Australia v all blacks

LuckyGent88

New Zealand with a lovely try from crotty after a loose kick from Australia.

7-3 to NZ after 7 mins.

Worry for NZ is that Taylor is already gone off for a HIA.

clsmooth

Giteau off with an ankle issue. Big loss

LuckyGent88

Retallick is superb with those little pull back passes.
NZ dominating this game so far

LuckyGent88

Australia get away with murder there. Some brutal kicking out of hand by them.

Diabhal Beag

Could make a decent argument that Brodie Retallik is good at the rugby

LuckyGent88

Barretts pace once again. NZ pissing through Australia at the moment

bilston

Quite clearly Carter, McCaw, Nonu and C.Smith were holding NZ back for all these years!

Charizard

People ask me why I never miss a NZ match :cool:

bilston

Did Peyper just say "you're going hard at every breakdown, you have to accept that you will pay some TAX for that?"

Interesting turn of phrase.

errlloyd

What channel is this on?

bilston

Sky Sports 5

At the moment Argentina may be the biggest threat to NZ this year. It will be interesting to see how they get on later in SA.

Yeah_Right

Sky sports 5

errlloyd

Ahh, my TV said WWE this is much better.

LuckyGent88

Another present. This could turn into an absolute annihilation

bilston

Try No.3

What's the story with BPs in the Rugby Championship? Hasn't it changed this year? The graphic says that was the bonus point try.

bilston

I'm so glad we are playing these lads twice this Autumn...

LuckyGent88

And another try from a turnover.

Naholo looks to have done his hammy though. Ah well, bring in someone called savea now.

Richard Hillman

So NZ found the bugs in the hotel on Monday and only told Australia today. Maybe they were doing fake team meetings :pac:

justshane

http://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/rugby/all-blacks/83381580/listening-device-found-in-all-blacks-hotel-ahead-of-bledisloe-cup-test-against-the-wallabies

Aussies deserve a hammering after this stunt Imo.

sydthebeat

This really is a piss poor Australian team.
Foley at 10 is possibly the most unimaginative playmaker playing top level rugby.... And that permeates through the team.

Even genia is a shadow of his greatness.
Yes the all blacks are playing a high intensity pressure game but they're not doing anything unexpected.

justshane

Conversation overheard with the bug:

Hansen: "How much do you think we can win by?"
Reid: "50+?"
Hansen: "Make it more"

bilston

sydthebeat wrote: »

This really is a piss poor Australian team.
Foley at 10 is possibly the most unimaginative playmaker playing top level rugby.... And that permeates through the team.

Even genia is a shadow of his greatness.
Yes the all blacks are playing a high intensity pressure game but they're not doing anything unexpected.

It maybe puts England's performances in June into a bit more perspective.

clsmooth

So Chicago in November then....

alchemist33

justshane wrote: »

http://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/rugby/all-blacks/83381580/listening-device-found-in-all-blacks-hotel-ahead-of-bledisloe-cup-test-against-the-wallabies

Aussies deserve a hammering after this stunt Imo.

I'm actually shocked the NZers do routine sweeps for bugs. There must be some history, or do all top sports teams do this?

PTH2009

so Ireland are fecked in both Chicago and Dublin in november ??

2013 still haunts me but what an occasion that was. Would be nice to beat the ABS but we need to improve on our 2016 6n and SA tour form

thomond2006

PTH2009 wrote: »

2013 still haunts me but what an occasion that was.

I've no idea what you're talking about.

clsmooth

PTH2009 wrote: »

so Ireland are fecked in both Chicago and Dublin in november ??

2013 still haunts me but what an occasion that was. Would be nice to beat the ABS but we need to improve on our 2016 6n and SA tour form

I think we've done well this year considering the amount of injuries we suffered. We've blooded a lot of new players, have some players to come back and a more expansive game plan. The futures bright (if Schmidt stays on), although November may come a little early for us with SOB, Healy, Henshaw, Sexton and Ruddock all missing the start of the season. And that's just from Leinster, not sure how Connacht, Ulster and Munster and looking injury wise

PTH2009

thomond2006 wrote: »

I've no idea what you're talking about.

The aussies beaten us well in the Aviva that year lol. I may of been my immagination that we played the AB that year in dublin too :D

thomond2006

PTH2009 wrote: »

The aussies beaten us well in the Aviva that year lol. I may of been my immagination that we played the AB that year in dublin too :D

I've no idea what you're talking about.

Mantis Toboggan

Some annihilation

Synode

Australia making a ridiculous amount of errors