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Vuaka

Ben Ryan should have won Coach of the Year for taking a team of no-names, with no money, no facilities and no strategy or game plan in a country full of rugby politics/nonsense/idiocy/etc to another series title and the first ever medal for Fiji. Arguably it may have beeen harder to achieve success ...

Vuaka

Hope Fiji can be a fairly cohesive unit for this, I'm heading down to HQ. I wouldn't expect mass changes in the England side, doesn't seem like Eddie's way and there's plenty to put right from yesterday. We're going to get murdered. This. Having 4 days together as a full squad before a test is real...

Vuaka

It's a blatant lie that spectators were leaving in droves at the first Bled. But go ahead and bullshit like you usually do. It's hard for some of you guys to stay classy even after a good win, a record* breaking run and an awesome team. But carry on and act like dicks. Because you were all so humbl...

Vuaka

Dumb play by the Aussie and I laugh at his stupidity. Wonder if he learned anything. :roll: (In my childhood days the saying was "Cheats never prosper" and I don't think it has changed.) :lol: :lol: Holy shit I'm right 10.1.c Blocking the tackler. A player must not intentionally move or stand in a ...

Vuaka

It's not 1m directly behind him, ffs. And given the disparity in pace, DHP's best bet is straight up fat man's alley to best keep up with Speight - if he'd run a line 2m on Speight's inside he's in a perfect position for an offload, doesn't interfere with a defender and would have been more up with...

Vuaka

After everyone recognised it as a bullshit call last night, the inevitable turning of black into white commences. The re-writing of history has started. We will keep going with this until it's clear that DHP should have been red-carded for touching Savea. It's all very unedifying. DHP was always go...

Vuaka

It's a blatant lie that spectators were leaving in droves at the first Bled. But go ahead and bullshit like you usually do. It's hard for some of you guys to stay classy even after a good win, a record* breaking run and an awesome team. But carry on and act like dicks. Because you were all so humbl...

Vuaka

He's calling Turbogoat a pussy and offering him a fight, I think I'll meet him at the corner of Pitt and Bridge Streets in an hour. I bet he doesn't show. It takes you an hour to get to the CBD from Bondi? :roll: Mate, gotta finish queuing in the Centrelink first. You should move to Taree. Biggest ...

Vuaka

Well done ABs and fans. I thought the game could have been a little more interesting without -that- decision but what's done is done. The ABs skill levels are just a class above - superb passing in traffic by forwards and backs. Too big, too powerful even without the majority of possession and terri...

Vuaka

Turbogoat wrote:
JM2K6 wrote:He's calling Turbogoat a pussy and offering him a fight, I think
I'll meet him at the corner of Pitt and Bridge Streets in an hour.

I bet he doesn't show.

It takes you an hour to get to the CBD from Bondi?

Vuaka

It's a blatant lie that spectators were leaving in droves at the first Bled. But go ahead and bullshit like you usually do. It's hard for some of you guys to stay classy even after a good win, a record* breaking run and an awesome team. But carry on and act like dicks. Sorry to paraphrase Trump, bu...

Vuaka

Yeah, like the Aussies were respectful in Sydney. :roll: While there were any left at the game, anyway. How were the Aussies disrespectful at the Sydney game? Well, they disrespected their own team by leaving after 50 minutes, for a start. Judging by the responses this appears to have hit home pret...

Vuaka

It clearly was. That law is to be read in the broadest possible sense and it's clearly not impossible for Savea to have been able to attempt a tackle (ankle tap) on Speight without the interference. Unlikely, but not impossible. If exactly the same thing had happened 2m further back, would it have ...

Vuaka

If this is about blocking the tackler getting to the player with the ball, why do the refs not pull up kick offs more often for penalties?

Time and time again, defending players run off their line to the catching player and block off the tacklers coming through.

Vuaka

At the rate the semi-finals will be all Fiji teams.

Vuaka

Olddantucker wrote:
Vuaka wrote:
Olddantucker wrote:Yeah, like the Aussies were respectful in Sydney.

While there were any left at the game, anyway.
How were the Aussies disrespectful at the Sydney game?
Well, they disrespected their own team by leaving after 50 minutes, for a start.

You're an idiot.

Vuaka

Olddantucker wrote:Yeah, like the Aussies were respectful in Sydney.

While there were any left at the game, anyway.

How were the Aussies disrespectful at the Sydney game?

Vuaka

Dislike Cheika as much as you want but I think a positive is the passion for the jersey that he brings to the game. I saw this when he was at the Tahs and he is now trying to bring that to the Wallabies. There was a period when the Tahs played like soft cocks before he took over. If this spills over...

Vuaka

I've seen Nige reffing many games over the years and he usually referees the game with common sense. I've also seen him overrule the TMO on occasion when they've attempted to make a judgement on potential foul play and questioning a try. However, I think in this instance when he looks back on the S...

Vuaka

I was in Tokyo many, many moons ago in a high rise office building.

The building started swaying gently. The foreigners were going "WTF?!?", the locals carried on as if nothing was happening.

