Bledisloe Australia vs New Zealand

For those who want to make a comment or two.

They do like those slowmo shots of the All Blacks' tongues popping out of their mouths.

Will Jordan scores after 90 seconds.

Nice Aussie attack gets sunk by a knock on.

NZ score again. Direct running and offloads. Oz defense not looking up to it. 14-0

Clarke scores. NZ playing with complete freedom. Three backline tries in 15 minutes.

And Australia scores off a lineout. Simple deep throw and a huge gap opens up in the middle. 21-7

Mistake in the Aus backline, Reece collects and sends A rdie over.

Both sides are playing like this is an exhibition game. Pretty to watch.

Codie Taylor turned over again.

Nice breakout by Liam Wright for Aus but lacked support.

Another simple try to Aus, peel around the back of the maul and again there's a huge gap. NZ completely dominating but these soft tries are just about keeping Aus in touch. 28-14

DMac breaks through with two o n his inside but his pass goes nowhere.

Jordie scores. Officials checking for a knock in an earlier phase. No try.

28-14 at the break. Mostly NZ but Aus has taken the few chances they had exploiting some patchy NZ defense.

NZ gets themselves an open tryline and Dmac chooses a backhand pass that goes nowhere.

Ardie held up over the line.

Aus now squandering a try by a pass not going to hand and NZ score at the other end through Ratima, who has had a very good game .

Well might not be a try after all as there looks to be a forward pass. Yes, no try.

Aus getting the phases together but always a mistake after 6 or 7. Much more even contest in the second half.

Santos breaking past L-Brown. Some good runners in the Aus side.

Another huge gap opens up close to the breakdown for Aus.

And try for Paisami. 31-21

Aus has to think they have a sniff here. And they break out again into the NZ 22 now.

And another phase dies with holding on just 5m from the line.

Yellow for NZ after the try btw, L-Brown in the bin.

Seeing some fire from the Aus players now that weren't as evident in the first half.

Clarke with a telling break, NZ rumbling now. Penalty for Aus at the breakdown.

Aussie replacements have had a definite impact.

Yellow for Clarke for a deliberate slapdown of a pass. NZ will briefly have only 13. Aus needs to strike and they almost do through Paisami but the try is disallowed for a knock.

Aus probably blows their last chance of winning conceding a penalty right on the NZ tryline.

Wright scores. 1 Minute to go, 31-28 NZ.

And Aus gets held up, NZ scrum, timer into the red. This should be it.

NZ win. 14-3 to Aus in the second half though.

Aus needs to move on from Nic White. Produced little except chatter. McDermott made an impact, so did many of the bench players. Some good players in the Aussie side. NZ defense looks very vulnerable.

 So NZ won the game by 3 points and that sows what about the match? . 

Hmm seems it was quite a march. Must watch the replay. 

Plum the wee abs are building as new team as are we. 

Bear in mind the abs have lost some close ones. 

There is not a lot in it between the top sides. Right now we are winning because we have the most astute coach and the greater will to win. We are blending the older and newer players very well and so far our transition has been smoother. A due to wise plan. 

I recall some Pundits here mistakenly calling for wholesale changes. Rassie rightly wants to keep win ning while incrementally making changes and building the squad for the next RWC. Surely the right approach. 

DMAC again doing little of much value.

Two poor passes in scoring positions + the forward pass that canceled Ratima's try puts him at about -21 points.