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- Sat Jun 21, 2025 4:34 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: match 1 - B&I Lions v Argentina OFFICIAL
- Replies: 674
- Views: 11512
Re: match 1 - B&I Lions v Argentina
The Lions were unimpressive and will hardly have Joe Schmidt shaking in his boots. Their best were the centres and wings, and the always dependable Genge (though Freeman gifted one try to Argentina, who were wonderful and it was great to see the emotion of their fans and players doing the pogo with ...
- Fri Jun 20, 2025 11:05 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Wallabies 2025: Revenge of the Schmidt
- Replies: 16195
- Views: 673039
Re: Wallabies 2025: Revenge of the Schmidt
Yes, but the Lions don't have younger, better players to put in - we do.
- Fri Jun 20, 2025 11:03 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Wallabies 2025: Revenge of the Schmidt
- Replies: 16195
- Views: 673039
Re: Wallabies 2025: Revenge of the Schmidt
Two absolutely astonishing omissions: Ryan Lonergan - I'm a Reds supporter, and I can still see he was the best performed Australian 9 in Super Rugby. Tate was close, but RL was still out front. Josh Canham - with Nick Frost, he was one of the 2 best Aussie locks, week in and week out. I prefer to b...
- Fri Jun 20, 2025 10:54 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Wallabies 2025: Revenge of the Schmidt
- Replies: 16195
- Views: 673039
- Fri Jun 20, 2025 10:52 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: SR Final: Crusaders vs Chiefs: MATCH THREAD: Saturday 21st June
- Replies: 424
- Views: 8090
- Sat May 10, 2025 7:38 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Lions Lions Lions
- Replies: 3032
- Views: 237775
Re: Lions Lions Lions
And has anyone ever seen a bigger bullsh[*]t fest than the announcing of the B&A Lions squad? They took 60 minutes to do something they could have done in 20. Muffled shouts kept coming from the very toffee audience and I'm guessing they were saying "Get on with it!"
- Sat May 10, 2025 7:35 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Lions Lions Lions
- Replies: 3032
- Views: 237775
Re: Lions Lions Lions
Be nice to have full stadiums. Every twelve years they get them. I wonder who holds the world record for a tier one test crowd. Clue: it was a game between 2 x SH teams. I think it was the 1998 Test between Australia and the ABs in Melbourne, which got 98,000 plus. I attended with my brother and to...
- Sat May 10, 2025 7:24 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: SRP Rd 13 'tahs v Reds, Friday 9 May 2025
- Replies: 63
- Views: 3960
Re: SRP Rd 13 'tahs v Reds, Friday 9 May 2025
What a game! Both teams going like hell at it and the Reds only hitting the lead for the first time 2 minutes before the end. Thankfully they were very strong from there to close it out. They should have won by more because they scored a try at 17 minutes (check it out on your Stan replay) which was...
- Sat May 10, 2025 7:16 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: SRP Rd 13 'tahs v Reds, Friday 9 May 2025
- Replies: 63
- Views: 3960
Re: SRP Rd 13 'tahs v Reds, Friday 9 May 2025
What a game! Both teams going like hell at it and the Reds only hitting the lead for the first time 2 minutes before the end. Thankfully they were very strong from there to close it out. They should have won by more because they scored a try at 17 minutes (check it out on your Stan replay) which was...
- Thu May 01, 2025 6:29 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Australian Politics Thread
- Replies: 31185
- Views: 2532769
Re: The Australian Politics Thread
This is a warning to all those eligible to vote in the Australian Federal Election: do NOT use online voting! The following report, concentrating on the seat of Aston, was issued by America's leading cyber security analyst, J Alex Halderman* after his visit to NSW in 2023 to witness the State Federa...
- Mon Apr 21, 2025 11:35 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Wallabies 2025: Revenge of the Schmidt
- Replies: 16195
- Views: 673039
Re: Wallabies 2025: Revenge of the Schmidt
I’m assuming that’s in Toole’s favor based on Koroibete’s poor defence and lack of speed? After last year I feel that he’s marked to never play again under Schmidt. nt But Toole will probably find it tough to leapfrog Kellaway, Daugunu, Potter and Pietsch for a spot on the wing… it’s possible that’...
