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Rugby World Cup 2015
RWC: New Zealand - Japan (16-09-2011)
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<blockquote data-quote="nickdnz" data-source="post: 448357" data-attributes="member: 38640"><p>Man, you can be a hipocritical. How can one game against a weakened Japan side convince you that Sonny Bill Williams is a viable/better option at wing over Cory Jane! Cory Jane was quiet in the small time he has got this RWC, but he's still proven the difference between NZ winning and losing on several tests, being magnificant in his game against South Africa in the first test of the Tri Nations. You just seem amazingly willing to mismiss proven world class wingers like Jane and Gear, for someone who scored two tries against a weak Japan side (and 2/13 tries to be exact). He didn't look exceptionally quick either, he was just in the right place really, with his first try he went through a gap untouched and his second try no one else chased.</p><p></p><p>You then go on to say people need to take it easy on Slade, who has underperformed in every test match barring the one he replaced Aaron Cruden, late in the third quarter.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Agreed 100%. SBW is not a winger, and to play him on the wing now is crazy. He's never played wing against a top team, and to select him over established world class wingers is just stupid. As you mentioned with Rene Ranger, he's a player who can cover the utility position and break open a game, where as SBW's biig attribute is his offload, which is **** all when playing wing. He's not a player who breaks the line all that often, and wing doesn't suite his style of play at all.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="nickdnz, post: 448357, member: 38640"] Man, you can be a hipocritical. How can one game against a weakened Japan side convince you that Sonny Bill Williams is a viable/better option at wing over Cory Jane! Cory Jane was quiet in the small time he has got this RWC, but he's still proven the difference between NZ winning and losing on several tests, being magnificant in his game against South Africa in the first test of the Tri Nations. You just seem amazingly willing to mismiss proven world class wingers like Jane and Gear, for someone who scored two tries against a weak Japan side (and 2/13 tries to be exact). He didn't look exceptionally quick either, he was just in the right place really, with his first try he went through a gap untouched and his second try no one else chased. You then go on to say people need to take it easy on Slade, who has underperformed in every test match barring the one he replaced Aaron Cruden, late in the third quarter. Agreed 100%. SBW is not a winger, and to play him on the wing now is crazy. He's never played wing against a top team, and to select him over established world class wingers is just stupid. As you mentioned with Rene Ranger, he's a player who can cover the utility position and break open a game, where as SBW's biig attribute is his offload, which is **** all when playing wing. He's not a player who breaks the line all that often, and wing doesn't suite his style of play at all. [/QUOTE]
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