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by Wilderbeast
Sun Jul 13, 2025 1:44 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: All Blacks V France B 2nd Test Match Thread.
Replies: 648
Views: 10533

Re: All Blacks V France B 2nd Test Match Thread.

I don’t like mo at ten, and that’s mainly due to the casual disregard he is showing nz rugby and the all blacks. If he makes himself available after the Japanese contract ends, I reckon any previous all blacks coach would tell him to fudge himself. Robertson though? I don’t know. He clearly wanted h...
by Wilderbeast
Sun Jul 13, 2025 1:05 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: All Blacks 2025
Replies: 8227
Views: 484322

Re: All Blacks 2025

xhooker wrote: Sun Jul 13, 2025 12:24 am Why is the 4th-best Lock Captain of the All Blacks?
Is this based on 1-2 games against a sub-strength French team?
by Wilderbeast
Sat Jul 12, 2025 10:58 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: All Blacks V France B 2nd Test Match Thread.
Replies: 648
Views: 10533

Re: All Blacks V France B 2nd Test Match Thread.

BB is clearly kicking according to a defined gameplan and he wasn’t the only one. It’s surprising how often people are bringing this up as a criticism. If you want to criticise him, criticise the accuracy of his kicks, not the frequency.
by Wilderbeast
Thu Jul 10, 2025 5:18 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: All Blacks V France B 2nd Test Match Thread.
Replies: 648
Views: 10533

Re: All Blacks V France B 2nd Test Match Thread.

It’s not as important as you all think if we are targeting the next rwc. Far more important to get the current gen’s comfortable in whatever new system Robertson is introducing.
by Wilderbeast
Thu Jul 10, 2025 3:27 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: All Blacks V France B 2nd Test Match Thread.
Replies: 648
Views: 10533

Re: All Blacks V France B 2nd Test Match Thread.

What year is mounga eligible for selection? Is it 2026 or 2027?
by Wilderbeast
Sun Jul 06, 2025 9:09 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: ALL BLACKS V France C 1st Test. Match Thread.. Theo will be in attendance
Replies: 772
Views: 11958

Re: ALL BLACKS V France C 1st Test. Match Thread.. Theo will be in attendance

jdogscoop wrote: Sun Jul 06, 2025 6:40 am
Wilderbeast wrote: Sun Jul 06, 2025 6:14 am
jdogscoop wrote: Sat Jul 05, 2025 11:52 pm It's bloody lucky we won. A cursory glance around the forum shows how much the "neutrals" would have been dining out on the result if we'd lost.
Did we watch the same game?
I presume so. You may be taking my comments a little too literally though. Note the rest of my post.
:thumbup:
by Wilderbeast
Sun Jul 06, 2025 6:14 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: ALL BLACKS V France C 1st Test. Match Thread.. Theo will be in attendance
Replies: 772
Views: 11958

Re: ALL BLACKS V France C 1st Test. Match Thread.. Theo will be in attendance

jdogscoop wrote: Sat Jul 05, 2025 11:52 pm It's bloody lucky we won. A cursory glance around the forum shows how much the "neutrals" would have been dining out on the result if we'd lost.
Did we watch the same game?
by Wilderbeast
Sat Jul 05, 2025 10:15 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: ALL BLACKS V France C 1st Test. Match Thread.. Theo will be in attendance
Replies: 772
Views: 11958

Re: ALL BLACKS V France C 1st Test. Match Thread.. Theo will be in attendance

I don’t rate Reece much but one thing he does well is chase kicks. We seriously missed that last night. It frustrates me as it’s something that should be a winger's bread and butter and I shouldn’t be praising anyone for it. It should be expected.
by Wilderbeast
Sat Jul 05, 2025 9:24 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: IT'S TIME TO PICK ON Rieko AGAIN.
Replies: 683
Views: 56052

Re: IT'S TIME TO PICK ON Rieko AGAIN.

booji boy wrote: Sat Jul 05, 2025 9:11 pm
True Blue wrote: Sat Jul 05, 2025 9:08 pm
booji boy wrote: Sat Jul 05, 2025 9:04 pm

If they drop him and Beauden Barrett and with Akira already plying his trade offshore what would you have left to post about?
They'll probably blame the Auckland physio
The AB's have an Auckland physio? :shock:
This explains everything.
by Wilderbeast
Sat Jul 05, 2025 11:28 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: ALL BLACKS V France C 1st Test. Match Thread.. Theo will be in attendance
Replies: 772
Views: 11958

