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Da iawn diolch wrote: ↑Sun Oct 15, 2023 10:03 pm
Theflier wrote: ↑Sun Oct 15, 2023 9:56 pm Bent f*cking kiwi plum, 4 breakdowns at the end he told sa to stop what they were doing you're not a f**king coach you're a referee
It's the way of modern refereeing. Barnes did it to Ireland all night yesterday.

He did, it was infuriating

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Referee missed a lot on the ground preventing quick ball for France. He didn't miss it, he just shouted no a few times and the ball was slow by the time the defenders responded. All refs do it. They should shut the fudge up and penalise infringements. Agree with this. The players know full well the...

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Ungracious winner hat, hope we don't see Barnes again. Penalty try was fine, but the rucks were a mess. I really thought the penalty leading up to the penalty try was totally incorrect. Whitelock won that penalty with any other ref. Yeah I was screaming at telly for that one, and one where was tryi...

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The Irish didn’t choke. That was a hard fought close game that could have gone either way. As inconsistent as we have been, the ABs still have a big game in them and they brought it today. This, it was a great game and the ABs had a fair bit to do with the result. There were some uncharacteristic I...

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fishooks15 wrote: ↑Sat Oct 14, 2023 10:04 pm Well done Kiwis.

That hurts more than all the others I think.

If we had won it we would have won it with our backs to the wall.

Savea is on another planet

Classy,

much appreciated, my nerves still haven't recovered, might need to start drinking before midday.

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Please explain this. Overloading the outside channels in defence, to avoid getting caught short by the loop. The lack of running threat at 10 allowed them to do it without too much risk. It just puts pressure on 9 and the blind wing to sweep. This, and protecting against the winger coming in agains...

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Hopefully we are about to find out. It’s difficult to over emphasis just how dim witted someone celebrating censorship by supra national unelected commissars actually is. AFAICT, accurate description Agree 100%. Musk may be a cvnt, but I have absolutely no faith in the ability of law enforcement to...

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I was doing surfing for a while until my shoulders became too sore to paddle properly (and surfing is 90% paddling, or 100% as a beginner) There is nothing quite as soulful as the sun shimmering on an approaching peak and a good bunch of like minded people to share the experience with. As an aside, ...

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Josh Power 🇺🇸 @JoshPower80 Israeli man says many children were murdered at a party. They were shot and killed, but then the terrorists came and stood over the children and fired multiple shots into their faces, after they were dead, making them unrecognizable. The man had to collect toothbrushes fr...

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Indeed they didn't. So you are saying its ok to stick missiles into civilians if they fire at you frst? it is fine to fire missiles back to the same place that the ones that hit you came from Lesson1 don’t hide and shoot Using civilians as your shield You're addressing the killing of civilians, but...

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Iran is all over this. This is less about the plight of the Palestinians (which is tragic and unforgivable btw) and all about Iran countering Saudi Arabia. The price is hundreds of Israeli lives and thousands, possibly tens of thousands, of Palestinian lives. Misery pit. Could you explain this plea...

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Interesting that when Russia sticks missiles into Ukrainian cities, CNN says they are terrorists, yet when Israel does the same to Gaza it is retaliation. It is retaliation, and how exactly would you target Hamas when they hide amongst civilians? And quite obviously In the case of Russia it is corr...

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I think NZ will look to go through the ruck over and over to narrow our defense. Ireland will want them to go wide early but Schmidt will be too clever for that. Expect a few early power plays where NZ go hard at the fringes and through the ruck. I think that's reasonable. I also think it will prob...

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Are you deliberatly being a dipshit or just trolling? Taukei'aho is better than Coles therefore he should be selected. Experience doesn't trump actual current ability . Coles hasn't done anything this year to suggest he should be picked over Taukei'aho. We need some guys in the forwards who can get...

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So are you saying that Iranians et al are responsible for the Jewish desire to cleanse all non Jews from these lands or you denying its an aim. The drip drip affect of the policies is that the West Bank looks like Swiss Cheese and as you guys like to quote the UN in Israels creation, how about quot...

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It will never happen, but just go back to Super 12 original format. 5 New Zealand 4 South Africa 3 Australia Was perfect Well that’s not gonna happen. Plan B for me is Oz and NZ split and focus on what works for each of them. I actually don’t see the organisations, let alone the actual fans, wantin...

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I'm feeling good about this game. Either way we win. Win and we do better than expected. Lose and it's the end of the Foster era. Put a $100 on Ireland Win-Win-Win This, one side is greater than the sum of its parts, the other isn't. But it's not only team skills that Ireland are better at. Individ...

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Dan Murphys has a 'member special' on it ATM. They have a new "Flagship" store in Martin Place now Staying off topic, I am a teetotaller at the moment by dint of a medication I am taking. Gee there are some horrible zero alcohol wines around! Staying off topic These guys do a whole range of zero an...

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Not a huge foster fan but some of the crap he is given is ridiculous. When the All Blacks beat Sa this year it was apparently all down to his assistants, but they play couple of bad games and only Foster Is to blame. Lol childish stuff. Truth is we dont have the talent and depth we had from 2005-20...

