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Nieghorn

A replacement has been called into the BF squad for AdP who has been invalided out of the World Cup. Media speculation is on Hannah King or Mererangi Paul. The good money is on Hannah King as she’s played as a second-five more often than Paul and she was pulled out of the Canterbury FPC match v Auc...

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Hahaha ... Scotland player thought she'd snaffled a knock-on.

Nieghorn

Do most Canadian girls play in the English premiership? Is that why they are very good? I think it's a few factors... we have probably more schoolgirls playing than most? Lots of raw talent to choose from. Most will play university, which has traditionally been a short season (Sept-Nov) but now the...

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Auckman wrote: ↑Sat Sep 13, 2025 2:52 pm Lolohea is utterly crap at lineout time yet continues to get selected. Another Bunting stupidity

I imagine Connor was the next choice, but from FPC performances Haupapa-Barrett is still confidently doing the basics very well.

Nieghorn

Probably won't matter now, but give someone else the tee ffs.

Nieghorn

Happy to be proven wrong but Bunting has never come across as a great coaching innovator in the three years he's been there. He and his mediocre assistants are a huge step down from wayne smith and ted in 2021 but I guess everyone coming after them were always going to be a big step down. My stream...

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Ross Tucker talking about women's development for the have-nots. Starts at about 53:40: https://shows.acast.com/realscienceofsport/episodes/tokyo-teasers-womens-rugby-risks-and-doping-double-standards As much as some here in Canada will drop an excuse that we don't have the financial advantages of ...

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Ross Tucker talking about women's development for the have-nots. Starts at about 53:40: https://shows.acast.com/realscienceofsport/episodes/tokyo-teasers-womens-rugby-risks-and-doping-double-standards As much as some here in Canada will drop an excuse that we don't have the financial advantages of E...

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Canada are the embodiment of heads up rugby. Great to watch. After years of being critical of their pick-and-go / kick for the lineout style, it's so nice to see the change (French influence!). I'd argue it's made them better than their individual parts, too. Don't quite have the forwards of Englan...

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Saint wrote: ↑Fri Aug 29, 2025 10:27 pm
freddie111 wrote: ↑Fri Aug 29, 2025 10:26 pm Need more Dina Meyer
Wrong thread. Where is the NSFW these days?

Saw a recent photo of her recently. She looks fabulous! https://www.instagram.com/dinameyer/

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I hope KOB is ok but that injury didn’t look good. She had an excellent season until the injury in July. Kennedy Tukuafu (nee: Simon) will likely feature in the next match. Who flies in, do you reckon? Ask Hirini to do a Stephen Donald? Mia Anderson's been prominent from the highlights I've seen. I...

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Yes Playing some of the Welsh sides and Zebre is not developing players. But, it needs to be a Super 14 type of competition. Lets face it, the only decent teams they get to play are Leinster/Munster and Glasgow at a push. Then about a 1/3 of their squad plays in Japan. Cant be good Majority are Dad...

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obelixtim wrote: ↑Mon Aug 18, 2025 12:22 am
There might be a surprise coming about the "best player in the world".

Signed a big money contract to play NRLW next season?

Nieghorn

That'll weaken England enough to make it a good game.

Nieghorn

Sara Orchard has some odd turns of phrase, but she is lovely, so I turn a blind ear.

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Knoath wrote: ↑Sun Aug 10, 2025 7:02 am
2. We'll take learnings from that...

What irks me more than the business speak / media trained lazy statement that's seemingly overused now. "Learnings"

"We'll take a lesson from that."

Nieghorn

'They need to earn the right to go wide' x( What's wrong with that? Generally speaking, I tend to cringe at a lot of rugby sound bites and lazy bits of analysis, and this one seems to have been around a while, but it might be fairly true for the modern pro game. Defences too good just to sling it w...

Nieghorn

Just watched the France / England match. There is simply no way to stop the English lineout drive. I don't think anyone should even try. It's a waste of time contesting it on the ground. The only way to defend that steam roller is to get both jumpers up. Contest it in the air. If they miss it, they...

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Have Ireland kicked much? I am unsure of our ability to cover it as I don't know if we see it much. The one fullback we have played much of her career as a 10, the other who steps in is from 7s. I can think of moments where Tessier found herself back to receive, probably because she kicked and immed...

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Is there a EQP or UK-resident/citizen quota for the PWR? (Are Irish given a free pass?) Read that Trailfinders have secured yet another foreigner, Georgia Ponsonby from New Zealand. Looks like they have about 12 who aren't UK/Ire, Exeter 16, Saracens with 8-9 Canadians. Interestingly, Gloucester se...

