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Slim 293 wrote: ↑Mon Jul 07, 2025 10:34 am Mack Hansen has come full circle…

Riding the bench in the Canberra winter.

I expect we'll see him in mooseheads Wed night.

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I don't particularly like eligibility based on ancestry, but we do have to concede that the PI nations are something of a special case in international rugby and would be massively hamstrung without it. Yeah, the PI's are fvcked without ancestry, hell they're fvcked even if only grandparent was rem...

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Hard to disagree with any of that. Hussey is probably the top rugby journalist in the country.

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I picked it… Safeguard Global ACT Brumbies vs British & Irish Lions, Wednesday 9th July, kick-off 7.45pm GIO Stadium, Bruce, Canberra Starting XV 1. Lington Ieli 2. Lachlan Lonergan 3. Rhys van Nek 4. Lachie Shaw 5. Cadeyrn Neville 6. Tom Hooper** 7. Rory Scott 8. Tuaina Taii Tualima 9. Ryan Lonerg...

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Bindi wrote: ↑Mon Jul 07, 2025 2:00 am If the Lions play like they did against the Tahs, Ponies will take this.

You'd have to imagine the Wednesday team is their 1st XV though?

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Team probably something like 1. Ieli 2. Lonergan 3. Fotuaika 4. Shaw 5. Neville 6. Tualima 7. Reimer 8. Scott 9. Lonergan 10. Meredith 11. Toole 12. Feliuai 13. Sapsford 14. Muirhead 15. Debreczeni (15 and 10 could possibly swap) 16. Bowron 17. Alatini 18. Van Nek 19. T Hooper (aparently will get s...

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Team probably something like 1. Ieli 2. Lonergan 3. Fotuaika 4. Shaw 5. Neville 6. Tualima 7. Reimer 8. Scott 9. Lonergan 10. Meredith 11. Toole 12. Feliuai 13. Sapsford 14. Muirhead 15. Debreczeni (15 and 10 could possibly swap) 16. Bowron 17. Alatini 18. Van Nek 19. T Hooper (aparently will get so...

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I remember a poster accusing the Wallabies of poaching Adam Coleman. He hails from the little known pacfic island of Tasmania. :lol: I remember someone talking about how RA poached Samu Kerevi. Amazing foresight of them to nab him at 4 years old. :lol: Although its better now, Ulunless you are the ...

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I remember a poster accusing the Wallabies of poaching Adam Coleman. He hails from the little known pacfic island of Tasmania.

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When: Wed, Jul 9, 8:00 PM AEST GMT : get f**ked mate look it up yourself Where: https://canberradaily.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/20200823001486396252-minihighres.jpg Bruce Stadium https://stadiumseatingplan.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/GIO-stadium-canberra-735x400.jpg Who: Brumbies https://...

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That shouldn't factor into qualification. They play by the same rules everyone else does. If we don't like players qualifying on residency, then change the rules. Basketball only allows one naturalized player (defined as receiving a passport for that country after the age of 16) on the roster at a ...

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Rugby2023 wrote: ↑Sun Jul 06, 2025 12:54 pm Is man of the moment Gamble eligible for the Wallabies, I read somewhere he is a New Zealander

I think so. He's been here a bloody long time.

He's probably third choice at best at 7 though.

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I did wonder how keen they would be if it was an unpaid tour- will never know of course. I mean, we'd should them a couple of cases in the sheds every match. That's probably enough to get Hansen there I think he would tour for the free flight home amd a sausage sizzler. Yep good opportunity for him...

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How very dare we live in a multicultural world. Those players aren't playing for the lions because of multiculturalism. It's because of money. I did wonder how keen they would be if it was an unpaid tour- will never know of course. I mean, we'd should them a couple of cases in the sheds every match...

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Munster-fogs wrote: ↑Sun Jul 06, 2025 7:13 am How very dare we live in a multicultural world.

Those players aren't playing for the lions because of multiculturalism. It's because of money.

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And not the best advertisement for rugby in Asia having an expat side representing them, they argue and do many players are born and raised there but I didnt see one Asian face/name. That shouldn't factor into qualification. They play by the same rules everyone else does. If we don't like players q...

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You mean it's because they moved where they wanted to? And not because their parents made them? Just like Dauganu for Wallabies, etc and ones with ABs? ...because they grew up in the country they represent. Daugunu grew up in Aussie? Could of sworn he moved there at 20 years old. Or do they grow up...

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"The fijian collossus" "The samoan Mercury" Skelton, lolesio Those seem made up. Skelton was born in NZ and moved to Australia when he was 10. Noah was hr same story but younger. A bit different to a 20 something pro getting offered more coin to move north. You mean it's because they moved where th...

