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by naki
Sat Oct 02, 2021 2:04 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: If your team...
Replies: 16
Views: 1475

Re: If your team...

I find this personally triggering
by naki
Sat Oct 02, 2021 12:42 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Rugby Championship: Springboks vs All Blacks: MATCH THREAD: Sat 2nd Oct
Replies: 1334
Views: 71269

Re: Rugby Championship: Springboks vs All Blacks: MATCH THREAD: Sat 2nd Oct

The Native wrote: Sat Oct 02, 2021 12:22 amOn 80 minutes, my social media timeline was one mass attack for what a Muppit I was for even suggesting the All Blacks could lose.
Can't tell whether this is a spelling error, surely not from South Africa's leading sports journalist, or just mockery of the kiwi accent.
by naki
Thu Sep 30, 2021 10:16 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: How can WR stop teams slowing down games?
Replies: 193
Views: 12082

Re: How can WR stop teams slowing down games?

I'm not sure there is a better answer than to simply play on a man down, Yep, get it moving. and if there's a scrum and it's a front rower down offer the attacking captain the choice to wait or play on with an unopposed scrum, Nah, the guiding motive should be for the game to be a contest. If said ...
by naki
Thu Sep 30, 2021 5:59 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Rugby Championship: Springboks vs All Blacks: MATCH THREAD: Sat 2nd Oct
Replies: 1334
Views: 71269

Re: Rugby Championship: Springboks vs All Blacks: MATCH THREAD: Sat 2nd Oct

22. Richie Mo’unga (26) 23. Damian McKenzie (36) wtf Bit of a weird one. Three backs on the bench and the halfback is the biggest. Aside from size is there really anything wrong with it? Rieko is midfield cover so the other reserve should be wing/fullback cover. DMac makes sense if looking at it th...
by naki
Thu Sep 30, 2021 5:51 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Rugby Championship: Springboks vs All Blacks: MATCH THREAD: Sat 2nd Oct
Replies: 1334
Views: 71269

Re: Rugby Championship: Springboks vs All Blacks: MATCH THREAD: Sat 2nd Oct

Really hope we can win this one with some style. The Southern Slam is the rarest feat in modern international rugby, having been achieved just 9 times and by only 2 teams in the 25 seasons on the competition. By comparison, the much heralded European Grand Slam has been won a whopping 13 times by 4 ...
by naki
Thu Sep 30, 2021 3:04 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Rugby Championship: Springboks vs All Blacks: MATCH THREAD: Sat 2nd Oct
Replies: 1334
Views: 71269

Re: Rugby Championship: Springboks vs All Blacks: MATCH THREAD: Sat 2nd Oct

22. Richie Mo’unga (26)
23. Damian McKenzie (36)
wtf
by naki
Wed Sep 29, 2021 8:27 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Harvey Weinstein and celebrities behaving badly.
Replies: 1832
Views: 259596

Re: Harvey Weinstein:Hollywoods sexual secrets about to explode?

How are fans going to feel about watching that with their young ones now? Like Michael Jackson’s music, Kelly’s songs have been shifted into an ambiguous space, tainted by association. Some fans will continue to listen to Kelly for what his music represents in their personal memories, but I expect ...
by naki
Tue Sep 28, 2021 10:54 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Harvey Weinstein and celebrities behaving badly.
Replies: 1832
Views: 259596

Re: Harvey Weinstein:Hollywoods sexual secrets about to explode?

The “separating the art from the artist” cliche usually works much more comfortably with musicians than, say, filmmakers or comedians. You can easily tap your foot along to Zeppelin (fvcked teens), Bowie (fvcked teens), Ike Turner (victimised his wife) etc as their work doesn't often allude to those...
by naki
Tue Sep 28, 2021 7:34 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: How can WR stop teams slowing down games?
Replies: 193
Views: 12082

Re: How can WR stop teams slowing down games?

OomStruisbaai wrote: Tue Sep 28, 2021 6:32 am WR should also look at the time waisted by performing the haka at the start of tests.
Time waisting, how one measures a Springbok prop’s ever expanding pants
by naki
Tue Sep 28, 2021 7:17 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: In theory, who should have won the respective RWCs
Replies: 63
Views: 4563

Re: In theory, who should have won the respective RWCs

95 - heading into he tournament pretty sure all blacks weren't favorites, had lost the series to France the year before, had Laurie Mains as a coach - but once the tournament hit the t here was lomu. I think in some betting markets, they were unliked enough to be 5th favourites. They had also lost ...
by naki
Tue Sep 28, 2021 5:25 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Rugby Championship: Springboks vs All Blacks: MATCH THREAD: Sat 2nd Oct
Replies: 1334
Views: 71269

