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mightyreds

I feel that Eddie is odds on to pull his boys together in the next few weeks and become a 3-time losing finalist. Will England ever live it down if he wins the thing finally? Losing to Eddie’s Oz in the knockout stages will be harsh enough. When Dave Rennie finished the November tour I said the Wal...

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I reckon we can nut out a couple more pages discussing the merits of Chris “Buddha” Handy… Go you good thing! Classic. Best Australian commentator ever. Fact. Funny story about Buddha. In 1998 the Oceania WC qualifiers were held in Oz, coz the Wobs only made the qtrs in '95. Anyway Buddha and Matt ...

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As an aside, my 12 year old daughter said 'Dad, it is now LGBTQIA+' I asked 'what does the A stand for?" Her reply - 'Don't know, maybe animals?' Me 'I'm pretty sure that is still illegal' It stands for the A sexuals. I can’t for the life of me fathom how they’re oppressed . What about the 'pansexu...

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It was a great tournament, and apart from the Matildas shining bright for a while, what I actually enjoyed most was seeing the arrogant USA bundled out. I have had such a gutful of teams taking a knee or donning the rainbow hair in efforts to turn international competitions into platforms for their ...

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It was always going to be a calamitous misstep, and it's really a measure of the massive ignorance of populations regarding climate science that politicians were able to pull off this heist of economies to fix something that doesn't need fixing. We're still waiting for someone to prove that human CO...

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Well, how about that! Man I loved to see the Wallabies forwards smashing into 2 Kiwi players, going right through them and coming out running on the other side; backs running backwards to take a ball over their shoulder, turn, and start a rampaging attack. A weird thing happened while I was watching...

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Well, how about that! Man I loved to see the Wallabies forwards smashing into 2 Kiwi players, going right through them and coming out running on the other side; backs running backwards to take a ball over their shoulder, turn, and start a rampaging attack. A weird thing happened while I was watching...

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Well, how about that! Man I loved to see the Wallabies forwards smashing into 2 Kiwi players, going right through them and coming out running on the other side; backs running backwards to take a ball over their shoulder, turn, and start a rampaging attack. A weird thing happened while I was watching...

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Quades defence has been much improved. Foleys as well. By starting CG now Jones can give him valuable experience as well as keep Cooper on ice a little. Nah it was too early to start agaisnt All Blacks. He's a young, inexperienced kid with a known weakness in kicking. He played 2 test matches off t...

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Quades defence has been much improved. Foleys as well. By starting CG now Jones can give him valuable experience as well as keep Cooper on ice a little. Nah it was too early to start agaisnt All Blacks. He's a young, inexperienced kid with a known weakness in kicking. He played 2 test matches off t...

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RV should be cited when the Chiefs player whose body made direct contact with Slippers head* in the SR semi-final is cited. * causing him to be concussed and removed from the field, leaving the Brumbies without one of their best players for 62 minutes of the game. We have been told ad nauseam that d...

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Eddie Jones off to be a pretty horrible start. Can we get Rennie back? At least there were some improvments in the team this week. Skelton and McReight looked good. Gordon, Kerevi, Korobiete and Mark N looked good. Bench was decent (Uelese didn't get a chance to f up the lineout). Bell added so muc...

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Sean Maloney does a very good job with the pronunciation. Fijian names are notoriously difficult to pronounce, even for other Pacific Islanders as they have different phonetics and secret sounds that only Fijians understand ;) I remember Gordon Bray also being vety good. He could pronounce the name...

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Look it’s a damn sight better to when they would talk about the Ella brothers telepathic ability to communicate , it being ‘black magic’ and giggling. But yes unnecessarily lazy . I never knew that 😕 Settle down. It's not racism. Marky Mark is well respected. He just has a very difficult last name ...

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Eddie Jones off to be a pretty horrible start. Can we get Rennie back? At least there were some improvments in the team this week. Skelton and McReight looked good. Gordon, Kerevi, Korobiete and Mark N looked good. Bench was decent (Uelese didn't get a chance to f up the lineout). Bell added so muc...

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That Tom Wrong is some shit fullback, no way he’s the best option. He can be brilliant at times but he's not the smartest player and often makes silly mistakes. When Kellaway is back, he'll probably own that position. TW does great stuff, but he seems poor at handling the bouncing ball: he did a di...

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How to save a game, then throw it away instantly: great intercept try immediately followed by 2 sloppy and illegal tackles. Very entertaining game nevertheless, as was NZ vs SA. I love the rushed headline by Planet Rugby: 'Argentina got their Rugby Championship campaign back on track when they seale...

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Berry's refereeing in this defies belief: 1st half he misses a yellow card, then the Chiefs have hands in a Brumbies ruck 10 metres out from their own line, and are awarded a penalty for it!

Looks like the Bs will have to beat the ref as well to win this.

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BigBoof Retallick with some Etzebeth against White, and where's the f''''g yellow card for the shoulder to the head in the tackle against Slipper? A possible red, and yet it seems they've shelved cards for this game. If they allow it, these pricks will be doing it all night.

