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:shock: :( What are the causes for this? That is sad and very serious. More children not participating in any sport. The rise of basketball/other sports. The rise of concussion awareness. I don’t see this getting better. I dont believe the numbers for Basketball. I reckon they're less than what the...

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A couple of years ago I was derided by a small but vocal faction on this bored, when I ventured that Razor should not be appointed to succeed Fozzie as fait accompli . I suggested that Jamie Joseph and Tony Brown—having just masterminded a giant-killing run of success for Japan—should at least be c...

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And yet Parker was probably one of our best.

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booze wrote: ↑Sat Sep 13, 2025 11:36 am Yup, the boks are finished.

Don’t even know why they bothered to show up.

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One too many Barrett’s?

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OK, so what do we think Razor is doing wrong? With Foster you could see a consistently poor game plan being repeated over and over, the infamous "fossie ball". And a tendency to screw players around resulting ina team that rarely felt settled. What is the Razor equivalent of those things? And yet F...

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Yeah, like it’s the Chiefs fault.

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OK, so what do we think Razor is doing wrong? With Foster you could see a consistently poor game plan being repeated over and over, the infamous "fossie ball". And a tendency to screw players around resulting ina team that rarely felt settled. What is the Razor equivalent of those things? And yet F...

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Maybe we are just a bit shit. Maybe we won’t be consistently awesome again.

Maybe rugby peaked in 2015?

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Flankerdownunder wrote: ↑Wed Sep 03, 2025 12:58 am What's the guts on this rumour that Grimsby Town fielded an ineligible player against ManU?

5 seconds late in registering him.

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Ogre wrote: ↑Mon Sep 01, 2025 11:25 pm
Grandpa wrote: ↑Mon Sep 01, 2025 8:12 pm Marc Guehi.. what a class act.

Palace manager asks him to stay cause they couldn't get a replacement.. so he does.

No sulking. Class act

Shame we didn't get him.. rather than Isak.
Glass half full take is we get him on a free next season

Might even get him in January.

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RodneyRegis wrote: ↑Mon Sep 01, 2025 11:32 pm Glass half empty take is you win a couple of games 7-3 rather than 7-2, and win the league in April rather than march.

I suppose we'd take that, if we really have to.

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At least Ineos is consistent, I suppose.

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Every f**king game it's just endless debate about the legality (or not) of an attempted clear out. Hopeless. Bring back rucking and get rid of the clear out. How many bad injuries were caused by rucking versus the modern day clear out? Other than tramlines across your back which you wore with pride,...

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I'm still reeling from seeing that they have B&I Lions branded beanbags.

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Got a mate out there in the stadium. Says there were no announcements about the lightning, so when everyone came off the pitch they thought Ryan was gone... I’ve learned it’s lightning from here. I’m at the ground. The players went off and there was no indication of why. Then they told everyone in ...

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Enjoyed that. It’s old school - looks like the same game I played, there’s no TMO, no music blaring every freaking break in play. Yes, the standard is not great at times but who cares. And yes, Waikato storming back to win helped my enjoyment levels. Just saw that BOP is playing at the Tauranga doma...

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The jury is well and truly out on that one for me at the moment. Making racing more interesting isn't about reducing downforce per se - it's about reducing the impact of the turbulent air on the downforce of the car that's following. Active aero is supposed to be the cure for all of this, but you g...

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This thread is great. The Aussies have blown up even more than when Foley got done for time wasting and the All Blacks won on the siren, also in Melbourne.

Play more games in Melbourne, I say.

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Still, the optics were unfortunate, to say the least. Allison didn't go partying. On another note, we've gone from years of complaining that FSG never spend any money to fretting that they've spent too much and we've bought too many players and they won't gel as a team and also we still need to buy...

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Liverpool wouldn't offer him a new deal.. that was the problem... he went to Jota's memorial a few days later with Becker as both couldn't make it to Portugal in time from South America. Still, the optics were unfortunate, to say the least. Allison didn't go partying. On another note, we've gone fr...

