joker97: Super rugby doesn't count?

The sarcastic "amazing" coaching reference and the "fair amount" reference is why I found your comments pretty condescending. At that level 90% of the coaches role is selecting the right players, helping them build a culture and getting them prepared. The turn around in attitude is Cheikas greatest achievement and the reason for their improvement in their performance.

Incidentally I spent the last week in Sydney and while I took plenty of good natured grief from Australians their praise for our team was without reservation. I find New Zealanders inability to praise Australians pretty sad (I'm not accusing you of this, it's just an observation of something I find incredibly sad and immature in our country).

LookingUp:

Just watching the replay of the final for the umteenth time, and what strikes me is that we play the game with our whole squad, whereas others bring on second stringers when the others wear out.  Our winning tactic is to bring on speed and impact (BB & SBW among others) to ramp things up after the big hitters have done the work in breaking down the opposition.  Maybe no prop reserves might be a tactic, just bring on more speed and go to uncontested scrums...?

joker97:

LookingUp:

Just watching the replay of the final for the umteenth time, and what strikes me is that we play the game with our whole squad, whereas others bring on second stringers when the others wear out.  Our winning tactic is to bring on speed and impact (BB & SBW among others) to ramp things up after the big hitters have done the work in breaking down the opposition.  Maybe no prop reserves might be a tactic, just bring on more speed and go to uncontested scrums...?

The WR has it covered. 3 mandatory on the bench are one who can scrum left, one middle, one right.

lchiu7: If you want to see a slightly critical view of the refereeing (from a POM no less) check this out.

https://youtu.be/0FW1NASSCxI


I apologise for the lack of sophistication in the capture but I don't know of any easy way to capture the video streams from the ITV player which I presume uses Flash. But it has specific patches to stop you from skipping ads so a normal capture program doesn't work easily.

I had never noticed the leg action from Whitelock mentioned before but clearly this ex rugby player felt it was worthy of comment!  And on a similar note, what about the high tackles against the AB's that were not penalised at all?

But his main point is incontrovertible - the right team won and his other comment about on another day who know what the result would have been?  If you pursue that line then on another day Ben Smith might not have done that high tackle and so the Australians would not have had the opportunity to score 2 tries against 14 men.

MikeAqua: I think he is clutching at straws a bit.  You can cover one eye and postmortem a match either way

Meanwhile ... the WWE trophy is on board a plane heading back to NZ.

lchiu7: If you want to see a slightly critical view of the refereeing (from a POM no less) check this out.

https://youtu.be/0FW1NASSCxI


I apologise for the lack of sophistication in the capture but I don't know of any easy way to capture the video streams from the ITV player which I presume uses Flash. But it has specific patches to stop you from skipping ads so a normal capture program doesn't work easily.

I had never noticed the leg action from Whitelock mentioned before but clearly this ex rugby player felt it was worthy of comment!  And on a similar note, what about the high tackles against the AB's that were not penalised at all?

But his main point is incontrovertible - the right team won and his other comment about on another day who know what the result would have been?  If you pursue that line then on another day Ben Smith might not have done that high tackle and so the Australians would not have had the opportunity to score 2 tries against 14 men.

clevedon:

MikeAqua: I think he is clutching at straws a bit.  You can cover one eye and postmortem a match either way

Meanwhile ... the WWE trophy is on board a plane heading back to NZ.

lchiu7: If you want to see a slightly critical view of the refereeing (from a POM no less) check this out.

https://youtu.be/0FW1NASSCxI


I apologise for the lack of sophistication in the capture but I don't know of any easy way to capture the video streams from the ITV player which I presume uses Flash. But it has specific patches to stop you from skipping ads so a normal capture program doesn't work easily.

I had never noticed the leg action from Whitelock mentioned before but clearly this ex rugby player felt it was worthy of comment!  And on a similar note, what about the high tackles against the AB's that were not penalised at all?

But his main point is incontrovertible - the right team won and his other comment about on another day who know what the result would have been?  If you pursue that line then on another day Ben Smith might not have done that high tackle and so the Australians would not have had the opportunity to score 2 tries against 14 men.

Did we win a wrestling trophy as well?

LookingUp:

joker97:

LookingUp:

Just watching the replay of the final for the umteenth time, and what strikes me is that we play the game with our whole squad, whereas others bring on second stringers when the others wear out.  Our winning tactic is to bring on speed and impact (BB & SBW among others) to ramp things up after the big hitters have done the work in breaking down the opposition.  Maybe no prop reserves might be a tactic, just bring on more speed and go to uncontested scrums...?

The WR has it covered. 3 mandatory on the bench are one who can scrum left, one middle, one right.

Good point, but they can get "hurt" quickly, thus rendering the opposition's similar spares also useless.  Mind you, if this was a winning tactic we'd be doing it ;-)

psychrn: I see that earlier today One of our Greatest All Blacks suddenly passed earlier today.
RIP Jonah Lomu

ludez: Hey guys any ideas how i can watch the top 14?replays would be awesome but im having no luck finding something