Re: Rugby Championship: Springboks vs All Blacks: MATCH THREAD: Sat 2nd Oct

Hell yeah Mo'unga has completed two weeks of hard quarantine and has joined the team on the Gold Coast ahead of Saturday's Rugby Championship match against South Africa. Assistant coach Scott McLeod says it's great having him back in the environment, but they've already had to tell him to settle dow...
by naki
Tue Sep 28, 2021 1:54 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: In theory, who should have won the respective RWCs
Replies: 63
Views: 4563

Re: In theory, who should have won the respective RWCs

The idea that SA should have won in 2011 is the most ridiculous on here, closely followed by England in 1991. The Boks scraped past Samoa and Wales and would have been penalized out of the QF for their porpoise flopping and thuggery by a stronger ref than Lawrence.
by naki
Tue Sep 28, 2021 1:48 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: In theory, who should have won the respective RWCs
Replies: 63
Views: 4563

Re: In theory, who should have won the respective RWCs

1987 - NZ
1991 - Australia
1995 - NZ or France
1999 - Australia
2003 - England
2007 - NZ
2011 - NZ
2015 - NZ
2019 - SA

Shoulda woulda coulda though. The teams that failed to win it when the "should" have won can claim no moral victory, ultimately were not good enough
by naki
Mon Sep 27, 2021 5:15 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Rugby Championship: Springboks vs All Blacks: MATCH THREAD: Sat 2nd Oct
Replies: 1334
Views: 71269

Re: Rugby Championship: Springboks vs All Blacks: MATCH THREAD: Sat 2nd Oct

We have too many young loosies with huge potential and I doubt the selectors have a real idea of how to fit them all in and create a truly balanced backrow. Each game another one puts up his hand for continued honours while another slips down the picking order, and it shouldn't surprise that there's...
by naki
Sun Sep 26, 2021 11:25 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Dominant scrum or dominant line out?
Replies: 67
Views: 4786

Re: Dominant scrum or dominant line out?

Or you could have neither at the moment and still be the #1 team in world rugby
by naki
Sun Sep 26, 2021 11:15 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: How can WR stop teams slowing down games?
Replies: 193
Views: 12082

Re: How can WR stop teams slowing down games?

We're not talking about isolated incidents. We're talking about a team that tactically makes a half of rugby last an hour to give their players a chance to have a breather and a drink every 5 minutes because they can't play at pace and last a full game. You are talking through your arse here. Every...
by naki
Sun Sep 26, 2021 2:16 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: George Bridge
Replies: 56
Views: 4745

Re: George Bridge

Eugenius wrote: Sun Sep 26, 2021 1:20 am Read a comment that Bridge was kneed in the head by Duane V early after they competed for a kick .

Is this true ?
No. Vermeulen landed on him after Bridge tried to keep a recovered kick in play then helped him to his feet. Bridge was unaffected.
by naki
Sun Sep 26, 2021 2:05 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: How can WR stop teams slowing down games?
Replies: 193
Views: 12082

Re: How can WR stop teams slowing down games?

One of the front rowers, might have been Marx, went down after a scrum in the second half. The ref was clearly frustrated with further time wasting but then said something like "actually it might be serious".

It wasn't.
by naki
Sat Sep 25, 2021 10:24 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: South African rugby is now...
Replies: 55
Views: 5189

Re: South African rugby is now...

That may be true, I hate it too...but it almost worked so it is not going anywhere. That was one of the worst games in I've seen in years(the ABs sloppy skills played a part in that too though). Rugby was the loser last night, that's for sure. Almost worked? The All Blacks played the worst game the...
by naki
Sat Sep 25, 2021 10:14 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Rugby Championship: All Blacks vs Springboks: MATCH THREAD: Sat 25th Sept
Replies: 1158
Views: 67095

Re: Rugby Championship: All Blacks vs Springboks: MATCH THREAD: Sat 25th Sept

On the bright side as an AB fan. 1/ We Won and secured the RC 2/ We played our B team against the World's best and still scraped thru. 3/ This performance will give us a good kick up the arse for the remainder of this season. 4/ Nobody is safe in their jersey and competition breeds success 5/ Jordi...
by naki
Sat Sep 25, 2021 10:05 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: South African rugby is now...
Replies: 55
Views: 5189

Re: South African rugby is now...

