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Brian Moore has the plan https://www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/31fd2149d597dc73 England should beat New Zealand and this is how Steve Borthwick’s team must not make the mistake of being subdued by the mystique surrounding the All Blacks Wish I could be paid to write articles like this.... he doesn't eve...

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Akkerman wrote: ↑Sun Nov 09, 2025 5:40 pm how did superstar chay fihaki go ?

Don't think he played?

Oh he did... I didn't see him in the highlights...

Some interesting info on one of former tech teams Ld’In. Copied in some interesting insights. I can delete this if necessary. What I take from this is that Planet Sports are transitioning their company sports websites & forums from old technology infrastructure to new modern Cloud based infrastruct...

I am paraphrasing. Perhaps losing to England would be bad, but losing to Scotland would be worse might be a better way of putting it. Public perception it might be worse... but to the players losing to England is worse than anything else in rugby as Andrew Mehrtens once said. Losing full stop is th...

How do they know the All Black players? That's quite a coup getting tickets off them! There are quite a few young Scots go over to work and play in NZ and vice versa. There are also a couple of personal links I'll not mention as it becomes obvious who the individuals are. Sorry to be oblique, but I...

I think Jake has been asked.. but nothing seemed to happen. They don't care.

Grandpa, this is the non locked down LinkedIn profile for Plant Sports Group. https://uk.linkedin.com/company/planetsportgroup The CTO’s name one of the first you see. This is their website https://group.planetsport.com/meet-our-team , listing CTO and his team of software engineers (you need to scr...

I queried AI.. how would one identify if a unique plugin (maybe culprit plugin) has been installed on the Planet Rugby forum in the past few months. Might you be able to run a check against point 1 below (which AI suggested) ? There are no plug-ins that I can see. Ok, good that you were able to che...

I am paraphrasing. Perhaps losing to England would be bad, but losing to Scotland would be worse might be a better way of putting it. Public perception it might be worse... but to the players losing to England is worse than anything else in rugby as Andrew Mehrtens once said. If you go back to my o...

Scotland were in the AB's 22 more often than the AB's were in theirs. Scotland were over the AB's line more often that the AB's were over theirs. Scotland's achille's heel remains their inability to convert chances into tries. Even more so, the inability of their forwards to score. The Scottish bac...

I see the Israeli 'right to rape' thing is back in the news. After the public outcry at trying to charge the rapists...The judge who leaked the video has been arrested and was, this morning, transfered to hospital after an apparent suicide attempt. https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.timesofisrael.com...

Scotland were in the AB's 22 more often than the AB's were in theirs. Scotland were over the AB's line more often that the AB's were over theirs. Scotland's achille's heel remains their inability to convert chances into tries. Even more so, the inability of their forwards to score. The Scottish bac...

Ok, now for a bit of overhead action. Looks a lot like Lood is significantly impacted by copping a ball in the face. He really does appear to flinch away from the ball and that makes a significant change to his angle of attack. https://i.ibb.co/tPKQwsnL/20251109-080357.jpg https://i.ibb.co/x8KzzwjK...

Arsenal usually my next favourite team out of rhe big 6 and don't mind them winning (unless it at the expense of Liverpool). Not fond of social media fans they have thought but long term fans ok. Yes they will be lot more silent on my Facebook feed at the moment. City looked as sharp as they ever b...

I queried AI.. how would one identify if a unique plugin (maybe culprit plugin) has been installed on the Planet Rugby forum in the past few months. Might you be able to run a check against point 1 below (which AI suggested) ? Here's what the forum administrator needs to check internally: 💡 What th...

:thumbup: Of the big 6 clubs they the most lifeless at the moment. There will be no excuses against Forrest and Westham, if they lifeless against them then we will start hearing Slot Out a lot more... 2 horse race now between Arsenal and City (i favour them) and they both have +15 goals and Liverpo...

Aye wrote: ↑Sun Nov 09, 2025 8:50 pm Here again is the technical email AI drafted yesterday.

Thanks for your help. Email sent.... let's hope someone has the conscience to reply.

I just couldn't get over the lack of energy compared to the last game where they were buzzing. They looked lethargic. Yet had more rest than City. I think Roy Keane is right. They have become mentally lazy or complacent after winning the league last year. :thumbup: Of the big 6 clubs they the most ...

To be fair, how can you be expected to compete when you only spend half a billion quid to improve your title winning squad? Said at the time it was a mistake, they needed to replace players who died or left, sure... but I'd rather re-build with young potential.. build some depth.... like they usual...

