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- Fri Mar 29, 2024 12:14 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Ranking the World Cup Winning Scrum-Halves
- Replies: 52
- Views: 838
Re: Ranking the World Cup Winning Scrum-Halves
Gregan would be 4th on my list behind Joost/FDP, Smith.
- Fri Mar 29, 2024 11:14 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Ranking the World Cup Winning Scrum-Halves
- Replies: 52
- Views: 838
Re: Ranking the World Cup Winning Scrum-Halves
Best top 3. And you could potentially swap the first two.
Although Smith the perfect 9 for NZ style with a GOAT like Carter outside him. FdP & Joost more the playmakers than vanilla Stransky and donkey Butch James.
- Thu Mar 28, 2024 11:14 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Sail GP in Lyttelton Harbour, Christchurch, NZ
- Replies: 132
- Views: 2549
Re: Sail GP in Lyttelton Harbour, Christchurch, NZ
Honestly, what an embarrassing complaint. 'Boo hoo, I had to postpone my silly little boat race because they wouldn't let me run over an endangered species." World's smallest violin. That “silly little boat race” has a global audience of over a billion people Would you hazard a guess of how many ac...
- Wed Mar 27, 2024 12:04 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Sail GP in Lyttelton Harbour, Christchurch, NZ
- Replies: 132
- Views: 2549
Re: Sail GP in Lyttelton Harbour, Christchurch, NZ
You just don't seem to get it do you, they knew the rules and signed up to them so unless the harbourmaster or Dolphin watchers went outside the agreement then Coutts and Co are just a bunch of self entitled wankers. Another thing that no one has mentioned, that I've seen, is what if a catamaran di...
- Tue Mar 26, 2024 1:58 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Jeremy Guscott v Manu Tuilagi - who was better?
- Replies: 85
- Views: 1667
- Tue Mar 26, 2024 9:53 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Sail GP in Lyttelton Harbour, Christchurch, NZ
- Replies: 132
- Views: 2549
Re: Sail GP in Lyttelton Harbour, Christchurch, NZ
I get both sides of the discussion here. Whilst I think it is absolutely pathetic imposing such draconian rules on such an event and cancelling the entire days racing on Saturday because one single fu c king dolphin was spotted on the course was ridiculous and must make us a laughing stock around t...
- Mon Mar 25, 2024 9:18 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Sean Maloney - Aus commentator
- Replies: 26
- Views: 1155
Re: Sean Maloney - Aus commentator
Greg Clarke was always a good lead man, for me anyway. Rod Kafer seemed level headed and sensible but has descended down a right wing anti vax rabbit hole on Twitter. The accounts that dipshit follows and retweets
- Sun Mar 24, 2024 2:17 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Your best ever national team by unit
- Replies: 95
- Views: 3648
Re: Your best ever national team by unit
I have Dean Richards at 8, just an unreal player, positional awareness, handling and strength all outstanding. I played against him in a memorial match for a team mate (a copper) , his strength was unreal. You'd need to play under the old laws or else he'd be red carded out of the game today. Bit o...
- Sat Mar 23, 2024 11:16 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: 2024 Boredies - Voting closing. Results Friday
- Replies: 59
- Views: 3623
Re: 2024 Boredies - 2 days till voting closes.
Can't seem to be bothered.
- Sat Mar 23, 2024 8:10 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Your best ever national team by unit
- Replies: 95
- Views: 3648
Re: Your best ever national team by unit
Back was so overrated, such a negative openside. Countless NZ 7s were better. Then you get to the lofty heights of the true greats like McCaw & George Smith.
- Sat Mar 23, 2024 7:36 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: World Rugby reads my Posts- 20min Red cardsds
- Replies: 116
- Views: 2237
- Fri Mar 22, 2024 9:05 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Your best ever national team by unit
- Replies: 95
- Views: 3648
Re: Your best ever national team by unit
Beat the ABs multiple times in a row. No one has ever done that before. Ergo…most successful in history. 8) Do you mean the two wins in 1998? Three wins in 1998... Cockbain/Wilson/Kefu One win in 1999... Cockbain/Wilson/Kefu One win off the bench in 2000... Williams/Wilson/Kefu Two wins off the ben...
- Thu Mar 21, 2024 10:10 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Your best ever national team by unit
- Replies: 95
- Views: 3648
- Thu Mar 21, 2024 10:09 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: World Rugby reads my Posts- 20min Red cardsds
- Replies: 116
- Views: 2237
- Thu Mar 21, 2024 8:05 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Your best ever national team by unit
- Replies: 95
- Views: 3648
Re: Your best ever national team by unit
NZ team offered above is fire. Just full of goats. Really like this side below. Weak up front outside of the great Eales. But from the loosies out, a better group of player combos than the Bok listed in this thread. Largely 90's Wobs... Front row: Daly, Kearns, McKenzie Second row: Giffin, Eales Bac...