My immediate thought was to head to the fire stairs. Just a normal thing to the locals...

Vuaka

There was a dinner / movie launch with guest speakers.

Apparently, there wasn't much interest and they had to resort to discounting tickets. I'm surprised really, given the number of Kiwis living in Sydney.

Vuaka

Fiji Independence Day celebrations have been moved to Concord Oval to coincide with the Pacific Islands round.

So if you want to try over priced Fijian tucker and watch three games of rugby, Concord Oval is the place to be on Saturday.

Vuaka

The ref was very unhappy with Moore asking for cards for an all black very earlier on. Moore needs to pick and choose his interactions better. KG Moore went about it wrong but it was a very valid question. Wobs had penalty advantage and then Folau caught the ball and the ABs sealed the ruck off a m...

Vuaka

Probably no more than a week so that SANZAR or whoever it is can be seen to be doing their job.

I say give him 12 weeks!

Vuaka

Gotta admit that Franks should be cited. That head/face rake looked appalling. Richard Loe would be ashamed of that face contact. What annoyed me was Poite going "Not de face, not de face..." and then watched as he kept doing it. Just bizarre. I genuinely dn't get why the Kiwis get awya with so muc...

Vuaka

Gotta admit that Franks should be cited. That head/face rake looked appalling. Richard Loe would be ashamed of that face contact. What annoyed me was Poite going "Not de face, not de face..." and then watched as he kept doing it. Just bizarre. I genuinely dn't get why the Kiwis get awya with so muc...

Vuaka

In relation to the game, the ABs are so far ahead of the pack. They have this aura around them that it seems even the refs believe that they are untouchable. I don't think I've seen a game in recent history where they haven't had the rub of the green. Calls for discipline didn't really go both ways...

Vuaka

Good post Vuaka. Players like AAC and Moore are past their best. Time to let them go. Oh and Chieka get rid of Pooper now. We have nothing to lose. Try a more traditional backrow. Maybve give Timani a chance. How long till Holloway back? Oh, Jed makes me so excite. :thumbup: I'm not sure Cheika lik...

Vuaka

Everyone knows the way to grow the game is through grass roots. No one is going to argue with that. However saying the reason current Wallabies suck is because of the strength of AFL and league is being too simplistic and hyperbole. Decent coaching staff would be able to do better with this team ye...

Vuaka

More mongrel today but still too many missed tackles. Basics let us down again - see Foley's missed kick for touch. Genia and Cooper were good. I half expected Cooper to have a melt down but it didn't happen. Aways sad to see a player injured but AACs concussion paves the way for him not to be retur...

Vuaka

What this says to me is that the Greens and Labor are against debate or in effect want to force what may be a minority wish over everybody else. That brings me to an interesting point should an elected politician be allowed to force through what is not a proven majority wish? If Labor and the Green...

Vuaka

Nice touch. Should go some way to making up for the fact the Fiji Union didn't pay him for four months. Or was it that they paid him in full, but late? Was just paid late as the FRU had cash flow problems at that time. As I understand it, Ryan wasn't even the first choice coach. The successful appl...

Vuaka

Australia by 8.

....to keep this series alive for my Kiwi mates who are going to the third game in October (?). That's a hell of a long time away.

Vuaka

Except the Fijians arent playing are they.. We're happy to acknowledge the heritage of our players, hell we even try to pronounce their names correctly, unlike some. Seta Tamanivalu was born in Lautoka Fiji, he moved to NZ during his high school years and now plays for NZ, it's not really that hard...

Vuaka

I thought that we just lacked the basic skills. Line outs, poor handling, poor kicking in general play basically handing the ball over, poor kicking to touch to get territory and reset the defence. Meanwhile the ABs were throwing the ball around like it was 7s, and this included their forwards throw...

Vuaka

They can have Naholo back, and we won't even mention that they never said thanks for their highest capped player and points scorer Nicky 'Kiwi' Little. I'm not sure we'll ever forgive them for poaching Nacewa. They're probably more interested in getting Kuridrani, Kerevi, Speight, Naiyaravoro, Nath...

Vuaka

le chat wrote:will be nice to see the people of Fiji happy for the first time in their lives. Are these the ones that think Prince Phillip is some sort of god?

Fiji is already rated the happiest country in the world, even without a gold medal.

I'll just ignore your second sentence.

So very happy right now.

Vuaka

Terrible and very sad news. Stay strong French bordies and people. My sister and her husband are in Nice on hols. They were down at the promenade but decided not to stay for the fireworks. When I heard the news while driving to work, I was freaking out as I didn't know if they were still there or ha...

Vuaka

Was at a talk given by the MD earlier this year. One of the things that they are focusing on is data and on-selling that.

I've not used Pandora so I'm not sure how they would harvest your data, except maybe through your subscription?

Vuaka

Some businesses are getting into this too. Saw a social media advert from Woolies telling people to catch the Pokemons in their stores. People are actually posting photos of these creatures from inside the supermarkets... I guess it is one way to increase foot traffic but it would seriously piss me ...

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