I just couldn't get over the lack of energy compared to the last game where they were buzzing. They looked lethargic. Yet had more rest than City.

I think Roy Keane is right. They have become mentally lazy or complacent after winning the league last year.

Can you ask who the techs are?

I have no way of contacting anyone connected with the technical side.

I cannot believe that the smaller nations aren't making more of a fuss about it. It's stacking the deck. Strongly favours Boks, England, France and to an extent, NZ. Huge advantage to those with existing playing depth , which makes it harder for those who lack it,.to bridge the gap. It takes an une...

Was looking at the last time the 2 teams met in 2022 where the score was also an 8 point win. Very similar storyline, ABs got off to a great start, Scotland came back all guns firing and took a good 9 point lead only to have shot their bolt and the ABs dominated the later part of the game to take t...

How many players do you need to have a quality team of 23? 100,000? So you think Norfolk island should have the same quality 23 as South Africa? You are now just stupid. Italy and Scotland have 2 professional trams and they compete with the All Blacks and Wallabies. I had to dumb things down so you...

OupaStruisbaai wrote: ↑Sun Nov 09, 2025 2:23 pm Bomb squad mean you need to put the best players on the bench. Thats all. We see this on school level in South Africa. If professional coaches dont get it,

You still missing the point...

The point being it makes it even harder for small nations to compete as they lack the depth...

OupaStruisbaai wrote: ↑Sun Nov 09, 2025 2:19 pm
Grandpa wrote: ↑Sun Nov 09, 2025 2:14 pm
OupaStruisbaai wrote: ↑Sun Nov 09, 2025 12:58 pm Its 23 players, the smaller nations have more then 23 players.
But not all of similar high quality... that's the point.
How many players do you need to have a quality team of 23?

100,000?

So you think Norfolk island should have the same quality 23 as South Africa?

OupaStruisbaai wrote: ↑Sun Nov 09, 2025 12:58 pm Its 23 players, the smaller nations have more then 23 players.

But not all of similar high quality... that's the point.

Could well be all or some of those things... I wish I had a way of checking...

Anybody else here find this Forum is taking an age (like minutes) to open, and to function when it does open? eg press 'Post Reply' and it takes 30 seconds for the reply box to open. the login is worse; it takes about 5 minutes to go through. We use an AI filter now... the speed of opening correlat...

Thanks for the info Aye... Not a lot I can do with it... The problem is there are no technical people looking after the site... and us admins have restricted access to the back end... There are not 5.3 million posts any more either.. I deleted half of them... There is an upgrade - A new feature rele...

As in life, music and pop culture so in rugby. The 90's were the peak of civilisation. Despite those dastardly Aussies winning 2 RWC's and Suzie having her wicked way with the AB's digestive tracts, the rugby as a whole was fantastic. Bridged the amateur/pro era and matches were scarce enough to me...

Just off the top of my head for those saying "prove it", try looking at 5.40, 12.28 and 52.50 of the match. So thought I would check these... 5.40.. Nope. He had his man 15 covered. 11 was Clarke's man. 12.28.. Again... not his man but he made an attempt to go for him anyway. 52.50.. Probably the o...

Big call time - Will Jordan shouldn't be going to the next world cup unless he improves his ability under the high ball. I vote to gradually Rokocoko him out of the team. I'd put Jordan back on the wing.. but we do need a fullback who isn't gun shy with catching high balls... the thing is.. who is ...

As in life, music and pop culture so in rugby. The 90's were the peak of civilisation. Despite those dastardly Aussies winning 2 RWC's and Suzie having her wicked way with the AB's digestive tracts, the rugby as a whole was fantastic. Bridged the amateur/pro era and matches were scarce enough to me...

Scotland is in the middle of its golden generation at the moment so I don't discount the quality of opposition in this match. However, the All Blacks are extremely inconsistent and mix the very good with the very bad. As everyone has said, DMac saved their bacon. Faingaguku - good on attack, not ve...

13. Leicester Fainga’anuku: Showed all his danger from his very first touch with a nice offload, then had a classic power run but had the ball stripped, and also knocked on trying to catch a pop pass. Spent final quarter of an hour on wing and while couldn’t break through a tackle, offloaded crucia...

Strange score for Roigard, he was easily our best back out there... and close to MOTM. Beaudan Barrett probably played the worst game I have ever seen him play. He didn't look compos mentos for most of the match. I am sure he's still suffering from last week... Need to combine first half this week w...

Luke Jacobson failed his HIA so probably tour over?

Wales better not be a decent team!

England will be...

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