Match thread

sparky

Paddy T in. ABs lead 14-7.

Bones

Hansen looks a fun guy to be around

canefan

Defence optional right now

canefan

@Bones said in All Blacks v Japan:

Hansen looks a fun guy to be around

Looks like a guy who's head is on the block if the Northern Tour goes badly

No Quarter

Just awful defense lol

KiwiMurph

Bring back McLeod....

This is fucking woeful...... absolutely no urgency on D

Tim

Are these fluffybunnies on holiday or something? Uncontested.

Fucking hell, our defence is so bad. Time for some coaching changes

Victor Meldrew

Our D is utterly shit. The Japan 9 does a quick short pass and we open up like a can of sardines.

Canes4life

Fuck wake up boys. We’ll get done by the better teams if we turn up like this.

Nepia

We have weird ruck defence, I think it's systemic rather than specifically player based.

sparky

Japan score. 12-14. AB defence utterly shit.

Tim

@Nepia Yeah, there was just no one there on several occasions in the lead up to the try.

KiwiMurph

Our defence nearly opened up again

ACT Crusader

Lucky there because Telea was skinned

Canes4life

You’re kidding. What a try.

No Quarter

What has happened to Reece? Outrun by a lock? Embarrassing

sparky

England, Ireland, France and Ireland will be watching this and licking their lips.

canefan

How's that lack of control working out guys?

ACT Crusader

DMac’s out that back pass has been picked off twice. Too predictable.

African Monkey

Will be disallowed.

Just saying, Fiji and Italy had no problem dealing to this Japanese side.

No Quarter

So, I think individual brilliance will get us home, but this is just woeful so far

1kiwi

Fucking hospital pass by Aumua!

sparky

@No-Quarter said in All Blacks v Japan:

So, I think individual brilliance will get us home, but this is just woeful so far

Not sure. I just think we're shit.

canefan

@No-Quarter said in All Blacks v Japan:

So, I think individual brilliance will get us home, but this is just woeful so far

It's like bad touch footy

KiwiMurph

@ACT-Crusader said in All Blacks v Japan:

DMac’s out that back pass has been picked off twice. Too predictable.

Our whole attack is too predictable.

Why do we hate close quarter attack under this coaching regime?

It's like anti Vern ball

African Monkey

@ACT-Crusader said in All Blacks v Japan:

DMac’s out that back pass has been picked off twice. Too predictable.

As I said earlier, we keep going too wide too early. Punch it up more.

Unlucky and it’s saved a lot of embarrassment
Telea being exposed again on the previous play

Tim

@KiwiMurph Especially when we have a big size advantage in this game.