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[2014 TRC] Australia v New Zealand in Sydney (16/08/2014)
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<blockquote data-quote="nzlizard" data-source="post: 664455" data-attributes="member: 70865"><p>Had time to reflect and think.</p><p></p><p>This test showed how important Coles is to us, when Mealamu came on it turned ***s up. </p><p></p><p>Fekitoa didn't really have a chance to shine, AAC was average and look how skilled he is, he needs major game time to get him ready for the WC.</p><p></p><p>Ben Smith has to stay at 15.</p><p></p><p>Retallick is still best mode, our loosies were great.</p><p></p><p>Nonu is still inconsistent - come back SBW.</p><p></p><p>Given we played 25% of the match with 14 and had 30-35% possession and territory things looked pretty good for us, we certainly looked just as good Aussie. </p><p></p><p>Aussie were helped greatly by the ref at a few key moments and they failed to initialize on them, the ref had an average game and while his performance was not great he only really made a few key calls that were blatant, I would love to see him stand in front of people the day after and have to justify why he made the calls, I think he would have to admit to a few mistakes, esp that Aus defensive scrum late in the game where Higginbottom? was basically lying down and the ruck previous. </p><p></p><p>There were a lot of 50/50 calls both ways but that is part of rugby, his yellow cards were odd at the best. </p><p></p><p>Anyway, move forward to one week to Eden park and hopefully dry weather and lets see what happens there, I am not prepared to write of Aus yet as they showed real promise, just some bad on field calls by a couple of players cost them.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="nzlizard, post: 664455, member: 70865"] Had time to reflect and think. This test showed how important Coles is to us, when Mealamu came on it turned ***s up. Fekitoa didn't really have a chance to shine, AAC was average and look how skilled he is, he needs major game time to get him ready for the WC. Ben Smith has to stay at 15. Retallick is still best mode, our loosies were great. Nonu is still inconsistent - come back SBW. Given we played 25% of the match with 14 and had 30-35% possession and territory things looked pretty good for us, we certainly looked just as good Aussie. Aussie were helped greatly by the ref at a few key moments and they failed to initialize on them, the ref had an average game and while his performance was not great he only really made a few key calls that were blatant, I would love to see him stand in front of people the day after and have to justify why he made the calls, I think he would have to admit to a few mistakes, esp that Aus defensive scrum late in the game where Higginbottom? was basically lying down and the ruck previous. There were a lot of 50/50 calls both ways but that is part of rugby, his yellow cards were odd at the best. Anyway, move forward to one week to Eden park and hopefully dry weather and lets see what happens there, I am not prepared to write of Aus yet as they showed real promise, just some bad on field calls by a couple of players cost them. [/QUOTE]
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