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Re: Third Test
Posted: Sat Jun 25, 2016 9:34 am
by Billyfish
Grim. Need to have a good third quarter.
Re: Third Test
Posted: Sat Jun 25, 2016 9:36 am
by Billyfish
......or let's continue kicking to their back 3
Re: Third Test
Posted: Sat Jun 25, 2016 9:40 am
by joshfishkins
Long way back now and we have shown none of the determination and grit of the last two weeks. Disappointing.
Re: Third Test
Posted: Sat Jun 25, 2016 9:40 am
by wayneha50
three poor kicks to NZ, three NZ tries - you'd like to think they'd learn but with our coaches we're long past that
Re: Third Test
Posted: Sat Jun 25, 2016 9:41 am
by joshfishkins
Now I really have seen it all.
Re: Third Test
Posted: Sat Jun 25, 2016 9:42 am
by pompey-zebra
Great turn over then what? Ab's get the scrum from the forward pass and normal service resumed.
At least Garces trying to stop a massacre by binning an all black.
Re: Third Test
Posted: Sat Jun 25, 2016 9:56 am
by Banquo
Barrett is such a class act. Him over Cruden every day for me,
Re: Third Test
Posted: Sat Jun 25, 2016 9:58 am
by Banquo
16th man wrote:Again, the commentators appear surprised that the ref isn't looking at binning an AB. Have they not watched before?
they take it in turns....mind Cane was binned (for something pretty innocuous in the middle of the park, oddly)
Re: Third Test
Posted: Sat Jun 25, 2016 9:59 am
by pompey-zebra
Oh well at least the sin binning stopped them scoring for 10 minutes. Unlike last week i can't see us getting any consolation tries late on.
Re: RE: Re: Third Test
Posted: Sat Jun 25, 2016 10:03 am
by joshfishkins
pompey-zebra wrote:Oh well at least the sin binning stopped them scoring for 10 minutes. Unlike last week i can't see us getting any consolation tries late on.
Agree. We look miles off the pace this week. This will be a humping.
Re: Third Test
Posted: Sat Jun 25, 2016 10:05 am
by Banquo
could get ugly
Re: Third Test
Posted: Sat Jun 25, 2016 10:09 am
by jared_7
"So brave"
Hmmm...really?? Is it??
Re: Third Test
Posted: Sat Jun 25, 2016 10:16 am
by Billyfish
Tired. With tiredness we've lost what little clever we had.
Re: Third Test
Posted: Sat Jun 25, 2016 10:18 am
by Billyfish
Lost the energy we had in defence in the earlier games too.
Re: Third Test
Posted: Sat Jun 25, 2016 10:19 am
by Sandydragon
Clueless and one dimensional.
Re: Third Test
Posted: Sat Jun 25, 2016 10:24 am
by joshfishkins
24 turnovers conceded by NZ and we still cannot score.
Re: Third Test
Posted: Sat Jun 25, 2016 10:27 am
by Billyfish
Ah. The final turd upon the shit pile.
Re: Third Test
Posted: Sat Jun 25, 2016 10:28 am
by Eugene Wrayburn
Eugene Wrayburn wrote:Son of Mathonwy wrote:Eugene Wrayburn wrote:
I think you need to see the glass as substantially more than half full to think you are going to win. I think this is your least good chance of winning. These have been the ABs first Tests since winning the RWC and losing some all time greats. They'll get better as the series continues as well.
You may say that but by the same argument the second test was less likely to be successful than the first. However we got a better result in the second test.
This said as before, our chance of winning is very small, and is pretty much dependent on our not having the traditional 15 minutes where we go to sleep somewhere in the match.
I'd say you were less competitive in the second match than the first, albeit the score ended up closer. By 60 minutes it was all over bar the shouting, they lifted out some key players and you scored a couple of consolation tries. It depends on whether they get their selection right and what the aims might be towards the end of the game. It's possible that you'll be closer, but I expect you to be carrying a bigger deficit at half time and at full time and I doubt you'll ever look like you could win this one.
I'd like to claim prescience, but really no other result was likely.
Re: Third Test
Posted: Sat Jun 25, 2016 10:28 am
by Billyfish
One game too many indeed.
Re: Third Test
Posted: Sat Jun 25, 2016 10:30 am
by Billyfish
Why is the thick plastic troll still posting on here?
Re: Third Test
Posted: Sat Jun 25, 2016 10:30 am
by Spiffy
Banquo wrote:16th man wrote:Again, the commentators appear surprised that the ref isn't looking at binning an AB. Have they not watched before?
they take it in turns....mind Cane was binned (for something pretty innocuous in the middle of the park, oddly)
Garces told him he was binned for serial offences.
Re: Third Test
Posted: Sat Jun 25, 2016 10:31 am
by wayneha50
Billyfish wrote:One game too many indeed.
4 games too many
nice to see the coaches earnt their new contracts
Re: Third Test
Posted: Sat Jun 25, 2016 10:31 am
by Digby
All that ball and nothing to be done with it. Mind we've all been there Vs a NZ team
Re: Third Test
Posted: Sat Jun 25, 2016 10:35 am
by Banquo
Spiffy wrote:Banquo wrote:16th man wrote:Again, the commentators appear surprised that the ref isn't looking at binning an AB. Have they not watched before?
they take it in turns....mind Cane was binned (for something pretty innocuous in the middle of the park, oddly)
Garces told him he was binned for serial offences.
aha
Re: Third Test
Posted: Sat Jun 25, 2016 11:08 am
by Mikeyv
Our first XV is just about able to give the blacks a game, but with only an (extremely) outside chance of a win.
Nearly all the second choice players are a mile off the standard required, imo.
Faletau and Liam Williams have been outstanding though.