All Blacks v Pumas

antipodean

@gt12 Given what they say about his change in weight and explosive drills results, you can see why they're so excited at the promise he can bring to the blindside. Good explanation why they don't see him as a lock.

ACT Crusader

@gt12 we'll see about what they do with Ofa now that Laulala has shown his wares. At least for the rest of the season Ofa will get good game time to improve. But when Franks comes back who knows.

pakman

@ACT-Crusader Earlier in thread it was suggested that they were trying to make Ofa the new Charlie. I seem to recall Charlie wasn't the greatest scrummager in his early days but to paraphrase Joel Stransky had the potential to become a 10 in a prop's body. Ofa is certainly a physical specimen in the loose.

Laulala is scrumming specialist, so a straight back up for Franks. As are Hames and Moody. Moli seems to offer potential to be another mobile prop who can scrummage tidily.

Bovidae

As long as Ofa doesn't become another Joe McDonnell or Jamie Mackintosh.

MN5

@Bovidae said in All Blacks v Pumas:

As long as Ofa doesn't become another Joe McDonnell or Jamie Mackintosh.

Wrong initials

MN5

@gt12 said in All Blacks v Pumas:

@gt12

Ha ha, Steve responds

Edit: Link not working to herald article?

nzherald.co.nz/sport/news/article.cfm?c_id=4&objectid=11918985

Christ on a bike, any excuse to mention SBW as some kind of super athlete as if the rest are beer swilling club players.

Milk

@gt12 said in All Blacks v Pumas:

www/nzherald.co.nz/sport/news/article.cfm?c_id=4&objectid=11918985

@Duluth said in All Blacks v Pumas:

@gt12

Only that link. Strange

I'll have a look at it tomorrow

It's just that the link is missing the '.'
www/nzherald

Anyway, high praise for Fifita. Looking forward to seeing him in action.

booboo

@Milk said in All Blacks v Pumas:

@gt12 said in All Blacks v Pumas:

www/nzherald.co.nz/sport/news/article.cfm?c_id=4&objectid=11918985

@Duluth said in All Blacks v Pumas:

@gt12

Only that link. Strange

I'll have a look at it tomorrow

It's just that the link is missing the '.'
www/nzherald

Anyway, high praise for Fifita. Looking forward to seeing him in action.

Ah that was me ... kind of.

It didn't have the "www" for a start. So I edited it to add but put a "/" instead of a ".".

booboo

Having said that someone else has fixed that and it's still not displaying on my browser

Hooroo

@booboo said in All Blacks v Pumas:

Having said that someone else has fixed that and it's still not displaying on my browser

YEah, that was me not fixing it properly..... thought I was being useful, I was wrong

Duluth

@booboo said in All Blacks v Pumas:

Ah that was me ... kind of.

It didn't have the "www" for a start. So I edited it to add but put a "/" instead of a ".".

It wasn't you. I took out the www so the link would show

The embedding isn't working. It's something to do with the & getting resolved differently than other links

booboo

@Hooroo said in All Blacks v Pumas:

@booboo said in All Blacks v Pumas:

Having said that someone else has fixed that and it's still not displaying on my browser

YEah, that was me not fixing it properly..... thought I was being useful, I was wrong

Me too

Billy Tell

@Bovidae

I still recall a bemused/gobsmacked media listening to a condescending Mitchell explain why McDonnell was picked from nowhere for his "explosive power".

taniwharugby

@Billy-Tell said in All Blacks v Pumas:

@Bovidae

...Mitchell...McDonnell... "explosive power".

MN5

Owen Frank's explosive power has seen him carry the ball about 5 metres in his whole career and score the same amount of test tries as everyone else commenting on this thread.

Stockcar86

Best thing about this game so far - backs wearing black boots

mimic

Nice break by DMac to set up NMS

Stargazer

@mimic It's great what the presence of a hooker who runs like a wing can do! The Argies were so focused on him that they left a nice gap for Dmac to run through. Great finish from NMS. Not to forget Fifita's strong run.

mimic

Wow.. Fifita..

canefan

Is that young Canes star Fifita?

The Silver Fern

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