The problem is the business model.
NZ’s SR teams are beholden to NZR, who give them an allowance and rules to abide by with. Their primary role is to produce All Blacks.
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- Sun Apr 21, 2024 5:13 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: SUPER 10
- Replies: 84
- Views: 2005
- Sun Apr 21, 2024 3:01 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Super Rugby 2024
- Replies: 212
- Views: 26498
Re: Super Rugby 2024
A few weeks ago we had a whole heap of games within 10 points of each other and things were getting exciting. Now we seem to be lucky to get one close game and the rest of blowouts. This weekend was pretty dire and kind of deflates excitement for the comp Rugby is doomed with the fickleness of its ...
- Sun Apr 21, 2024 11:45 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Force vs Crusaders Match Thread
- Replies: 114
- Views: 1966
Re: Force vs Crusaders Match Thread
Calaborator’s Choice?
- Sun Apr 21, 2024 11:23 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Force vs Crusaders Match Thread
- Replies: 114
- Views: 1966
Re: Force vs Crusaders Match Thread
According to rugby.com.au the Saders lost the penalty count 15-11 and the only YC was given to a Force player, so we’re not quite in Egon Seconds territory here. That won’t matter to AC. He’s only interested in being on the winning team He’s a supporter-of-convenience, an opportunist No doubt, in 1...
- Sun Apr 21, 2024 9:48 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Force vs Crusaders Match Thread
- Replies: 114
- Views: 1966
Re: Force vs Crusaders Match Thread
According to rugby.com.au the Saders lost the penalty count 15-11 and the only YC was given to a Force player, so we’re not quite in Egon Seconds territory here.
- Sun Apr 21, 2024 8:38 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Force vs Crusaders Match Thread
- Replies: 114
- Views: 1966
Re: Force vs Crusaders Match Thread
Total tackles
Crusaders: 70
Force: 206
Crusaders: 70
Force: 206
- Sat Apr 20, 2024 11:39 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Kurt Beale arrested for alleged sexual assault…
- Replies: 373
- Views: 29522
Re: Kurt Beale arrested for alleged sexual assault…
A specific retort to a more general point. Not that it perhaps means much, victims of sexual assault often get lots of facts wrong. Also I don't imagine the video os available to peruse, and I wouldn't look if it was. So on the specifics of this case I've no idea what happened, or even what was cla...
- Sat Apr 20, 2024 10:22 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Blues v Brumbies @ Eden Park - Yesterday
- Replies: 102
- Views: 1055
Re: Blues v Brumbies @ Eden Park - Today
RA remits dough from internationals to soup franchises and others. Where will monies remiited to the Brumbies be spent? Oh, so it’s all about business with you, eh? Are they participating in a professional sport? Yes. Yes, they are. They are also overly reliant on funding from a body - RA - that is...
- Sat Apr 20, 2024 10:15 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Blues v Brumbies @ Eden Park - Yesterday
- Replies: 102
- Views: 1055
Re: Blues v Brumbies @ Eden Park - Today
So you want to drop Bobby V or the specialist openside flanker? Who should Hooper be in the team for if it’s not Cale?
- Sat Apr 20, 2024 10:00 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Blues v Brumbies @ Eden Park - Yesterday
- Replies: 102
- Views: 1055
- Sat Apr 20, 2024 9:59 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Kurt Beale arrested for alleged sexual assault…
- Replies: 373
- Views: 29522
Re: Kurt Beale arrested for alleged sexual assault…
Yes, true. But there are countries where it's very hard to get rape convictions because the peers on the jury tend to judge the victim not the accused. I can't actually say I know either way whether Australia is one such, but I don't think ignorance is a reason not to be judgemental In the case of ...
- Sat Apr 20, 2024 9:57 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Blues v Brumbies @ Eden Park - Yesterday
- Replies: 102
- Views: 1055
Re: Blues v Brumbies @ Eden Park - Today
Straya's most unnecessary soup franchise is getting comprehensively bummed. I really do not understand this kind of talk from Australian rugby ‘supporters’. RA remits dough from internationals to soup franchises and others. Where will monies remiited to the Brumbies be spent? Oh, so it’s all about ...
- Sat Apr 20, 2024 8:59 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Blues v Brumbies @ Eden Park - Yesterday
- Replies: 102
- Views: 1055
- Sat Apr 20, 2024 8:49 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Kurt Beale arrested for alleged sexual assault…
- Replies: 373
- Views: 29522
Re: Kurt Beale arrested for alleged sexual assault…
There are times one might ponder the wisdom of the accused getting a jury of their peers What now? Who should make the decision then? Yes, true. But there are countries where it's very hard to get rape convictions because the peers on the jury tend to judge the victim not the accused. I can't actua...
