Match thread

Bones

Lio-Willie really is a midget eh

Tim

Damn that was a hit.

Penalty fest from Adamson

Crazy Horse

@pakman said in Japan XV v All Blacks XV:

You Tube showing it. Watching last year’s highlights now.

Do you have a a big Cherry Blosum and Silverfern in the middle of your screen?

Jailbreak7

Hope we dont start like this against Argie. Japan getting a lot of latitude from ref. But ABXV need to step it up.

Clean outs at the ruck have been bloody awful so far.....no accuracy

Bones

Some of these ABXV players have shithouse basic skills eh. That was an atrocious effort at ball placement by Strange.

Canes4life

Shit we look messy. What happened to using the backs? Too many forwards getting in the way of clean ball.

Tim

@Mattasaurus It's hot and humid there. They may be struggling to get into the game early on.

KiwiMurph

@Canes4life said in Japan XV v All Blacks XV:

Shit we look messy. What happened to using the backs? Too many forwards getting in the way of clean ball.

Leon Macdonald as head coach.

Nice set piece try tho

Bones

Perofeta looks so similar to DMac when he runs eh

Stargazer

Great try. Started with Lio-Willie running off the scrum, quick pass from Weber, and Perofeta dotting down.

Stargazer

Perofeta misses the conversion.

3 -5 ABs XV

@Stargazer said in Japan XV v All Blacks XV:

Great try. Started with Lio-Willie running off the scrum, quick pass from Weber, and Perofeta dotting down.

and an effective cleanout from Goodhue ...

@Tim 29 degrees close to 80% humidity

Lol hall calling that harsh, Leitch in no way released

Jailbreak7

Not the best from DuP

taniwharugby

@Machpants hendidnwell keeping up in that movement earlier.

Victor Meldrew

@Bones said in Japan XV v All Blacks XV:

Some of these ABXV players have shithouse basic skills eh. That was an atrocious effort at ball placement by Strange.

Some outrageous skills on display - basic ones are often outrageously crap

Tim

Looks like it'll be the get wide game plan today.

Silly penalty 6-8 with 22 gone

Stag

@Machpants ball wasn’t even touched by the All Black 15

Jailbreak7

No cohesion in our forwards at all.

Victor Meldrew

Sullivan impressing.

Canes4life

Ioane and Weber have been piss poor.

frugby

This is dreaful. Same issue the Blues have, going too wide too early. Reckon Razor takes plenty of control, but if Leon runs the attack, we might not be home free.

Frank

There's at least 3 or 4 Japanese players in that Japan team.

Akira spending a lot of time standing wide on this near side to the camera.. would love to see him get busy in the middle more often -- surely its not a tactic....

Tim

They need to use the ball up the middle. No point putting Ioane on the wing if you can't get the ball there.