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and now we might seriously be in for Isaak!

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I know it was inevitable but I think losing Diaz is a big.loss... he was a big outlet with his pace. I'd rather have lost Gakpo and Nunez. Inevitable from the moment he thought it was a good idea to be photographed at an Influencer events while his teammates attended Diogo Jota's funeral? As tactic...

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I know it was inevitable but I think losing Diaz is a big.loss... he was a big outlet with his pace. I'd rather have lost Gakpo and Nunez. Inevitable from the moment he thought it was a good idea to be photographed at an Influencer events while his teammates attended Diogo Jota's funeral? As tactic...

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Yeah, but doesn't that bug you? Christchurch is the second most important rugby town in NZ after Auckland. You would think it would be a hub for major tests. It's more of the annoying NZ "think small" attitude that is so pervasive in NZ society. It annoys me, NZ never builds for the future just the...

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Grandpa wrote: ↑Sun Jul 20, 2025 10:17 pm
Derwyn wrote: ↑Sun Jul 20, 2025 9:35 pm
The tours since have been woeful. Like all forms of rugby.
What was wrong with 2017?

Apart from the series being decided by “we have a deal”?

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I like Lions tours. This one seems a bit flat so far, maybe because of the lack of jeopardy in the warm up games, maybe because of the number of southern hemisphere players in the Lions (& maybe because the Wallabies are just a bit shit). I’d say you can improve tours by insisting players from the n...

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I thought the Lions were meant to be better than this.

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The All Blacks and the French are feeling whole lot better about themselves watching this.

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this half is shite.

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Skiaddict wrote: ↑Wed Jul 16, 2025 1:55 am
What's with PR constantly digging at the AB's, they've been doing it for years.
I think it is just trolling because the AB's used to be the spiritual guardians of the game before the Springboks took over.

No wonder the game is f’ucked.

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Saw Jurassic World Rebirth last night. I don't know what film the Guardian film critic watched to give it 4 stars but it wasn' this one - it was a hot mess of confused crap with surprisingly poor visual effects. Scarlet Johansson in tight singlets & t-shirts adds an extra couple of stars to most fil...

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Don’t worry, Aussies, according an Australian journalist in the Guardian “the Wallabies have got their 2025 season off to a victorious start and struck a crucial blow in the quest to win the 2027 World Cup at home with a tense 21-18 triumph over Fiji in Newcastle. The 79th minute shading of their f...

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Don’t worry, Aussies, according an Australian journalist in the Guardian “the Wallabies have got their 2025 season off to a victorious start and struck a crucial blow in the quest to win the 2027 World Cup at home with a tense 21-18 triumph over Fiji in Newcastle. The 79th minute shading of their fi...

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I remember Howard used to wear Wallaby jumpers/jackets on his early morning walks. This was in the early 2000s. Good rugby man. I'd imagine most of the PMs we've had since then had no interest in rugby or Leaguies, apart from Abbott. John Howard is a tool. The Waratahs crowd cheering him speaks vol...

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The crowd cheering Johnny Howard must have really triggered mattheexpat I remember Howard used to wear Wallaby jumpers/jackets on his early morning walks. This was in the early 2000s. Good rugby man. I'd imagine most of the PMs we've had since then had no interest in rugby or Leaguies, apart from A...

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Two shit teams having an off day, overseen by yet another wanna-be dictator of a TMO.

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They need super rugby rules. TMOs have done their best to fudge both the games this evening.

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Who’s our defence coach??

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Enzedder wrote: ↑Wed Jun 25, 2025 12:27 am
Grandpa wrote: ↑Tue Jun 24, 2025 10:55 pm Amateur Auckland drew with Boca Juniors!
Commendable, but I do wonder if Boca were in a "Don't give a fudge" mode given that they were already out.

Even so, a pretty big result for a team of amateurs.

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