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It’s heavily SA leaning because there’s tens of millions of them crazy for the game. It’s where most of their traffic comes from and they have a lot of Saffer “journos” on staff.

Magpie26 wrote: ↑Mon Jul 14, 2025 7:22 pm
message #2527204 wrote: ↑Mon Jul 14, 2025 7:11 pm Bit worrying to hear from the kiwi captain that "this was our final"
Probably a bit like RWC 2019 when England played their final in the semi.
It will have taken a lot out of them for sure.

Didn’t hear the quote, but a weird thing to say mentally with a game to go.

Akkerman wrote: ↑Mon Jul 14, 2025 5:48 pm kiwi scrum looking vulnerable, they'll get murdered in the final vs SA

What was the score in the SA semi?

Nice to get a refs perspective on both. It’s likely WR will remind refs the so very obviously intentional offside from the kickoff should have been a penalty and that’s how it will be ruled from now on . What makes you think that? Because starting the game with a contrived scrum rather than a fairl...

Nice to get a refs perspective on both. It’s likely WR will remind refs the so very obviously intentional offside from the kickoff should have been a penalty and that’s how it will be ruled from now on.

The lifting in general play is interesting and he outlines a few ways to manage it effectively.

It was for opposition mistakes etc Depends on the context and what happened in the lead up, but I agree with you in principal. Whooping and hollering for minor opposition errors is best left to Ben Earl and Maro Itoje. Chahooing is not a stereotypical kiwi thing? Not when guys like Earl and Itoje a...

What’s with all the whooping and crowing? It was the nature of some of the performance ..., It was for opposition mistakes etc Depends on the context and what happened in the lead up, but I agree with you in principal. Whooping and hollering for minor opposition errors is best left to Ben Earl and ...

Frothing :lol: It’s pathetic you make such a comment. The only frothing will be from Saffer’s engaging their famous Saffer Persecution Complex when World Rugby clarifies that you can’t lift players mid field to take passes nor intentionally short kick from kick offs to an offside player to engineer...

hmm lifting someone in open play like should be illegal, i assume you can't tackle the lifted man? No, it would be a penalty then for playing him in the air. The boks are exploiting the Rule a bit. So, 2 locks can pick up a player and walk him over the tryline with the ball. Defence cannot tackle t...

Why didn’t the ref penalise the Boks for intentional offside at the kick off? Seems strange to give Italy the scrum which was likely what Rassie was fishing for. Imagine intentionally cheating at the kickoff against the 10th ranked side in the world :lol: yet more law book manipulation dressed up a...

Why didn’t the ref penalise the Boks for intentional offside at the kick off? Seems strange to give Italy the scrum which was likely what Rassie was fishing for. Imagine intentionally cheating at the kickoff against the 10th ranked side in the world :lol: yet more law book manipulation dressed up as...

Worst kiwi performance tonight has been Grant Nisbett. We still have no one close to take over. Who’s your pick? Elliot Smith No f**king way. Joe Wheeler’s entire average rugby career was angling for a post rugby career in media. And Sky were bloody stupid enough to give home one. Wankers.

terryfinch wrote: ↑Sat Jul 12, 2025 9:45 am Never change NZ. Always players in black hanging around offside waving their arms around.

That’s quite a compliment coming from the masters of killing the game, England.

kiwidutchie wrote: ↑Sat Jul 12, 2025 9:36 am Worst kiwi performance tonight has been Grant Nisbett.

We still have no one close to take over. Who’s your pick?

Pat T/Holland combo is our best locking pair. Do we even need Scott Barrett? Paddy has 50 tests. Most of them uninspiring. The quiet, softly spoken, lead from the front captain barely translates to Super Rugby, let alone the All Blacks. But his last tests have been much better than usual. Has he tu...

Can someone post the article? Shirely he can't be that dumb. WENDELL HUSSEY | Cadet | CONTACT A touring party of Poms, Scots, Irish (and a Welshman*, maybe?) are today trying to wrap their head around what lies in store for them over the next couple of weeks. The British and Irish lions have report...

I thought the all blacks were going to smash the French E team… why are they stressed about a ref? Test is in Wellington, mate. 2 wins, 2 draws & 4 losses in our last 8 tests there :shock: isn’t another stadium close to that record in the country. You’ve convinced me. I’m putting $50 on the frogs I...

ROLDY wrote: ↑Fri Jul 11, 2025 7:53 am I thought the all blacks were going to smash the French E team… why are they stressed about a ref?

Test is in Wellington, mate. 2 wins, 2 draws & 4 losses in our last 8 tests there

isn’t another stadium close to that record in the country.

