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  • MN5M Offline
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    Well two of the All Blacks best attacking backs are skinny white guys ( Savea the obvious exception ) so that's very encouraging for our children. Read is big but he's hardly a monster compared to some and get's through the tackles and knocks people on their asses.

    Island kids do grow up much faster though, that's a fact. I remember a future Manu Samoan international in my year get measured up in third form for PE, 6 foot and 96kgs ! fucken hell, I had to lean as far to the right on the scales as I could and it still didn't hit 50kg.

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    Everyone predicted that the Tongan Thor would be a star. Now, obviously, chosing to play for the Reds doesn't help his cause and he's still young, but he hasn't been that impressive yet, has he?

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    seriously this is so fucking boring. This year was supposed to be fun, with new players, new combinations, we would come back to the field a bit, and test matches would be entered with trepidation by AB fans drunk on success. The Fern would be full of acrimony and in-fighting as any stumble was blamed on someone new who should never have been there over insert better player from my team

    And it turns out everyone who has needed to step up has; the opposition have got worse, not us; we're picking the same fucking team every week, and it's full of players too good for whoever we are playing.

    And the worst we got was 50 decent minutes from the Argies, and Winger trying to make out the coaches hated the Hurricanes because Marshall, Woodward, and Shields didn't make the team.

    Fucking weak.

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    @MN5 said in All Pinks vs Boks - Christchurch:

    Due to moving to another suburb my boys haven't managed to get into rugby this year but both are really keen next year.....I just hope some big fucker like that doesn't put them off the game for life. Those fends were massive.....

    Let's see if the kid goes anywhere once the others catch up to him. Having a head over everyone else, and a 15kg advantage (maybe 20kg) makes it easy for him.

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    @NTA said in All Pinks vs Boks - Christchurch:

    @MN5 said in All Pinks vs Boks - Christchurch:

    Due to moving to another suburb my boys haven't managed to get into rugby this year but both are really keen next year.....I just hope some big fucker like that doesn't put them off the game for life. Those fends were massive.....

    Let's see if the kid goes anywhere once the others catch up to him. Having a head over everyone else, and a 15kg advantage (maybe 20kg) makes it easy for him.

    Well yeah, Nonu used to do that at will as he was coming up the ranks but the reason he is regarded as a great ( rightly so ) is cos of all the skills he added along the way.

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    Yep agree that this test is probably the least captivating encounter between these two teams ever and I think Hansen is so good now that I don't think we're likely to be overconfident and screw it up like previous AB teams at various incredibly memorable times in the past. I am still very interested in our march to pass that elusive 17 straight win hurdle though. Looking forward to playing England at the end of the year, think I read an article where Eddie Jones said he only needs to improve player performance by 3% to beat us. (The article's editor probably rounded that from 3.468129% because Eddie isn't that inexact)

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    @Rembrandt we aren't playing them this year?

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    What the hell! I thought we played them every year. Oh that is annoying. Right cancel the rugby calendar lets do that North vs South island thing but make it a 3 test series. And lets really over-hype the crap out of it maaaaaaaateeeeeee!

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    @Rembrandt said in All Pinks vs Boks - Christchurch:

    @taniwharugby

    What the hell! I thought we played them every year. Oh that is annoying. Right cancel the rugby calendar lets do that North vs South island thing but make it a 3 test series. And lets really over-hype the crap out of it maaaaaaaateeeeeee!

    Justin Marshall to do an on-field, 3-minute monologue about passion before every game.

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    not that that appears to have stopped Steddie from getting a few digs in early...the ABs have weaknesses we will exploit, but I wont tell you about them now...I guess in case they try to fix them in the next 27 months (I seem to recall hearing we don't play them next year either?)

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    @MN5 said in All Pinks vs Boks - Christchurch:

    Well yeah, Nonu used to do that at will as he was coming up the ranks but the reason he is regarded as a great ( rightly so ) is cos of all the skills he added along the way.

    Difference being he was in an environment where he came up against guys in his league. This kid, being in Melbourne, just might never see a tough opponent until he plays interstate.

