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<blockquote data-quote="Alex Anghel" data-source="post: 1004673" data-attributes="member: 70777"><p>The tight 5 and the pack, in general, lacked a certain level of mongrel in the last couple of years. Moreover, playing people out of position (i.e. Ardie Savea) does not help it either, not to mention that neither of the pack's members is the world's best in his position at the moment.</p><p></p><p>I don't think NZ's goalkicking was necessarily an issue in this game, given the weather conditions in Wellington, but it was a major factor in implementing that dual playmaker system in the late Hansen era, thus forcing one of the best 10 in the world to move at 15. Sadly, this experiment seems to continue, although it has barely generated positive results.</p><p></p><p>I keep saying that playing people out of position is not the way forward, I for once cannot understand why moving the best fullback (whichever whom might be) to play wing, as there are other wingers who can play better that particular position.</p><p></p><p>As for Rieko Ioane, I believe you are wrong, but his attitude certainly does not help his case.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Alex Anghel, post: 1004673, member: 70777"] The tight 5 and the pack, in general, lacked a certain level of mongrel in the last couple of years. Moreover, playing people out of position (i.e. Ardie Savea) does not help it either, not to mention that neither of the pack's members is the world's best in his position at the moment. I don't think NZ's goalkicking was necessarily an issue in this game, given the weather conditions in Wellington, but it was a major factor in implementing that dual playmaker system in the late Hansen era, thus forcing one of the best 10 in the world to move at 15. Sadly, this experiment seems to continue, although it has barely generated positive results. I keep saying that playing people out of position is not the way forward, I for once cannot understand why moving the best fullback (whichever whom might be) to play wing, as there are other wingers who can play better that particular position. As for Rieko Ioane, I believe you are wrong, but his attitude certainly does not help his case. [/QUOTE]
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