I knew that the Ellis Park result was the worst thing to have happened to the ABs. Foster has single handedly destroyed the AB legacy.
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Akira must be feeling great right now. Poor guy.
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Interesting to hear Ryan say that if we had a full deck we would be able to compete. So he's admitting that the backups are shit. That sure doesn't fill me with confidence, perhaps they should have picked a better squad.
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Is there a point in playing Whitelock until the 80th minute when they are clearly going to lose? Razor sure loves to run him into the ground and leave the ABs with a burnt out player.
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The judge clearly hates the ABs since he wants SF to remain in the team.
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Thank you Hansen, Henry, NZR and the senior ABs. This is on you clowns.
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@booboo said in Ireland II:
Interesting contrast in reaction to the two results, Chicago and Dublin.
Winners, losers, magnanimity and shit loss.
The Irish have been terrible losers today. All the kiwis who were happy for Ireland and their fans after the Chicago loss should hopefully now realise that others won't ever reciprocate that level of magnanimity towards us. I hope we will never ever see another day where an AB loss is accepted and even celebrated by many AB fans.
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ABs ability to stop mauls already a lot better under Ryan.
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@barbarian said in RWC Final: All Blacks v Springboks:
@pakman said in RWC Final: All Blacks v Springboks:
Sometimes the better team loses. That's sport. But ABs did more than enough to win that one and only denied their just desserts by officials, in particular TMO.
You can believe this all you want. Hey whatever makes you sleep at night.
But from where I sat the better team won, and the scoreboard reflected that pretty nicely, as it generally does.
I'm conflicted. The ABs should have been more clinical in the 2nd half and goal kicking obviously cost us, so in that sense we didn't deserve the win.
Having said that, how the hell did SA not put away a team that was down to 14 for 65 minutes of the game? They should never have allowed us to be so close. If Jordie had kicked that final penalty and the ABs had gone on to win that game, that would go down as a massive choke by SA. But they won, so the narrative changes and they are now being hailed as the most clutch team of all time. Fine margins.
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@taniwharugby said in When should Foster go?:
think the point is he was kicking for the 5m lineout, that is the difficult part, but given how far out he was kicking from, he shouldnt have been going for that lower % play...irony is, if he had gone for say 10-15m out, he woulda put it into the 5m....
I know he has said that he is happy to take the risk and go for extra metres and if it doesn't come off then he can live with it. That's fine if we are in the lead or at least are in the game, however this was a crucial time in the game where we were well behind and needed to score. It was definitely not the time to take a risk. This team lacks rugby IQ and Mounga displayed that perfectly with that kick.
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@pukunui said in All Blacks v BI Lions Test #3:
Fucking disgrace. I thought it couldn't get any worse than last weeks deciding penalty but that was a complete farce.
Fully expect WR to stay completely silent.
Has anybody ever seen a referee change his mind about a penalty from a non foul related incident? First time in history I reckon.
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I thought the big work on after the semi was to improve our physicality. We looked even less physical than last year.
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Vaii was nowhere to be seen. He's not an international standard forward. Really don't know what the selectors see in him.
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@Stargazer Do you actually believe they didn't have to take a piss during the 8 hour journey?
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Aussie based Ferners, Stan is now showing the SRA U20 games too. I didn't expect that. Well done Stan.
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"Retallick lucky he didnt break Hanigans neck "
Clown going nuts in the PC.
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@duluth said in All Blacks 2021:
That herald article also had a brief summary of the victims version of events (via her mother)
The victim's mother, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said the pair had a mutual friend and were out socialising in the Octagon when the incident played out. She said a conversation arose that Frizell did not like, prompting the slap, "to shut [her] up". When the victim returned to confront the rugby player, the second assault occurred. Frizell later sent abusive messages to a third party on social media.
A punch that resulted in dental work? I’m even more surprised by the NZR sanction now. Given the small punishment I was assuming the assault was a push or something else relatively insignificant
If what the woman's mother is claiming is true, then Frizell should never play for the ABs again.
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SBW will have a field day running at Sexton and Farrell, Teo is unlucky to be benched. Can't believe AWJ has retained his position as well.
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Surely you pick Goodhue over McLeod or Ennor.
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I blame this year's shithouse performances on Labour. We never play well when those fluffybunnies are in power.
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