- Mon Apr 21, 2025 11:27 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Wallabies 2025: Revenge of the Schmidt
- Replies: 16195
- Views: 673039
Re: Wallabies 2025: Revenge of the Schmidt
Toole I would say is as good as most provincial wingers going around in defence, especially in cover. And he is as big as a winger needs to be for Test rugby, when you look at Kolbe driving Will Jordan into the turf in the World Cup semi-final. He makes Kolbe and Arendse look like midgets. One thing...
- Mon Apr 21, 2025 11:19 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Pope Francis gonnnnnne | Hey/Howdy/like oh mah Gad Pope Leo!
- Replies: 231
- Views: 34300
Re: Pope Francis gooooonnnnnne
He must have concluded that when he noticed he was surrounded by little angels.feckwanker wrote: ↑Mon Apr 21, 2025 11:16 amI'm stealing that.DragsterDriver wrote: ↑Mon Apr 21, 2025 11:03 am "The Pope actually woke in the hospital and asked if he was in heaven. No replied the porter, we're just taking a shortcut through the children's ward."
- Mon Apr 21, 2025 11:17 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Pope Francis gonnnnnne | Hey/Howdy/like oh mah Gad Pope Leo!
- Replies: 231
- Views: 34300
Re: Pope Francis gooooonnnnnne
I guess convention demands I say RIP but I won't miss him. A bolshevik nutcase who supported Chinese persecution of Christians - how inappropriate for a Pope can you get?
- Sat Aug 03, 2024 12:33 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: When a player utterly dominates the opposition ....
- Replies: 94
- Views: 7752
Re: When a player utterly dominates the opposition ....
Thierry Dusautoir vs NZ in 2007 or 2011? It seems everybody is forgetting the great Springbok lock, Frik DuPreez, who not only monstered the British Lions' lineout in the 1st Test of 1962 but also scored a 70 metre try, as he could run like a gazelle. I notice Frik is still with us to I send him my...
- Sat Aug 03, 2024 12:08 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: When a player utterly dominates the opposition ....
- Replies: 94
- Views: 7752
- Sat Jul 13, 2024 1:58 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: AUSTRALIA v WALES • Sat 13 Jul • Melbourne
- Replies: 988
- Views: 22515
Re: AUSTRALIA v WALES • Sat 13 Jul • Melbourne
During the week I foresaw a possibility that Lolesio could manage his game to the point of being his best every week, based on improvements over the past year, ie: . Brumbies' SR semi-final 2023: Brumbies forwards have the better of the Chiefs, but crucial passing and kicking errors by Noah contribu...
- Sun Jul 07, 2024 11:46 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: AUSTRALIA v WALES • Sat 13 Jul • Melbourne
- Replies: 988
- Views: 22515
Re: AUSTRALIA v WALES • Sat 6 Jul • SFS
What an arm wrestle! Daugunu, Lukhan - superb! Other heroes: Taniela, Conroy, Cale, Lynagh, Kailea Everybody else: for working hard throughout, with a miraculous self-redemption from Thomas Wright. I had been thinking, 'Maybe we have Kellaway at fullback next week...' And though Planet Rugby player ...
- Fri Jul 05, 2024 12:11 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: AUSTRALIA v WALES • Sat 13 Jul • Melbourne
- Replies: 988
- Views: 22515
Re: AUSTRALIA v WALES • Sat 6 Jul • SFS
I got myself up to speed on Williams - realised he was the inspirational captain that led the Force to a number of against-the-odds wins this year - I just hadn't picked up his name from the commentary. With leadership like that at his age, this is someone you want fighting in the trenches beside yo...
- Fri Jul 05, 2024 4:56 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: AUSTRALIA v WALES • Sat 13 Jul • Melbourne
- Replies: 988
- Views: 22515
Re: AUSTRALIA v WALES • Sat 6 Jul • SFS
I’m sure that we will see Donaldson in the next few weeks. Lynagh plays similarly to Noah but he has a potential ceiling much higher than the other two. He also has a good connection with Tate, Paisami, Flook and Wright/McReight. Its a perfect opportunity to ease him in. If the game goes south Noah...
