@victor-meldrew said in All Blacks vs USA:

Bridge has been anonymous

Sorry, I'll put my phone away and focus on the game

@sparky said in All Blacks vs USA:

The Yanks score their first Try against the ABs

Another record gone. Time to sack Foster

Strange that with all the dominance the All Blacks still look so laboured, hard to just not go through the motions I suppose

@stag said in All Blacks vs USA:

Strange that with all the dominance the All Blacks still look so laboured, hard to just not go through the motions I suppose

Keeping the powder dry.

@stag said in All Blacks vs USA:

Strange that with all the dominance the All Blacks still look so laboured, hard to just not go through the motions I suppose

Seriously, they are utterly dominant. Hard to be critical of a side who are leading by more than 50 points at the drinks.

I wonder if the big US lock gets a try assist for pushing his halfback through that gap

@booboo said in All Blacks vs USA:

Will post a pre-emptive whinge here about a first world problem I'm currently experiencing.

Long weekend in 1770/Agnes Water.

Used Aus v Jp as a test for the main game tomorrow a.m.

Unfortunately the Wi-Fi seems to be crap (this is alactually the case as proven by other internerding including Fernage). Or the Telstra network is crap. Either that or the casting between phone and tele stuffs up the stream. As all I was getting was buf... buff .. buffferi ... buffering regardless of combinations.

Tried to drop the resolution to see if that helped, but nup.

Quite annoying and will annoy one immensely in an AB game.

So maybe GOM during game tomoz.

Mind you, long weekend in 1770/Agnes Water.

So solution seems to be to leave phone out on balcony table. No buffering.

Game is not whelming me though.

Good on the Seppos for scoring.

Stay in the pattern ABs.

Even Owen Franks might have scored in this one.

@sparky said in All Blacks vs USA:

Even Owen Franks might have scored in this one.

Or Bridge might even beat a defender?

Did Angus say "Fucking hell" after he got thumped just before the US try? Was a pretty funny situation

@crucial said in All Blacks vs USA:

@sparky said in All Blacks vs USA:

Even Owen Franks might have scored in this one.

Or Bridge might even beat a defender?

Has he touched the ball?

@stag said in All Blacks vs USA:

Strange that with all the dominance the All Blacks still look so laboured, hard to just not go through the motions I suppose

Yeah, it's noticeable how contact in the narrower channels tends to end on our side of the advantage line.

Wil Jordan ran 133 metres with the ball in that half. George Bridge ran 18 metres with the ball.

@victor-meldrew Played a massive part in the first try.

@yeetyaah said in All Blacks vs USA:

Cringe flag in the crowd

The half and half one? I don’t mind it.

@crucial yeah haha I hate it

Quinn Tupea had a fantastic first half.

@victor-meldrew said in All Blacks vs USA:

@crucial said in All Blacks vs USA:

@sparky said in All Blacks vs USA:

Even Owen Franks might have scored in this one.

Or Bridge might even beat a defender?

Has he touched the ball?

In the first 30 seconds he did.

@yeetyaah said in All Blacks vs USA:

@crucial yeah haha I hate it

Better than the “we are a British colony “ one.

@sparky said in All Blacks vs USA:

Wil Jordan ran 133 metres with the ball in that half. George Bridge ran 18 metres with the ball.

Luke Jacobson scored more tries than Sotutu, Cane and Papalii put together.

That was a bit of magic from DMac

@sparky tbf the ball hasn't really gone his way

@taniwharugby said in All Blacks vs USA:

@sparky tbf the ball hasn't really gone his way

Or he hasn’t put himself in the right places? A few times the ball has gone his side and Jordan was over there.

@crucial eh but treaty partnership and whatnot. Not the thread for it.

@crucial out of the loop but I guess this is a big issue.

I think if Augsberger had gone lower he might have got him

Game is tailor made for DMac. No structure and weak tackling.

Would prefer they had some structure, Mounga playing 7s/touch style attack at times

Getting very messy now.

I’d like to see ALB sub on and move Ennor to the left wing

@taniwharugby said in All Blacks vs USA:

Would prefer they had some structure, Mounga playing 7s/touch style attack at times

Mo'unga is hardly known for playing structure either

@duluth said in All Blacks vs USA:

I’d like to see ALB sub on and move Ennor to the left wing

Is Ennor even playing?

@no-quarter but that's the thing, huge opportunity to play in a structure as they dictate every aspect of the game in an opposed training run

@crucial Yeah he got stepped by the US centre earlier and threw the ball into touch.

The little defending we've had to do has been poor

@no-quarter and if we kick to touch instead of going for 90m tries every play, give them some ball we will have to work defensive patterns instead of helter-skelter attack.

"Grounds it in one motion" when he had two attempts at grounding it?

Interesting interpretation

Soft defense from Jordan

Any tries scored down Bridge"s wing @sparky ?