Australia vs New Zealand: who will win? : Wed Oct 22, 2014 8:19 pm  

Vote on who you think will win, and guess the score.

Re: Australia vs New Zealand: who will win? : Wed Oct 22, 2014 8:24 pm  

A lot has been made of Australia's injuries but whatever 17 they put out it will still have bags of quality. It should be a good competitive game, but only one winner in the end.

Aus 28 v 16NZ

Re: Australia vs New Zealand: who will win? : Wed Oct 22, 2014 8:30 pm  

Australia by plenty. They still have World Class at 1, 7, 9 and 13.

Re: Australia vs New Zealand: who will win? : Wed Oct 22, 2014 8:36 pm  

Australia is without its two Dally M winners of 2014. Johnathan Thurston's absence has got to be worth at least 12 points for Australia. Jarryd Hayne's absence is worth at least another 6. That means a total of 18 points that Australia would have scored had those two been playing.

I predict that either Shaun Johnson or Jason Tamaulolo will win it for New Zealand by virtue of their overall game performance, as man of the match. They are both exceptional talents. Tamaulolo is the best attacking back rower in the world.

Australia has picked only one specialist prop, New Zealand has picked three.
But coach Stephen Kearney has gone for mobility with an abundance of fast and agile back rowers.

New Zealand's only real weakness is full back/centre/five eighth Gerard Beale playing on the wing. Whichever Australian he is marking (Tupou or Mansour) is much better than him.

Re: Australia vs New Zealand: who will win? : Wed Oct 22, 2014 10:28 pm  

New Zealand by 12 points for me. Their pack will dominate and as much "mobility" as the Aussies will have, I can see them tiring in the last 25 minutes or so and the Kiwis making lots of easy meters.

Re: Australia vs New Zealand: who will win? : Thu Oct 23, 2014 8:25 am  

Why have we got 2 of these threads come on mods merge them they are from the same guy

Re: Australia vs New Zealand: who will win? : Thu Oct 23, 2014 8:39 am  

Aussies by 8

Re: Australia vs New Zealand: who will win? : Sat Oct 25, 2014 12:29 pm  

Can the Aussies please play like they did today next Sunday they were all over the shop.

You can guarantee we will get them at their ruthless best though.

Re: Australia vs New Zealand: who will win? : Sat Oct 25, 2014 6:49 pm  

Biff Tannen wrote:

Can the Aussies please play like they did today next Sunday they were all over the shop.

You can guarantee we will get them at their ruthless best though.

The Aussies would have beaten England today.