- Thu Jul 04, 2024 3:02 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: AUSTRALIA v WALES • Sat 13 Jul • Melbourne
- Replies: 988
- Views: 22515
Re: AUSTRALIA v WALES • Sat 6 Jul • SFS
I’m sure that we will see Donaldson in the next few weeks. Lynagh plays similarly to Noah but he has a potential ceiling much higher than the other two. He also has a good connection with Tate, Paisami, Flook and Wright/McReight. Its a perfect opportunity to ease him in. If the game goes south Noah...
- Thu Jul 04, 2024 2:58 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: U.S. politics thread and Donald Trump - Putin's Cock-holster of U.S. Presidents
- Replies: 46435
- Views: 2288027
Re: U.S. politics thread and Joe Biden-the Ronan O'Gara of U.S. Presidents
Again I have to ask you, what do you think he's up to? Leaving aside any allegations of inappropriate behaviour with adults which is a separate issue, all I'm seeing here is a somewhat senile old man. I mean not a great choice for President really, but you seem to be trying to blow this up into som...
- Thu Jul 04, 2024 2:43 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: U.S. politics thread and Donald Trump - Putin's Cock-holster of U.S. Presidents
- Replies: 46435
- Views: 2288027
Re: U.S. politics thread and Joe Biden-the Ronan O'Gara of U.S. Presidents
It's all falling apart for the most corrupt president in the history of the USA, and probably in the history of western democracies. Biden was one of the generation of politicians influenced by the Washington swamp to be in it to make as much money as he could anyway he could, right from his first d...
- Thu Jul 04, 2024 2:11 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: AUSTRALIA v WALES • Sat 13 Jul • Melbourne
- Replies: 988
- Views: 22515
Re: AUSTRALIA v WALES • Sat 6 Jul • SFS
I would have had Donaldson to cover Noah off the bench, because the last game the Wallabies turned out in (vs Portugal) every player was excellent and he was a part of that, but there's a lot of for and against in this spot, as Lynagh's selection is a concession to the factor I was convinced would d...
- Wed Jul 03, 2024 3:30 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: AUSTRALIA v WALES • Sat 13 Jul • Melbourne
- Replies: 988
- Views: 22515
Re: AUSTRALIA v WALES • Sat 6 Jul • SFS
Kick off: 7.45pm East Coast 5.45pm West Coast 10:45am Wales Location: Allianz Stadium https://thumbs2.imgbox.com/b1/19/rlQ2Lx1Z_t.png AUSTRALIA https://media4.giphy.com/media/YFHZMRM3wT7pcwz09i/giphy.gif Coach: Schmidty Lineup: 1. James Slipper 2. Matt Faesslar 3. Allan Ala’alatoa 4. Jeremy William...
- Wed Jul 03, 2024 3:11 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: U.K Politics Thread
- Replies: 15628
- Views: 534520
Re: Breaking: The UK is going to the polls
Go, Nigel! Time to reform that dysfunctional nation.
- Sun Mar 10, 2024 8:41 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: OFFICIAL" Reds are too lazy to start a Chiefs thread" thread
- Replies: 160
- Views: 3462
Re: OFFICIAL" Reds are too lazy to start a Chiefs thread" thread
Great to see the Reds muscle out an inspiring victory at the end. Our whole backline played like loose forwards to disrupt the dangerous Chiefs attack, and our forwards stayed strong from start to finish.
- Tue Nov 21, 2023 9:16 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Australian Politics Thread
- Replies: 31185
- Views: 2532769
Re: The Australian Politics Thread
Man, they just don't get it do they? Conservative politicians in Australia appear to be the dumbest and most stubborn people around. Yes but they know there are dumbest and stubborn voters that will vote for them. I see Dutton & co clutching their election manifesto for the next election now, same ...
- Tue Nov 21, 2023 8:48 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Australian Politics Thread
- Replies: 31185
- Views: 2532769
Re: The Australian Politics Thread
Great to see our Maori brothers and sisters out in force in Brisbane to stand against anti-semitism and send the Hamas Hate Brigade a 'you won't pass here' message. It brought tears to my eyes - the All Blacks are now my 2nd team forever!
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- Sun Oct 15, 2023 12:38 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: NZ v Ireland RWC Quarter Final Thread..