Re: ALL BLACKS V France C 1st Test. Match Thread.. Theo will be in attendance

Typically untidy first test of the year. If we’re that bad again next week I’ll worry, but no stress for now. We did well to adjust our game in the last 15 and hold on, a Fozzie team loses this one by playing the same way all test and turning down that three. The big positive is Holland. A revelati...
by Wilderbeast
Thu Jul 03, 2025 9:00 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: ALL BLACKS V France C 1st Test. Match Thread.. Theo will be in attendance
Replies: 772
Views: 11958

Re: ALL BLACKS V France C 1st Test. Match Thread.. Theo will be in attendance

Is Beauden now higher on the 10 pecking order than McKenzie ? Will he make the squad up to the next RWC or are you getting Richie back ? Ritchie will be back with Love elevated . I dunno, he will be coming into the team cold in World Cup year won’t he? Not many coaches would pick from that but we k...
by Wilderbeast
Mon Jun 23, 2025 1:35 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: All Blacks 2025
Replies: 8227
Views: 484322

Re: All Blacks 2025

Crusaders players that Scott Robertson could conceivably have selected, but didn't: - George Bower - George Bell - Ioane Moananu - Ethan Blackadder - Christian Lio-Willie - Rivez Reihana - David Havili - Braydon Ennor - Chay Fihaki Everyone satisfied? Will that be the end of that narrative? The fac...
by Wilderbeast
Tue Apr 01, 2025 10:39 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: All Blacks 2025
Replies: 8227
Views: 484322

Re: All Blacks 2025

Having Mo’unga, DMac, BB as options at 10 in 2027 isn’t bad. But what happens if we have a situation like 2011 again, when Carter, Slade and Cruden all got crocked? One of the young 10s needs to be given significant time in the squad before then. What if we develop two more 10s but all five get inj...
by Wilderbeast
Wed Jan 29, 2025 7:39 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: The state of the NZRU..
Replies: 643
Views: 85872

Re: The state of the NZRU..

An interesting opinion piece about ways NZR could better promote the game of Rugby and especially increase the interest of youths. https://sportnation.nz/article/as-i-see-it-three-quick-fixes-to-reignite-new-zealands-passion-for-rugby?fbclid=IwY2xjawIGV1pleHRuA2FlbQIxMAABHRNjlFUXq_viftQVEg0SoqgHyMn...
by Wilderbeast
Sat Jan 25, 2025 12:04 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: RMo says get st***ed
Replies: 142
Views: 7528

Re: RMo says get st***ed

Well this thread has taken an entertaining turn the last page or two. From plain old Mounga trolling we've now widened the scope to Sevu Reece, Frizzell, Akira Ioane, Foster, Cane and Ryan. :lol: :thumbup: Did i leave anyone out? BB made an appearance a few post up from this one. A failed attempt, ...
by Wilderbeast
Fri Jan 24, 2025 12:37 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: RMo says get st***ed
Replies: 142
Views: 7528

Re: RMo says get st***ed

BB was always the better 10, this confirms it.
by Wilderbeast
Tue Dec 17, 2024 2:38 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Test Cricket - England tour of NZ
Replies: 504
Views: 16222

Re: Test Cricket - England tour of NZ

Ali's Choice wrote: Tue Dec 17, 2024 12:31 am
TEDS wrote: Tue Dec 17, 2024 12:21 am Unfortunately we have to wait 6 months before we get to try any of this because Stead wouldn't give it a go in a dead and meaningless test
Stead doesn't decide how many tests we play.

Btw, I don't think any test is meaningless.
Correct, no test is meaningless.
by Wilderbeast
Tue Dec 17, 2024 2:37 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Test Cricket - England tour of NZ
Replies: 504
Views: 16222

Re: Test Cricket - England tour of NZ

jambanja wrote: Mon Dec 16, 2024 6:33 am What the fuck are the Black Caps doing, why aren’t England batting yet, this is ridiculous
This England team is never batting 2 days for a draw.
by Wilderbeast
Wed Dec 11, 2024 5:53 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: All Blacks 2025
Replies: 8227
Views: 484322

Re: All Blacks 2025

Says he wants to coach England, France, or Ireland - but definitely not Wales :lol: It would be a dereliction of duties if Razor didn't at least extend the invite and see if he was interested. I assume he probably wouldn't accept, but you've got to at least ask. They clearly have a pre-existing rel...
by Wilderbeast
Tue Dec 10, 2024 7:44 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Are the French the most arrogant fans in the world?
Replies: 212
Views: 11738

Re: Are the French the most arrogant fans in the world?