Doesn't matter, it's all about winning and the Boks have done it again. :thumbup: "Despite defeat, the Boks rediscovered their soul in Townsville and, with captain Siya Kolisi front and centre, proved that their champion qualities remain firmly intact," wrote Craig Lewis for South Africa's rugby mag...
by naki
Sat Sep 25, 2021 8:33 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Fozzie: The axe falls.
Replies: 4917
Views: 210496

Re: Fozzie Out

Brilliant idea to play flat in extreme humidity with the ball as slippery as a sweaty eel and the Boks flying up like kamikazes in defence. It's up to the players to pass and catch the ball, but they kept doing the same thing all game. Foster is merely lucky that the Boks have forgotten how to do an...
by naki
Sat Sep 25, 2021 7:39 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Rugby Championship: All Blacks vs Springboks: MATCH THREAD: Sat 25th Sept
Replies: 1158
Views: 67095

Re: Rugby Championship: All Blacks vs Springboks: MATCH THREAD: Sat 25th Sept

Look at the replay after the try is scored. He gets the sun in his face just as he's trying to catch it. I’ve watched it several times on YouTube and as I said, He doesn’t jump, he misjudged it badly and overruns it. The sun is at his back so any light to dark affect is minimal. The sun isn’t in hi...
by naki
Sat Sep 25, 2021 7:28 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Reiko Ioane should be our 1st choice 11
Replies: 21
Views: 1742

Re: Reiko Ioane should be our 1st choice 11

We missed 14 tackles, conceded 23 turnovers and lost 4 line outs. Surely you can't pin this all on GB. Can pin the Springbok try on him, definitely. I agree. But the notion that he was worst out on the field is ridiculous. Only because Pollard exists. He was easily the worst AB on the field, with r...
by naki
Sat Sep 25, 2021 7:12 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Rugby Championship: All Blacks vs Springboks: MATCH THREAD: Sat 25th Sept
Replies: 1158
Views: 67095

Re: Rugby Championship: All Blacks vs Springboks: MATCH THREAD: Sat 25th Sept

The AB's have a shitload of work on's this week. Numbers 9 to 14 were well out of sorts. We have real problems with our centres, and we still haven't found our best wingers yet. Next week should be interesting. 😂 There are no problems with the centres. Havili had a bad night but he wasn’t alone. Re...
by naki
Sat Sep 25, 2021 7:08 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Rugby Championship: All Blacks vs Springboks: MATCH THREAD: Sat 25th Sept
Replies: 1158
Views: 67095

Re: Rugby Championship: All Blacks vs Springboks: MATCH THREAD: Sat 25th Sept

The AB's have a shitload of work on's this week. Numbers 9 to 14 were well out of sorts. We have real problems with our centres, and we still haven't found our best wingers yet. Next week should be interesting. We have found our best wingers. They're Ioane and Jordan (with an honourable mention to ...
by naki
Sat Sep 25, 2021 3:34 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Rugby Championship: All Blacks vs Springboks: MATCH THREAD: Sat 25th Sept
Replies: 1158
Views: 67095

Re: Rugby Championship: All Blacks vs Springboks: MATCH THREAD: Sat 25th Sept

BBB wrote: Sat Sep 25, 2021 3:15 am Jacobson out with a stomach bug.
👩‍🍳
by naki
Thu Sep 23, 2021 7:50 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Rugby Championship: All Blacks vs Springboks: MATCH THREAD: Sat 25th Sept
Replies: 1158
Views: 67095

Re: Rugby Championship: All Blacks vs Springboks: MATCH THREAD: Sat 25th Sept

Wow. Having read the Kiwi writeups, I do believe the Boks are in for a 95-0 drubbing. Congratulations, NZ. Sorrry Jaques. It’s quite unedifying and more than a little cringeworthy. I don’t think anyone with good sense is expecting anything else than a war. Which write ups? I'm sure the hubris will ...
by naki
Thu Sep 23, 2021 7:48 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Rugby Championship: All Blacks vs Springboks: MATCH THREAD: Sat 25th Sept
Replies: 1158
Views: 67095

Re: Rugby Championship: All Blacks vs Springboks: MATCH THREAD: Sat 25th Sept

No particular complaints. I think it is a sensible team with a few minor tweaks to the "A" team picked against the Wobs to combat the Boks strengths (i.e. Jacobson over Papalii to add some extra size , and Bridge over Reece for his high-ball skills). If I were being picky, I'd have Vai'i and Ennor ...
by naki
Thu Sep 23, 2021 4:17 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Rugby Championship: All Blacks vs Springboks: MATCH THREAD: Sat 25th Sept
Replies: 1158
Views: 67095

Re: Rugby Championship: All Blacks vs Springboks: MATCH THREAD: Sat 25th Sept

On another note, can anyone remember a more "Safe White Boy" back three for the ABs than Bridge/Jordan/Jordie? I'm sure there are a few, but none immediately spring to mind. Well Jordie is anything but Safe, though he is especially White and still relatively Boyish. Remember the last time we lost t...
by naki
Thu Sep 23, 2021 2:46 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Rugby Championship: All Blacks vs Springboks: MATCH THREAD: Sat 25th Sept
Replies: 1158
Views: 67095

