I want to know where all the Foster haters are? having to deal with them complaining for years about foster and how great Razor is.
This loss is worse than any of those losses under Foster, 38 points is the most NZ has conceded in NZ ever? I can already see one person still blaming Foster which is Hilarious.
You can't say Razor inherited a bad team, if not for a red card and some really unlucky/inaccurate refereeing calls they would have won a WC. Despite not winning the WC the AB's played great rugby last year.
Amazing result for Argentina, you could see as soon as the game started Argentina were playing like it was a final and really wanted it and the AB's were going through the motions. Despite that the AB's seemed to have the game under control until that slap back from Reece gifted a soft try. Then the 2nd half the AB's forwards lost parity the lineouts and Scrums were ugly, they started to concede turnovers at the breakdown and that was where the game was lost.
The bad:
I don't think Savea worked as captain, sure as a player he gave it all, but the team needed direction and don't feel like he did what was needed. it's not enough to lead by example he needs to gather, lift and focus the team and I didn't see him or anyone do that.
ball security has been an issue in all tests this year IMO. hate on Sam Cane all you want but he would visit more rucks than anyone else and secure ball which was always a thankless job. Dalton and Savea are not that type of player. Sam whitelock was another player who was a master there.
obviously, locks are a problem right now, lost Brodie and Sam, plus Scott & Patrick are injured and Josh Lord is only just making a comeback. despite that I thought they did ok as individuals it was more the forward effort, they were a part of that lacked.
Aumua - we all know what impact he can make but if he can't throw then he shouldn't be playing. Those last lineouts that were a shambles had a huge impact.
The 2 big mistakes. Reece seems to be struggling to get into games, he's been busy without making much impact. He really did overdo that slap back, but it was still unlucky. Just need to be smarter and have more patient. I'm not sure about that DMac pass, he seems to be getting the blame but the pass looked ok it just seemed to go right between the Barrett's and maybe they both thought the other was going to take it.
I'm not sold on the structure of the attack it seemed like we operated with quite short passing from 9 and again struggled to get wide but I think generally the attack was OK we just seemed to struggle securing the ball with the forwards. Again, if we are going to operate with a close in attack like that, we need people doing that Sam Cane job and be on hand to secure the ball when needed, Too many turnovers.
The Good
I think DMac is showing that when we can deliver him some good ball he will get the attack going. we really just didn't get enough of it.
ALB was the pick of the backs and Darry played well in the first half in particular. I thought Codie Taylor had a better game after being fairly quiet against England. Savea carried well and won some big turnovers. Talea was sharp.
Argentina were ruthless, could see in their intensity and some of the tactics they used that they really targeted this game.
Interesting Times, the Razor Honeymoon is basically over. We expect an AB team to build well over 5-6 weeks they have had. Razor is inexperienced in building a test team in this way, the forwards haven't turned in anything close to what would be considered a good performance. Either/or/both the lineout and scrum have been problematic and now the breakdown gets exploited. The team is 6+ weeks together now and in some ways its back to the drawing board?
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