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    @taniwharugby Ha no wonder he is talking tough now. That is actually really annoying, nothing better than the AB's absolutely destroying another coach's theories. If we don't play them for 2 years and they keep progressing then the eventual meetup would be quite the event.

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    http://www.nzherald.co.nz/sport/news/article.cfm?c_id=4&objectid=11710301

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    @mariner4life said in [All Pinks vs Boks \- Christchurch](/post/100210):
    > seriously this is so fucking boring. This year was supposed to be fun, with new players, new combinations, we would come back to the field a bit, and test matches would be entered with trepidation by AB fans drunk on success. The Fern would be full of acrimony and in-fighting as any stumble was blamed on someone new who should never have been there over *insert better player from my team*
    > 
    > And it turns out everyone who has needed to step up has; the opposition have got worse, not us; we're picking the same fucking team every week, and it's full of players too good for whoever we are playing. 
    > 
    

    Yeah - the ABs are paying $1.04 to win this test and the TAB might not even be offering odds on us winning TRC now.

    Worse - Canterbury is paying $1.35 to win the Mitre10 Cup and something similar to end the season with the Ranfurly Shield and unless they get a raft of injuries I can't see those odds lengthening.

    It's so predictable I've signed a new contract to do work. 🙂

    Let's hope the cricket in India is interesting.

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    @Chris-B. a buck o'four? Against the Boks? That's fucking ridiculous.

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    Yep - the Boks are at nine dollars if you want a piece of it - or they're giving them 21.5 points headstart.

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    @Chris-B. said in All Pinks vs Boks - Christchurch:

    @mariner4life said in [All Pinks vs Boks \- Christchurch](/post/100210):
    > seriously this is so fucking boring. This year was supposed to be fun, with new players, new combinations, we would come back to the field a bit, and test matches would be entered with trepidation by AB fans drunk on success. The Fern would be full of acrimony and in-fighting as any stumble was blamed on someone new who should never have been there over *insert better player from my team*
    > 
    > And it turns out everyone who has needed to step up has; the opposition have got worse, not us; we're picking the same fucking team every week, and it's full of players too good for whoever we are playing. 
    > 
    

    Yeah - the ABs are paying $1.04 to win this test and the TAB might not even be offering odds on us winning TRC now.

    Worse - Canterbury is paying $1.35 to win the Mitre10 Cup and something similar to end the season with the Ranfurly Shield and unless they get a raft of injuries I can't see those odds lengthening.

    It's so predictable I've signed a new contract to do work. 🙂

    Let's hope the cricket in India is interesting.

    Make no bones about it, that Springbok team is shiiiiiiiiiitttttttttt.

    I don't even bother giving one of my really good Saffa mates shit about them now, more a sympathetic ear for him to whinge about the politics of his once beloved team.

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    The Auckland Herald and Stuff articles quoting Eddie Jones' jabs have both referred to the ABs and England not meeting 'til 2018. That has to be shit. You can bet the house on the ABs playing England at Twickenham in November 2017.

    I agree...the current state of affairs is sad. This Boks test figures to be a cakewalk unless the weather is so dire that we only win by 10 points.

    We are all already counting down to the Lions next year (though I don't seriously give them a chance of winning a test) and even more so 'til we play England whenever. And we're assuming that England won't have fallen apart by then.

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    @Rembrandt said in All Pinks vs Boks - Christchurch:

    Yep agree that this test is probably the least captivating encounter between these two teams ever and I think Hansen is so good now that I don't think we're likely to be overconfident and screw it up like previous AB teams at various incredibly memorable times in the past. I am still very interested in our march to pass that elusive 17 straight win hurdle though. Looking forward to playing England at the end of the year, think I read an article where Eddie Jones said he only needs to improve player performance by 3% to beat us. (The article's editor probably rounded that from 3.468129% because Eddie isn't that inexact)

    The build up to the 2007 Christchurch test before the RWC where they sent their B/C team was pretty uninspiring

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    Weather looks OK - showers the next day or two and mostly sunny Saturday.

    It'll be a slaughter.

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