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A bit related to the above posts (salaries, opportunities, etc.) when I was trying to think of other Crusader wingers given the nod (Temanivalu? Faainganuka?) I was surprised to read that Tom Taylor is still playing in Japan. I thought he was pretty good, like a Carter / Mauger light. Good for him f...

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Is there a EQP or UK-resident/citizen quota for the PWR? (Are Irish given a free pass?) Read that Trailfinders have secured yet another foreigner, Georgia Ponsonby from New Zealand. Looks like they have about 12 who aren't UK/Ire, Exeter 16, Saracens with 8-9 Canadians. Interestingly, Gloucester see...

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Always thought he was a bit of a carthorse and was very surprised he was an All Black. Average Crusader wing jogging in tries becomes All Black shocker? https://live-production.wcms.abc-cdn.net.au/d0f2dd70274b438cf05aeb8ada34d4ec?impolicy=wcms_crop_resize&cropH=542&cropW=965&xPos=0&yPos=0&width=862...

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The amount of comments online angrily criticizing Packer's card... this is reckless (shoulder charge into the ruck too) and the Spanish player is lucky to have her knee still in tact. https://www.youtube.com/live/TWWSAXBpCXk?si=kLeZTOOeOalZXrvO&t=5791 De Goede lucky to have seen just yellow as this ...

Nieghorn

Arthur Gould, Dave Gallaher, Ronald Poulton-Palmer, Danie Craven, Gavin Henson (spiky hair era)

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Both... being driven out as you describe or being put in a painful situation. Either way, I agree. Should be "Use it!" You've just won the ball. Or if it's the feeding team, isn't it likely they're using the ball under heaps of pressure? (Scrum destroyed and them killing the ball a different story, ...

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There's two big gripes I have with the way the game is refereed. One is players being awarded a penalty of a jackal even when they win the ball , or for simply being "in a good looking position, albeit not actually managing to properly grab the ball". The second - although tbf it's been a while sin...

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What would improve the game more than anything to do with scrums as they are? Go back to no boosting in lineouts. It's not just the fiddle faddling and boring catch-and-drives (often dodgy, with refs too busy looking for a defensive penalty) that bore me, but milking penalties elsewhere so they can...

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Cheers, gents. :D Looks like I'll be back to forwards coaching this season after ages of being one of the few around who knows a thing or two about backs play. Will be bringing back 'trailers' (or whatever other places called forwards running off 9 around the fringes before the defence settles) and...

Nieghorn

Cheers, gents. :D Looks like I'll be back to forwards coaching this season after ages of being one of the few around who knows a thing or two about backs play. Will be bringing back 'trailers' (or whatever other places called forwards running off 9 around the fringes before the defence settles) and ...

Nieghorn

Didn't read much of the thread, but will say keep scrums. Maybe controversial, I'd rather see a re-set than a penalty. Sometimes people slip, esp with jerseys as they are and teams trying to get as low as they can. No way that skinny ex-scrum half reffing knows exactly what went wrong all the time. ...

Nieghorn

I'd have given Tui a run as a fullback. Holmes very 'meh' and a kicking liability these days if given the tee first. I'm not even convinced of Sorenson-McGee... fast as, but a defensive liability at times.

Looking like BFs will have a semi vs Canada. England's tournament to lose, though, really.

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I say this even as a Canadian and Gloucester supporter, PWR should have a strict and high EQP quota. We and the likes of Wales should be doing more to improve domestic rugby and not dump all our development to England (and France for us as well, with a bunch at Bordelais, all but a few of the rest i...

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Reminds me of this photoshop I made ages ago...

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Brazier back in the mix!?

Nieghorn

Too many chinless Squidges* wanking their lives away online. Single mates of mine are absolutely gang busters on dating sites. Sounds like that's part of the scenario, though. Women looking for someone to settle. Lads playing the field / unsure about which to settle on because there are so many opt...

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Incidentally, I found this NY Times article interesting, the female author is lamenting the disappearance of men from public spaces, dating etc. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/20/style/modern-love-men-where-have-you-gone-please-come-back.html?unlocked_article_code=1.Qk8.DqC8.IxdDBO9MONv_&smid=url-...

Nieghorn

That could have been completely avoided if refs would actually penalize immediately players doing shit on the ground that's illegal. George already grabbing the ball while still laying on the tackled player, barely makes an effort to get up, slowing the ball down the whole time. Only thing above the...

Nieghorn

https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcS9mrEZntSgthlgFvkzgRFDFym4NmSPcKHX9A&s Piri Weepu these days. You may not like it, but this is what peak performance looks like. Playing backup 9, Ricky Januarie https://images.rugbyrama.fr/api/v1/images/view/5cbefdfd8fe56f58e123fa6f/large/image...

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