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All Blacks Player Ratings vs Argentina
The All Blacks have continued their winning ways with a 46-24 victory over Argentina in Nelson. Here’s how they fared individually.
- Karl Tu’inukuafe – 6.5
Dominated at scrum time early, made a rare line break. Performance marred by a few missed tackles. - Codie Taylor – 7
Great hands and link play shown throughout. Big pass to set up Milner-Skudder try. Mostly tidy at lineout time, had a couple of misses. - Owen Franks – 6.5
Good hands, had a few cracks at the line. Made his tackles. Typically strong scrum performance.ADVERTISEMENT - Brodie Retallick – N/A, replaced early by Sam Whitelock – 7
Came on earlier than expected and made an impact. Won a pair of turnovers and made 13 tackles in a big shift. - Scott Barrett – 6.5
Often in the right place at the right time. Quick hands to put Frizell into a hole. Came up with the ball close to his own tryline. Tidy performance, if quiet. - Shannon Frizell – 9
After being penalised early, Frizell came right and was everywhere. Continuously broke the line, won a couple of penalties, helped set up a try with inside ball to Goodhue. Made more tackles than anyone on the park and didn’t miss. Bagged a try to cap a great performance in front of his home crowd. - Ardie Savea – 7.5
More influence in the second period. Won a crucial penalty on his own try line and had a handful of powerful carries. Made 15 tackles and won a pair of turnovers. - Kieran Read – 6.5
A quiet shift from Read, outshone by his back row partners. Picked up a captain’s knock and made his tackles. - TJ Perenara – 8.5
Stepped up in a rare start at No. 9. Bagged a pair of tries, one from in close and another as a result of great support lines. Solid in defence and made a try saving tackle in the first half. - Richie Mo’unga – 6.5
Started rough after missing touch a couple of times. Spilled some ball, missed a couple of tackles but generally distributed and kicked well off the tee.ADVERTISEMENT - Waisake Naholo – 6.5
Made a couple of slicing runs when opportunities presented themselves – though said opportunities were few and far between. Won a penalty over the ball in another typical Naholo performance. - Ngani Laumape – N/A, replaced early by Anton Lienert-Brown – 8
Constantly threatened the line, beat three defenders to make the break for Perenara’s second try. Solid defensively in the midfield. Another great performance from the versatile centre after entering earlier than expected. - Jack Goodhue – 8
Strong with ball in hand and as a distributor. Finished a well-worked try as time expired. Continues to build on his impressive young All Black career. - Nehe Milner-Skudder – 6
Caught out by Ramiro Moyano early but otherwise tidy defensively, finished off a try and found space in his return.ADVERTISEMENT - Ben Smith – 7.5
Shook off early injury scare after HIA. Exploited mismatch and skinned Agustin Creevy to set up Read try. Another solid performance, though not spectacular.
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Huge engine this guy and great to see him back ..The amount of clean outs he does at the ruck are ridiculous !!
3 Go to commentsThe level of desperation in this article is just embarrassing.
215 Go to commentsSome silly trolling in the comments.
8 Go to commentsEverywhere you turn some irish journo is advocating Ireland as the greatest, reasoning that the wc is a 4 year cycle event so, they say wc doesn’t matter it’s the rugby in between that should account for the accolade. If there was no wc then some substance could be gained, however in my opinion the moment that defined Ireland’s fate against the abs was 37 phases of repeated head bashing against a brick wall. If a change in strategy or a tinker with the game plan was executed then things could've been vastly different. And to point a finger the let down was in the hands of the number 10.
