@antipodean said in Wales Vs All Blacks:

@frugby said in Wales Vs All Blacks:

Predicted Team

1. Williams
2. Taukei'aho
3. Mafileo
4. Barrett
5. Holland
6. Sititi
7. Kirifi
8. Savea
9. Ratima

Stopped there. That's a fucking dreadful team.

Sititi isn't a blindside's arsehole. I'm in my 50s and I put in more dominant tackles.

Kirifi has shown the disparate leap between Super Rugby and Tests. Literally too small to have a positive impact.

Savea is fucking arse. Useless fluffybunny won't hit a ruck. Might as well select my dead grandmother.

I am expecting this to be the worst team we’ve seen all year. It is going to be a combo of those who haven’t played and those needing more chances… I can’t see anything other than farewells in the backline especially

@frugby no chance of a recall for two players loyal to nz rugby who are seemingly back in form in Folau Fakatava & Braydon Ennor?

@Grooter One can only hope

I'd like to have sees what a 9-10-12 of Roigard, McKenzie, Jordie could do this season, but unfortunately because of Raygun's insistence on BB and now injury we're only likely to see Ratima, McKenzie, Tupaea this week. Which is okay, but tells us nothing.
If he is going to make wholesale changes so we achieve nothing, then @Grooter at least I'd like to see him throw his toys and tell a few guys to watch this one from the stands because it's not fucking good enough. But sadly I don't think he has the cajones for that and we'll get what @frugby says.

@reprobate said in Wales Vs All Blacks:

I'd like to have sees what a 9-10-12 of Roigard, McKenzie, Jordie could do this season, but unfortunately because of Raygun's insistence on BB and now injury we're only likely to see Ratima, McKenzie, Tupaea this week. Which is okay, but tells us nothing.
If he is going to make wholesale changes so we achieve nothing, then @Grooter at least I'd like to see him throw his toys and tell a few guys to watch this one from the stands because it's not fucking good enough. But sadly I don't think he has the cajones for that and we'll get what @frugby says.

na, they'll give ALB a start alongside Proctor surely.

@MN5 ALB and Rieko surely? Unless Rieko is on the wing?

@MN5 said in Wales Vs All Blacks:

@reprobate said in Wales Vs All Blacks:

I'd like to have sees what a 9-10-12 of Roigard, McKenzie, Jordie could do this season, but unfortunately because of Raygun's insistence on BB and now injury we're only likely to see Ratima, McKenzie, Tupaea this week. Which is okay, but tells us nothing.
If he is going to make wholesale changes so we achieve nothing, then @Grooter at least I'd like to see him throw his toys and tell a few guys to watch this one from the stands because it's not fucking good enough. But sadly I don't think he has the cajones for that and we'll get what @frugby says.

na, they'll give ALB a start alongside Proctor surely.

Sigh. Yep, they probably will.

@frugby said in Wales Vs All Blacks:

@MN5 ALB and Rieko surely? Unless Rieko is on the wing?

Yes. Forgot about him ( as have the selectors ) he'll be there somewhere.

Start Love to show him some love.

Finding it incredibly hard to get excited for this game. Putting 50 on wales should be a given. Anything less would be a fail mark.

Would like to see what Love can do at 10 or 15, with Dmac at the other.

Stick give Lord and Darry (or Holland if fit) more time in the locks.

Give Parker one last chance before the season ends to impose himself on a game. The other options like Sititi seems pointless.

CLW at 8, Lakai at 7.

Anyone other than Ratima at 9

Centres is an issue. Tupaea and LF offer soemthing in attack but neither can tackle. So what the fuck do we do there?

Jordan at 14. Anyone other than Carter at 11. He was a shit show last week (and the week before).

Anyone who hasn’t had game time on the bench. At least they’ll be hunger.

Announce Beuaden’s and Savea’s retirement at the end of the match.

I expect they'll run out a full B team. It'll be an absolute mess and the All Blacks will stumble home unconvincingly, winning by less than twenty. A fitting farewell match for Sevu Reece, Finlay Christie and Anton Lienert-Brown.

However, I'd go with the best team possible, other than injuries and maybe resting players who've had a heavy workload. That best team possible would not include Beauden Barrett or Ardie Savea.

@ShaquilleOatmeal said in Wales Vs All Blacks:

I expect they'll run out a full B team. It'll be an absolute mess and the All Blacks will stumble home unconvincingly, winning by less than twenty. A fitting farewell match for Sevu Reece, Finlay Christie and Anton Lienert-Brown.

However, I'd go with the best team possible, other than injuries and maybe resting players who've had a heavy workload. That best team possible would not include Beauden Barrett or Ardie Savea.

If Reece, ALB, and Christie are playing next week, I might have a brain aneurism

@jimmyb said in Wales Vs All Blacks:

Finding it incredibly hard to get excited for this game. Putting 50 on wales should be a given. Anything less would be a fail mark.

Um, now you are just being silly. England did that this year (68-14) but no one else did, including South Africa (45-12). And we didn't beat England.

@nostrildamus said in Wales Vs All Blacks:

@jimmyb said in Wales Vs All Blacks:

Finding it incredibly hard to get excited for this game. Putting 50 on wales should be a given. Anything less would be a fail mark.

Um, now you are just being silly. England did that this year (68-14) but no one else did, including South Africa (45-12). And we didn't beat England.

Argentina put 52 on them and Japan nearly beat them. 50 is expected

@jimmyb said in Wales Vs All Blacks:

@nostrildamus said in Wales Vs All Blacks:

@jimmyb said in Wales Vs All Blacks:

Finding it incredibly hard to get excited for this game. Putting 50 on wales should be a given. Anything less would be a fail mark.

Um, now you are just being silly. England did that this year (68-14) but no one else did, including South Africa (45-12). And we didn't beat England.

Argentina put 52 on them and Japan nearly beat them. 50 is expected

I read that post as requiring a 50 win margin (not 52-28)...my bad then, but I just don't see the ABs scoring that much.

Coaches blew a chance to see if Flanders was up to test rugby, they could have sent him to the ABs instead of CLW. Obviously with my Pies hat on this is more evidence against the Keystone Koaches team.

@MiketheSnow said in Wales Vs All Blacks:

Perform badly against us and it's a real downer on which to end the year

I don't want to be too mean, but even if we win by 50 the year has ended on a real downer.

@sparky said in Wales Vs All Blacks:

@Bones People think it's the same as The Netherlands. It's not.

It's just two provinces of the country. North Holland and South Holland. Okay, they are the most historically important and richest parts of the country. North Holland = Amsterdam. South Holland = Rotterdam and The Hague.

But the whole country is called The Netherlands.

Do you mansplain to your mother with that mouth? I was asking about the earthquake in Groningen.

Regardless of the result, nothing less than most of the coaching group handing in their carpark passes when they land back home will suffice for me. Toss out the trash

@Nepia said in Wales Vs All Blacks:

@MiketheSnow said in Wales Vs All Blacks:

Perform badly against us and it's a real downer on which to end the year

I don't want to be too mean, but even if we win by 50 the year has ended on a real downer.

They can't redeem the year now, no matter how many points they put up. And we know they won't put them up the right way, it'll be the kind of Harlem Globetrotters rugby that gets the Walrus up in arms