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You do know that SARU had to pay a lot of money to be part of the URC? They are now only full partners. So their strategy worked out? Good for them but don’t cry about it. We dont cry about it. Soup is dead to us. The cry come from NZ. You were the one that posted an article about the SARU presiden...

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But even then isn't that going to encourage top players to leave? At the moment only Mounga who would still be picked is overseas.. and he's coming back... so why encourage more top players to leave? I don't understand the thinking... as I said.. if we have players like Ardie, Jordan and Roigard go...

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https://www.planetrugby.com/news/south-africa-new-zealand-rugby-threw-saru-under-the-bus-says-president-mark-alexander Sounds like a way to sanitise SARU leaving Super Rugby for South African audiences. Super Rugby Trans Tasman was barely feasible as it was, even with two countries that were very m...

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He was the president. In business the CEO take that punishment for bad decisions. Vok, he could just made a phone call to his partner. Is that to difficult? How could it have been stopped? Robinson to re-open NZ and Australia airspace? Don't forget... no trans-Tasman competition had been set up at ...

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Crusaders fans, you know Razor as well as anyone. Can you see the direction/plan he is heading? How does this period with the All Blacks compare with his time with the Crusaders? Can you see Crusaders patterns emerging? Is he doing as best anyone could do in the circumstances (aside from the overse...

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Probably true, but national pride doesn't feed your family . Anyway, that ship has sailed, what can we do now? - Promote the game better at junior level to increase player numbers. - Decide once and for all between Super Rugby and NPC, we can't afford both. - Never make the ABs unavailable for our ...

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Crusaders fans, you know Razor as well as anyone. Can you see the direction/plan he is heading? How does this period with the All Blacks compare with his time with the Crusaders? Can you see Crusaders patterns emerging? Is he doing as best anyone could do in the circumstances (aside from the oversea...

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There's a partial truth there, the ABs are weak because - Our player base is shrinking - Our domestic comps are confused and have lost popularity with viewers hence $-- - Player drain - Lack of external (overseas) input and ideas - Overseas teams are better coached and have professional comnpetitio...

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He chuck SA out of Soup. Don't be an idiot, he's only CEO, he does what board tells him too. I not a fan, but let's not make dumb stuff up. There's a partial truth there, the ABs are weak because - Our player base is shrinking - Our domestic comps are confused and have lost popularity with viewers ...

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He'll be almost 39 at the next World Cup... I’m not talking about the cup, I’m talking about right now being down to our 4th choice 9. This naive approach is typical of the eligibility-rules bashers. How would this work? Scott Robertson just gets on the phone to Aaron Smith and says, “We’re down ne...

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Hasn't done them any harm to chase the money. In professional sport, it's the right thing to do. Yeah but the victim complex gets tiring. Agreed, but that is something the Kiwis do very well also. Think poisoning in 95 and Barnes in 07 as prime examples. They also claim to be victims over the South...

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Flankerdownunder wrote: ↑Sun Sep 14, 2025 10:56 pm Hasn't done them any harm to chase the money. In professional sport, it's the right thing to do.

Yeah but the victim complex gets tiring.

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If you allow selection of players from overseas, then more players will go overseas, therefore making you more reliant on overseas players. It’s circular.

Everyone would keep all their players and coach’s if they could but $.

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Segner is a beast at this level.

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Catch the box kicks and have a functioning lineout we probably stay in that game and manage to exert our own pressure which would fatigue the boks Box kick seems to be the default play in NZ rugby for static ball It's the default play in every country. Test Rugby is currently dominated by box kicki...

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Catch the box kicks and have a functioning lineout we probably stay in that game and manage to exert our own pressure which would fatigue the boks Box kick seems to be the default play in NZ rugby for static ball but we also don’t seem to take it that seriously with any sort of coordination or deve...

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We can infer that Razor rates Cotter as the best coach in Super Rugby. After all, Cotter won a championship (by a big margin) without any starting All Blacks at all. He really is a miracle worker. Perhaps he could be brought in as head coach with his own choice of assistants and Razor could be a “D...

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I think they cancelled NPC this year.

