Jordan vs Kolbe | Who Is Rugby’s Best Right Winger?
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Coming to you from rugby's greatest fortress, New Zealand's national stadium, Eden Park, is the Aotearoa Rugby Pod. Kia ora and welcome to another episode of the Aotearoa Rugby Pod, where we'll get into the nitty gritty of the weekend's nation's championship action, including the question, is Will Jordan the greatest winger of all time? The All Blacks in the box also survived scares from Italy and Scotland. So there's plenty of interesting footy going on. The French went nuts in the second half against the Australians. Of course, we've got some questions for you in our Athletic Questions of the Week. And if you want to catch Aotearoa Rugby Pod, please go to at Aotearoa Rugby Pod official channels.
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what did you make of it first and foremost all blacks italy messy at times yeah look i think um probably a little bit slow to start um was probably the big thing and that came through turnovers but also sort of controllable penalties like um not having your break foot up at scrum time you know little indiscretions here and there the catch pass was probably a little bit clunky all night there was probably a 10-15 minute period where it was unbelievable after half time But the one thing I would say, and I know everyone was like, oh, if you make this many errors against South Africa, you'll get punished, which is probably true. But what I liked, and it's sort of similar to what I said about the Hurricanes, I admire the courage to keep throwing the pass.
Even when you think about that first, was it Will Jordan's first try? I can't remember who it is, but he almost gets the ball. Segnon runs that down line, he bobbles it, and then you know quickly gets that pass away and then they score from that but then later on you know he obviously gets the ball and man so throws the big bridge pass and it goes forward i think the only way you can learn how to do that in the big moment is actually underneath the bright lights so that's what i like the most is that clearly the coaching group and the leaders are saying pull trigger we need you to pull trigger because it's the only way you can sort of pull it off and there's a lot of points left out there when they
Yeah there was and I think the execution side of it was probably one thing that Jip did touch on especially in the first half like we had multiple opportunities and maybe just forcing it and again look I don't mind that because we're trying things and I look if you do look at the attacking stacks the quick ball was at 63% I don't think we're ever going to get to that stage where we got the French so you've got to come in Italy another way that they did play and we know from watching the Six Nations the defensive structures they do run and how good they are in that contact area but Look, we still had 12 line breaks, 37 defenders beaten, 41 minutes of ball in play. I know both teams are a part of that, but look, we wanted to play.
And it was just more so the execution in the first half. And look, with that first half and the fact that Italy had to make 234 tackles, I think it set us up to be able to then attack that 10, 15-minute blitz where we score four tries and we were able to be able to execute under pressure and score points. So a little bit clunky. But I think for the things that Jip did touch on, we didn't try our way from Ben Alva to play. I know we also had to have 16 kicks. I thought maybe our variation of when we weren't getting momentum, we did go to the box kick a few times with Cam Rory going to Cortez Ratema, which I did talk around that I probably did want to see if we weren't going anywhere.
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Chapters
4 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:00–4:59
2
Is Will Jordan already rugby’s greatest-ever right winger for New Zealand?
4:59–6:36
3
How did the All Blacks perform against Italy and what went wrong in the first half?
6:36–43:17
4
What makes Will Jordan so prolific — strike rate, roles and playing style?
43:17–1:10:45
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