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Mr Mike wrote: ↑Fri Jul 18, 2025 1:13 pm
Duff Paddy wrote: ↑Fri Jul 18, 2025 1:11 pm
Mr Mike wrote: ↑Fri Jul 18, 2025 11:20 am Great for a night out with the wife or girlfriend?
Why not both?
That’s a bold strategy…

Indeed. He will need to report to the Head of HR on Monday

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Scotland a class above this messy Samoan side from this correspondent who was pitchside. Fair play to Samoa who were bigger, fatter, slower and less coordinated, but they never gave up and were rewarded for their endeavour. The score was a fair reflection. Noisy crowd jdawg. It would’ve been bedlam...

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Actually there are a few amateurs from Samoan club rugby as well. New coach has a KPI to give some locals a go Admirable but that approach is never going to work against professional teams. There’s a method to this madness. They’re trying to get promising players from the HPU in front of the eyes o...

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Scotland 41-12 Samoa - FT

Excellent 60mins from the Scots. Dobie outstanding. Samoa reserves helped keep the score down once all those useless newbies were hooked.

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I really rate Iona. He shouldn’t have been dropped for Sopoaga at the World Cup.

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Good to see some of those newbies hooked for actual pro players

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This crowd is outstanding I must say

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Samoa are appalling, is this close to their strongest team? :lol: Nowhere near. There are amateur players in this team plucked out of Sydney club rugby mixing it with pros from all over the world. A consequence of the tragic governance issues and financial 'mismanagement' of the Samoan Union? It’s ...

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Actually there are a few amateurs from Samoan club rugby as well. New coach has a KPI to give some locals a go

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Dobie is man of the match — even this far out. 4th try scored (Steyn). It’s getting ugly here. They’re going to hit 60 at this rate 22-0 Scotland Samoa are appalling, is this close to their strongest team? :lol: Nowhere near. There are amateur players in this team plucked out of Sydney club rugby m...

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Dobie is man of the match — even this far out. 4th try scored (Steyn). It’s getting ugly here. They’re going to hit 60 at this rate

22-0 Scotland

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Scrums really getting taken to the cleaners. Scotland feasting off the possession 17-0 - three tries to nil

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Samoan scrums getting demolished

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Matavao is a terrible halfback

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Scots ir hae

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I thought that welsh flanker, Morgan, should’ve been there somewhere on the bench. I'm surprised he isn't starting TBH. One area I think the Lions haven't been great so far is turning over ball at the breakdown. They have struggled a bit more against teams with a specialist 7 and BOK is the type of...

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I thought that welsh flanker, Morgan, should’ve been there somewhere on the bench.

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mrbrownstone wrote: ↑Thu Jul 17, 2025 10:11 am Some reasonably famous surnames, in that Samoan team…

Just saw David Tua’s son is in there!

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Lions by 30

Oz need a miracle

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Tehui wrote: ↑Thu Jul 17, 2025 11:53 am
Magpie26 wrote: ↑Thu Jul 17, 2025 10:03 am Niko Jones on debut.

Poaching Samoan's
Ah, I had wondered what happened to him. He was obviously lured ashore by the promise of big bucks.

Good luck Samoa.

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What kind of crowd are they expecting for this? Will Samoa in Rugby have the same sort of effect as the Samoa and Tonga League teams where big crowds from the diaspora turn out? I can see why people would want this match in Apia but these matches done well could be a big boost even in NZ. Rugby sho...

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Good scouting opportunity for MLR and Pro D2 clubs, but I fear Samoa will be up against it between missing players and a lack of cohesion from no prior tests. Anyone know what Samoa's preparation has been like? They’ve been in camp in Auckland for about ten days doing a bit of community engagement ...

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He's always seemed like a pretty decent guy to me. Treats people with respect and seems pretty grateful for what he has. Just seems weird to hate on that guy when we've had the likes of Seal Slayer Hore, Richard "I've got your eye" Loe, Ali "Malevolent Class Clown" Williams, and thousands of North ...