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We can infer that Razor rates Cotter as the best coach in Super Rugby. After all, Cotter won a championship (by a big margin) without any starting All Blacks at all. He really is a miracle worker. Perhaps he could be brought in as head coach with his own choice of assistants and Razor could be a “D...

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Eugenius wrote: ↑Sat Sep 13, 2025 11:01 pm No team goes through that lot .

Like I said, admitting defeat before the ball’s even kicked off.

If you can’t go through “that lot” you must become “that lot”.

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We can infer that Razor rates Cotter as the best coach in Super Rugby. After all, Cotter won a championship (by a big margin) without any starting All Blacks at all. He really is a miracle worker. Perhaps he could be brought in as head coach with his own choice of assistants and Razor could be a “Di...

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OupaStruisbaai wrote: ↑Sat Sep 13, 2025 10:17 pm The Springboks had no Willie, no Mampimpi, no Kriel, no Ellende, no Pollard, no Mostert, no Etsebeth, no Malherbe, no Bongi today.

And they looked a lot fresher for it.

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Maybe we need a “medical” staffer with a headset coaching the halfback for five minutes mid game.

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mrbrownstone wrote: ↑Sat Sep 13, 2025 11:38 am Dare I say it…..too few Blues?

Nah. Just completely ignore like 1/3 of the country, she’ll be right.

In saying that, having Christie and Beauden pinned in their own half for most of a match felt very familiar as a Blues supporter.

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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? Box kicks...

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If that pass from Ardie to the winger at the start of the second half didn't go forward.. and NZ score... I think we see a totally different game... the Boks scored straight after... and then you could just see the Bok confidence grow.. and NZ's drop... This All Black team seems mentally fragile wh...

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Y’know what’s most disgraceful?

Rieko didn’t even pass once in that match.

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Can the Caketin be demoed in the morning please?

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The All Blacks wont consistently beat the Boks and the other first choice packs until we can go through them. Making game plans to go wide and run around the rush defence is like admitting defeat before kick off. Need to change the mentality to head-on.

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I'm very optimistic about our chances in Wellington. The AB's were under immense pressure at Eden Park. All the pressure was on the AB's to retain their 50 test streak of not losing at Eden park, and the Springboks would have targeted this test all year. That pressure has now been lifted. Not only ...

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Embarrassing barely describes it. Congrats Boks. Just no answer and light years ahead. This result is going to cause serious problems for a long time, there’s no bouncing back from that and I can see the All Blacks being utterly terrified of having to face the Boks again for at least a few seasons....

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Perhaps Cotter could join the coaching staff, replace some of the excess coaches. He is after all far and away the best coach in super rugby.

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Congrats South Africa! What a win for the ages, an absolute demolition job.

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What voodoo has Christie done to the other halfbacks?!

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korben_dallas wrote: ↑Sat Sep 13, 2025 12:40 am
Zakar wrote: ↑Sat Sep 13, 2025 12:37 am Do you need help with the word domestic?
Yeah thats Rodney done for a few pages till people forget about these last few

also seems like Trump got over Kirks death fairly quickly

Senile.

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Hes a cooked 4chan kid. Not a repub, democrat, antifa, maga. He jerks of to furry porn. Maybe mentally ill, but certainly cooked. People seem desperate to lock in motivations to blame the other side. He is probably just a little cockhead The US sure does seem to produce a lot of these nihilistic we...

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Hes a cooked 4chan kid. Not a repub, democrat, antifa, maga. He jerks of to furry porn. Maybe mentally ill, but certainly cooked. People seem desperate to lock in motivations to blame the other side. He is probably just a little cockhead The US sure does seem to produce a lot of these nihilistic we...

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Reuben Thorne is a Bledisloe Cup legend and nothing will take that away from him. :thumbup: You have to dig 3 feet to get to the bar you are setting on bledisloe legends How many players captained their side to win back the Bledisloe after a record drought, securing the win in the dying minutes by ...

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Reuben Thorne is a Bledisloe Cup legend and nothing will take that away from him.

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Make Savea captain. Rotate Barrett, Vaai, Holland and Darry as starters, keep Paddy on bench.

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