awesome if Karl T was good enough to cover both sides.

I think it's a bit shit for them to throw him in as reserve TH at test level when he hasn't played there at SR level. He's still just a 3 (half) cap All Black pup.

JTA for bench, please.

@rapido Problem is JTA will only be there this arvo, I guess, short turn around

@machpants said in Bledisloe I:

@rapido Problem is JTA will only be there this arvo, I guess, short turn around

So, really it's coming down to that they should have selected better.

2 THPs. 2 LHPs, plus Ofa T covering both sides should have been the original 5.

So JTA should have been there all week, Perry should be the one on the plane.

Lesson learnt, I hope.

@mariner4life here's some innovation.

@bones said in Bledisloe I:

@mariner4life here's some innovation.

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Wasn't that outlawed in the early 90s? I remember David Kirk doing that.

@bones said in Bledisloe I:

@mariner4life here's some innovation.

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the only way we could disguise that is if it was Luke Whitelock beating a guy with footwork. now THAT would be innovation

@nepia I think it's debatable - seems the infringement would be the scrum half making the opposition think the ball is out of the scrum when it's not. However, if the number 8 picks it up at the same time then I guess there's no infringement.

Wallabies:
15 Israel Folau
14 Dane Haylett-Petty
13 Reece Hodge
12 Kurtley Beale
11 Marika Koroibete
10 Bernard Foley
9 Will Genia
8 David Pocock
7 Michael Hooper (captain)
6 Lukhan Tui
5 Adam Coleman
4 Izack Rodda
3 Sekope Kepu
2 Tatafu Polota-Nau
1 Tom Robertson.

Reserves: 16. Tolu Latu 17. Allan Alaalatoa 18. Taniela Tupou 19. Rob Simmons 20. Pete Samu 21. Nick Phipps 22. Matt Toomua 23. Jack Maddocks.

Lol fuck it automatically made them ascending bullet point things

@mariner4life I know right, all these shit highlanders selected for the ABs from a side that was obviously garbage in super rugby due to the shit players. How'd the Chiefs go again?

@nta said in Bledisloe I:

Lol fuck it automatically made them ascending bullet point things

A lot of faith being put in Folau there.

@bones said in Bledisloe I:

@nepia I think it's debatable - seems the infringement would be the scrum half making the opposition think the ball is out of the scrum when it's not. However, if the number 8 picks it up at the same time then I guess there's no infringement.

Who's the laws nerd around here? A ref? Maybe they can offer some insight?

@nepia scroll down to the bottom of the page at https://laws.worldrugby.org/?law=19&language=EN

@nta should have gone Banks instead of Maddocks. Banks looks to have a long Wallaby career ahead of him and not as raw as Maddocks.

@nta It will be numbered correctly if you remove the dots after the numbers.

@bones said in Bledisloe I:

@mariner4life I know right, all these shit highlanders selected for the ABs from a side that was obviously garbage in super rugby due to the shit players. How'd the Chiefs go again?

finished ahead of the Highlanders. With an obviously inferior group of individuals. Pretty good effort. Imagine how we would have gone if we had 4 All Black loose forwards instead of just 1?