Re: Rugby Championship: All Blacks vs Springboks: MATCH THREAD: Sat 25th Sept

1. Joe Moody (52) 2. Codie Taylor (62) 3. Nepo Laulala (35) 4. Brodie Retallick (87) 5. Scott Barrett (46) 6. Akira Ioane (8) 7. Ardie Savea (54) – captain 8. Luke Jacobson (9) 9. TJ Perenara (73) 10. Beauden Barrett (96) 11. George Bridge (15) 12. David Havili (9) 13. Rieko Ioane (42) 14. Will Jor...
by naki
Wed Sep 22, 2021 8:46 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Rugby Championship: All Blacks vs Springboks: MATCH THREAD: Sat 25th Sept
Replies: 1158
Views: 67095

Re: Rugby Championship: All Blacks vs Springboks: MATCH THREAD: Sat 25th Sept

Either Mark Keohane was dropped as a baby or he smoking something serious https://www.keo.co.za/why-i-am-backing-battle-weary-boks-to-beat-the-all-blacks/ Nothing he's saying here is unreasonable, aside from the lazy reliance on adding up the tally of previous results rather than a tactical analysi...
by naki
Tue Sep 21, 2021 6:25 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Is Dave Rennie the worst international rugby coach in history?
Replies: 56
Views: 5661

Re: Is Dave Rennie the worst international rugby coach in history?

Haden made those comments about the Sadists having a quota for brown skinned players, back pedaled later to say he only meant Pacific Island players, then claimed he'd been told he'd heard from a friend who knew a dude who knew a guy who talked to some bloke from Canterbury who said the Saders could...
by naki
Tue Sep 21, 2021 6:13 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Rugby Championship: Pumas vs All Blacks: MATCH THREAD: Sat 18th Sept
Replies: 555
Views: 31133

Re: Rugby Championship: Pumas vs All Blacks: MATCH THREAD: Sat 18th Sept

DMac and KiwiQuade, renowned as two of the flakiest first-fives in world rugby, both playing conservatively. Something is wrong in the alignment of the global axial tilt. Quade yes, but McKenzie? I've never seen him described as flakey in the manner I assume are trying to refer to. DMac is not, and...
by naki
Tue Sep 21, 2021 6:03 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Rugby Championship: All Blacks vs Springboks: MATCH THREAD: Sat 25th Sept
Replies: 1158
Views: 67095

Re: Rugby Championship: All Blacks vs Springboks: MATCH THREAD: Sat 25th Sept

Sards wrote: Tue Sep 21, 2021 5:38 am If I was Bok Coach I'd pick the following

12. DDA
13. Kriel
No Am? Someone send this to Rassie and Neinaber. And Jaco Johan for good measure.
by naki
Tue Sep 21, 2021 5:59 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Rugby Championship: Pumas vs All Blacks: MATCH THREAD: Sat 18th Sept
Replies: 555
Views: 31133

Re: Rugby Championship: Pumas vs All Blacks: MATCH THREAD: Sat 18th Sept

DMac and KiwiQuade, renowned as two of the flakiest first-fives in world rugby, both playing conservatively. Something is wrong in the alignment of the global axial tilt. Quade yes, but McKenzie? I've never seen him described as flakey in the manner I assume are trying to refer to. DMac is not, and...
by naki
Mon Sep 20, 2021 9:18 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Rugby Championship: All Blacks vs Springboks: MATCH THREAD: Sat 25th Sept
Replies: 1158
Views: 67095

Re: Rugby Championship: All Blacks vs Springboks: MATCH THREAD: Sat 25th Sept

Slightly off-topic, but does anyone else think that Asafo Aumua has now been overtaken by Samisoni Taukei'aho in the hooking pecking order? That would be a shame for Aumua as he's been waiting to overtake Taylor and Coles for years now. I just think that Taukei'aho has a better allround game and is...
by naki
Mon Sep 20, 2021 9:14 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Rugby Championship: All Blacks vs Springboks: MATCH THREAD: Sat 25th Sept
Replies: 1158
Views: 67095

Re: Rugby Championship: All Blacks vs Springboks: MATCH THREAD: Sat 25th Sept

This is going to be a tough one. The Boks looked jaded and confused yesterday and their play-by-numbers game wasn't working and when they tried to change it up it wasn't working either. And that was in the first half that I watched, the second half apparently was worse Ideally the "A team" should h...
by naki
Mon Sep 20, 2021 8:27 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Rugby Championship: All Blacks vs Springboks: MATCH THREAD: Sat 25th Sept
Replies: 1158
Views: 67095

Re: Rugby Championship: All Blacks vs Springboks: MATCH THREAD: Sat 25th Sept

This is going to be a tough one. The Boks looked jaded and confused yesterday and their play-by-numbers game wasn't working and when they tried to change it up it wasn't working either. And that was in the first half that I watched, the second half apparently was worse Ideally the "A team" should h...