36 Go to commentsI have heard it asked if RA is essentially one of the part owners and I suppose therefor should be on the other side of these two parties. If they purchased the rebels and guaranteed them, and are responsible enough they incur Rebels penalties, where is this line drawn? Seems rough to have to pay a penalty for something were your involvement sees you on the side of the conned party, the creditors. If the Rebels directors themselves have given the club their money, 6mil worth right, why aren’t they also listed as sitting with RA and the Tax office? And the legal threat was either way, new Rebels or defunct, I can’t see how RA assume the threat was less likely enough to warrant comment about it in this article. Surely RA ignore that and only worry about whether they can defend it or not, which they have reported as being comfortable with. So in effect wouldn’t it be more accurate to say there is no further legal threat (or worry) in denying the deal. Unless the directors have reneged on that. > Returns of a Japanese team or even Argentinean side, the Jaguares, were said to be on the cards, as were the ideas of standing up brand new teams in Hawaii or even Los Angeles – crazy ideas that seemingly forgot the time zone issues often cited as a turn-off for viewers when the competition contained teams from South Africa. Those timezones are great for SR and are what will probably be needed to unlock its future (cant see it remaining without _atleast _help from Aus), day games here are night games on the West Coast of america, were potential viewers triple, win win. With one of the best and easiest ways to unlock that being to play games or a host a team there. Less good the further across Aus you get though. Jaguares wouldn’t be the same Jaguares, but I still would think it’s better having them than keeping the Rebels. The other options aren’t really realistic 25’ options, no. From reading this authors last article I think if the new board can get the investment they seem to be confident in, you keeping them simply for the amount of money they’ll be investing in the game. Then ditch them later if they’re not good enough without such a high budget. Use them to get Jaguares reintergration stronger, with more key players on board, and have success drive success.
15 Go to commentsYeah, and ours is waaay bigger than yours. Just as you's get a semi…oh hold on that never happens
36 Go to commentsLove watching
1 Go to commentsThe Melbourne Rebels lineout is a complete disaster so not surprisingly a kiwi coach of the Wallabies hires the worst lineout coach in the country and a foreigner to boot. No surprises whatsoever here…….
3 Go to commentsThank your for wasting 2 minutes of my life Daniel. There is a useful message in there somewhere but your delivery sucks.
7 Go to commentsBen Smith, you are cry baby
215 Go to commentsSux that homophobia is still a thing though. I wonder how many players who could have become legends never kept playing rugby because they felt unwelcome.
7 Go to commentsCrazy he’s only 28, feel like he’s been around forever - don’t mind the move, safe pair of hands and creates depth in a thin position for ABs. Hopefully aides Kemara’s growth also without thrusting too much responsibility on him
1 Go to commentsMen should show strength and be mean, but they should be able to show emotion to those close yo them in certain times, birth of your child, death of family, proud moment. This article is stupid
7 Go to commentsWhat a weak article…absolute drivel and clickbait, well done. Will stick to rugby365 thanks
7 Go to commentsHonest, discipline, humility… Priceless.
2 Go to commentsSo many excuses. No mention of the SA number 2 being taken out illegally in the 2nd minute. That act of foul play had a massive impact on the SA game. Face it, NZ play pretty dirty very regularly, and it’s only since 2016 they’ve been held to higher officiating standards via stricter officiating and TMO reviews. They deserved to have a man down. Sorry. Fix the yellow and red cards and NZ will win more RWCs. Plus, there WAS a knock on invalidating the one try, so it was NOT a try. Period. Here’s a Kleenex…
215 Go to commentsOverheard conversation between NZ and SA rugby fans everywhere: We’re the greatest! No! we’re the greatest! We’re the greatest! No we’re the greatest! Ireland are arrogant! True but they beat you! We’re the greatest! No! we’re the greatest! Etc. etc, etc.
36 Go to commentsTypical crap Aussie weather
11 Go to comments“If they’d have beaten England, I still feel we would have been talking ‘is this the best team ever,’ ‘is this the best team that’s ever played in the Six Nations'” he said. “I still think they’re not quite that good. I actually don’t think they’re that good.” So Trimble is saying he doesn’t think this is the best 6N team of all time. He is silent on if it is the best Irish team of all time. Can’t disagree with him. Just another misrepresentative clickbait headline from the guys at RP.
36 Go to commentsWow, do we really still have to listen to all the excuses and “unfairness” of it all. Even blaming the bounce of an egg shaped ball for the loss. But the article is about context, so what about the Springboks having to play the other 5 teams in the top 6 and still beating a comparatively rested AB team on a very empty tank.
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