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Suck it up. Did Wales want to report him after the disgraceful actions in the 3rd ABs - Lions test in 2017? No, they probably revelled in it. Can’t have it both ways... WTF are you whining about now? A match from over 3 years ago. Try and keep up ;) Poite in the 3rd test lions ABs - last call to de...

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Full credit to tubbyj for his effortless trolling on this thread. He's simply mentioned NZ played a very English style of game and they have absolutely leaped into the boat. Food for thought. :thumbup: Or maybe some of us watched England play yet another game where their forwards were dominant enou...

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Not the complete performance but pretty much did what they needed to do. Took control of the set play, dominated the scrums, put plenty of pressure on Argentina, defended well and kept pretty focused so overall a lot better performance than last few games. Attack still not clicking properly, I still...

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That scrum looks a bit creaky and the AB pack really only has two good carriers - I think this causes a lot of their problems actually. I might be very wrong, but I don't think we will see a blow out this weekend.

Phil Kearns 20 Oct. 2020

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The call he is most proud of came in the 2013 match against New Zealand in Dublin, Ireland were on course for a first ever victory against the All Blacks on what was Brian O’Driscoll’s last chance to beat them when Owens awarded a penalty against the Irish pack for going off their feet. There were ...

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Listen to this heavenly statement from President elect Biden. He even had the good grace to refer to Ireland’s ‘Taoiseach’ and not using the term PM which some international news channels prefer to use. https://twitter.com/skynews/status/1331364877064138757?s=21 No border must occur on the Island o...

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Listen to this heavenly statement from President elect Biden. He even had the good grace to refer to Ireland’s ‘Taoiseach’ and not using the term PM which some international news channels prefer to use. https://twitter.com/skynews/status/1331364877064138757?s=21 No border must occur on the Island o...

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No, updated my S7 last night and it works fine.

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I don't normally have the time to watch the Mitre10, but thanks to Covid I was able to watch a lot of it this year. Here's my stab at a first XV, with other players considered in brackets. These would be the next off the rank for the under-performing ABs, and who should feature in Super next year. ...

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Yer Man wrote: ↑Mon Nov 23, 2020 6:34 pm
This is a corker from Ryan to concede a kickable pen

That's only 4/10 on the Spies scale, but still fecking embarrassing

Yep, needs more height on entry.

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The following was a clarification requested by NZRu. In all cases the players pre-bind, and this is not remarked upon at all by the designated members. i.e. it must be legal? Interestingly, if you bind onto either player, rather than tackle the legs of the ball carrier, you form a maul and can be p...

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where France leads, MDA Clarke follows :thumbup: . Vakatawa actually failed his first attempt at becoming a French citizen. Different countries have different requirements for becoming a citizen so it would hardly be a consistent approach. How does one become an English citizen by the way? Jump in ...

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.....but I would add a requirement that you become a citizen of the country you wish to represent. where France leads, MDA Clarke follows :thumbup: . Vakatawa actually failed his first attempt at becoming a French citizen. Different countries have different requirements for becoming a citizen so it...

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:shock: :shock: :lol: :lol: :lol: Torpedoing over the ruck into nothing :lol: Billy was in the ruck in my book and pulled out after Ryan launched. He also brushed off his shoulder as he went in. Not a penalty for me under the current insane breakdown laws. You can't go in off your feet. He flies ov...

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.....but I would add a requirement that you become a citizen of the country you wish to represent. where France leads, MDA Clarke follows :thumbup: . Vakatawa actually failed his first attempt at becoming a French citizen. Different countries have different requirements for becoming a citizen so it...

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Jones met with the Liverpool director of research, Ian Graham, to discuss transitional play – moving from attack to defence and vice versa – with a particular emphasis on what players do off the ball. Its almost like Eddie wasn't paying attention when his teams were playing against the ABs and the ...

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Might be a bit off track but I see the Premiership has been given a £59m emergency loan.
Much needed for sure but how on earth do they see being able to pay it off?

RFU got £44m but at least they have a way to make a reasonable amount of money (even if they are not that great at managing it).

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Too extreme for even the yanks... 'We're not going to work with those f***ing guys' A member of 2nd Commando's Oscar platoon who served on that deployment has confirmed that the Americans were unhappy with the conduct of some of his comrades. "Our platoon commander pulled our platoon together and s...

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Yes, the personal abuse is now really highlighting how secure you are iambirman and good old Irish Craig :lol: That shithole town actually had / has top ten standard of living index or gdp (I genuinely forget which) - so you are factually wrong again here. You’ve really not had a good day on here t...

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Yes, the personal abuse is now really highlighting how secure you are iambirman and good old Irish Craig :lol: That shithole town actually had / has top ten standard of living index or gdp (I genuinely forget which) - so you are factually wrong again here. You’ve really not had a good day on here t...

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For the record, as somebody who visited and doesn't know Dublin well on the same trip, we didn't rate the food in Dublin as particularly good either. Probably better than London for similar type establishments, but not great. Dublin is also my partners least favourite city in Europe, and the one sh...

