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- Mon Nov 06, 2023 1:08 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Will Sam Cane have to face the Judiciary after his RWC Final Red?
- Replies: 174
- Views: 5224
Re: Will Sam Cane have to face the Judiciary after his RWC Final Red?
It wasn't a rough call ffs But it was a "soak" tackle. No it isn't. He clearly steps forward and tries to power through the tackle https://twitter.com/KC_Ryback80/status/1718357633910837475?s=19 Interesting there was judged to be no mitigation. Unless Im mistaken and Jesse Kriel is actually 5 feet ...
- Sun Nov 05, 2023 2:47 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: TMO needs to back off, says Nigel Owens...
- Replies: 51
- Views: 1857
Re: TMO needs to back off, says Nigel Owens...
As I said at the pub, if that is a red then rugby is dead.
- Sun Nov 05, 2023 2:44 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Is this the end of Rugby?
- Replies: 415
- Views: 13094
Re: Is this the end of Rugby?
Every World Cup is claimed to be the best by online experts :lol: :lol: Actually doesn’t matter what the sport is , every event is claimed to be the best - this one really wasn’t that good, and it took SA winning close games to make it actually exciting, that’s how meh it was. When you have to rely...
- Sun Nov 05, 2023 2:05 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: TMO needs to back off, says Nigel Owens...
- Replies: 51
- Views: 1857
Re: TMO needs to back off, says Nigel Owens...
Random must have forgotten about the forward pass in the lead up to one of the ABs tries that Owens missed.
- Sun Nov 05, 2023 2:01 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: TMO needs to back off, says Nigel Owens...
- Replies: 51
- Views: 1857
Re: TMO needs to back off, says Nigel Owens...
I've always loved Nigel Owens.
- Sun Nov 05, 2023 1:55 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: All Blacks 2024
- Replies: 1246
- Views: 97758
Re: All Blacks 2024
It would be quite the era changing statement if Robertson put Ioane back on the wing.
And dropped Beauden Barrett.
And dropped Beauden Barrett.
- Sun Nov 05, 2023 1:54 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: All Blacks 2024
- Replies: 1246
- Views: 97758
- Sat Nov 04, 2023 11:26 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: All Blacks 2024
- Replies: 1246
- Views: 97758
Re: All Blacks 2024
Fergus Burke looks a bit like Handre Pollard, lets go with him.
- Sat Nov 04, 2023 1:28 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Fozzie: The axe falls.
- Replies: 4920
- Views: 216731
Re: Fozzie: The axe falls.
It still would have been harder than it should have been if Jordie bagged that goal.
- Sat Nov 04, 2023 1:26 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: All Blacks 2024
- Replies: 1246
- Views: 97758
Re: All Blacks 2024
Yes, it includes Jase Ryan, Jason Holland, Leon MacDonald and Scott Hansen.
Could have done with one or two more Cantabs but that'll do I suppose.
Great value on the Jasons and Scotts.
Could have done with one or two more Cantabs but that'll do I suppose.
Great value on the Jasons and Scotts.
- Sat Nov 04, 2023 12:59 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: All Blacks 2024
- Replies: 1246
- Views: 97758
Re: All Blacks 2024
The team achieved that in spite of Foster, not because of him.
Any coaching credit goes to the assistants, who transformed the side's performance after the Irish series in 2022.
Any coaching credit goes to the assistants, who transformed the side's performance after the Irish series in 2022.
- Sat Nov 04, 2023 12:26 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: All Blacks 2024
- Replies: 1246
- Views: 97758
Re: All Blacks 2024
They turned down very gettable shots at goal at 50 and 55 minutes which was the bigger concern for me. That and the lack of a drop goal option showed to me we'd forgotten the importance of building points in a tight game/final. Repeating mistakes from the past The ABs are very slow learners. Like I...
- Sat Nov 04, 2023 12:05 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: All Blacks 2024
- Replies: 1246
- Views: 97758
Re: All Blacks 2024
They turned down very gettable shots at goal at 50 and 55 minutes which was the bigger concern for me.
- Fri Nov 03, 2023 11:43 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: All Blacks 2024
- Replies: 1246
- Views: 97758
Re: All Blacks 2024
Excellent post. One of the best I've seen post final. Sadly, Codie Taylor has a knack for getting the yips at the worst possible time. Not that it should have come to that. In some ways, it was justice that Foster never overcame a limited but committed South Africa in the final. He never deserved t...
- Fri Nov 03, 2023 1:07 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Wayne Barnes gooooooooone
- Replies: 89
- Views: 2599
Re: Wayne Barnes gooooooooone
I do think the NZ public need to grow up. 2019 - Lot of moaning when England beat them Bullshit there was. There was also minimal whinging when the refs made up laws that cost us a chance to win the Lions series. I can only imagine what the UK and Irish press and fanbase would have made of that had...