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grievous wrote: ↑Sun Jul 06, 2025 6:30 am This needs to be an annual game, give these regional cities guaranteed games.

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Knoath wrote: ↑Sun Jul 06, 2025 6:20 am Is this an official test match? If so what are permutations for WR standings. And as mentioned by commentators this will 1st time they've lost back to back against Fiji.

I think we are 8 and fiji 9....which seems fair based on that.

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My three year old

"Daddy, they can't hear you. They are too far away"

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Farva wrote: ↑Sun Jul 06, 2025 5:05 am
Zakar wrote: ↑Sun Jul 06, 2025 4:49 am Slipper out not good.
Poreki too. Hope he is ok, HIA it seems

Slipper back

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Our scrum completely dominant but not getting much pay out of it

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South Africa connected are Pierre Schoeman, from Pretoria, Duhan and Van Der Merwe, who hails from George. Huw Jones visited South Africa in his gap year in 2013 and played rugby for False Bay Rugby Club before turning out for the University of Cape Town’s Ikey Tigers in the 2014 Varsity Cup. fudge...

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Slipper out not good.

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WALLABIES v FIJI TEAMS FIJI (15-1): Salesi Rayasi, Kalaveti Ravouvou, Iosefo Masi, Josua Tuisova, Jiuta Wainiqolo, Caleb Muntz, Simione Kuruvoli, Viliame Mata, Elia Canakaivata, Lekima Tagitagivalu, Temo Mayanavanua, Isoa Nasilasila, Peni Ravai, Tevita Ikanivere (c), Eroni Mawi Replacements: Sam Mat...

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Lots of kiwis in that side too. Name them… "The fijian collossus" "The samoan Mercury" Skelton, lolesio Those seem made up. Skelton was born in NZ and moved to Australia when he was 10. Noah was hr same story but younger. A bit different to a 20 something pro getting offered more coin to move north.

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*Let’s not fúck about when fúcking up names: Amateurzero **Possibly hallucinating, but I swear I watched Creighton be decidedly not-shit in a game not long ago. Can he reproduce that? ***Aaaah, but which Walton; Eeyore or the version where I regretted calling him Eeyore? Big Miles might not be much...

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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... 1 Fijian who moved when he was 20. He had never played pro rugby. Everyone else was either born here or moved when they were children. Try ag...

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I'm not wild about the amount of johnny foreigners in the lions... but Hansen's mum is actually Irish. Feels like maybe he should get a moral outrage pass. Born in Australia, grew up in Australia, learned his rugby in Australia, played Australia u20s, played 20 games of pro rugby in Australia befor...

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Mog The Almighty wrote: ↑Sat Jul 05, 2025 12:39 pm 2 Aussies, 2 Saffers and only 1 Kiwi? Is that all?

Even if I haven't missed anyone, still pretty strange that the British and Irish Lions could field a team that is 1/3rd antipodean.

3 Aussies.

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Has Justin Marshall had a mea culpa?

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It's only a good decision if you ignore those pesky laws. Also, the law you quoted was totally unrelated. But don't let that hold you back. :lol: I get you're angry. I'd be angry all the time too if I were welsh :thumbup: Jeez, you're trying too hard today, sport. Very unbecoming. :lol: You've been...

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ROLDY wrote: ↑Sat Jul 05, 2025 12:44 pm So where the fudge has this Tahs team been all year?

They've been pretty solid at home TBF. I went to a few games and they won every one.

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I'm implying no bias, but the big decisions all went the Tahs' way today. The two biggest were. 1. Allowing the Tahs' wing to crawl to the tryline after he'd been tackled. 2. Allowing the Tahs' player to slap the ball out of Genge's hand on the tryline. That's a 12pt swing, which would have made th...

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So the type of boots one wears puts them down as some rugby wannabe? What uniform is permissible? RMs are for north sure liberal voters whole like to pretend they're country people. Country people were blundstones. I wear both (and im a state school kid and not from sydney). And know plenty of coun...

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There was nothing wrong with the referee. Quit yar whining. He was shit, but shit to both teams. That's rugby. Happens. I'm implying no bias, but the big decisions all went the Tahs' way today. The two biggest were. 1. Allowing the Tahs' wing to crawl to the tryline after he'd been tackled. 2. Allo...

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:thumbup: Waratahs showed grit. All these classless c-nts whining about how bad the Lions are and the referee needs to go and start following football or something. Plastic rugby men. It's possible to highlight that a referee was dogshit without actually impacting the result. The Tahs were never in...

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John Howard is a tool. The Waratahs crowd cheering him speaks volumes for the wit kant of “Tahs” supporters. People remember him with rose tinted glasses. Regardless of your politics, he (as well as Keating and Hawke) before him were acres better as leaders than anyone since. I’m going the other wa...

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