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Rugby Championship: New Zealand - South Africa (15/09/2012)
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<blockquote data-quote="smartcooky" data-source="post: 525911" data-attributes="member: 20605"><p>Completely disagree.</p><p></p><p>The Wallabies have been hammered by injuries; Pocock, Genia, O'Connor & Horwill are their most influential and inspirational players. (Imagine NZ without Dagg, Reid, McCaw and Whitelock). Unlike New Zealand and South Africa, they don't have the depth of a third-level competititon like the ITM Cup or Currie Cup to pluck players from to replace them with. When they get all their front line players back, they can't help but get better.</p><p> </p><p>The All Blacks have also suffered some injuries. Dan Carter, Jerome Kaino and Conrad smith just back. They have been pants since the Ireland series, dropping ball, knocking the ball on and committing other unforced errors including some poor throwing to the line-out. With the retirement of Brad Thorn and the injury to Jerome Kaino, they have lost a lot of their "grunt" in the forwards, and the young and inexperienced guys like Romano and Retallick are yet to come up to speed. IMO, there is a LOT of improvement to come in this All Black team. They are playing at about 50% at the moment, and still winning, and that must be worrying for other teams. When they get this game plan of playing the game at high-speed running smoothly, watch out, because I believe they will become capable of running any other team on the planet off the park.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="smartcooky, post: 525911, member: 20605"] Completely disagree. The Wallabies have been hammered by injuries; Pocock, Genia, O'Connor & Horwill are their most influential and inspirational players. (Imagine NZ without Dagg, Reid, McCaw and Whitelock). Unlike New Zealand and South Africa, they don't have the depth of a third-level competititon like the ITM Cup or Currie Cup to pluck players from to replace them with. When they get all their front line players back, they can't help but get better. The All Blacks have also suffered some injuries. Dan Carter, Jerome Kaino and Conrad smith just back. They have been pants since the Ireland series, dropping ball, knocking the ball on and committing other unforced errors including some poor throwing to the line-out. With the retirement of Brad Thorn and the injury to Jerome Kaino, they have lost a lot of their "grunt" in the forwards, and the young and inexperienced guys like Romano and Retallick are yet to come up to speed. IMO, there is a LOT of improvement to come in this All Black team. They are playing at about 50% at the moment, and still winning, and that must be worrying for other teams. When they get this game plan of playing the game at high-speed running smoothly, watch out, because I believe they will become capable of running any other team on the planet off the park. [/QUOTE]
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