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MasterBlaster76
ICC Chairman
Yup. I realised there were a lot of changes from the Aus game but we still expect better from the ABs
I turned down at least 5 offers of tickets for this game!
Why did you do that? You missed out on a bit of history there!!
MasterBlaster76
ICC Chairman
Scotland are by far the biggest winners imo, they only have to beat Samoa, Japan, and Canada/USA to progress.
Australia, England, Wales will more than likely be joined by the Fiji as well, one of the strongest teams that have to qualify.
Our pools going to be a joke. Argentina should be a good match, but Tonga, probably Namibia, and like Georgia/Romania are going to be one way traffic.
Pool D should have a few good matches, with France, Ireland, Italy, and Canada/USA.
Australia, England, Wales will more than likely be joined by the Fiji as well, one of the strongest teams that have to qualify.
Our pools going to be a joke. Argentina should be a good match, but Tonga, probably Namibia, and like Georgia/Romania are going to be one way traffic.
Pool D should have a few good matches, with France, Ireland, Italy, and Canada/USA.
MasterBlaster76
ICC Chairman
Double whammy yesterday too with the girls losing as well
The England girls won as well? Cool.
spooony
Club Captain
NZ were exposed three times this season. Once against Australia in the Brisbane draw, once against Ireland in the second test, and once against South Africa in the first half of the final SA v NZ RC test.
The common element in all of those games was that the opposition threw large numbers into the offensive breakdown and then used the pick and go around the fringe to break through and get behind the NZ line. Simple, old fashioned, effective.
England used the tactic of swarming the breakdown and giving the NZ pack a hiding. Suddenly Carter looked ordinary behind a losing pack and Farrel Class behind a winning pack. England exposed us in our 17 game winning streak and everyone followed suite and used same tactics. They did it again with NZ and if you make a god bleed the sharks will come.
The common element in all of those games was that the opposition threw large numbers into the offensive breakdown and then used the pick and go around the fringe to break through and get behind the NZ line. Simple, old fashioned, effective.
England used the tactic of swarming the breakdown and giving the NZ pack a hiding. Suddenly Carter looked ordinary behind a losing pack and Farrel Class behind a winning pack. England exposed us in our 17 game winning streak and everyone followed suite and used same tactics. They did it again with NZ and if you make a god bleed the sharks will come.
spooony
Club Captain
Apparently the rugby field was 20km long. They beat Australia couple of times this season.
Yeah, they're actually a very good team now. They're up to second in the standings after four events! They used to just through the ball around and back themselves (and hence cause the occasional upset), but now they have some structure to go with that which means they can defend much better and consistently knock over the traditional powerhouses of 15s.
Apparently there's going to be 12 teams at the Olympics, so they'll look something like this:
New Zealand
Australia
Fiji
Samoa
South Africa
Kenya
Great Britain
France
Argentina
United States
Canada
Brazil
Other than probably Brazil all of those teams will be good enough to beat each other on their day, assuming the likes of the United States and Canada get a bit better by then.