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I notice the nongs at Planet Rugby have 'Jack Wright' at fullback for the Brumbies.

Sloppy Joe journalism.

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That's down you filthy plum Maaaaate. Imagine if it were the other way round and there was a hurricane players hand clearly and directly under the ball the whole way. I suspect the ball probably did touch a blade of grass or two but that’s held up in anyone’s book every day of the week. And far fro...

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Well-done Brumbies! A good, see-sawing game but the Brumbies the better team overall, with the dominance in tries. They did well to cover the loss of Toole and the Brumbies locks can be expecting calls from Eddie Jones (imo) as the scrum dominated the Canes' 8 and the tight 5s of our other 2 sides w...

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Not looking good for Drua with a try against them inside 2 mins.! Where's that stonewall defence from last week?

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Over in Chainsaw Territory I hope the Reds do something different to last week. The whole game against the Drua they looked one beat behind the music, and the sight of the Drua scrum chewing up the Reds tight 5 was surreal (apart from showing how far the Drua have come). If the Drua can carry on wit...

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I'm glad I avoided long covid at least unlike some of my friends who are suffering serious long term affects. Reading today that according to WHO, studies have shown that between 10-20% of people infected with Covid will go on to develop symptoms that can be diagnosed as long Covid... I mean those ...

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LOVE CHILD: I recently caught COVID for the 2nd time in 2 years and kicked its ass for the 2nd time in years (luckily, this one didn't last for 3 months like the first).

I noticed it leaving by the backdoor and the front end looked like Xi Jiping while the rear end looked like Fauci.

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Corey Toole is a big loss for the Brumbies. He is a game-changer in the manner of Joe Roff, though a very different type of player. Apart from that, it will all be up to whether the Brumbies hold up in the tight 5. Only the Brumbies and the Force have had a highly competitive tight 5 this year, and ...

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This is a nonsense thread. The whole basis of sport is that teams of inevitably different standards compete in an ongoing effort to better themselves and become the best. It's healthy. Are you suggesting the only good competitions in the world would be ones where every game was won by a couple of po...

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Tahs had a show in this until the bombed try by Pietsch. You can't hand points back like that without getting bitten by it. Pity, because he is usually so impeccable.

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The lie that UK is supporting the Ukrainian people totally exposed as Putin blows up stockpiles of uranium depleted shells sent by UK to Ukraine to use against the Russians. It will cause enough of a crisis as it is, but if Ukraine fired the cancer-inducing shells at Russian forces on fields which a...

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Unlucky on the loss mate but this is pathetic carry on. :lol: You don't think there's an issue with all-Kiwi reffing teams missing stuff? Hey mate, want to apologise for my comment there. Tbh I don't think kiwi refs are any worse than any other, but I do think they dropped the ball here, and one of...

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Dropped in to see how the Ukraine delusionals are doing on here. Looks like the most tragic such as Eldanfire and Feckwanker have pulled up stumps, finally realising they are victims of a hoax, but the irrepressible Flockwitt is still at it in various ways. Here's a few reality checks to get you up ...

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GO the Junior Wallabies!

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Not sure about 6. Holloway hasn’t exactly shined at test level in the past. Cracking SR level player though. Wright probably isn’t big enough. Agree on Holloway but maybe Eddie can get the best out of him, We need a big pack to do anything at they WC. Strengthens the line out. Forget the Pooper mk2...

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Disappointing performance by the Reds in the end. The loss of Flook proved to be disastrous, as he causes so much trouble out wide in combination with JP, Campbell, Suliasi, Daunugu, etc. His replacement had a poor game, which was compounded by a poor game from the Reds' 12, who can't have been JOC ...

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Halves better than Aussie Donald Duck (Donaldson), in no particular order, and does not include all better halves: Edmed (1st choice 10 for the ‘tahs) Will Harrison (Injured, but arguably ahead of him in the u21’s) Lolesio (lightyears ahead of Edmed who is considered better than (picked before) Don...

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Begins at conception. If you weren't conceived you wouldn't be on this Post.

End of argument.

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Tahs were awful. Losing the 2022 gains I really through they would kick on this season. Gordon is simply a liability now. The last play summed up the stupid options taken. From what I've seen of the Tahs' reserve 9 he is very good. Maybe they should give him a shot and have Conroy sit on the bench ...

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Continues my impression from previous weeks that Waratahs will struggle for wins this year (despite having many players of real class), principally for 2 reasons: dumb captaincy and their tight 5. I have the greatest respect for Hooper, but though no one is a better captain at providing inspiration,...

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Squad summary Total Test caps: 783 Average Test caps: 20 Average age: 26 Uncapped players: 8 Most capped: Michael Hooper (118 Tests) Youngest member: Angus Bell, 21 Oldest members: Cadeyrn Neville, Toni Pulu, 33 Breakdown: Brumbies 15, NSW Waratahs 10, Queensland Reds 8, Melbourne Rebels 4, Western...

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