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<blockquote data-quote="William18" data-source="post: 267234"><p>Firstly, well done to France they were the better team last night. Your defence was really impressive and it was really hard for us to get through and your tactics were great. A few French players stood out for me, especially your full back.</p><p></p><p>Now I think we shouldn't over react. We need to remember that we pretty much always win these games. We can't win every game all the time. Occasionally we are going to lose!</p><p></p><p>This was one of the few times you will ever see an all blacks loose foward trio get over run. I don't see why Thompson was played at #7. He's a number 6 FFS. 6 and 7 are completely different positions. Messam and Read weren't much either. Our scrum was pretty poor, I thought Tialata was terrible. The referee definately could have have officiated the scrums better but I won't start blaming him.</p><p></p><p>Donald I thought was alright. He is not international quality what so ever but he tries hard and did his best last night. I would probably perfer McAlister at 10 instead of him although McAlister was great last night giving away that stupid pass. Cowan was a bit disappointing, he seemed a bit slow around the rucks. When Weepu came on we started getting much quicker ball. Nonu, Rokocoko and Toeava were too quiet. The thing is, they looked decent when they actually got their hands on the ball. Muliania was the AB's man of the match I think. I don't know if he led as well as he could have but he was excellent at the back under the high ball. Jane was great too, it was an awesome effort what he did in the try we scored just before half time.</p><p></p><p>Overall, we need a bit of work on the scrum and our tackling (that French first try should not have been scored). I think we will bounce back next week. It's not like us to lose twice in a row. I was a bit worried at one stage when we were down 20-17 that the score would end like that. I was disappointed that when were down by 3 we didn't take a drop goal. That's what we should have done. I thought it was an absorbing game. Enjoyable to watch even though the result didn't go our way.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="William18, post: 267234"] Firstly, well done to France they were the better team last night. Your defence was really impressive and it was really hard for us to get through and your tactics were great. A few French players stood out for me, especially your full back. Now I think we shouldn't over react. We need to remember that we pretty much always win these games. We can't win every game all the time. Occasionally we are going to lose! This was one of the few times you will ever see an all blacks loose foward trio get over run. I don't see why Thompson was played at #7. He's a number 6 FFS. 6 and 7 are completely different positions. Messam and Read weren't much either. Our scrum was pretty poor, I thought Tialata was terrible. The referee definately could have have officiated the scrums better but I won't start blaming him. Donald I thought was alright. He is not international quality what so ever but he tries hard and did his best last night. I would probably perfer McAlister at 10 instead of him although McAlister was great last night giving away that stupid pass. Cowan was a bit disappointing, he seemed a bit slow around the rucks. When Weepu came on we started getting much quicker ball. Nonu, Rokocoko and Toeava were too quiet. The thing is, they looked decent when they actually got their hands on the ball. Muliania was the AB's man of the match I think. I don't know if he led as well as he could have but he was excellent at the back under the high ball. Jane was great too, it was an awesome effort what he did in the try we scored just before half time. Overall, we need a bit of work on the scrum and our tackling (that French first try should not have been scored). I think we will bounce back next week. It's not like us to lose twice in a row. I was a bit worried at one stage when we were down 20-17 that the score would end like that. I was disappointed that when were down by 3 we didn't take a drop goal. That's what we should have done. I thought it was an absorbing game. Enjoyable to watch even though the result didn't go our way. [/QUOTE]
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