@MajorRage Yup fair. It's happened many times before.

@MajorRage No, Ruiz has always been a decent operator with the fastest hands in the division and a very solid chin and was a very good opponent to get on short notice. He could have easily been given the nod in the Parker fight but Parker's change of tactics and superior fitness got him home, just.

You don't need to look body beautiful to be the best and that's why Ruiz was written off. AJ for all the muscle he carries, has a terrible gas tank which was evident against Klitschko and Takam and he was gassed very early in the Ruiz fight.

I'll admit that I thought AJ would pull away late after a good showing early on from Ruiz with him giving AJ problems on the inside early on but I didn't expect AJ to get exposed this badly. If I were AJs team, I'd stay away from the rematch and look to rebuild again but it looks like they'll chuck AJ back in with Ruiz again.

Schwarz has a very padded record and has struggled against very low level opposition such as Bacurin, Gashi and Christian Lewandowski. He somehow had a ranking of 2 with the WBO and 9 with the IBF so I guess Fury will force himself into a few mandatories with a couple of alphabet organisations which is all you could take from such a mismatch of a fight.

Settle down guys it was Tom Schwarz haha. He was basically bought in to make Fury look good. Schwarz would barely be top 40.

@Tim That's true, but last season he should have been given more of an opportunity, and as @Duluth said, we also have Adrian Choat floating around so there really was no need to sign Jed Brown.

@Duluth Jed Brown was a stupid signing. Injury prone and no better than players we already have in the region. Havili looked very good in the 1 opportunity he got against the Rebels last year but hasn't been sighted since and probably won't be sighted for the Blues again. Wouldn't suprise me if we extended Brown's deal with our track record of keeping dead wood.

Collins should be added to that list along with Duffie. Ruru and Apisai might get extensions due to lack of options out there but I wouldn't care if the were given the flick along with Josh Goodhue.

@nzzp The last 3 weeks have been soul destroying tbh, and the worst thing is, is that we're waiting for it to happen in games. I love the side and would rather die before supporting anyone else, but man it's a shit feeling seeing the same thing happen over and over and over again for the past 8 seasons and I don't see it getting better next season either with the massive holes we have in our side and no-one really willing to come and play for us.

@Gunner He pulls that line out about 5 times a year lol.

Rieko Ioane has had a poor night so far.

@Tim Losing concentration as usual.

@Machpants Tbh, I still think the Canes will win (not even joking)

31-29 Canes you heard it here first.