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tl;dr - could somone impartial (i.e. non Irish) summarise where are we now in this thread? The Irish forgot to get wifi installed at their crumbling hurling grounds. World Rugby took a dim view given they are organising a global sporting event, not an 80s-era piss trip for a visiting rugger club. F...

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LandOTurk wrote:tl;dr - could somone impartial (i.e. non Irish) summarise where are we now in this thread?

The Irish forgot to get wifi installed at their crumbling hurling grounds. World Rugby took a dim view given they are organising a global sporting event, not an 80s-era piss trip for a visiting rugger club.

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Western Samoa should break away again. What a stupid post. It’s not at all, but tell me why you think so. FFS. You're a f**king idiot. Ok. See if you can get your head around this. It’s an old one. In 1996 Western Samoa came to Dublin to play Ireland in a match that they won 40 - 25. As the only pr...

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Hopefully his game-busting talents continue to shine at International level he doesn't fizzle out like Ardie has.

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comets wrote:Chiefs finally having a team since 1996 without a single player with a Fijian background, now hopefully the idiots back home will stop cheering for them....that said, i'm shocked Sevu Reece did not make the team, he covered a few positions..

I thought Anton Leinert-Brown had some Fijian heritage.

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God, I'm glad it's 12 years until the next Lions tour. The ancillary nonsense that goes along with the Lions before, during and after the tour is an absolute bore. Next time, show up, play some rugby, shake hands and piss off home. Leave your infighting, political posturing and inter-squad bickering...

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A pity we lost Josh McKay to the Highlanders. Not sure we needed both Macalai and Mataele. The real loss of talent is Solomon Alaimalo but Razor was locked into Wainui, Fifita and Digby from Toddy's era when the Chiefs came calling for Solomon. Thankfully those type of recruiting errors are a thing ...

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A shame the RWCL Board of Directors didn't run metrics on "having the craic" and "Guinness-fueled benders" as that seems to be what the Irish bid was based on.

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World Rugby couldn’t risk a second straight World Cup where the hosts aren’t involved in the final fortnight of the tournament. And rightly so.

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Some of the newbies have been found wanting, and some of the established players don't have the consistent impact they used to. In the former category, Barrett is simply not physical enough to be a top lock, unless we have a few monsters elsewhere in the pack. Tuipolotu has been hugely disappointin...

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All-time favourite Mitchell & Webb... "Football, Football, Football"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VF_uOgyBK1c

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Also, Read, Coles, Crockett, Whitelock, ALB, and SBW will miss the BaaBaas game, with Mo'unga, Drummond, Atu Moli, Dillon Hunt, and Bird joining the squad for that one. These guys will be involved in the French XV game too apparently. To help with that, Hansen confirmed five additional players woul...

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What young Kiwi hasn't gone to Britain on their OE and been sucked into the their drug culture.

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Fair play to them. It's really no different to Samoa or Tonga considering and selecting players with Samoan/Tongan heritage.

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Rennie is a future All Blacks coach so it stands to reason he'll do what Henry and Hansen did and make his mistakes using Wales as a crash test dummy.

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... and Hawke's Bay rugby?

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Exactly. Capital rugby sides in sudden death rugby? Always a chance.

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There's an issue with the top 200 - how on earth is St Pats Silverstream 2nd? Hamilton came 2nd in the top 4 and St Pats went out in the Canes region final. I wonder how they measure it that allows them to be 2nd? Good site though. I came across it last year as well. It looks like that ranking was ...

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NZ youth rugby squads are always a good indicator of the absurdity of modern naming. Here is the latest NZ Secondary Schools squad. It includes some made-up names (Rivez), some creative spellings of traditional names (Kaleb and Kianu) and the Kiwi speciality of naming your kid after famous rugby pla...

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If you gave Gatland and Hansen the option to replay the series this November Hansen would bite your hand off and Gatland would politely decline before rushing off to re-check his wikipedia page does indeed say a drawn series.

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He represents Samoa but played rugby in NZ; Sinoti Sinoti wins

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Toro wrote:
CrazyIslander wrote:Forward pass?
Not even close.

The Pumas starting to put some perspective on that Lions effort.

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This prop has been masquerading as a halfback for the best part of 15 years...

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So say Cane is injured for the Pumas...

Ardie starts but who do they bring into the squad as 7 cover? Elliot Dixon?

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Caleb Clarke has started the first two games for Auckland

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Hansen and the selectors gave him some feedback a few seasons back, telling him he needed to work on his body position as he was frequently getting held up in contact. Not much has changed since, often hitting the defensive line like he's a jet plane taking off.

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MrDominator wrote:Beauden Barrett?

The Lions made him look like a lost little schoolboy.

Took four nations focusing all their energies to stop one boy. No wonder they only led for 2 minutes the entire test series.

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That's class

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Black Ferns have shifted up a gear.

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Deliberate knock down? You don't have to be coming forward out of the defensive line to knock it down...

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No knock on but continues the ref's interpretation of when a player is held or not. Fair play to the Black Ferns for playing to the ref.

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This is some final.

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Yo Sonny Bill, Rodney thanks you for taking his title.

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Given the how the All Blacks management handled Dane Coles during the Lions series and in the lead-up to the first Bled test you could hardly say NZR play fast and loose with concussion issues and player safety.

Looks pretty bad. Although I never picked up on it watching live.

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Thai guy wrote:
Grizz Wyllie wrote:That Aussie hurdler that eye-f*cks the camera pre-race while shaking her bits.
There's someone for everyone, I suppose.

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That Aussie hurdler that eye-f*cks the camera pre-race while shaking her bits.

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Played against this guy during lunchtime bullrush. An absolute terror amongst the scrawny white kids at my quintessentially middle class Christchurch school...

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Vaea Fifita ain't getting starts over Squire. He's purely in the All Blacks set-up because of his ability to cover 5/6 is a bonus in a 32 man RWC squad.

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That's hit me quite a bit harder than I thought it might. I'm too young to have seen him play, but from the moment I fell in love with the game ('87) he was spoken of in this mythical way that no player in New Zealand has been talked of. Then to see the way current All Blacks acted in his presence y...

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