- Sat Apr 20, 2024 5:54 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: LRZ
- Replies: 438
- Views: 26275
Re: LRZ
Your daughter is a fan of Kylie McDevitt? Huge fan! But she gets these celebrities confused all the time, so who knows, right? Wow, she must have been really into the Jason Kelce docco ! Might be the only way Kylie is famous other than the Kelce brothers podcast. She’s quite resourceful.
- Fri Apr 19, 2024 10:06 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: LRZ
- Replies: 438
- Views: 26275
Re: LRZ
You can make it part of your forthcoming tour Towny I don’t really know the guy but my daughter is a fan of his Mrs and I am fantastic company. Might be worth giving him a buzz, because we are definitely going there. Your daughter is a fan of Kylie McDevitt? Huge fan! But she gets these celebrities...
- Fri Apr 19, 2024 8:43 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Wallabies 2024 (2023 never happened)
- Replies: 10060
- Views: 331861
Re: Wallabies 2024 (2023 never happened)
Hunter Paisami put his hand up for the 12 jersey in a big way tonight Didn’t he, though!? In attack he was excellent - got well over the gainline all night and gave great service to those outside him. But it was his defence that was really telling imo. He didn’t seem to miss anyone and there was a ...
- Fri Apr 19, 2024 8:34 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: LRZ
- Replies: 438
- Views: 26275
Re: LRZ
https://i.ibb.co/bWDk10N/IMG-2215.jpg Good God. :lol: There’s a fair chance that Kelce will be seen in Wrexham next season. You can make it part of your forthcoming tour Towny I don’t really know the guy but my daughter is a fan of his Mrs and I am fantastic company. Might be worth giving him a buz...
- Fri Apr 19, 2024 1:03 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: SRP Rd 9 - Reds v Highlanders
- Replies: 175
- Views: 2526
Re: SRP Rd 9 - Reds v Highlanders
Foketi is only just almost soup level. His international career is because we have been pretty thin on the ranks at 12. And Eddie liked ex-leaguies. I like Foketi and think he’s a smart player. Paisami is having a very good year and seems to be getting better, so he’d be the leading contender imo. ...
- Fri Apr 19, 2024 12:52 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: SRP Rd 9 - Reds v Highlanders
- Replies: 175
- Views: 2526
Re: SRP Rd 9 - Reds v Highlanders
So Paisami or Foketi for Wallabies? Foketi is only just almost soup level. His international career is because we have been pretty thin on the ranks at 12. And Eddie liked ex-leaguies. I like Foketi and think he’s a smart player. Paisami is having a very good year and seems to be getting better, so...
- Fri Apr 19, 2024 7:02 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Wallabies 2024 (2023 never happened)
- Replies: 10060
- Views: 331861
Re: Wallabies 2024 (2023 never happened)
I remember hearing last Easter that the Rebels had the most accurate lineout in SR - so that must have been 5+ games into the season. Mafi was playing most of the minutes back then fwiw. Parling was in Rennie’s Wallaby coaching team for a couple of years, so he seems to have a good level of experien...
- Fri Apr 19, 2024 6:43 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: LRZ
- Replies: 438
- Views: 26275
- Fri Apr 19, 2024 6:42 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: LRZ
- Replies: 438
- Views: 26275
Re: LRZ
He's got the beautiful bit correct though. Only for those rich, white, upper classes like louis... or some posh cvnt boyos from the valleys? He must be thinking about all the English and Irish living in Llandaff and pontcanna ;) I bet the only Welsh people he knew were Catherine Zeta-Jones and this...
- Fri Apr 19, 2024 6:39 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Wallabies 2024 (2023 never happened)
- Replies: 10060
- Views: 331861
- Fri Apr 19, 2024 6:38 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Force vs Crusaders Match Thread
- Replies: 114
- Views: 1966
Re: Force vs Crusaders Match Thread
I’m feeling anxious for Rodda
- Thu Apr 18, 2024 6:07 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Banning smoking - does it make sense?
- Replies: 108
- Views: 3158
Re: Banning smoking - does it make sense?
Nah, spend some time in Portland if you want to see what the "all drugs are legal" thinking takes you. Entire streets of junkies shooting themselves up in public view and harassing everyone trying to do business. I read recently they revoked that law. Unlike crack neighbourhoods in the US where the...
- Thu Apr 18, 2024 1:25 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: U.S. politics thread and Joe Biden-the Ronan O'Gara of U.S. Presidents
- Replies: 18336
- Views: 872298
Re: U.S. politics thread and Joe Biden-the Ronan O'Gara of U.S. Presidents
It is. I guess it shows that politics is often like supporting a football team and people can't change. Goerge Bush courted the Christian evangelical crowd, and Trump inherited them. I often see the extreme ends of political sides have many contradictory groups in them. +1 I'd agree but extend the ...
