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Even the post match analyists sound bored.

FFS NZ, do something else as a nation but rugby. This is bad for the game.

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Tehui wrote:Referees are trying their best to make the game competitive.

They're really not. It was only slightly but very clearly forwards. Have some grace in clear victory ffs.

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yaaaaaaaaawn.

Looking forwards to a proper contest against SA and Argentina.

This AB side is ridiculous.

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Not my political flavour, but he's impossible not to respect unless you're a one-eyed loon.

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None of them, they'll wipe the floor with us even at half pace.

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https://www.irishtimes.com/news/health/drunken-irish-man-stereotype-is-probably-inaccurate-study-finds-1.3605863 Pretty disappointing but to be expected with all the massive woopsies going to the gym and owning up to 4 scarfs and more than two pairs of jeans and a chino. Much like the hockey though...

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How much and reps have you benched MOG? Though as opposed to pure weight, power is what’s needed to dominate. Speed and force. My best effort was 125kg x 4 with zero assistance, but bench was not my strongest. In the interest of full disclosure, I struggle with 100kg now but I don't care about that...

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JM2K6 wrote:World's Strongest Man competitors: dime a dozen

That's not the point, obviously.

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Big, strong, physical meatheads are a dime a dozen. Being physically dominant is not what makes guys like McCaw so good. That will set them off. :lol: He was physically dominant in that he had an engine the size of the pacific. That's fair. Of course. I worded it badly. I think you know what I mean...

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Big, strong, physical meatheads are a dime a dozen. Being physically dominant is not what makes guys like McCaw so good.

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There is not a shred of doubt in mind that Mog is stronger than McCaw :thumbup: Maybe for a minute or two. After that McCaw’s fitness and muscle memory would take over. I would ask if you have ever watched a big guy fight or wrestle a smaller, better-conditioned guy but I think we both know the ans...

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Sandstorm picked it damn him, but I feel compelled to comment as this has the potential to go a bit out of control and also for honesty's sake. I said that I suspect I was, at my peak. I don't know for sure obviously. But I'm definitely not now unless Richie just quit all strength work when he retir...

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I'm sick of this discussing this, so I'm opting out after this post unless the discussion goes back to hardmen. I think that a few posters here vastly under-estimate how good some amateur players are. Obviously top-tier internationals would run rings around them and be on a different level, nobody i...

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Anecdote time: when I was chatting to Andrew Mehrtens on a plane, he talked about having to carry Mike Ross on his back, the length of the Stoop. Ross was about 135kg at the time. Mehrts was a mid 30s, skinny as a rake fly half. The delusions some of you guys have about your super hero rugby idols ...

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Mog, international flankers are absurd athletes who also have absurd strength regimens and have to shift huge amounts of weight and smash stupidly large people back as their job. No, your teammates do not match up. No, you're not as strong as Richie. This is ridiculous. No offence mate, but you don...

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Mog, international flankers are absurd athletes who also have absurd strength regimens and have to shift huge amounts of weight and smash stupidly large people back as their job. No, your teammates do not match up. No, you're not as strong as Richie. This is ridiculous. No offence mate, but you don...

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I've played against former pro players who were playing down the grades at amateur level after retiring. The level of physicality they brought to every single contact was obscene compared to what we were used to. These guys were fairly low down the standard of pro players when they were playing. Ye...

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What a thread. Any international flanker would murder your "hard" teammates in terms of on field physicality. Even the Aussie ones. Well, my teammates were "any international flankers". So technically ... Look, I know what you mean, you mean international flankers from a top-tier rugby side. But yo...

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There's some very clueless posters on this forum. You really think it's impossible that any amateur rugby player could possibly be stronger than Richie McCaw? Really? I think I may have been, in my prime. But I'm not sure. I know for sure I have had teammates there were stronger than Richie McCaw th...

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I never mind playing against the "Mad Dogs" tbh. They're usually too busy trying to get in fights to play rugby and if you're smart about it it's very easy to get them sent off. It's the lads you can run at all day and never get an inch i really hate. If you have a decent referee. @Toro: nail on th...

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You're not stronger than Richie McCaw Mog. How the fvck would you know? Balance of probabilities. I couldn't find McCaw, but I benched more than Keiran Reid did in that clip, and for more reps (1 more). Whatever that's worth. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zhzkFKFFHTM I couldn't do it anymore thou...

