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Grizz Wyllie

I’m already barred up thinking about Jordie Barrett at 12 and Rieko Ioane at 13 in 2020. Please do, nothing ruins an AB side like the back 3 drafted into the 12/13 channel :thumbup: Er, you're missing the point. Rieko is a centre and a Jordie is a 2nd 5/8. Always have been. They've been transplante...

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pjm1 wrote:Best way of defending it is to make sure the opposition's lunch is full of ROIDS before the game...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8EYrQW-hGwc

Wow, George North didn't look too flash there towards the end.

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Is Fifa's equivalent award similarly derided or is it a respected decision? If so World Rugby should follow their system.

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This is the best way to defend against it...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Twkyc5LIz_w

... no post pad, no try.

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Better goal kicker, though. Which is saying something seeing as Beaudy kicked at 82% this past 12 months.

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I know the difference hence making the distinction. An ODT staff member on Twitter informed a critic of David’s work that he now resides in Southland. Which staff member? Couldn't be bothered trawling through Twitter's sub-tweets to find the name but the ODT this morning clarified his residency... ...

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On Frieko Ioane; he’s a centre and always has been at high school and NPC. The inside word from Hansen around the middle of last year was he was going to take Ioane as his bolter on the 2016 End of Year Tour as he saw him as his centre for the 2019 RWC. Well injuries on the wing and a backlog on mid...

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Ha! I doubt he'll even be amongst the nominees for NZ Player Of The Year next month.

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Some Irish fishing journo who now lives in Southland can't bear hearing Maori language (te reo) spoken on New Zealand airwaves... Sigh . . . Like you, I too was extremely worried that our mutilcultural, cosmopolitan community down south was at risk with the injection of such an outdated interloper....

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earl the beaver wrote:He's been in Zealand for 46 years, he's one of yours now.

That 43 more years needed to turn a Kiwi Irish.

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Some Irish fishing journo who now lives in Southland can't bear hearing Maori language (te reo) spoken on New Zealand airwaves... Haere mai? Everything is far from ka pai! <snip> One morning, for example, a couple of Maori snowflakes were banging on about the terrible grief they were suffering from ...

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This is great for Richie Mo'unga's development. He was robbed of mentors with Dan Carter, Colin Slade and Tom Taylor all pissing off in one off-season. He'll learn tonnes about game management and how to ignite his backline from ROG. It'll also pay dividends on his goal kicking. Richie has been fair...

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Thomas wrote:Get your armbands out, my sweaty brothers. Hoo boy.

About the minute mark.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=39Rqp-MaQ0o

Could you be more specific with your time code, the video doesn't make it clear what I should be looking at.

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Here’s what’s interesting: it seems Ian Foster is universally disliked and distrusted by the rugby community. And it seems certain he’ll get the top job. So that’s a helluva environment for him to step into what is widely considered the most pressurised job in New Zealand. The general public and mos...

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Twickenham faithful at their braying best

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That’s really the model for beating Georgia: feign uncontested scrums.

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Hopefully they've included the awkward scene of Gatland sending Neil Jenkins down the $2 Shop to buy a red clown's nose. Then Gatland trying it on in his hotel room before the second test. Then keeping it in his trouser pocket for the entire week, ready for its big reveal after the triumphant draw.

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Kiwis poaching Fijians at 12 - do they really have no shame - https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=1489488477786705&id=439287789473451 That is very sad. The 2 boys would prefer to become All Blacks rather than play for their own country. 12 year olds. It’s sick taking them from their homelan...

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- New Plymouth has been used for Cricket Wrong, has never been used for cricket. A pretty damn good stadium now Taranaki Stadium hosted some T20 cricket late last year. So to hold that against it as a 2011 RWC venue is a little petty. Incidentally, give me a grassbanks any day over crumbling concre...

