@Windows97 said in New Zealand U85 v Sri Lanka:
@reprobate I guess the logic is that they're playing against teams that aren't weight restricted therefore the 85kg rule doesn't apply, but yes there is a certain amount of irony to it.
Still I recall playing a heartland team propping against some 120kg behemouth and having to pluck my spine out the back of ass after every scrum. I would have much preferred to have been the 95KG version of myself at the time 🙂
As an <85kg man myself I got squashed plenty in club footy, so can definitely sympathise. Sadly I never had a 95kg version of myself, but I did play a game of under 85s and fuck I felt like Jonah. I wasn't of course, being big for 80 minutes just turned me into a hungus.
Anyway, they should just change the name (surely small blacks has been taken already?)