On every official channel I’ve seen regarding this game, Ridley is listed as a French referee. Why is this when he’s talked of as Paris born but an English ref, and if it’s not an error why was he appointed this fixture?

sorCrer wrote: ↑Tue Jul 08, 2025 8:12 pm
Chilli wrote: ↑Tue Jul 08, 2025 6:32 pm

Moerat wouldn't even make the current Welsh team.
Harsh but fair

His selection does appear unusual. how do you think his leadership compares to other options in the squad?

Classy looking Bok jersey

Lads, how does this fella go?

Have the French had some quality reinforcements arrive?

We have a poor record in Wellington in recent years

British Press… Repeated by your brothers. I still see NHers on Soc med talking about “South Sea Islanders” when defending their own sickening turbo poaching like they’re still reading Willard Price. I don’t have any brothers, bro. I’ve never used that term. No doubt you understand for sure. But man...

And of course the English never ripped the shit out NZ for it... There's a reason I know the phrase "South Sea Islanders" after all. I'm old enough to remember the articles in the British press about NZ raping the Pacific as players who were born and / or raised in NZ were playing for the All Black...

One of my mates, a Crown Prosecutor, had an uncle die this year. The tangi stopped the city.

You said 15 bands, so I'll do that. Would be very different with solo acts. I've left out The Arkestra, Booker T and the MGs, Simon & Garfunkel, Neil Young & Crazy Horse, and Smog because their leader's are more impactful than the band. The Velvet Underground The Band The Carpenters Black Sabbath P...

1227 caps in the Bok side. They looked like a mean selection when I saw it named. Guess this just shows it’s early days for SH test window looking at NZ, Bok and now Aus results. Yep Bokke look like they have no chance against the All Blacks and Wallabies. Lots of hard work ahead. Lot of dead wood ...

1227 caps in the Bok side. They looked like a mean selection when I saw it named. Guess this just shows it’s early days for SH test window looking at NZ, Bok and now Aus results.

Lots of busy looking idiots in the backline last night. With DMac to the fore of that.

freddie111 wrote: ↑Sun Jul 06, 2025 12:49 am Not there live but the Ozzy Osbourne/ Black Sabbath tribute gig is pretty emotional.

Sabbath on now. Rewind to see previous for anyone without a link.

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bimboman wrote: ↑Sat Jul 05, 2025 3:17 pm
Hawk97 wrote: ↑Sat Jul 05, 2025 3:16 pm Boks or ABs would ruin this lot
Bold would. AB’s struggled in the T14 this morning

First test typical rust and they left 3+ tries on the park. But the Lions need to gel too. When I saw that stacked Lions side I feared for the Tahs weakened side. But not to be.

I think you might have been whooshed. You asked him to name them and he's come up with some pretty cool ones tbf. He named some Kiwi born Wallabies who left to live in Australia as kids. What’s the point you think he’s making? So those are actually nick names in use already and he didn't just make ...

"The fijian collossus" "The samoan Mercury" Skelton, lolesio You still have no idea. Like I said “poaching” confused the NH way back then and they seem to understand it less even now that they’re the worst proponents of it. Keep capping fully paid pros :lol: I think you might have been whooshed. Yo...

Lots of kiwis in that side too. Name them… "The fijian collossus" "The samoan Mercury" Skelton, lolesio You still have no idea. Like I said “poaching” confused the NH way back then and they seem to understand it less even now that they’re the worst proponents of it. Keep capping fully paid pros :lol:

Lol. :lol: fair play It’s a bullshit comparison. NH has cried for years about PIs coming to NZ young and even born in NZ playing for the All Blacks. But now they’ve gone well past kids immigrating and settled on capping full pros from other nations. They didn’t understand things back then and they ...

How many Fijians, Samoans English and tongans in the Australian side again? You can't just drop someone called 'the tongan thor' the think we won't notice... Lol. :lol: fair play It’s a bullshit comparison. NH has cried for years about PIs coming to NZ young and even born in NZ playing for the All ...

Completely forgot about the match but a quick perusal of the match thread suggests this thread may have been premature? Silly talk of fines and sanctioning aside, the general feeling is NZ fans and pundits want to see France’s best tour. Win, lose or draw the game needs it. Ireland sent their best ...

Has Justin Marshall had a mea culpa? Why? Doesn’t change the fact we were denied seeing the best French side. That was his point. McCaw, Carter etc always travelled North. The fact France finished close to a typically rusty AB side first test was talked of as a possibility. Still, they left plenty ...

Well played NZ. Great match for a neutral to watch. France put up a good fight for the full 80. They are a very strong side even with some of their best players missing so it was never going to be a walkover. What I didn't like was all the booing of the ref for giving technically correct decisions ...

Didn't realise how small Lio-Willie is. He looks smaller than Savea. I though he was adequate but nothing to write home about. I was a bit surprised seeing him interviewed by Wilson after. Looked up his height and he’s just over 6’2”. Far too short when his potential fellow loose forwards are Savea...

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