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mdaclarke wrote: ↑Sat Mar 02, 2024 4:26 pm How can the Sharks be so poor? When they have so many good players?

You cannot buy a team

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bok_viking wrote: ↑Sat Mar 02, 2024 4:32 pm Bulls Stormers game delayed. Big lighting storm close to the stadium. If the rain starts coming down it will be beneficial to the stormers. They tend to play better than the bulls in the wet.

Always thought that but it’s not true

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Loftus fixture now also delayed by lightening

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Lightening interrupts play

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OupaStruisbaai wrote: ↑Sat Mar 02, 2024 2:30 pm Not a bad crowd at Ellispark. The Sharks are oing to places

[inserts babelfish]

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How pleasant is watching the Lions/Sharks game with no stadium DJ blasting away?

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Trampoline park owners fined after 11 people broke their backs at Flip Out Chester All the injuries occurred while people used the park's "tower jump" - where they dropped more than 17ft into a foam pit. Two men who owned a trampoline park where 11 people broke their backs and hundreds more got inj...

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Reffell kills the opposition momentum stone dead.

Not many players like that about at the moment.

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Would be madness to exclude Reffell

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Ogre wrote: ↑Tue Feb 27, 2024 7:39 am I shall be doing the corned beef again, bloody tasty and cheap ($9 a kilo)

Never heard of doing corned beef on the braai.

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Maties fully deserved the win. They played very well against a strong wind in the second half. The disrupted the Ikey lineout the whole night. Windy conditions makes it difficult for backline play. Ikeys had chances to win but the Maties defended very well. I heard that some or other safety officia...

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What’s happening in the Ikey Maties game?

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the England coaching booth looks like a bunch of stockbrokers watching a crash unfold on their screens

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Any thoughts on Brace's Refereeing performance? I thought there was a general absence of refereeing during play and some strange interpretations when he did bother, That maul call at the end was ridiculous given how long some standing tackles were allowed throughout the game and the tackled players...

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all this crap started when Australia selected props who were incapable of scrumming. Bill Young, Matt Dunning etc. Armed only with a scowl and no other physical scrumming abilities they merrily went about collapsing scrums, losing their bind etc etc for reset after reset.

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To my mind the most important saffa in the Scotland setup is Pieter de Villiers

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Had not really noticed Rodney before - now he presents like the first pangs of an infected tooth.

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Currently Lay 19.4 states: Teams must be ready to form the scrum within 30 seconds of the mark being made. Sanction: Free-kick. Found that interesting. Maybe just enforcing existing laws around the scrum will have some unexpected positive effects. Law 19: Scrum I never realised how detailed the scr...

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I don't think you're going to change defending teams going for an 8 man push by introducing a straight feed. The advantage is stlll with the team putting in and you lose too much asking your hooker to strike. Aren’t both hookers required to strike? Both hookers will be required to ensure one foot, ...

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And make the scrum half play as soon as the ball is available.

We are seeing resets for scrum collapses well after the ball could be played

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people forget or simply don't know how slow play was in the "good old days" there was a time when kickers would take touch-finders from penalties by way of a place kick: Andy Irvine famously so. The sand bucket would be brought out for this. In Irvine's case it was even more of a production. He kick...

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An aerobic sport with anaerobic elements. It still shouldn't have increasing amounts of strategic breaks added or you turn it increasingly into a different sport. Look at scrums in the 70s and 80s.. no mucking about. Now we have scrums taking up almost half the amount of time we have ball in play t...

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I don't want the clock stopped.. I don't want players having a breather... it's an aerobic sport... no drinks breaks unless temp over 30 degrees. It is not simply an aerobic sport. An aerobic sport with anaerobic elements. It still shouldn't have increasing amounts of strategic breaks added or you ...

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Grandpa wrote: ↑Mon Feb 19, 2024 10:35 am
I don't want the clock stopped.. I don't want players having a breather... it's an aerobic sport... no drinks breaks unless temp over 30 degrees.

It is not simply an aerobic sport.

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November2019 wrote: ↑Thu Feb 15, 2024 10:44 am I didn't think today's answer was an eligible word

I got it in the end but also wondered if it is eligible. I have now educated myself.

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Rowdy wrote: ↑Tue Feb 13, 2024 4:14 pm I always thought Smit was sound. Graeme Smith was unpopular with Aussies because he was too abrasive and crossed the sacred line too often.

The sacred line? What is this?

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This is the poorest 6 Nations I have seen. We've definitely had as many/more poor games but it's not looking great alright. poor games can happen even when sides are playing reasonably well. France last week and Italy looked like Stumblebum XV's. Scotland went to sleep for an entire half last week....

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Winnie wrote: ↑Mon Feb 12, 2024 4:03 pm A phrase used by parents to misbehaving kids for all of time

Brilliant piece of refereeing
Also great respect shown by the captains
Well done all

https://twitter.com/jaredwright17/stat ... 5931026815

she is a good ref. Been around the Saffa circuit a while now.

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assfly wrote: ↑Mon Feb 12, 2024 10:55 am
mr bungle wrote: ↑Mon Feb 12, 2024 8:01 am Didn’t they make one of these after they lost to NZ then beat Namibia, Italy, Canada, Japan, Wales & England? Overhyping twats.
Winners are grinners.

I'm just glad I am not bungle.

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This is the poorest 6 Nations I have seen.

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He is a good ref and was so yesterday

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Forget the last minute drama. If Scotland had played with a bit of ambition and kept patiently attacking they would have won handily enough. Scottish teams seem incapable of this and either get frantic, freeze in the headlights, make the wrong decision, make an inexplicable error or a combination o...

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I’m a great believer in the grubber.

Nobody likes to field an awkwardly bouncing ball coming their way.

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fatcat wrote: ↑Sat Feb 10, 2024 2:02 pm
Monk Zombie wrote: ↑Sat Feb 10, 2024 10:37 am
Hawk97 wrote: ↑Sat Feb 10, 2024 10:33 am

He’s ridiculous
Prize arsehole to boot
Poor lad's going to have that levelled at him for the rest of his career. And probably his career after rugby.

He went full Conor McGregor last night.

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Hawk97 wrote: ↑Sat Feb 10, 2024 10:33 am
Quins89 wrote: ↑Fri Feb 09, 2024 10:06 pm Pollock MOTM again.

Probably deserved again
He’s ridiculous

Prize arsehole to boot

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First saw Pollock here with an England schools side. He stood out at the tournament with his speed and handling but especially his tenacity.

Skippered the side I think.

Came across as a proper prat at the post match interviews: which will please the poms.

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Definitely see the Itoje comparison. Just very annoying to play against. Rock hard and very disruptive. With a huge work rate to go with all that power. Itoje really turned England from the fairly good team they were under Lancaster (and Farrell) into champions with Eddie Jones. Farrell undoubtedly...

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England looking so much better with Ford

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I thought Karl Dickson had a great game. Did think Willemse should have got red for the first shoulder charge. I thought he was awful (but consistently awful) at the ruck. Side entries and dubious turnovers aplenty made for an interesting game at least. Lately refs seem to be very tolerant of side ...

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I thought Karl Dickson had a great game.

Did think Willemse should have got red for the first shoulder charge.

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