Fin de carrière pour Benjamin Urdapilleta

This all started simply because Barrett missed a few conversions in Rassie's first win against the all blacks in 2018. Not only was Barrett forbidden from playing 10 or taking another conversion for many a games , but Hansen changed the whole backline and abandoned the gameplan he had been building since 2016. It forced out Ben Smith and all fullback contenders for the next five years. Suddenly the 2018 northern tour became all about kicking drop goals, which meant nothing when England were up 19-7

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I don't know if it was Rassie's plan but that 2018 win in Wellington seemed to throw the all blacks out of spin for years. Imagine if as a result of Libbok missing the penalty against the Pumas, Rassie panickly changed his whole backline a year out from the world cup and abandoned his whole strategy he has been building with Tony Brown.

Beauden Barrett can't pass Hamish. A first fives first job is to pass. Beauden can't pass. Ran great for all those accolades though, just Cruden looked better for the team during the Lions series.

Hansen was a basket case for sure though. Should have had Mo'unga in there a year or two earlier and building his confidence to take charge instead of making him flounder by throwing him in the deep end. Nearly won it, single handedly again mind you, last year.

I noticed nothing unusual on the stats, RP regularly had 1:6:2 ratio or the like, personally I was really happy with his ratio. I noted about one missed timed kick every game though, which I think is about twice as high as you'd want for a world class/RWC winning 10. I didn't like that he kicks the ball directly out most of the time either. Much more preferred Albornoz's style (even Sacha's).

I wonder if thats him or the team then. They have taken the 3 far more often than otherwise. Opta has good stats on % predictability etc, I find it really strange no media creators (that I could find) are paying to use it as content. I can remember 1 gettable 3 he missed in SA. Has to be broken down into pens and cons first.

Maybe he's getting carried away with himself but I just don't see it. He has looked so cool in Black this year.