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The European nations seem to be improving. It is where the professional future of Rugby lies (all the money is there). Australian Rugby has been on the decline for a while, notwithstanding a couple of decent results against the now mediocre All Blacks, will we see them lift the trophy again? What d...

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The worst food in the world is in France. It is generally awful, unless you pay a fortune. No it's not and no you really don't have to Missing the trip I had planned now. Reims one night early feed at Le builigrin , on to Beaune, pickers lunch one day, Cote de Bouef blow out last night. Good lord, ...

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The most disappointing thing about UK cuisine for me is that for an island nation, we don't really eat a lot of fish. We don't tend to eat much freshwater fish either. Probably my biggest complaint too, though not the greatest fan of freshwater fish. The difference in variety I find at fish counter...

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The most disappointing thing about UK cuisine for me is that for an island nation, we don't really eat a lot of fish. We don't tend to eat much freshwater fish either. Probably my biggest complaint too, though not the greatest fan of freshwater fish. The difference in variety I find at fish counter...

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So, how have Ireland done in the RWC? Based on the expectations of Aus, SA, NZ or Arg, they've been absolutely abysmal. However, based on the much lower expectations of a 6N country their results have been: 1999 - atrocious 2003 - below par 2007 - abysmal 2011 - reasonable 2015 - disappointing 2019...

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The most disappointing thing about UK cuisine for me is that for an island nation, we don't really eat a lot of fish. We don't tend to eat much freshwater fish either. Probably my biggest complaint too, though not the greatest fan of freshwater fish. The difference in variety I find at fish counter...

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iarmhiman wrote: ↑Mon Nov 16, 2020 4:46 pm The only British food that's good is their BIR Indian food which is excellent.

I've never seen country as obsessed with sandwiches as the UK.

Try the States, they have about 10 different names for the bloody things.

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So, how have Ireland done in the RWC? Based on the expectations of Aus, SA, NZ or Arg, they've been absolutely abysmal. However, based on the much lower expectations of a 6N country their results have been: 1999 - atrocious 2003 - below par 2007 - abysmal 2011 - reasonable 2015 - disappointing 2019...

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https://twitter.com/SlimyQuagsire/status/1198320201793753089 I've had everything in the top 2 levels, and it was all delicious. The bottom row looks shit though, of course Wouldn't the more obvious explanation be that a country's cuisine fits its climate? Seems pretty obvious to me. Five of the bot...

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Fruit and Nutt wrote: ↑Mon Nov 16, 2020 3:07 pm
Duff Paddy wrote: ↑Mon Nov 16, 2020 2:44 pm What I can’t forgive is the Italians who came to Ireland in the 70’s and instead of bringing over some of their fantastic cuisine they decided to open up chip shops

I'm sure they tried but selling spuds to the Irish is much easier than selling pasta to them.

That is very good.

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Post rwc rankings are a bit of a joke The reality is that all the top 3 sides lost to each other in the rwc and the saffas didn’t have the balls to turn up for the championship If a coach said "No" to 300 mil and "Yes" for his player's welfare and you call such a quality decision which will improve...

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Won't take much for Wales to drop out of the top 10.

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Just watched it again NZ came very close twice to scoring near the end Bad pass from the replacement number 8 after a good run off the base and that knock on by Ioane It's amazing how good they are at getting into try scoring positions from nothing compared to other teams Could have won but Argies ...

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MrDominator wrote: ↑Sun Nov 15, 2020 3:08 pm I'd loved to see how this would work in Scotland. I suspect they'd have to improvise.

5 Heroin addicts
3 Deep fried mars bar addicts
3 Glaswegian tenement dwellers
2 Edinburgh private schoolboys
1 English poach
1 Borders farmer

Take a break, you are way off your game at the moment.

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It looks like reality is dawning in New Zealand. Here's Richard Knowler: Thankfully, the All Blacks never had to meet England in London. That game, as part of the northern tour, was canned because of the pandemic. Imagine the damage an England team coached by Eddie Jones could inflict if they playe...

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Why did their used to be so few Maori playing rugby for New Zealand. Did they not take the game seriously or something What period are you talking about? He might be referring to 1928, 1949, 1965? https://youtu.be/htCTWZqCMhQ?t=13 Literally the first All Black you see in that clip is Maori. Anon is...

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mr bungle wrote: ↑Sun Nov 15, 2020 10:13 am Yes.

They could lose to NZ and beat Namibia, Italy, Canada, Japan, Wales & England.

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UncleFB wrote: ↑Sun Nov 15, 2020 7:36 am
Jay Cee Gee wrote: ↑Sun Nov 15, 2020 7:35 am
Anonymous 1 wrote: ↑Sun Nov 15, 2020 4:16 am
Why did their used to be so few Maori playing rugby for New Zealand. Did they not take the game seriously or something
What period are you talking about?
He might be referring to 1928, 1949, 1965?

Ouch.

Magpie26

Here's an interesting stat my boets. NZ v SA head to head. Played: 99 NZ wins: 59 SA wins: 36 Drawn: 4 Pretty clear who the dominant side is. So what you are saying is that if the ABs and the Boks play each other twice a year for the next 10 years and incredibly the Boks win every single game, they...

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