Internationals 2014 Anzac test

[eudebrito]

Good game, good effort, the forwards well out played their opposites, the backs uhh .. The fuck were Beale and nightingale doing out there, are they not supposed to be experienced professionals, Manu and Ropo would have been sitting at home shaking their heads at that left side defensive effort.

Johnson was fantastic as a one man band, lost his way a bit when John came on, huge ask for him to keep it up for 80 minutes on his own though.

Havili is definitely worth more game time than the warriors have been giving him, you could tell the Aussies were rattled, questioning every refs call, Gallen lying in and pulling out all his slow the play the ball tricks.

Chose the right team Steve, few less errors + foran and Luke and their getting somewhere.

JWH can stay on the outer.

 

[Hmmmteresting]

Hard luck brothers experience was the difference in the end.
Alot of good points come from this..
No injury's
Havili gotta play some hooker for the warriors
Johnson epic first half showed he has got it in him
Moa awesome
Brommich awesome

proud kiwi right now hope you all are 2

 

[Dixpat]

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Shaun Johnson's strengths put the Kiwis right into this game - and his flaws cost them the chance to win it.

 

[snake77]

Well my Kiwis jersey I brought during the world cup doesn't feel as much of a waste of money as it did then.

Did us proud considering usually closer to full strength the score is a lot worse. Ray Warren saying Kearney was disrespecting test match football with that squad. I doubt there will be any apologies from Warren to Kearney.

Second half was a shame but they didn't capitulate like has happened in the past and get run over with constant tries.

Havili looked quite good; hopefully next week we get to use him as a dummy half.

 

[Magic Stick]

Bromwich was the best player on the park

Henry and Havilii were pretty good at hooker...something for Cappy to think about

 

[Danpatmac]

Jwh will have to play like superman to oust any of those forwards.

The pack was superb

 

[Marshthedarsh]

Never going to win.....don't know what you were watching....they had Australia in trouble till Hiku's inexperience got to him.

We were well in this.

It's nothing like the thrashings we've copped in the past.

Oh we had every chance to win that game as it was played. But unfortunately we didn't. We played so well and I am so proud of the team. However very few expected that much from our performance - and Australia are too clinical to have lost that regardless of how we played. I thought the game would play out in a similar fashion - and it did.

No we were never going to win that. Of course hindsight is easy, but the script seems to play out every year. We start well and shock them, but always fall away in the second. Sometimes it blows out, other times we hang in there but fall short.

I'm speaking from pre match of course, If we had won that it would have shocked the world more than 2008. But after watching the game you wouldn't be surprised if we had won.

But we didn't. We lost as was expected = equilibrium is restored. We had every chance to win during the game - but we were never going to.

 

[mode81]

Way to go Kiwis you made the kangaroos look average, all those old blokes were getting hit hard and they didn't like it, love it , just a bit of finesse and polish and these young boys are farkin awesome.

Glad none of our Warrior boys got injured they all played brilliant even Havili and Benry

 

[Defence]

Proud of them.
Bromwich, moa- outstanding
Mannering( so strong- loved it when he smashed Scott)
Johnson ( looked good playing both sides of the park)
havilli ( give this boy some game time at 9, he's the real deal.
proctor ( got to admit he looked good running off Johnson hmm)
Blair( some massive defensive plays)
Taupau ( beast- always thought he had more going for him than kasiano coming though the grades)
Whare ( that hit on inglis- massive highlight)
Futures so bright I gotta wear shades.

 

[tajhay]

I dunno who the poster was that was hating on jesse bromwich during the week but you owe the man an apology bro.

Referring to this?

That is referencing Kenny Bromwhich. He was 18th man.

 

[Danpatmac]

Referring to this?

That is referencing Kenny Bromwhich. He was 18th man.

Nah, someone was essentially calling jesse a soft player, lacking mongrel etc.

Looks like a twat now.

 

[Marshthedarsh]

Jwh will have to play like superman to oust any of those forwards.

The pack was superb

Taupau played out of his skin. Probably MOM for the Kiwis I'd pick. Great call up.

 

[rapt91]

Oh we had every chance to win that game as it was played. But unfortunately we didn't. We played so well and I am so proud of the team. However very few expected that much from our performance - and Australia are too clinical to have lost that regardless of how we played. I thought the game would play out in a similar fashion - and it did.

No we were never going to win that. Of course hindsight is easy, but the script seems to play out every year. We start well and shock them, but always fall away in the second. Sometimes it blows out, other times we hang in there but fall short.

I'm speaking from pre match of course, If we had won that it would have shocked the world more than 2008. But after watching the game you wouldn't be surprised if we had won.

But we didn't. We lost as was expected = equilibrium is restored. We had every chance to win during the game - but we were never going to.

I agree in principle with a fair bit of this, with our history, we needed more then a 6 point lead at half time as no one can deny that every year we leak points in the 2nd half, the forwards were a highlight considering they bruised and rattled the aussies, still cannot stand there arrogance however

 

[rik13]

Proud of the boys ... All played well . Interesting to see the penalty count . Always get ripped . Roll on nrl season

 

[Harlz]

Imagine a fit hurrell in that kiwis side come 4 nations, he wud b a match winner! Proud performance from the brothers!

 

[rapt91]

Proud of the boys ... All played well . Interesting to see the penalty count . Always get ripped . Roll on nrl season

well it was 5-1 at half time which is pretty lopsided

 

[Danpatmac]

JWH is better than any of the props named.

Nope

Jwh has never played as well for nz as any of the forwards did tonight

 

[rapt91]

Imagine a fit hurrell in that kiwis side come 4 nations, he wud b a match winner! Proud performance from the brothers!

isn't Hurrell declared for Tonga? do correct me if im wrong as I can't remember haha

 

[mode81]

Bromwich was the best player on the park

Henry and Havilii were pretty good at hooker...something for Cappy to think about

Yep big ups to Jesse I questioned his selection based on his World Cup final performance not his club form and he proved me wrong big time, mammoth game, still never won but the Storm boys played well

 

[Tim burgess]

Great effort, if foran and luke had been playing the kiwis would have been much closer.

How bug is sam moa heart.