- Replies: 4147
- Views: 106763
Re: NZ v Ireland RWC Quarter Final Thread..
I pick NZ to win this: they are peaking at the right time and I have a feeling Mounga might leave grandfather Sexton grasping thin air a few times. Ireland have excelled in the development of, and adherence to, a particular style and patterns, but Joe Schmidt knows them like the back of his hand: h...
- Sat Oct 14, 2023 12:38 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Australian Politics Thread
- Replies: 31185
- Views: 2532769
Re: The Australian Politics Thread
People genuinely think that indigenous Australians already receive far too much largess, even though they're by far the most disadvantaged group in Australia. 100% this. Albo's big mistake was not running the inquiry into Murdoch. No, people don't think indigenous Australians receive too much large...
- Sat Oct 14, 2023 12:18 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Australian Politics Thread
- Replies: 31185
- Views: 2532769
Re: The Australian Politics Thread
Great news for democracy to see the Yes campaign get it's ass kicked, and Albanese's attempt to establish CCP influence on Australian government (Mayo and Reid are both avowed Communists) through a back door stopped in its tracks. Watch the accompanying video right to the end to see the Yes Campaign...
- Sat Oct 14, 2023 12:00 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: NZ v Ireland RWC Quarter Final Thread..
- Replies: 4147
- Views: 106763
Re: NZ v Ireland RWC Quarter Final Thread..
If we play at the top of our game we will win. If Ireland play at the top of their game they will win. What if both play at the top of their game? Donald Trump is elected president of ukraine and creates peace in the middle east while Putin and Zi marry and the smurfs finally catch Gargemel! I can'...
- Sat Oct 14, 2023 11:55 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: NZ v Ireland RWC Quarter Final Thread..
- Replies: 4147
- Views: 106763
Re: NZ v Ireland RWC Quarter Final Thread..
They don't have to fear me; they have to fear William Webb Ellis: Karma is a terrible, terrible force.
- Sat Oct 14, 2023 11:47 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: NZ v Ireland RWC Quarter Final Thread..
- Replies: 4147
- Views: 106763
Re: NZ v Ireland RWC Quarter Final Thread..
I pick NZ to win this: they are peaking at the right time and I have a feeling Mounga might leave grandfather Sexton grasping thin air a few times. Ireland have excelled in the development of, and adherence to, a particular style and patterns, but Joe Schmidt knows them like the back of his hand: h...
- Sat Oct 14, 2023 11:44 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: NZ v Ireland RWC Quarter Final Thread..
- Replies: 4147
- Views: 106763
Re: NZ v Ireland RWC Quarter Final Thread..
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- Sat Oct 14, 2023 11:30 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: NZ v Ireland RWC Quarter Final Thread..
- Replies: 4147
- Views: 106763
- Sat Oct 14, 2023 8:03 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: QF 4 - France vs South Africa - Sunday 15 October 23
- Replies: 1384
- Views: 33251
Re: QF 4 - France vs South Africa - Sunday 15 October 23
I wonder if the organisers have songs lined up for other teams too if they win Ireland - Zombie NZ - Paint it black would be sensational France - hmmm I wonder what song this will be! SA - Shosoloza maybe? Wales - Delilah? Fiji - no idea Argies - no idea England - something by the Spice Girls I gue...
- Sat Oct 14, 2023 7:57 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: QF 4 - France vs South Africa - Sunday 15 October 23
- Replies: 1384
- Views: 33251
Re: QF 4 - France vs South Africa - Sunday 15 October 23
Is there any update on the rumour that the Boks will be turfed out of this RWC for failing to sign the World Anti-Doping Agency's protocols, and being the only team at the Cup not to do so? On another matter: you can be sure the Saffrican coaches have authorised a whole bevy of players to give Dupon...
- Sat Oct 07, 2023 5:50 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: How Can the Wallabys Win Back the Bledisloe?
- Replies: 93
- Views: 6569
Re: How Can the Wallabys Win Back the Bledisloe?
Everyone at the Waratahs at all levels outside the player group should be fired and start again. Make the Waratahs great again. Drain the swamp. Then they should hire the entire adminstration layer and coaching staff of the Crusaders. Eliminate any chance of nepotism from NSWs. That's quite a good ...