@Jet said in England Vs All Blacks:

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@sparky said in England Vs All Blacks:

@Tim Nope. That was 2012.

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Nooo that must be some AI. That says the ABs had Jane and Nonu, Conrad and McCaw, Mealamu and Whitelock. And this was Hansen basically photocopying Henry’s playbook. I thought they were ruthless and calm and well coached.

Tuilagi and Barrit ripped us a new one that night.

TBF that was a one off extremely bad performance that is still talked about today because of how inept we were (especially at defending the overstayer). Whereas today's performance is not even the worst of this season.

Didnt most of our team have a dose of the shits?

Norovirus.

Yes but it comes out both ends. I have had it and it is debilitating

@Dodge said in England Vs All Blacks:

Knew the result, read the thread, then watched the game. Blimey. Never seen a more apathetic AB team. England dominated the entire game. Won nearly every contact, ABs constantly beaten in the tackle and at the breakdown. Wow. ABs don’t look fit enough - lazy off the ball, can’t remember ever saying that before.

12-0 down but still felt like we were the better side. Ben Earl was immense, Pepper was great. But it wasn’t about individuals, they won every aspect of the game, contact after contact.

As for England, they still don’t look great structure wise but bugger me they smashed the ABs all over the park.

You were so much more focussed and composed than we were. Well, that's not strictly true - you had focus and composure and we had none.

Itoje is a different player under Borthwick. Developing into a really. really good captain.

@Bovidae said in England Vs All Blacks:

There are no excuses for Robertson to continue starting BB from here on. Again, injury might end up being the best selector, so let's see DMac at 10 and Love at 15 against Wales.

DMac and Love will play against Wales - ranked 12th and behind Italy & Fiji - to give BB a break. And BB will have recovered by the start of next year.

Sadly.

@Kruse said in England Vs All Blacks:

media cock-sucking

A Fern original. I really like it.

@MN5 said in England Vs All Blacks:

Walrus emerges from his dungeon to write some shit. It's actually not bad by his standards.

Is it because he largely speaks the truth that England were the better selected, better coached team?

Very poor choics in attack. It lacks a brain in the backline.

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@canefan said in England Vs All Blacks:

Watching the post match. I always found Goldie to be an AB fan bois, but both he and Mils are increasingly critical of this team

I've always seen Wilson as the only one prepared to criticise the ABs.

Yeah same, never got the hate for him. If anything, it always felt like he's always ready to rip into them before getting a message through his earpiece from the producers to tone it down and be more PC.

@sparky said in England Vs All Blacks:

I've heard that Henry Pollock and co. go without caffeine all week, then chew strong caffeine gum on the bench before coming on.

Giving how fizzing with energy they were yesterday, I wonder if that isn't a trick we should copy?

That ranks well below selecting and coaching competently. Let's worry about the basics first before going after the 0.5% improvements.

@pourfasse said in England Vs All Blacks:

Very poor choics in attack. It lacks a brain in the backline.

I know we were bad, but now we are making up words to describe how bad we were

@Tim said in England Vs All Blacks:

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`Paywalled, my video recorder still doesn't work, and the All Blacks are shit.

None of this fucking happened when my generation was in charge!

What to say about that game? Were England that good? I don't think so really. We only had a simple game plan although we did execute that well. Ford grew into the game and put us in teh right place, took the points when they were available. All very simple. I'm always really chuffed when we beat NZ but in truth, I'm almost a bit flat after that game. NZ looked clueless and that's a rarity.

Good points for England:

Physicality in the contact area
Kicking game and importantly the chasing game.
Lawrence owning the 13 shirt now

Bad points:

Lineout shambles
Discipline
A simple game plan is simple to counter so we need to add more.

@Catogrande yeah that's essentially it, a two score win against the second best team in the world, without getting out of 2nd gear.

@Victor-Meldrew said in England Vs All Blacks:

@booboo said in England Vs All Blacks:

Is BB injured?

Sadly, no.

In fact, yes, which makes it worse.

@sparky said in England Vs All Blacks:

I've heard that Henry Pollock and co. go without caffeine all week, then chew strong caffeine gum on the bench before coming on.

Giving how fizzing with energy they were yesterday, I wonder if that isn't a trick we should copy?

I've heard Joe Parker....

...probably not....

@jimmyb said in England Vs All Blacks:

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@frugby said in England Vs All Blacks:

Billy Proctor ain’t the man I’m afraid

That was Tupaea’s man.

No it wasn’t. The overhead clearly showed it was Proctors and he reacted incredibly late. Hes done it plenty of times

If only they’d taken @bones advice and selected Reiko!

@pakman said in England Vs All Blacks:

@jimmyb said in England Vs All Blacks:

@Canes4life said in England Vs All Blacks:

@frugby said in England Vs All Blacks:

Billy Proctor ain’t the man I’m afraid

That was Tupaea’s man.

No it wasn’t. The overhead clearly showed it was Proctors and he reacted incredibly late. Hes done it plenty of times

If only that taken @bones advice and selected Reiko!

I'm not sure I can claim that one...

@akan004 said in England Vs All Blacks:

Even our scrum is under pressure. Ratima is as stupid as they come, clear it FFS.

I have severe doubts about Lord’s scrummaging. No point in tank with four cylinder engine.

@Catogrande said in England Vs All Blacks:

What to say about that game? Were England that good? I don't think so really. We only had a simple game plan although we did execute that well. Ford grew into the game and put us in teh right place, took the points when they were available. All very simple. I'm always really chuffed when we beat NZ but in truth, I'm almost a bit flat after that game. NZ looked clueless and that's a rarity.

Good points for England:

Physicality in the contact area
Kicking game and importantly the chasing game.
Lawrence owning the 13 shirt now

Bad points:

Lineout shambles
Discipline
A simple game plan is simple to counter so we need to add more.

Yep I feel the same. Still not sure we’re actually any good. Shame we’re not playing South Africa this autumn, would be an interesting level set, feels like they’re still some way above us.

Hope we dont rest on this performance and think the autumn is done. Argentina will be up for next week, we’d better be bang on it.

@ACT-Crusader said in England Vs All Blacks:

Lord played well.

But scrum toothless.

@Dodge

Agreed about the Argies being up for it. They will want to build on their huge win v Wales. I've got tickets for the game so we'd better bloody well be up for it.