'14 // Test // Fri // Australia 30-18 New Zealand // Allianz

[Eion]

Thurston, Cronk, or Smith will get MoM. Its a test match, its the law

Yup.

 

[Sans Souci Sainter]

1. RTS
2. Nightingale
3. Whare
4. Beale
5. Simona
6. Foran
7. Johnson
8. JWH
9. Luke
10. Moa
11. Mannering
12. Proctor
13. Blair
14. Taupau
15. J Bromwich
16. Eastwood
17. Gavet

NZ team that beats Australia by plenty tonight.

Include Matai instead of Beale as well.

 

[aqua_duck]

What's everyone's opinion of Mannering? I've never really rated him TBH, abit of a captain invisible, not sure why he's held in such high regard

 

[user_nat]

Yeah... Thurston didn't deserve MoTM.

 

[KeepingTheFaith]

Matulino would make that team easy if fit.

Laumape/Hurrell/Fusitua will come into calculations in the next 2-3 years. Those 6th forward wingers/centres can be a big difference.

 

[BunniesMan]

Pretty arrogant opinion.
You should be disappointed it was this close given the sides on paper.

Just like our coach you put too much weight into reputations.

 

[Tommy Smith]

Lol Thurston?

A pisstake surely!!

They give it to him automatically every time.

Farcical.

 

[MacDougall]

Hoffman?

Yeah maybe at wing with Simona pushing Beale out of the centres.

 

[umina panther]

DWZ will push RTS to wing within the next two years

 

[Usain Bolt]

Kiwis - 18
Kangaroos - 6
Shayne Hayne - 24

 

[vvvrulz]

I don't know about that. I don't we would have taken that team so lightly in the first half. Definitely a team capable of winning though.

Agree with that, the Roos did us a favour by not even bothering to go past second gear until the last 20. And too only in glimpses.

Its scary to think they eased past us anyway, who knows what they could have done with a full 80 minute showing.

 

[DC_fan]

And why was the referee an Aussie?

Because we'd have the best and most impartial referees in the world.

 

[Eion]

At least thurston had the decency to realise he didn't deserve it. To the boys in the middle third...

 

[insert.pause]

John Grant has never been prouder of his wallabies.

I'm sure he knows the Kangaroos, he did play 3 test for them!

 

[Jason Maher]

Thurston? Yeah... nah. Gallen should have got it.

 

[alexwilliams_66692007]

How uninterested do the Aussies look about winning?

 

[KeepingTheFaith]

What's everyone's opinion of Mannering? I've never really rated him TBH, abit of a captain invisible, not sure why he's held in such high regard

Watch his one on one defense. Like a f**king bear when he gets hold of someone.

Attack he's workmanlike, but nothing spectacular.

 

[Tommy Smith]

DWZ will push RTS to wing within the next two years

He has a cooler acronym but he'll still be on the wing for the next 10 years.

Also to the other Panthers fan, a backrow is made up of three players.

In 5 years:

Cordner
Cartwright
Gillett

 

[Sans Souci Sainter]

I haven't seen much of Jeremy Smith lately but know what he is capable of.

Is he out of form or injured? Too old or uninterested?

 

[MacDougall]

Sironen will be better than Cartwright.