- Thu Apr 18, 2024 8:56 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: U.S. politics thread and Joe Biden-the Ronan O'Gara of U.S. Presidents
- Replies: 18336
- Views: 872298
Re: U.S. politics thread and Joe Biden-the Ronan O'Gara of U.S. Presidents
Christian fundies and Trump is such a weird alliance, I know why it's happened but still they should consider him antichirst like by their usual standards. It is. I guess it shows that politics is often like supporting a football team and people can't change. Goerge Bush courted the Christian evang...
- Thu Apr 18, 2024 5:40 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Wallabies 2024 (2023 never happened)
- Replies: 10060
- Views: 331861
Re: Wallabies 2024 (2023 never happened)
Much better. A few years ago I would have taken every single kiwi ten over every one of ours. Now, Dmac aside, it's much more even. 👍 Although they still have Mo’unga on the shelf. Is he still considered eligible? I thought him and Barret were no longer in AB’s contention. He’s eligible according t...
- Wed Apr 17, 2024 6:39 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Listen to your body
- Replies: 138
- Views: 3597
Re: Listen to your body
Because of this thread I went and had my blood tested for bad stuff.
Thanks for the reality check Kiwias.
Thanks for the reality check Kiwias.
- Wed Apr 17, 2024 6:34 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: War in Ukraine...
- Replies: 53906
- Views: 2400452
Re: War in Ukraine...
So the US would loan Ukraine to buy obsolete/expired equipment and ammunition that’s in US inventory instead of the US throwing it out? That’s a good deal, right? Yes, and the money the Ukrainians "pay" would go towards restocking. It's effectively a subsidy for American weapons manufacturers Exact...
- Wed Apr 17, 2024 6:14 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: War in Ukraine...
- Replies: 53906
- Views: 2400452
Re: War in Ukraine...
So the US would loan Ukraine to buy obsolete/expired equipment and ammunition that’s in US inventory instead of the US throwing it out?
That’s a good deal, right?
That’s a good deal, right?
- Wed Apr 17, 2024 4:52 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: U.S. politics thread and Joe Biden-the Ronan O'Gara of U.S. Presidents
- Replies: 18336
- Views: 872298
- Wed Apr 17, 2024 7:41 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: U.S. politics thread and Joe Biden-the Ronan O'Gara of U.S. Presidents
- Replies: 18336
- Views: 872298
Re: U.S. politics thread and Joe Biden-the Ronan O'Gara of U.S. Presidents
Down another 14.7% today to $22.84, wiping another $300 million off of the Orange man's holding Yet still worth more than there issue price Ever the silver lining eh? Trump is making billions off his ignorant fans and others* that wish to give him money without oversight. By all accounts this has b...
- Wed Apr 17, 2024 7:37 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: The Australian Politics Thread
- Replies: 29346
- Views: 2082485
- Wed Apr 17, 2024 7:34 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Banning smoking - does it make sense?
- Replies: 108
- Views: 3158
Re: Banning smoking - does it make sense?
My wife is dieing in front of my eyes. She has smoked for almost 50 years now and just cannot give up. She doesn't try any more and won't even let her doctor discuss it. She refuses any tests to see what damage it has caused, she knows it has but thinks knowing the details will just cause more stre...
- Wed Apr 17, 2024 7:30 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Wallabies 2024 (2023 never happened)
- Replies: 10060
- Views: 331861
Re: Wallabies 2024 (2023 never happened)
I did suspect that as a potential answer. But I wasn’t having a dig. It was a genuine question. Why is Lolesio in vogue with posters when he clearly wasn’t by the selection group last year. Personally I think he sits behind Rolls Royce pack at the Brumbies, some arm chair selectors can’t adjust for...
- Wed Apr 17, 2024 7:28 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Wallabies 2024 (2023 never happened)
- Replies: 10060
- Views: 331861
Re: Wallabies 2024 (2023 never happened)
Good news!
I feel anxious for both of them.
- Wed Apr 17, 2024 7:28 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Wallabies 2024 (2023 never happened)
- Replies: 10060
- Views: 331861
Re: Wallabies 2024 (2023 never happened)
Let's face it Lolesio is the best but he sint world class. In fact we're lauding players for simply being able to kick for touch or not drop the ball. We've really gone backwards in what we need to see in a 10. There’s some truth in this but I think you’re being harsh. Carter Gordon, Will Harrison ...
- Tue Apr 16, 2024 8:16 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Joseph Suaalii to quit Roosters, join rugby on monster deal
- Replies: 333
- Views: 17674
Re: Joseph Suaalii to quit Roosters, join rugby on monster deal
Joey Manu (a better player IMO than Suaalii) is off to play in Japan next year. That’s just the cherry on top for NZR. No need to spend treasure and resources on developing league talent - overseas clubs can do that. If it works out, they get an All Black. No risk and big upside. Another athlete fr...