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The irony in the Swarm’s current argument, is that two current All Blacks who did come to NZ on a school scholarship (Naholo and Fifita) were never actually selected for the NZ Secondary Schools team, the only facet of schoolboy rugby that NZR actually play a role in.

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I’m all for it (moving once only) and from a 6N/SANZAAR team to a Tier 2/3 team, not the other way. You must have only earned 10 or less caps for the 6N/SANZAAR team, and you have to stand down for three years. And only go to a nation you were born in or your parents were born in. No grandparent cla...

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Who is investing in it? You'd have a hard time finding a paper trail between Waisake Naholo's Wanganui City College or Vaea Fifita's Tamaki College and New Zealand Rugby Headquarters. I wouldn’t be so sure. It would be a great story for a rugby journalist to try and unravel. One thing for certain, ...

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I'd like Emjoi to win it just to see him clap himself as he walks up on stage.

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There is no link between Kiwi schools and the NZRU whereas the Irish Provinces are owned, funded and presided over by the IRFU, and the players those provinces sign have to be verified by the IRFU. To suggest their is no correlation between a project player and the Irish team is disingenuous at bes...

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There is no link between Kiwi schools and the NZRU whereas the Irish Provinces are owned, funded and presided over by the IRFU, and the players those provinces sign have to be verified by the IRFU. To suggest their is no correlation between a project player and the Irish team is disingenuous at bes...

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There is no link between Kiwi schools and the NZRU whereas the Irish Provinces are owned, funded and presided over by the IRFU, and the players those provinces sign have to be verified by the IRFU. To suggest their is no correlation between a project player and the Irish team is disingenuous at best.

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If I recall correctly, the current November Internationals don't count as this 'year'. So Folau gets it as his current absence won't count against him.

No way BB gets it. He's been middling to poor.

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It looked like he had tears in his eyes during the anthems. The reality of what he'd potentially given up probably hit home at that point. Playing for Samoa? His land of his parents you mean? You've tried that quip twice. The Manu Samoa jersey was only ever second on his wishlist, bumped to third w...

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Stander and Strauss weren't international quality when they were signed is the point. They weren't stars who would clearly walk into the Irish side. Payne was and he counts as an Irish signing, not disputing that. By the time Aki signed there were other Irish centres on the radar and no guarantee o...

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South Sea Islander

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I thought it was very accommodating of the IRFU to help Bundee realise his boyhood dream of one day playing in the black jersey

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I have no issue with that being called a penalty try as it's consistent with other PT rulings. Such as when the last defender races out of the line to intercept/knock down the final pass to the attacker on the overlap. The officials give that a PT under the assumption the attacker will catch the pas...

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Read defo got that. Great counter ruck.

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New Zealand by birth and residency
England by grandparent (and at one time by residency)
Scotland by grandparent

... I'd imagine this is the most common combo for your bog-standard Pakeha.

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You know this ref is gonna be get some big gigs at the RWC. Sooo out of his depth.

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Fair enough. He didn't have an issue with clearing out a nuisance forward on the wrong side. Just that it was after the whistle.

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Oli Jager’s debut season at provincial level saw him coached by Canterbury legend Scott Robertson and like his coach, Jager found himself promoted to Super Rugby level in 2017, earning a contract with the Crusaders. Not bad progress for a 21 yo (now gone 22). Where was that English lock at as a 21 ...

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It would be an interesting exercise, which of the Home Unions have capped the most turgid of Kiwi journeymen. Bent, White and Boss would put Ireland up there but Hape, Flutey and Paul would take some beating. Where's naki when you want an comprehensive, yet damning, list compiled. Wait till you lad...

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It would be an interesting exercise, which of the Home Unions have capped the most turgid of Kiwi journeymen. Bent, White and Boss would put Ireland up there but Hape, Flutey and Paul would take some beating.

Where's naki when you want an comprehensive, yet damning, list compiled.

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... on your debuts for Ireland and Italy this weekend.

Another blackmark on Steve Hansen, not recognising Test stars right under his nose.

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