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Richard Nicholas Champion de Crespigny? Anyone ? Like the french would? Dick Nick? Champion du Crepney appears to be the ozzie standard pronunciation. Shom-pe-on du Crepe-in-nyee for me but real French French speakers will probably have a different opinion 🤔 Ritcho probably the closest in Ozzie.

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Wilson as good as Cliffy Palu? They’re very different types of 8. Wilson is more similar to Kieran Reed. He’s athletic, rangy, amazing hands, links well, and has a huge motor and effective work rate. Valetini is more similar to Palu in how he plays, but does it from 6. The best the Australian backr...

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Reiko out, Sevu to the left, Jordan to the right, Jordie onto the bench. It's probably not the worst thing to have Jordan helping Love out at the back on his first start. It's a pity the couldn't do a straight swap with Narawa. Jordie has a heavy workload. Don't really get that either. Already had ...

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Murdoch wrote: ↑Thu Jul 17, 2025 9:18 pm
Dan54. wrote: ↑Thu Jul 17, 2025 8:57 pm Also noted that Lord has been named for the Naki in the shield game tomorrow, so maybe available going forward for RC?
Darry should be fit for Canterbury's warmup against Manawatu Saturday week.

We actually have a pretty good choice of locks at the moment......when they are all fit that is.

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I thought that welsh flanker, Morgan, should’ve been there somewhere on the bench. I'm surprised he isn't starting TBH. One area I think the Lions haven't been great so far is turning over ball at the breakdown. They have struggled a bit more against teams with a specialist 7 and BOK is the type of...

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Niko Jones on debut.

Poaching Samoan's

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grouch wrote: ↑Tue Jul 15, 2025 12:47 pm
Grandpa wrote: ↑Tue Jul 15, 2025 12:34 pm The leaked backline.

9. Ratima
10. Dmac
11. Ioane
12. Tupaea
13. ALB
14. Narawa
15. Love

Bench
21. Hotham
22. Tavatavanawai
23. B.Barrett

Looks better.

Far too many Choking Chiefs

Actually pretty happy with that.

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Well the introduction of the u20 RC seems to be paying off.
1st all SH final since 2012 and 3 of the 4 semi finalists from the competition.

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sorCrer wrote: ↑Tue Jul 15, 2025 9:39 am To be fair, Ratumaitavuki-Kneepkens is tricky.

I would have thought Kneepkens would have been pretty easy for Saffers

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To be honest France probably lost the game rather than we won it. They had so many opportunities to score but made so many mistakes. Based on the first half, it looks to me that the French lack efficiency in NZ 22s. Too many opportunities wasted. They also tried to force solutions looking for the o...

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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.

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Missed the second half because someone called for a bloody meeting. Congrat baby Blacks. Good luck in the final. Missed half the second half too and when I got back the score had hardly moved since half time....don't know what happened there. To be honest France probably lost the game rather than w...

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BBs pummel the French scrum

Now down to uncontested.

BBs take it

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And saying that the BBs score with 13 men

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That's probably the game gone with 2 players off

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BBs split the French wide open in the midfield.....and then France do exactly the same

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Very nice try by France but scrubbed off for a forward pass.

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Great start by BBs but France come back strongly and it's all square.

Edit missed conversion

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Thats the 50 up.

Hells Teeth that England 23 is some athlete!

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And another great kick and score under the posts.
All over now

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Great kick, Wales defence panics and England winger in at the corner.
Game getting away from Wales now.

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Great break by England and Wales dancing with death scramble it away.
Very entertaining game

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Watching the game again, it's pretty hard to accept the consequences of a dangerous lifting tackle and rather unsavoury afters to the head are the same as a player who pretty instinctively moves his hand to the ball, knocking it on. I want someone to go back and collect all of Marshall’s moaning ab...

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Watching the game again, it's pretty hard to accept the consequences of a dangerous lifting tackle and rather unsavoury afters to the head are the same as a player who pretty instinctively moves his hand to the ball, knocking it on. I want someone to go back and collect all of Marshall’s moaning ab...

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Watching the game again, it's pretty hard to accept the consequences of a dangerous lifting tackle and rather unsavoury afters to the head are the same as a player who pretty instinctively moves his hand to the ball, knocking it on. No system is perfect of course but I think WR needs to have a bit o...

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Nice, but doesn't the ball have to travel over the 5m line?

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Laumape looking frankly slow and useless

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Lions clicking very well.

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First 2 Lions trys pretty much came about due to lack of cohesion or understanding of who is doing what for the AUNZs. To be expected to a large extent.
3rd Lions try pretty well done.

Koribeti is busted, most of the others doing pretty well as individuals though.

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I thought he did a great job. Winners generally do! I only watched first half and a smattering of the second but seemed like he was very good alright. Me too. Even though France well down on the penalty count - but that was a reflection of the AB performance. Ridley was balanced in his interpretati...

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Ted. wrote: ↑Sat Jul 12, 2025 9:54 am The ref was very soft in the final quarter. Otherwise not a horror story.

Soft....confused is probably a better description.

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The 96 one? First RC game ever... perfect rain performance... I think he means Loveridge vs the Lions in 83. Loveridge was most renowned for his performance in the second test against the touring British Lions on 18 June 1983, at Athletic Park in Wellington. According to Lindsay Knight, for the New...

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Who do AB fans consider the better SH, Smith or Marshall? And how big is the gap? Assuming it’s Smith Smith for sure. Very different styles. Marshall (and Kelleher) were really big guys for 9s at the time and could bust tackles and tackle like additional loose forwards but neither of them could pas...

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Yes, we are the bollocks Waa hoping he would let the Chiefs start this week but Tupaea missing and the rest on the bench....again. Correction. Narawa making a surprise appearance Hopefully Tupaea next week. I don't want to see Jacobson though.. ever. He's the modern Reuben Thorne. Bit harsh. I'm no...

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Was a bit of a pity the Brumbies couldn't field a full strength team, probably would have pushed what is looking to be very close to the Lions 1st choice team pretty hard. Saying that the try the Brumbies gave away on the 40 minute mark, while well taken, was pretty dumb by them :? One thing I've se...

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always makes me laugh when Union fans get all pissy and condescending about League when nearly all Union defences and attack moves are straight out of league play books - got a league man in charge of the Lions(got no problem with Faz Snr as loved him as a Wigan player) though I am not so fond of h...

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Grandpa wrote: ↑Mon Jul 07, 2025 5:34 pm
Magpie26 wrote: ↑Mon Jul 07, 2025 5:30 pm
Grandpa wrote: ↑Mon Jul 07, 2025 2:27 pm

Scott Barrett is likely out as well.
Tuipulotu in and keep Holland and Vaai in the same positions?
Probably. Is any other tall lock fit?

I don't think so. We seem to have a real problem keeping locks fit.

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Well Lio-Willie came in as injury cover for Jacobson so I guess Jacobson is preferred over Lio-Willie. I wonder if he will be available this weekend? He had that history of bad knocks early in his career. I would like to see the same team(without Reece of course) I think they will have better feel ...

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The last test against France is July 19th... The first RC match is Aug 16th against Argentina... A 4 week break.. Couldn't the France games have been moved back a couple of weeks so all the stars could come? Probably would not allow the French players to have the required break before the beginning...

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”past it” or another part? The "I wonder bit ...", Mr Mike. I'm actually quite hopeful , the physical toll of NZ derbies, Rugby Championship every year are not conducive to along and happy life IMO . He's made a smart choice and should be well capable of making an informed decision on RWC '27 at th...

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