@African-Monkey said in All Blacks v Japan:

@kpkanz said in All Blacks v Japan:

Tbh with how crap we started it is impressive how many points we can score in a short amount of time. 43 in 30 mins, especially playing without wingers.

Our offense is a step above from previous years.

Pffft, they got smoked at home by Fiji and Italy.

Japan can't tackle.

Ok. And Englands TOP team (who are probably the 5th best team in the world currently) only put 50 on them, while we could hit 70-80 with a B team.

We're beating the clock currently and people are pissed it's quite astounding

Be tempted to leave Roigard on for as long as possible. Looks a bit slow and rusty - needs as much game time as possible

@kpkanz said in All Blacks v Japan:

@African-Monkey said in All Blacks v Japan:

@kpkanz said in All Blacks v Japan:

Tbh with how crap we started it is impressive how many points we can score in a short amount of time. 43 in 30 mins, especially playing without wingers.

Our offense is a step above from previous years.

Pffft, they got smoked at home by Fiji and Italy.

Japan can't tackle.

Ok. And Englands TOP team (who are probably the 5th best team in the world currently) only put 50 on them, while we could hit 70-80 with a B team.

We're beating the clock currently and people are pissed it's quite astounding

Wouldn't say I'm personally pissed myself, but I'm not fooled by what I'm seeing either against crap opposition.

A fixture we're learning nothing from.

Ellison is defence coach, apparently, great start

Sorry I've got a stutter

Get Rieko back out on the wing and leave Billy Proctor at 13.

@African-Monkey thats the thing, cant be fooled by a big score, similarly by messy play given the way these games are played...we are shite and score too few or it was too easy and we score too many

Back under way. I hope we play with more structure in the second half.

@BerniesCorner said in All Blacks v Japan:

Sorry I've got a stutter

Curious... what ARE your thoughts on the wing/centre situation?

Finau could be pinged here

@Kruse said in All Blacks v Japan:

@BerniesCorner said in All Blacks v Japan:

Sorry I've got a stutter

Curious... what ARE your thoughts on the wing/centre situation?

I think get Rieko back out on the wing and leave Billy Proctor at 13.

Finau bullying 10s again.

@taniwharugby said in All Blacks v Japan:

@African-Monkey thats the thing, cant be fooled by a big score, similarly by messy play given the way these games are played...we always score too fee or it was too easy and we score too many

It's the quick taps that are probably annoying me the most. I'd ather we at lest try to play more structured and to the set piece more in the 2nd half.

Nothing wrong with that

Good start. Better speed and alignment on the defensive line. No missed tackles.

@Canes4life said in All Blacks v Japan:

Finau bullying 10s again.

That’s how he rolls. Other players are too big to push around

@African-Monkey said in All Blacks v Japan:

@kpkanz said in All Blacks v Japan:

@African-Monkey said in All Blacks v Japan:

@kpkanz said in All Blacks v Japan:

Tbh with how crap we started it is impressive how many points we can score in a short amount of time. 43 in 30 mins, especially playing without wingers.

Our offense is a step above from previous years.

Pffft, they got smoked at home by Fiji and Italy.

Japan can't tackle.

Ok. And Englands TOP team (who are probably the 5th best team in the world currently) only put 50 on them, while we could hit 70-80 with a B team.

We're beating the clock currently and people are pissed it's quite astounding

Wouldn't say I'm personally pissed myself, but I'm not fooled by what I'm seeing either against crap opposition.

A fixture we're learning nothing from.

I agree we don't learn much from this. More so directed at some others claiming we are going to get smashed the rest of the tour following the performance this half.

Aumua looking really good with ball in hand.

@kpkanz said in All Blacks v Japan:

@African-Monkey said in All Blacks v Japan:

@kpkanz said in All Blacks v Japan:

@African-Monkey said in All Blacks v Japan:

@kpkanz said in All Blacks v Japan:

Tbh with how crap we started it is impressive how many points we can score in a short amount of time. 43 in 30 mins, especially playing without wingers.

Our offense is a step above from previous years.

Pffft, they got smoked at home by Fiji and Italy.

Japan can't tackle.