Top14 has a finals format right? Don’t they get 80k crowds for that?
by Wilderbeast
Sat Dec 07, 2024 10:16 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: All Blacks 2025
Replies: 8227
Views: 484322

Re: All Blacks 2024

Best comment in this entire thread. Read it and weep Ali's Choice and Mr Brownstone. Except it's based on revisionism and with the benefit of hindsight. At the end of the SR season, no-one was calling for Sititi to be our starting All Black no.6. Even the most loathsome of Chiefs trolls weren't cal...
by Wilderbeast
Sat Dec 07, 2024 7:37 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Spotify Unwrapped - 2024
Replies: 94
Views: 4455

Re: Spotify Unwrapped - 2024

Bands 1. Queensryche 2. Queens of the Stone Age 3. Taylor swift 4. Noel Gallagher 5. Beyoncé Top 5 songs all from operation mindcrime. I discovered queensryche this year and loved them, thrashing multiple albums but none quite like operation mindcrime. I’m a fan of everything on the list but Taylor ...
by Wilderbeast
Fri Dec 06, 2024 12:07 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: What's your Unpopular Music Opinion?
Replies: 377
Views: 13119

Re: What's your Unpopular Music Opinion?

I love Metallica, but their discography is so much weaker than it should be given their status.
by Wilderbeast
Fri Dec 06, 2024 12:03 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: All Blacks 2025
Replies: 8227
Views: 484322

Re: All Blacks 2024

There you go... sounds like he just felt like there were three ahead of him... fair enough. He was probably right... https://www.nzherald.co.nz/sport/harry-plummer-reveals-reasons-for-leaving-new-zealand-rugby-next-year/2P7N4AMMDZCQXD5F2AKJVI4XZI/ Three ahead of him yet one of them isn't even eligi...
by Wilderbeast
Tue Dec 03, 2024 6:13 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Sevu Reece in deep shit
Replies: 206
Views: 9129

Re: Sevu Reece in deep shit

Why are we picking this guy? Wasn’t MacDonald against it? Was he? I don't remember reading any suggestion of this; got a source? There is no source. It was a ridiculous idea dreamt up by a North Island based troll in the Razor Out thread. That McDonald was fired because he took a noble, moral stand...
by Wilderbeast
Tue Dec 03, 2024 4:20 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Sevu Reece in deep shit
Replies: 206
Views: 9129

Re: Sevu Reece in deep shit

Why are we picking this guy? Wasn’t MacDonald against it?
by Wilderbeast
Sun Dec 01, 2024 8:44 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: What's your Unpopular Music Opinion?
Replies: 377
Views: 13119

Re: What's your Unpopular Music Opinion?

Short Man Syndrome wrote: Sun Dec 01, 2024 8:14 am Dave was always the best guitarist in Megadeth.
That’s quite a take, and I rate Mustaine.
by Wilderbeast
Sat Nov 30, 2024 10:07 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: All Blacks 2025
Replies: 8227
Views: 484322

Re: All Blacks 2024

And the Heralds' team of the year. https://archive.ph/z1WOI Two things stand out to me I truly think the media made so much noise about Jordan being a fullback all year that they had their puff pieces written already before any games were played. He hasn’t set the world alight, and his best tests h...
by Wilderbeast
Sat Nov 30, 2024 9:46 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: All Blacks 2025
Replies: 8227
Views: 484322

Re: All Blacks 2024

And the Heralds' team of the year. https://archive.ph/z1WOI Two things stand out to me I truly think the media made so much noise about Jordan being a fullback all year that they had their puff pieces written already before any games were played. He hasn’t set the world alight, and his best tests h...
by Wilderbeast
Sat Nov 30, 2024 6:33 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: All Blacks 2025
Replies: 8227
Views: 484322

Re: All Blacks 2024

I am quite happy with Robertson’s job to date. I just don’t want to move away from how we currently manage overseas based players.
by Wilderbeast
Sat Nov 30, 2024 6:31 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Has Dupont been underachieving in term of trophies with France XV considering his individual quality?
Replies: 121
Views: 5241

Re: Has Dupont been underachieving in term of trophies with France XV considering his individual quality?

