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Wgtn lose more players through fuckin’ injuries.
Shield game :
Hakwes Bay v Wgtn { Napier }
Tonight – 7.35pm
Sky Sport 1.Wellington : Matt Proctor, Jason Woodward, Marvin Karawana, Ope Peleseuma, Ambrose Curtis, Willie Ripia, Sheridan Rangihuna, Victor Vito, Adam Hill, Brad Shields (c), Ross Filipo, Vaea Fifita, Eric Sione, Motu Matu’u, Tolu Fahamokioa. Reserves : James O’Reilly, Taniela Koroi, James Wall, Pau Halafihi, Frae Wilson, Jackson Garden-Bachop, Tu Umaga-Marshall.
Lets see if wgtn can at least retrieve something out of this bloody season with the Shield match this Wednesday ???
Week 8.
Wed-1st Oct – Hawke’s Bay v Wgtn { Napier } – 7:35pm { RS }
Thu-2nd Oct – Auck v Waikato { Auck } – 7:35pm
Fri-3rd Oct – Northland v Harbour { Whangarei } – 7:35pm
Sat-4th Oct – Southland v Counties { Invercargill } – 2:35pm
Sat-4th Oct – B.O.P. v Otago { Mt Maunganui } – 5:35pm
Sat-4th Oct – Cant v Tasman { ChCh } – 7:35pm
Sun-5th Oct – Manawatu v Hawke’s Bay { Palmerston } – 2:35pm
Sun-5th Oct – Wgtn v Naki { Wgtn } – 4:35pmPremiership :
Naki – { p8 } – 32pts
Tasman – { p8 } – 32pts
Cant – { p8 } – 30pts
Auck – { p7 } – 20pts
Waikato – { p8 } – 16pts
Counties – { p7 } – 14pts
Wgtn – { p7 } – 2ptsChampionship :
Manawatu – { p8 } – 25pts
Hawke’s Bay – { p7 } – 21pts
Northland – { p8 } – 20pts
Southland – { p8 } – 17pts
Harbour – { p8 } – 16pts
Otago – { p8 } – 15pts
B.O.P. – { p8 } – 8ptsGreat that the ABs retained the Rugby Championship, going to be another epic battle against the Boks this weekend.
1. ABs – { p5 } – 21pts
2. Boks – { p5 } – 15pts
3. Aussie – { p5 } – 10pts
4. Argies – { p5 } – 3ptsA bloke from Wgtn rang up RS this morning saying it’s all the Wgtn coaches fault that the team are playing so poorly so he should be sacked, some of the people that ring up the show make some unbelievably thick comments, what a moron !… fact is if any team in the comp had being hit with as many injuries as Wgtn { including Cant. } they would be floundering right down the bottom of the table too.
Week 7
24th Sep – Harbour v Cant { Albany } – 7:35pm 29-24
25th Sep – B.O.P. v Northland { Mt Maunganui } – 7:35pm 27-30
26th Sep – Naki v Auck { New Plymouth } – 7:35pm 35-22
27th Sep – Waikato v Manawatu { Hamilton } – 2:35pm
27th Sep – Counties v Wgtn { Pukekohe } – 5:35pm
27th Sep – Harbour v Hawke’s Bay { Albany } – 7:35pm
28th Sep – Tasman v Otago { Nelson } – 2:35pm
28th Sep – Cant v Southland { ChCH } – 4:35pmI’m a lot more comfortable with Fekitoa playing at 2nd-five & with Conrad Smith there to guide him I’m expecting him to go very well.
This crap where a players partner is about to have a baby & that player has to leave the squad at the ‘ last minute ‘ is getting really annoying !!! { Cole’s been the latest one } just disrupts the team, if a player isn’t sure whether they’ll be able to play or not they should just pull out of the squad for a certain period, 10.30 Sunday morning is a good time to watch the test.
AB’s v Argies
Sun – 28th Sept : 10.30am
Sky Sport 1.All Blacks : Israel Dagg, Ben Smith, Conrad Smith, Malakai Fekitoa, Julian Savea, Beauden Barrett, Aaron Smith, Kieran Read, Richie McCaw (c), Jerome Kaino, Sam Whitelock, Brodie Retallick, Owen Franks, Keven Mealamu, Wyatt Crockett. Reserves : Nathan Harris, Joe Moody, Ben Franks, Jeremy Thrush, Sam Cane, TJ Perenara, Colin Slade, Cory Jane.
Yeah, like Super Rugby a fair bit of the ITM Cup format is ludicrous… as you’re basically saying just have one comp with 14 teams & play each other once, having the 2 comps with crossover games & teams not all getting play each over is just a complete bloody shambles.
Would like to see all the midweek games cut out, just have one match on a Friday night, play the rest of the matches in daytime on Saturday & Sunday.
Don’t mind changing 2 or maybe 3 players each game, the fact was he was changing well over half the team each game, on some occasions the whole team,
by doing so you’re never going to get the best performance out of your team combinations/continuity wise.Losing two 1st-Fives in the same game is just unlucky, injuries are going to happen anyway, it’s a physical game.
One of the main reasons they struggled against France was because they were very disjointed, due to henry basically not starting the same team leading up to that tournament, our tactics were very poor that day as well.
Henry used some very silly tactics as coach, one been especially silly, getting our players to hold onto the ball close to our own goal line trying to work the ball upfield keeping it in hand in the forwards, obviously should of just kicked the ball out upfield or at least kick the ball away from our goal line, the astonishing thing to me is that they just didn’t do it in one game they played 3 or 4 games in a row like that until they finally decided to drop that crazy tactic.
Yeah, after a loss it makes you focus on what you did wrong, but why should a team have to lose a game to make them refocus again, shouldn’t come into the mindset, you go out there to try & win each game as it comes.
On Henry, never rated him much as a coach… what a complete shambles 2007 was,
rugby has heaps to do about continuity, at least leading into the last year before the 2007 RWC Henry should of been playing his best 15 on the field every test, Christ, that was just waiting for a car crash to happen.Yeah, there’s some very good 1st-fives out there… only problem is Wgtn or the Canes don’t like to buy in players, which has being a huge downfall over the years by them, can’t remember how many times that I’ve said that I wanted the Canes to Buy in some quality forwards year after year.
Agreed, other than the injuries there’s no excuses for those lacklustre performances & a real lack of concentration, making far too many basic mistakes a lot of times with hardly any pressure on them.
Christ, it’s going to be embarrassing if we drop down to the championship, looking very likely though.
Other than Wgtn really enjoying the games, Wgtn were very poor yet again, but
was very impressed with Tasman, in fact most of the teams are playing good rugby.How good are those 1st-fives SSMO ?
Bloody ridiculous the other day when Henry said it wouldn’t be a bad thing if the AB’s lost a match before the WC, rubbish !!! the AB’s are as good as what they are because they always look to improve from their last game, whether that match was an average one or a very good one, same can be said of anything anyone does, if you ‘ always look to improve ‘ it keep your standards up.
Some idiots are blaming Boyd for Wgtn’s performances, what utter crap !
Boyd got Wgtn to the final last year against Cant.What’s really stuffed Wgtn are the heaps of injuries { feel sorry for Boyd & Shields } we’ve used 5 lst-fives in 6 matches so far & because of the huge overall injury count we’ve being forced to use club players that are clearly not good enough to play at this level.