Ok. And Englands TOP team (who are probably the 5th best team in the world currently) only put 50 on them, while we could hit 70-80 with a B team.

We're beating the clock currently and people are pissed it's quite astounding

Wouldn't say I'm personally pissed myself, but I'm not fooled by what I'm seeing either against crap opposition.

A fixture we're learning nothing from.

I agree we don't learn much from this. More so directed at some others claiming we are going to get smashed the rest of the tour following the performance this half.

Fair enough.

There's the 70 metre try! Almost.

THE GOAT in for his customary try.

Nice strength Roigard

@Jet said in All Blacks v Japan:

THE GOAT in for his customary try.

Didn’t realise Blackadder was playing?

@KiwiMurph esp as he had his jersey grabbed before he got the ball

@KiwiMurph said in All Blacks v Japan:

Nice strength Roigard

Allblack great.

@Canes4life said in All Blacks v Japan:

@Jet said in All Blacks v Japan:

THE GOAT in for his customary try.

Didn’t realise Blackadder was playing?

He's wearing the invisibility cloak

@Canes4life said in All Blacks v Japan:

@Jet said in All Blacks v Japan:

THE GOAT in for his customary try.

Didn’t realise Blackadder was playing?

His injury rehab is GOAT like though.

Roigard scores at 43 mins. Only 6 more tries in the next 37 minutes from the bloke and he'll be back to his best

Wrong decision there by Sititi.

Why oh why did Roigard not get picked in RWC final 23.

Shaking my head.

@kpkanz I'll admit that half of it is that this is the first game in a while and it's an exhibition match. The other half is the shoddy defense and trying to score off every play.

@kpkanz said in All Blacks v Japan:

@African-Monkey said in All Blacks v Japan:

@kpkanz said in All Blacks v Japan:

Tbh with how crap we started it is impressive how many points we can score in a short amount of time. 43 in 30 mins, especially playing without wingers.

Our offense is a step above from previous years.

Pffft, they got smoked at home by Fiji and Italy.

Japan can't tackle.

Ok. And Englands TOP team (who are probably the 5th best team in the world currently) only put 50 on them, while we could hit 70-80 with a B team.

We're beating the clock currently and people are pissed it's quite astounding

Because no other team is as good as we are at destroying this sort of terrible defence. But at no point have we demonstrated the patience and control we're going to need against competent teams. Defensively our structure looks terrible.

@ACT-Crusader said in All Blacks v Japan:

@Canes4life said in All Blacks v Japan:

@Jet said in All Blacks v Japan:

THE GOAT in for his customary try.

Didn’t realise Blackadder was playing?

His injury rehab is GOAT like though.

On a serious note, that try will boost his confidence comig back from injury.

Perofeta been a bit of a non entity at FB if we are honest.

Jordan would have a hat trick by now with the standard of tackling on display.

Apart from the first throw of the game. Aumua’s having an outstanding game. Superb on defence and strong on attack.

@Jet said in All Blacks v Japan:

Perofeta been a bit of a non entity at FB if we are honest.

Jordan would have a hat trick by now with the standard of tackling on display.

He's vanilla

@antipodean said in All Blacks v Japan:

@kpkanz said in All Blacks v Japan:

@African-Monkey said in All Blacks v Japan:

@kpkanz said in All Blacks v Japan:

Tbh with how crap we started it is impressive how many points we can score in a short amount of time. 43 in 30 mins, especially playing without wingers.

Our offense is a step above from previous years.

Pffft, they got smoked at home by Fiji and Italy.

Japan can't tackle.

Ok. And Englands TOP team (who are probably the 5th best team in the world currently) only put 50 on them, while we could hit 70-80 with a B team.

We're beating the clock currently and people are pissed it's quite astounding

Because no other team is as good as we are at destroying this sort of terrible defence. But at no point have we demonstrated the patience and control we're going to need against competent teams. Defensively our structure looks terrible.

If this was a World Cup pool match I would share your frustration.

@Canes4life said in All Blacks v Japan:

Apart from the first throw of the game. Aumua’s having an outstanding game. Superb on defence and strong on attack.

Now we need to see him bring it across to playing the tier 1 teams the next 3 games

That’s more like it Finau.

Finau blindside's the Jap 8 now