- Fri Nov 03, 2023 1:05 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: All Blacks 2024
- Replies: 1246
- Views: 97758
Re: All Blacks 2024
I just chanced upon the England V South Africa semi match report. I was reminded that apart from the RG Hugeman try, it was the Pollard kick from just inside the half that won the Boks the game. Championship rugby. Meanwhile the ABs spurned much easier shots in both the 50th and 55th minute, while J...
- Fri Nov 03, 2023 12:29 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Fozzie: The axe falls.
- Replies: 4920
- Views: 216731
Re: Fozzie: The axe falls.
I'm too slow to get your point, whatever it is, as to why tournament rugby isn't more successful outside tournaments. It seems you are. It's fairly well accepted that teams tighten their game plans for knockout rugby. Fewer razzle dazzle moves, and more conservative shots at goal when there is no g...
- Fri Nov 03, 2023 12:21 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Fozzie: The axe falls.
- Replies: 4920
- Views: 216731
- Fri Nov 03, 2023 11:28 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Fozzie: The axe falls.
- Replies: 4920
- Views: 216731
Re: Fozzie: The axe falls.
I wish the ABs would go for the easy 3, rather than hope for a difficult 3 at the end of the game. So would I. 50 and 55 minutes in are fairly late times in the game to spurn straightforward shots at goal when you are 6-12 down. Like I say. Pretty low hanging fruit for Razor to improve next year. B...
- Fri Nov 03, 2023 11:06 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Best Performance you have seen - Lock
- Replies: 30
- Views: 1203
Re: Best Performance you have seen - Lock
World in Union goes to a Kiwi, Hayley Westernra.
Just so I can listen to it again. Swoon.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xh91WLNeD8g
Just so I can listen to it again. Swoon.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xh91WLNeD8g
- Fri Nov 03, 2023 11:04 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: May Tom Foley NEVER TMO again !!
- Replies: 160
- Views: 4252
Re: May Tom Foley NEVER TMO again !!
- Fri Nov 03, 2023 10:41 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: May Tom Foley NEVER TMO again !!
- Replies: 160
- Views: 4252
Re: May Tom Foley NEVER TMO again !!
I was hoping my ever so slightly sarcastic, eye rolly, look to the heavens tone would carry through with the use of the exclamation mark? My guess is it didn't. It might have, if it wasn't your 1,667th post since the end of the final. You've been masturbating furiously since. It's understandable, j...
- Fri Nov 03, 2023 10:40 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Fozzie: The axe falls.
- Replies: 4920
- Views: 216731
Re: Fozzie: The axe falls.
So it’s not so much about their style but about other teams losing the nerve when it comes to continuing to play their own style in tournaments. This is pretty close to the point. Rugby World Cup rugby leans towards conservative styles. The knockout nature of it demands it. Teams generally go for t...
- Fri Nov 03, 2023 10:37 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Rassie Erasmus
- Replies: 120
- Views: 7070
Re: Rassie Erasmus
A team with a backrower who looks like a dairy farmer throwing into the lineout can still win the world cup, because they're so well coached. Dairy Farmer? :lol: You sure watch the URC. The dairy farmer has been milking a lot of teams. No I don’t, and I never claimed to. I watch more currie cup tha...
- Fri Nov 03, 2023 9:46 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Rassie Erasmus
- Replies: 120
- Views: 7070
Re: Rassie Erasmus
Bok fans "LOL, look at precious Foster submitting a report to WR on the reffing" Meanwhile Rassie is getting into beefs with journos on twitter and behaving like a teenage edgelord. https://twitter.com/RassieRugby/status/1720334194901934301 I wouldn't have bothered if I were Foster in all honesty. ...
- Fri Nov 03, 2023 9:44 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Rassie Erasmus
- Replies: 120
- Views: 7070
Re: Rassie Erasmus
Bok fans "LOL, look at precious Foster submitting a report to WR on the reffing" Meanwhile Rassie is getting into beefs with journos on twitter and behaving like a teenage edgelord. https://twitter.com/RassieRugby/status/1720334194901934301 I wouldn't have bothered if I were Foster in all honesty. ...
- Fri Nov 03, 2023 8:28 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: May Tom Foley NEVER TMO again !!
- Replies: 160
- Views: 4252
Re: May Tom Foley NEVER TMO again !!
I was hoping my ever so slightly sarcastic, eye rolly, look to the heavens tone would carry through with the use of the exclamation mark? My guess is it didn't. It might have, if it wasn't your 1,667th post since the end of the final. You've been masturbating furiously since. It's understandable, j...
