World Cup 2017 Kiwis news

[Wheeled Warrior]

Damn here we go Bob the builds up. I admire the passion but I see that we will be lucky to even win one match. Scotland are seen as easy beats. That worries me a whole lot. England, Samoa and Tonga will be hard to defeat then we have the juggernaut that is Australia too (If we make it that far)

I will call it now. We will lose against Samoa. I will probably be alone on this one however we drew against Scotland with a better lineup. Scary thought going in to this tournament.

 

[ZEROMISSTACKLES]

Damn here we go Bob the builds up. I admire the passion but I see that we will be lucky to even win one match. Scotland are seen as easy beats. That worries me a whole lot. England, Samoa and Tonga will be hard to defeat then we have the juggernaut that is Australia too (If we make it that far)

I will call it now. We will lose against Samoa. I will probably be alone on this one however we drew against Scotland with a better lineup. Scary thought going in to this tournament.

I think we should beat Samoa as we should have them for all round speed. We should also expect to beat Scotland. Im not confident against Tonga and especially England. In saying all that I wouldn't be too surprised if we lost to Samoa and Scotland. Dissapointed but not shocked like an All Blacks loss in a RWC.

 

[Beavers Headgear]

Garth Brennan out, Ben Gardiner in as assistant coach

Can't say I've heard of him

 

[jaseg]

Garth Brennan out, Ben Gardiner in as assistant coach

Can't say I've heard of him

Was the Bears coach in NSW cup. Not particularly great - and Brennan was easily the best guy on the coaching staff so it's a bad blow.

 

[Wheeled Warrior]

I think we should beat Samoa as we should have them for all round speed. We should also expect to beat Scotland. Im not confident against Tonga and especially England. In saying all that I wouldn't be too surprised if we lost to Samoa and Scotland. Dissapointed but not shocked like an All Blacks loss in a RWC.

Not even the so called minnow teams have had disruptions in their camps like us. We should be predicting how messy this campaign is going to be rather than instilling a false sense of hope we will knock off this mountain. My smokey for this WC is England.

 

[ZEROMISSTACKLES]

Not even the so called minnow teams have had disruptions in their camps like us. We should be predicting how messy this campaign is going to be rather than instilling a false sense of hope we will knock off this mountain. My smokey for this WC is England.

The English league team has had no 'stresses' in their camp as far as we know. They got Bennett as their coach, Burgess bros, Josh Hodgson, James Graham and Widdop who I thought had a good season which helped the Dragons do better than most people predicted for them this year. Bennett will have them better than ready to go. We wont be playing them in pool play so Im not sure if we'll play them at all and thats a bummer cos we usually have good close games with them.

 

[RHYTHM AND STEALTH]

Gardner has been in camp and "on standby" for when Brennan got the gig

 

[Philip_Smith007]

The English league team has had no 'stresses' in their camp as far as we know. They got Bennett as their coach, Burgess bros, Josh Hodgson, James Graham and Widdop who I thought had a good season which helped the Dragons do better than most people predicted for them this year. Bennett will have them better than ready to go. We wont be playing them in pool play so Im not sure if we'll play them at all and thats a bummer cos we usually have good close games with them.

My guess is Aussie 1 and England 2 in their pool, so we will face them (England) if we finish 1 in our pool, 2 we face Aussie.
3 we go home!

 

[Philip_Smith007]

So no warm up games for us?

 

[Diesel]

Nope, straight into the Samoa game. Could be brutal

 

[Beavers Headgear]

Absolutely crazy to have no official warm up games. Would imagine they would have had some opposed training at some point but still not the real deal

 

[RHYTHM AND STEALTH]

They been having opposed sessions with the Glenora Bears

 

[Philip_Smith007]

Shit even a Auckland selection or something, put something back into the game at a local level.

This will be interesting.

 

[Beavers Headgear]

Shit even a Auckland selection or something, put something back into the game at a local level.

This will be interesting.

They just picked a NZ residents team a few weeks back, would have been perfect to get them in

 

[kiwileaguefan]

Anyone got their tickets yet for the game? I got mine a few weeks ago and i am just interested to see what the PAX is for the game?

Good to see the players talking up their camp so far...did i hear them say its the best they have ever had?? hmm i guess they are not going to come out and say its poor as per the last years four nations??

 

[ZEROMISSTACKLES]

Good to see the players talking up their camp so far...did i hear them say its the best they have ever had?? hmm i guess they are not going to come out and say its poor as per the last years four nations??

It is good to hear them say they're all good but thats all pretty standard stuff. I'd be surprised if they said it wasn't all good.

 

[playdaball]

They been having opposed sessions with the Glenora Bears

Did Glenora win?

 

[Philip_Smith007]

Anyone got their tickets yet for the game? I got mine a few weeks ago and i am just interested to see what the PAX is for the game?

Good to see the players talking up their camp so far...did i hear them say its the best they have ever had?? hmm i guess they are not going to come out and say its poor as per the last years four nations??

Exactly!
Never heard anyone in modern error before anything state to much honesty, maybe after the game they might say training was disrupted due to injury or illness, but not before.

Imagine if we started using reverse psychology. If saying it pretty bad and opposition hears and backs off a bit in their prep???

 

[RHYTHM AND STEALTH]

Did Glenora win?

I loled

 

[Mr Angry]

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