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You're not stronger than Richie McCaw Mog. How the fvck would you know? I suspect that it's largely to do with this statement... to be totally honest, I reckon I would have been stronger than Richie McCaw, let alone the stronger guys in the team/opposition That's about as preposterous as JtB saying...

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I never mind playing against the "Mad Dogs" tbh. They're usually too busy trying to get in fights to play rugby and if you're smart about it it's very easy to get them sent off. It's the lads you can run at all day and never get an inch i really hate. If you have a decent referee. @Toro: nail on th...

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I never mind playing against the "Mad Dogs" tbh. They're usually too busy trying to get in fights to play rugby and if you're smart about it it's very easy to get them sent off. It's the lads you can run at all day and never get an inch i really hate. If you have a decent referee. @Toro: nail on th...

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Toro wrote:aah feck.

Whoops. Ahaha.

Sorry Diego mate, I didn't look too closely at that gif.

You all knew who I meant.

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I never mind playing against the "Mad Dogs" tbh. They're usually too busy trying to get in fights to play rugby and if you're smart about it it's very easy to get them sent off. It's the lads you can run at all day and never get an inch i really hate. If you have a decent referee. @Toro: nail on th...

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So dreamy. Such hard man. Wow. https://media.balls.ie/uploads/2012/11/mccarthyhit.gif It was a good hit but it doesn't mean Etzebeth is not a hard AF destroyer. You're going to get smashed once in a while at the top level of the game, against the best team in history, no matter how badass you are. ...

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I agree with Mog that there are more scary and physical specimens in amateur grades sometimes. Hoani Matenga came and played in my club last year and everyone expected him to run in tries overtime he touched the ball but he actually had little impact here (comparative to expectation) as he's a very...

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Just because someone is big does not make them hard - It's like the bouncer analogy: beware of the small ones, the big guys got the job because they are big, the small guys got the job because they know how to fight. Eben Ezsbeth is not a hard man lol - he's just got big biceps. Some big guys are t...

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Just because someone is big does not make them hard - It's like the bouncer analogy: beware of the small ones, the big guys got the job because they are big, the small guys got the job because they know how to fight. Eben Ezsbeth is not a hard man lol - he's just got big biceps. Some big guys are t...

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I'm not embarrassed to admit there were certain players in opposition teams that we regularly played that intimidated me. I tried not to show it, but there were some big, strong, scary, violent fvckers running around in amateur rugby grades. Even at that low level if someone said to me, "hey that b...

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That's a serious cauli-ear he's got going on there.

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Wouldn't pretty much any pub in London show it? wtf?

All I have to do in Stockholm to watch it is wander into any vaguely Irish/English themed bar.

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I'm not embarrassed to admit there were certain players in opposition teams that we regularly played that intimidated me. I tried not to show it, but there were some big, strong, scary, violent fvckers running around in amateur rugby grades. Even at that low level if someone said to me, "hey that bi...

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Richie McCaw is the hardest man of recent times, easily. Played 148 Test matches and often played 80 minutes in 95% of those. And never seemed to tire. Took an absolute hiding from the opposition in arguably the most punishing position in Rugby. :lol: Richie McCaw is not a rugby hardman. Yes, he wa...

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Lenny wrote: Tbh I rarely in the real world go up to people I barely know and call them a gobshite or blowhard, so I think I'll be OK.

I see. Just on Internet forums then?

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Richie McCaw is the hardest man of recent times, easily. Played 148 Test matches and often played 80 minutes in 95% of those. And never seemed to tire. Took an absolute hiding from the opposition in arguably the most punishing position in Rugby. :lol: Richie McCaw is not a rugby hardman. Yes, he wa...

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Zakar wrote:I'm disappointed that any did. Should have cut the stadium lights and threw eggs at them.

Baaahaha.

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I think whether it's disrespectful or not depends on whether there has been a history and tradition that involves a lot of players attending the other's team's capping ceremonies. Richie McCaw was the captain and ambassador for the All Blacks, he's one player. I'm pretty sure one of the "few Wallabi...

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You can be both a thug or a mongrel and a hardman, and more often than not, those guys are. Reading the comments in this thread it seems that some posters are genuinely confusing, "hard man" with "a good player". It's tripping me out but whatever. I used to play with a guy in Australia who was a pr...

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