- Fri Nov 03, 2023 8:24 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: All Blacks 2024
- Replies: 1246
- Views: 97758
Re: All Blacks 2024
100% Cane cost us the game but so did Foster and his coaching team. Had they not instructed the players to foolishly (worst decision in a RWC final ever) go for touch instead of taking the 3, Cane would never have been carded. The resulting lineout saw Taylor overthrow to the back and Cane hits Kri...
- Fri Nov 03, 2023 8:17 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Wayne Barnes gooooooooone
- Replies: 89
- Views: 2599
Re: Wayne Barnes gooooooooone
Nice to see thousands of your countrymen give him a lovely send off on the social media.
- Fri Nov 03, 2023 8:13 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Will Sam Cane have to face the Judiciary after his RWC Final Red?
- Replies: 174
- Views: 5224
Re: Will Sam Cane have to face the Judiciary after his RWC Final Red?
Kriel was very low, and the change of direction made it a very tough call.BlueThunder wrote: ↑Fri Nov 03, 2023 7:49 am Surely now that the heat of the battle has cooled down the judiciary will realise the low impact/speed, will see reason and downgrade the card, rightfully clearing Sam’s name.
- Fri Nov 03, 2023 8:08 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: All Blacks 2024
- Replies: 1246
- Views: 97758
Re: All Blacks 2024
100% Cane cost us the game but so did Foster and his coaching team. Had they not instructed the players to foolishly (worst decision in a RWC final ever) go for touch instead of taking the 3, Cane would never have been carded. The resulting lineout saw Taylor overthrow to the back and Cane hits Kri...
- Fri Nov 03, 2023 8:06 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: All Blacks 2024
- Replies: 1246
- Views: 97758
Re: All Blacks 2024
This is a tough post because it's almost certainly due to a very sincere, respectful cultural factor but here's why Ardie Savie can't be All Blacks captain. His reaction to a penalty is, invariably: - To repeat the refs call, and take it on board unchallenged. - To check the refs call, and take it o...
- Fri Nov 03, 2023 8:01 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: May Tom Foley NEVER TMO again !!
- Replies: 160
- Views: 4252
Re: May Tom Foley NEVER TMO again !!
Yes. Brilliant! Clogs, for the love of all that is holy give your cock a rest. The skin must be hanging off it. I was hoping my ever so slightly sarcastic, eye rolly, look to the heavens tone would carry through with the use of the exclamation mark? My guess is it didn't. It might have, if it wasn'...
- Fri Nov 03, 2023 6:47 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: May Tom Foley NEVER TMO again !!
- Replies: 160
- Views: 4252
- Fri Nov 03, 2023 6:33 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Best performance you’ve seen - rock
- Replies: 247
- Views: 12453
- Fri Nov 03, 2023 6:13 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: May Tom Foley NEVER TMO again !!
- Replies: 160
- Views: 4252
Re: May Tom Foley NEVER TMO again !!
No, I'm not. I am not even sure where they were placed but I assumed they were not easy kicks, hence the lineout call. We were not getting difficult kicks and the two misses lends weight to that. The one on 50 mins was a piece of piss. That was a poor call to go for the sideline. Approx 30 out, mid...
- Fri Nov 03, 2023 5:51 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: May Tom Foley NEVER TMO again !!
- Replies: 160
- Views: 4252
Re: May Tom Foley NEVER TMO again !!
Yeah, and the AB's scored soon enough after that even the 'fuk u wayn barmes' crowd can't point to the protocol question as a deciding factor. But WR does need to clarify the process IMO. The ABs should have kicked for goal at both the 50 and 55 minute marks. Interesting that the second decision ev...
- Fri Nov 03, 2023 5:50 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: May Tom Foley NEVER TMO again !!
- Replies: 160
- Views: 4252
Re: May Tom Foley NEVER TMO again !!
Bin O Keefe cost the ABs the final. It goes back to the charge down by Kolbe of the conversion attempt by France in the qtrs. Kolbe was on the line and should've been called on it. France should've had the kick retaken without anymore charges. Fast forward to the final. Mounga lined up for the conv...
- Fri Nov 03, 2023 5:49 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: May Tom Foley NEVER TMO again !!
- Replies: 160
- Views: 4252
Re: May Tom Foley NEVER TMO again !!
Bin O Keefe cost the ABs the final. It goes back to the charge down by Kolbe of the conversion attempt by France in the qtrs. Kolbe was on the line and should've been called on it. France should've had the kick retaken without anymore charges. Fast forward to the final. Mounga lined up for the conv...
- Fri Nov 03, 2023 5:44 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Wayne Barnes gooooooooone
- Replies: 89
- Views: 2599
Re: Wayne Barnes gooooooooone
Sad to see him go. One of the best to ever do it imo. I wish the general NZ rugby public would grow up and get over 2007 already, the continued whinging against Barnes is unbearable. He was perfectly fine in the final, we cost ourselves the game, no one else (an argument you can also make for 2007,...