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Ronan O'Gara reckons the Italy game highlights the All Black's biggest weakness.. line speed on defence. Says we're too slow and we use an outdated system. But apart from that, not too bad. It was deflating seeing everyone bite in whenever there was a dummy runner combined with a loop around. Overl...

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It’s not gonna happen. Ireland will beat Scotland comfortably Part of me would like to see the ridiculous situation of Ireland letting Scotland in for a try and Scotland trying not to score it, just to reinforce what a ludicrous set of criteria for deciding the pool group winners. Jesus what a clus...

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message #2527204 wrote: ↑Sun Oct 01, 2023 9:24 pm I've never heard anyone watch a game of rugby thinking that would have been much better had the ball been in play for another minute and a half.
Maybe make the game 2 hours long, then you can have a few more minutes for ball in play obsessionals?

Another 10 minutes maybe?

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I think the point is that even though the ball was in play only 2 mins more in the Nz Italy game, it was actually in play around 10% more of the available time compared to the SA Ire game. If my maths is correct..... The ball could have been in play for the whole 80 and it wouldn't have made it any...

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Yup, all our 6n games this year were close to or over 40 minutes in play. Yeah, this notion that Ireland don't want to play or that the SA match is the norm is way off. Agreed Ireland are immensely skillful and obviously fit. It's the fact that the bomb squad strategy would have worked with a half ...

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Don't think it's about how the game is played, I absolutely loved the Bok/Ireland game (best game so far), but to be fair I would of enjoyed more than 27 minutes of it. I think the comment has to do with the time being wasted, not how the game is played. Not going to change it hough, refs can try a...

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"Fvck me I'm Irish" has surprisingly worked on the odd occasion

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I think the free to air coverage of this in NZ is at 9.30am tomorrow morning on what used to be Prime. Sky now? So a chance for a nice lie in. :D Yes, that's right but be prepared for more ads than actual playtime! If the ads can be timed for scrum resets, drop outs, excruciatingly slow ruck cleara...

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Dear Henry,
Please don't quote the fvcking bot!!!!!

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Foster: Same with Coles. “Played well, trained, well,” said the coach. “Colesy is leading well on the training park and he's been playing well. We believe his composure later in the game is going to be good for us. A lot is made of Colesy’s fiery attitude, but he brings composure to this group beca...

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Team is better than expected. Preferred: Taukeiaho instead of Coles - Coles must’ve won the three-way punch-up in Bordeaux with Williams. However, I reckon Coles cheated Good to see: Papalii get a free run at 7 with Frizzell back at 6. Roigard there. I’ll be watching with great interest. DMac off t...

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All cool but would have been better if it was a good game. Awful game of Rugby to watch and bad for the game Go back to watching League. The actual play was at an incredibly high level of physicality and skill. :thumbup: The amount of actual play was minimal :thumbdown: Rugby is becoming too much l...

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Not convinced Williams is ready to start yet.
He's still pretty slow around the park and gets puffed easily. He seems to be getting there at scrum time, but very inexperienced.
Promising but a year or even two too early for him IMHO.

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IQ tests are a bit of a sham from my experience . I was in the "accelerated" class at high school, but one of the dumbest kids in it. Pretty much all the top kids ended up in dead end jobs because they lacked other skills to help them get through more mundane problems. Eddie Jones may be the greate...

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So far I have counted 1,536 times that O'Keeffe should have blown the whistle according to the posts on here. The ball was in play 25 minutes. Looks like those posters didn't want any rugby to be played. 25? I heard 23. Anyway the Saffer coaching staff presumably think that is far too much and will...

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The problem for Australia and NZ is that the sport became popular as a fast free flowing spectacle in the amateur days and the initial move to professionalism and full time training just saw this explode as players skills improved. That period of Super rugby from 95 to about 2007 was the high point...

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Wow, stuff poll NZ favoured to win by 21% of respondents.
second behind Ireland (45%) and well ahead of France (10%)

https://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/rugby-wor ... tournament

WTF?

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You need to move beyond that idea. It’s about having a competitive product with narratives that draw eyeballs. It isn’t novel stuff. Pete Rozelle figured this out 6 decades ago and sports organisations have been trying to replicate it since. The NPC is very competitive and has historical narrative ...

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I agree, both Fiji and Tonga have got the rough end of the stick from British refs. And I don't think thats a coincidence. There seems to be a subconcious bias against the teams outside the traditional old boys club of nations. Of course there are exceptions, but some of those refs are blatant in t...

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I would suggest the Aussie rugby has to make moves to help itself to start with, by first taking responsibility for it's own cock ups and stop using excuses and fingerpointing to deflect. The two things are not mutually exclusive. NZ rugby long term is fvcked without Aus as competition both at prov...

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If nothing for purely selfish reasons. We cannot have our neighbors so weak as it does not help our own players. Not too sure what we can do as NZ is a small market in itself, but perhaps the most obvious is to get some of the NRC teams back online and have those teams play in the NPC. I think the ...

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