This thread is an interesting example of people listing achievements (awards and trophies) vs how well they actually played and how long they were considered number one. It’s interesting how the SH view DuPont as well. We simply don’t see him as often as NH viewers do, and I understand that’s mainl...
by Wilderbeast
Sat Nov 30, 2024 5:42 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Test Cricket - England tour of NZ
Replies: 504
Views: 16222

Re: Test Cricket - England tour of NZ

not_english wrote: Fri Nov 29, 2024 11:20 pm Not watched NZ cricket for a while, but good God these commentators are awful.
Who is it? And why are they terrible?
by Wilderbeast
Sat Nov 30, 2024 5:40 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: All Blacks 2025
Replies: 8227
Views: 484322

Re: All Blacks 2024

Of course we all know it’s really only about Richie Mo’unga. That’s been transparently obvious from the start. Mr B’s claims that being able to call on Isaac Ross, Richard Kahui and Chase Tiatia would remedy All Black issues were a silly smokescreen we all saw through from the get-go. It’s pretty o...
by Wilderbeast
Sat Nov 30, 2024 5:38 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Has Dupont been underachieving in term of trophies with France XV considering his individual quality?
Replies: 121
Views: 5241

Re: Has Dupont been underachieving in term of trophies with France XV considering his individual quality?

This thread is an interesting example of people listing achievements (awards and trophies) vs how well they actually played and how long they were considered number one. It’s interesting how the SH view DuPont as well. We simply don’t see him as often as NH viewers do, and I understand that’s mainly...
by Wilderbeast
Sat Nov 30, 2024 5:09 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: All Blacks 2025
Replies: 8227
Views: 484322

Re: All Blacks 2024

Roberston seems to have been driven in a quest for immediate results without considering the future. Players like Lakai, Love, Kirifi, Proctor, Lam, Holland... et al should all been developed further - yet were passed over to give "reward" to players at the end of their careers. Robertson's fundame...
by Wilderbeast
Fri Nov 29, 2024 12:57 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: All Blacks 2025
Replies: 8227
Views: 484322

Re: All Blacks 2024

I can see the allure of a huge pay check in signing for three seasons. But RMo still could have made a fair bit—and not taken himself out of the NZ picture for so long—by just taking a sabbatical or compromising and just signing up for two years. As AC has already pointed out, these top ABs aren’t ...
by Wilderbeast
Thu Nov 28, 2024 6:22 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: All Blacks 2025
Replies: 8227
Views: 484322

Re: All Blacks 2024

I believe Mo’unga made a bad call to sign up for three years in Japan. Putting aside the whole AB selection debate. It was a silly call for him and his family. Watching the podcast interview with him it’s clear that while there are things about Japan he enjoys (he claims at one stage that he and hi...
by Wilderbeast
Thu Nov 28, 2024 1:45 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: All Blacks 2025
Replies: 8227
Views: 484322

Re: All Blacks 2024

Yeah that's a massive, overlooked factor. It's a lot, lot easier to turn down a massive overseas contract if you were born into a comfortable/affluent/privileged family and are already earning good money in NZ. Maybe you already have a cushy-post rugby career set up in the media/coaching and you'll...
by Wilderbeast
Thu Nov 28, 2024 12:25 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: What's your unpopular film opinion?
Replies: 539
Views: 19481

Re: What's your unpopular film opinion?

Star Wars. The originals is the most overrated trilogy in Cinema history, and the others are either mildless dross or actual human excrement. It's not actually sci fi, yet is somehow the poster child for it. How is it not sci fi? It's space fantasy. There is nothing science about it, everything run...
by Wilderbeast
Wed Nov 27, 2024 11:50 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: What's your unpopular film opinion?
Replies: 539
Views: 19481

Re: What's your unpopular film opinion?

Zakar wrote: Wed Nov 27, 2024 8:37 pm Star Wars. The originals is the most overrated trilogy in Cinema history, and the others are either mildless dross or actual human excrement.

It's not actually sci fi, yet is somehow the poster child for it.
How is it not sci fi?