- Wed Mar 20, 2024 10:52 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: World Rugby reads my Posts- 20min Red cardsds
- Replies: 116
- Views: 2237
Re: World Rugby reads my Posts- 20min Red cardsds
Full red cards for deliberate and malicious acts of thuggery - eg: Darcy Swain on Quinn Tupaea 20min red cards for accidental foul play & double yellows. Who decides when a high tackle is malicious? What a nonsense level of interpretation do you want the ref to have to make? Certainly no one Irish ...
- Wed Mar 20, 2024 6:25 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: The new James Bond is......
- Replies: 80
- Views: 6400
Re: The new James Bond is......
https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BMTU0OTg4OTg4NV5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTcwNTU1MTgyMw@@._V1_.jpg It seems we have a New Bond.... Tbf, he was great in Kick Ass (which coincidentally is the last DVD I ever bought), and he was great in Bullet Train as well more recently...and actually looked like he coul...
- Tue Mar 19, 2024 11:42 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Sooo, I noticed this..
- Replies: 39
- Views: 733
Re: Sooo, I noticed this..
Watching some AFL the other day I see a young man called Neil Erasmus playing for Brisbane - born in Joburg! Genuine question, are there only like a half dozen surnames in SA for people of Afrikaans descent? Best I can make out is there is a better than even chance of someone being called Erasmus, ...
- Tue Mar 19, 2024 12:10 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: South Africa overflow of rugby players
- Replies: 29
- Views: 849
Re: South Africa overflow of rugby players
That’s why they are bringing back tours and more engagement with SA teams and not just the boks. I can’t see how SA teams could join super rugby, especially if the teams were weaker sides. I think the Cheetahs would be competitive. Possibly the Griquas, Pumas too. Not sure if there is a 4th team th...
- Mon Mar 18, 2024 11:42 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: The Obscure Awesome Song Fred
- Replies: 96
- Views: 6477
- Mon Mar 18, 2024 9:58 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: LIons tickets on sale
- Replies: 58
- Views: 764
Re: LIons tickets on sale
We're going to have 3 tests with 85% of the crowd being braying Lions' fans, aren't we? I don't go to live matches these days. It's too expensive. You have lots of options for events in Brisbane, too. But this a once in 12 years special occasion. I honestly cannot see the point in forking out over ...
- Mon Mar 18, 2024 4:22 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: LIons tickets on sale
- Replies: 58
- Views: 764
- Sun Mar 17, 2024 9:43 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Are the Springboks vs Ireland the mini WC this year?
- Replies: 64
- Views: 3322
Re: Are the Springboks vs Ireland the mini WC this year?
SA haven’t as yet played like the best team between world cups, unlike other winners. So it will always be argued until they do. SA of course are hanging all importance off RWCs as it’s the only metric in which they compete. You say winners... Who else has? Most seem to go downhill. I guess England...
- Sun Mar 17, 2024 9:11 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Farewell sweet prince
- Replies: 19
- Views: 658
Re: Farewell sweet prince
He’s played some epic games against NZ. Seems a real meathead, in the best possible way, you know. Got the impression many fans have wanted him to retire for some time?
- Sun Mar 17, 2024 9:09 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Are the Springboks vs Ireland the mini WC this year?
- Replies: 64
- Views: 3322
Re: Are the Springboks vs Ireland the mini WC this year?
SA haven’t as yet played like the best team between world cups, unlike other winners. So it will always be argued until they do. SA of course are hanging all importance off RWCs as it’s the only metric in which they compete.
- Fri Mar 15, 2024 12:13 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Brain Injury and Career Length
- Replies: 80
- Views: 3035
Re: Brain Injury and Career Length
Shaking of the head making or receiving tackles is definitely something that causes mild concussion in my opinion and these can be from perfectly legal tackles. Not direct head contact required just the whiplash effect created by the contact. I don't recall ever being concussed from a high tackle w...
- Fri Mar 15, 2024 9:38 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Razor's first press conference
- Replies: 225
- Views: 22944
Re: Razor's first press conference
Chiefs losing to Lood de Jagers Wild Knights. You should get the Japanese clubs in Soup. That's where the most top Boks and All Blacks play. You must be absolutely desperate if you're trolling the results of meaningless pre-season friendlies now. Both teams played 13 man benches FFS, closer to a tr...
