Bledisloe III - Voting age!

[Lizard]

Is this his November tour squad as well?


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[jared_7]

Smith stood down for the game. Good chance again for the backups.

[morepork]

Wonder if they'll go for the "Street Justice 3000" game plan?

TJ will hook straight into this in the absence of the toilet trader.

[zer0]

Given that it's the 18th match in the sequence, I'm more inclined to believe that this match will effectively be treated as a RWC knockout match (i.e. no clowning around). It also presents an opportunity to again demoralise Australia ahead of their grand slam EOYT. Roll out the 1st XV and aim to repeat the hammering dished out in Durban.

[Lizard]

Yeah I can't see them fucking about with this squad when we've got a relatively light schedule in November (Ire x2, Fra, Ita).

This whole "tier 1" record is bullshit though, when the teams beaten include some very non-tier 1 sides.


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[zer0]

The first XV is indeed being wheeled out.

1. Joe Moody
2. Dane Coles
3. Owen Franks
4. Brodie Retallick
5. Samuel Whitelock
6. Jerome Kaino
7. Matt Todd
8. Kieran Read (C)
9. TJ Perenara
10. Beauden Barrett
11. Julian Savea
12. Ryan Crotty
13. Anton Lienert-Brown
14. Israel Dagg
15. Ben Smith

16. Codie Taylor
17. Wyatt Crockett
18. Charlie Faumuina
19. Liam Squire
20. Ardie Savea
21. Tawera Kerr-Barlow
22. Aaron Cruden
23. Malakai Fekitoa

http://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/rugby/all- ... -wallabies

[Lizard]

Wallabies:
15. Israel Folau
14. Dane Haylett-Petty
13. Samu Kerevi
12. Reece Hodge
11. Henry Speight
10. Bernard Foley
9. Nick Phipps
8. Lopeti Timani
7. Michael Hooper
6. Dean Mumm
5. Adam Coleman
4. Rory Arnold
3. Sekope Kepu
2. Stephen Moore (c)
1. Scott Sio.

Reserves: James Hanson, Tom Robertson, Allan Ala'alatoa, Rob Simmons, David Pocock, Nick Frisby, Quade Cooper, Sefa Naivalu.

[Lizard]

For the record, in the starting XVs, the All Blacks have 7 of the same forwards as the RWC final (all but McCaw) but 5 new backs (only Savea and B.Smith survive). The Wallabies also have 5 new backs since the RWC final but have also changed half their forwards (although none of the front row).

[Mr Mwenda]

Is Genia injured? Phipps is a disappointing player to see at the top level.

[zer0]

Is Genia injured? Phipps is a disappointing player to see at the top level.

The match is outside the test window, so he's back with his French club.

[Len]

Need Beauden to kick these conversions really....

[Len]

Australian brain fart lol

[Len]

FFS Barrett. Even I'd have nailed that.

[zer0]

Pretty poor first half performance. Relatively passive defence and pushing far too many passes whenever they do manage to get a hold of the ball (even if I did come off for the first try). Definitely not the performance I was expecting, given then context. A proper half time bollocking should be on the cards.

EDIT: And Barrett's goal-kicking seems to be getting worse, somehow.

[zer0]

Still just going sideways and backwards. Read really needs to take control here and show us what he's made of as a captain.

[jared_7]

Bet they're checking Savea being pushed

[jared_7]

Cheika is losing his sh*t. I think he clearly altered his line to knock Savea out of his way, but I also don't believe Savea would have got to Speight. So I can see both sides.

Stupid from the Australian player.

[jared_7]

Why didn't Coles dive earlier?!

[jared_7]

Unlucky Wallabies, 1 second after the advantage goes Speight knocks it on and the ABs score

[jared_7]

No one else here?!

[zer0]

I'm no scrum expert, but I've been perplexed by some of the scrum penalties. The AB's seem to be getting penalised despite clearly (to my untrained eye, anyway) having the the stronger of the two scrums (as evident by the Wallabies constantly struggling to hook their own ball)?

[jared_7]

Pocock causing issues at our rucks already

[zer0]

The defensive bomb from the 22 is an odd choice for an exit play.

[Len]

Savea through 2 tackles, lovely.

[jared_7]

Almost feel for the wallabies, they'll end up being eaten by 40-odd but it's been a much closer game than that.