1. Karl Tu'inukuafe
2. Codie Taylor
3. Owen Franks
4. Samuel Whitelock
5. Brodie Retalluck
6. Liam Squire
7. A Savea
8. K Read (c)
9. Aaron Smith
10. B Barrett
11. Rieko Ioane
12. SBW
13. J Goodhue
14. B Smith
15. D Mckenzie
16. Dane Coles 17. Ofa Tuungafasi 18. Nepo Laulala 19. Scott Barrett 20. Matt Todd 21. TJ Peranara 22. Richie Mo'unga 23. Ryan Crotty
this team will very possibly win against an England C-side completely unable to create a try,... they could even trash this England-C,.... but with this backline the AB are going to lose against Ireland
Hansen keeps trusting and playing his incumbents even though they have been out of form the whole season,...
SBW has not regain his previous form since his aquiles injury,... and the 3 tests he played this year he's been awful,... slow running, slow reacting, frequently caught out of position defensively, yellow carded,... and his contribution to the attack has been zip,... but Hansen will play him no matter what
DMac has been exposed at test level almost each time he's played,... last game against the aussies was a clear example,... but no matter what Hansen will stick with him,... this strategy to counter the rushing defenses with 2 players who individually struggles against these defenses is not going to work,... again,... if it didn't work against the 7th in the world, the aussies, with a dreadful defense,... how is it going to work against the best defense in the world?
it's not going to help neither to stick with Aaron Smith when perenara is playing better
Dont be so pessimistic Bro,if SBW or Dmac dont work theres plenty more where they came from and Hansens no one s fool.
Yeah Abasque fan has this theory about Hanson sticking too his out of form incumbents. But only gives SBW as a possible practical example. OR smith. I agree re Peranara. but generally tht backline is based on form, and prooven ability. I disagree that they should primarily pick a side just on form. Experience is very important. As for ireland. IRegardless whos their in the backs. I dont think that well be the difference in winning or loosing. .IT starts up front. Is SBW does not work out. They can try ALB, all good.
Based on this thread, I predict DMac to score one try and set up two more.
Exposed? What funny stuff! Name a test side in WR that DMac wouldn't strole into?
Guy is next level. His only problem is that he is over compensating for his size by trying to make everything he does special. Once he calms down a bit in the AB jersey he'll be the one doing the exposing.
Can anyone get a message to Savea requesting hi m to make one of those new legal hits on Will FagGirl?
BB will be MOTM.
I think Hansen is bored of winning, and selects Sonny just to give the opposition a chance of upsetting the All Blacks. The woes of success.
I used to like SBW.
Now with the holier than thou Islam BS i can't stand watching his interviews.
He never takes more than 30 seconds to turn the interview towards his religious beliefs. Like anyone cares.
So does accept the sponshorship payments from AIG and co?
hahahaha
Islam? I haven't heard about that. In fact, I haven't seen any quotes of his, p eriod. Sonny the player was never the complete player, but his game has fallen off a cliff. I honestly can't recall a performance as bad as his in Pretoria, from any other All Black centre. If it was a Bok performance, it would rank very, very low indeed. Even lower than Damian's horror show against Australia in 2015, or his shambles against England in June.
I predict SBW wll have a big game. Hope to see a lot of Mo'unga as ABs need to see him develop. Hope we get to see how well he handles the pressure defense as compared to Barrett.
England's defence was quite passive against the Boks. I was expecting fast line speed. For a time under Jones, they had the fastest line speed in world rugby. We'll see what they can put together. In the end, I can't see anything other than an All Black victory. A convincing one. There are 4 tries to be scored, at least.
England attacked the ball of the carrier entire game against Boks,as seen with that Farrell tackle.
They have to change tactics against All Blacks who offload much more before the tackle.
Well played Team
AO
Your idea of a horror show against Australia in 2015 by De Allende was very weird. So I decided to post the stats odf Pollard and him in that test:-
de Allende 0/0 0 0/1/9 49 2 3 1 0 15/6 0/0 0 0/0Pollard 0/1 10 11/12/8 33 0 1 0 3 11/4 0/0 0 0/0I was not impressed by De Allende's defense that day - yet he made 16 tackles and missed 6 for a missed tackle ratio of 28,57, but the rest of his performance was very good. You can certainly not call that a "horror show".
In the same game the defense of Pollard was not much better with a miss tackle ratio of 26,67, but his attacking game was much weaker and he also lost ball possession three times. Was Pollard's performance also a "horror show"?