- Fri Mar 15, 2024 9:19 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: The best new and returning TV series of 2024?
- Replies: 11406
- Views: 1231166
Re: The best new and returning TV series of 2024?
New season of Full swing so far is much better than Season 1. Bit like Drive to survive the big boys are much involved in Season 2. It also includes the Liv guys and is showing some pro's properly struggling mainly Ricky Fowler (only 2 episodes in). Had an interview with his wife and I recognised h...
- Mon Mar 11, 2024 9:35 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Banksy's anonymity
- Replies: 56
- Views: 2163
Re: Banksy's anonymity
The man's made a fortune and must have loads of collaborators in order to pull off his various stunts. Why the pretence that no one knows who he is? Why hasn't he been definitively outed? It was deduced several years ago who it was. And they published his name. And nobody gave a sh1t Because the na...
- Mon Mar 11, 2024 9:33 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: NZ hosting Australia 2024- Cricket series thread
- Replies: 571
- Views: 18670
Re: NZ hosting Australia 2024- Cricket series thread
To be fair that matches this series, from selection to tactics through to performance. I miss the days of a Wagner or Watling that would fight for every ball. Maybe I'm taking his comments out of context, but I can't recall coming across an international level athlete in any sport, who displayed su...
- Mon Mar 11, 2024 7:41 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: NZ hosting Australia 2024- Cricket series thread
- Replies: 571
- Views: 18670
Re: NZ hosting Australia 2024- Cricket series thread
Weird line. Southee gave the impression post match interview that it was just any old loss. Didn’t look that gutted about the opportunity lost.Jay Cee Gee wrote: ↑Mon Mar 11, 2024 6:53 am https://www.sen.com.au/news/2024/03/11/ ... roversial/
Seems he's also on a journey....
- Mon Mar 11, 2024 4:04 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: NZ hosting Australia 2024- Cricket series thread
- Replies: 571
- Views: 18670
- Mon Mar 11, 2024 4:03 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: NZ hosting Australia 2024- Cricket series thread
- Replies: 571
- Views: 18670
- Sun Mar 10, 2024 9:39 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: 6-2 split
- Replies: 55
- Views: 1612
Re: 6-2 split
Who should the Boks have had on the bench instead of Fourie, whom I thought played very well. Also, how did you determine his scrummaging effort was poor? Finally, what difference did it make to the 7-1 bench that Fourie wasn’t a specialist hooker? Isn’t the argument about pigs covering backline sp...
- Sun Mar 10, 2024 9:31 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Crusaders vs Drua Match Thread
- Replies: 40
- Views: 799
- Sun Mar 10, 2024 9:28 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: 6-2 split
- Replies: 55
- Views: 1612
Re: 6-2 split
Springboks won the last RWC with a 7-1 split. Hard to say with an NZ stupid high tackle red card and two missed kicks. Deon Fourie was immense in the loose. But his throwing and scrummaging were very poor compared, a full complement opposition would likely have taken it. Who should the Boks have ha...
- Sun Mar 10, 2024 9:10 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: 6-2 split
- Replies: 55
- Views: 1612
Re: 6-2 split
Not sure why coaches continue to take such a huge risk by opting for a 6-2 bench split? It cost the Blues the match yesterday, they had a halfback playing on the wing for three quarters of the game. I know the Springboks won the last RWC with a 6-2 split, but I don't actually think it in itself was...
- Sun Mar 10, 2024 4:25 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Are the Springboks vs Ireland the mini WC this year?
- Replies: 64
- Views: 3322
Re: Are the Springboks vs Ireland the mini WC this year?
The ABs have won 5 times there since 1996. 5-0 against Sa in that time. I have a soft spot for Loftus 🥰 Apologies. Yes. ABs have absolutely dominated at Loftus. 😡 There'll be no more tests for them there. Most grounds in Sa are like home grounds now for the ABs. 😀 Newlands and Loftus may as well be...
- Sun Mar 10, 2024 4:23 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: NZ hosting Australia 2024- Cricket series thread
- Replies: 571
- Views: 18670
- Tue Mar 05, 2024 1:48 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Christian Horner - Who really cares
- Replies: 24
- Views: 2420
Re: Christian Horner - Who really cares
You do like to create threads when posts can easily be made in the threads they relate to. Trolling me ? Sad little fu*ker aren't you. It's not trolling to point out your penchant for creating OPs that could simply exist as a post in the relevant thread. Here's a link for next time... https://forum...