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Good scouting opportunity for MLR and Pro D2 clubs, but I fear Samoa will be up against it between missing players and a lack of cohesion from no prior tests. Anyone know what Samoa's preparation has been like? They’ve been in camp in Auckland for about ten days doing a bit of community engagement ...

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Why are they playing at EP? Depending on who you ask, it’s because Apia Park is about to undergo major renovations or it is something to do with the lights being out following the major power blackouts across Upolu earlier this year. Summary: Scotland are obviously a bunch of second stringers as th...

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Yeah I saw it again this morning and the best you could say for Gallen is a draw if you’re being charitable. However, the more I look at it the more I think SBW won that on points. There’s also the “look at his battered face” way of deciding things and if we go to that, then SBW won hands down. Anyw...

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Well i thought SBW won the big shots but draw was the better result. How the hell Gallen got the win I don’t know. Rematch! This time with 3min rounds

Disclaimer: A friend watched certain free but dodgy streams online

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Ioane Yo-ah-ne The kiwis of this parish might be familiar with the Maori “neho” and “Hoani/Hoane”. South Africans might be familiar with “Johanes”. Yo - as in Yaw or “Jo” in Johanes Ah - as in ahh Ne - as in the ‘ne’ in ‘neho’ Fun facts Ioane (Samoan) / Soane (Tongan) / Hoani/Hoane (Maori) mean the...

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You’ll need to convince the French that the Lions are more important than the T14 and that ain’t going to happen

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Everyone in those 2011 and 2015 World Cup squads deserves free (beverage of choice) for the rest of their lives. I’ll go to my grave smiling because of them

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Like I said one of those other threads, on trips back home I expected the Warriors hype to be off the charts, but when I was in Auckland it wasn't that prevalent. Yes, there's big media hype, but that's down to a bunch of disaffected jounros and media personalities (Paul, Devlin) who death ride rug...

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Magpie26 wrote: ↑Tue Jul 15, 2025 12:01 pm Well the introduction of the u20 RC seems to be paying off.
1st all SH final since 2012 and 3 of the 4 semi finalists from the competition.

Absolutely.

Some good matches too in South Africa. Hopefully NZ hosts it next year

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Black Ferns XV Tour of South Africa Black Ferns XV Head Coach Willie Walker has announced a 28-strong squad to travel to South Africa for two matches against the Springbok Women’s team in Cape Town. The two fixtures will both be played at the 34,000-seat Athlone Stadium in Cape Town on 26 July and 2...

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Ruby Tui not in. Big indicator she’s got one foot in the World Cup squad. Mererangi Paul on the outer. Amazing that Hannah King is on the outer here after a year of essentially becoming first choice first five. Now she might not even make the World Cup squad. Brazier appears to have the inside runni...

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The NRL is really popular in the places it’s played - e.g. the Warriors are much bigger than the Auckland Blues. :lol: BS! Yeah ok the Wahs get the crowds when they’re on a good run but they’ve never filled Eden Park. A soldout crowd at Mt Smart is half the crowd size of Eden Park. They had a chanc...

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The concept is a pipe dream as it’ll never be at full strength and never be fully prepared. It would’ve been a far better spectacle if they’d played Fiji in Suva (or even in Australia).

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I liked SBW the Stan sports guy. Had genuine passion but clearly had a bias for his mates like that guy from Tokoroa. His meltdown over Eddie Jones was quite funny. Was quite limited as a rugby player but still quite useful - especially in the World Cup final. As for this boxing thing, there’s no w...

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I want to see Rassie’s lineout in general play at every second phase

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Grandpa wrote: ↑Tue Jul 15, 2025 12:34 pm The leaked backline.

9. Ratima
10. Dmac
11. Ioane
12. Tupaea
13. ALB
14. Reece
15. Love

Bench
21. Hotham
22. Tavatavanawai
23. B.Barrett

Reece? I thought he was out for a while? Prefer to see another week of Narawa

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I think this test should’ve gone to Whangarei. At the very least, the bay of islands isn’t too far away from there and it’s a rare opportunity to bring a top test team to the great Okara Park.

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