RWC: All Blacks v South Africa (Pool B)
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So who, exactly, are the players writing these messages on their wrist tape for? Not for themselves, unless they read their watches upside down
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In fact, what does wrist tape even do? -
Ugh.
Well played All Blacks. Better than us on the day.
Good luck for the rest of the RWC - hope to see you for the 100th match up later in the final! -
@gt12 said in RWC: All Blacks v South Africa (Pool
:midfield good (especially ALB) although they barely used SBW - why bring him on and then never put the ball in his hands?
Because he doesn't have to carry to create space?
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If you are an AB you have to expect (sad) people to go crawling through footage to find things and then try to make them go viral. Just means you've got to be super clean.
I have to admit, that after reading so much of it after the years, I have occasionally started to wonder if we do get some treatment as being the world number 1( and by some distance for a lot of it) over the last few years will mean some ref's will have pre-conceived notions.
However, after the Lions debacle, where there were full page spreads about the red card (first in history, more or less) and then zero about Garces flipping about playing the rules properly (both in favour of lions, both in last minutes, both deciding the results of the tests), I've decided that knockers are just knockers. Sad people who struggled to achieve nothing themselves. Sitting in Mummy's basement behind their thousands of screens desperate to find a morsel of AB "favouritisim" to try and make go viral. Forget Garces lack of PT/YC, forget the player being 10m offside before the Bok try, forget the penalty to Boks for brining down their own player - none is as relevant as Coles in from the side in a non-desciript ruck, or Read's clumsy grab at PTSD. None of it.
Boks were heavily tipped to win the thing by most fo the media up here (one well known pod cast had 6/6 predicting the Boks), and we've just (potentially) made them look stupid. If things go to form, I highly doubt they will get past the QF.
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@MajorRage said in RWC: All Blacks v South Africa (Pool
:If you are an AB you have to expect (sad) people to go crawling through footage to find things and then try to make them go viral. Just means you've got to be super clean.
I have to admit, that after reading so much of it after the years, I have occasionally started to wonder if we do get some treatment as being the world number 1( and by some distance for a lot of it) over the last few years will mean some ref's will have pre-conceived notions.
However, after the Lions debacle, where there were full page spreads about the red card (first in history, more or less) and then zero about Garces flipping about playing the rules properly (both in favour of lions, both in last minutes, both deciding the results of the tests), I've decided that knockers are just knockers. Sad people who struggled to achieve nothing themselves. Sitting in Mummy's basement behind their thousands of screens desperate to find a morsel of AB "favouritisim" to try and make go viral. Forget Garces lack of PT/YC, forget the player being 10m offside before the Bok try, forget the penalty to Boks for brining down their own player - none is as relevant as Coles in from the side in a non-desciript ruck, or Read's clumsy grab at PTSD. None of it.
Boks were heavily tipped to win the thing by most fo the media up here (one well known pod cast had 6/6 predicting the Boks), and we've just (potentially) made them look stupid. If things go to form, I highly doubt they will get past the QF.
A- fucken- men brother
It's just pure jealousy
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@akan004 said in RWC: All Blacks v South Africa (Pool
:@MajorRage Which podcast?
The ruck. It's usually very England rugby slanted, but over the internationals it's worth listening to. The Walrus is on it, but like most journalists, when they start talking and have their ideas challenged, he's half decent.
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@Stargazer said in RWC: All Blacks v South Africa (Pool
:Extended highlights clip with different camera angles:
Good thing they posted extended highlights as the initial highlights were a joke.
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@Machpants they arent actually tape, they are a super hightech flexible alloy made to look like tape, and has attractants to the cord in rugby shorts, to force the hands tackles down and encourage use of arms...cheats schmeats, innovative leaders
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.About these 3D replays:
Canon to bring 3D replays to Rugby World Cup - TVBEurope
Fans will be able to watch angles not seen via traditional cameras
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I was watching a replay.
And took some stills of the PSTD intercept to judge whether he was on side or offside.Techincially; he was onside by the time he made contact with the ball.
But he was offside (retiring) and interfering with the NZ backline, so could have gone either way. Usually brave or dumb to get involved when that 'exposed'.But if you look at my last picture, you will see it wasn't dumb. Was a 14 point intercept .....
Here is the sequence. Clockwise from top left:
Can see the ruck from ALB tackle in first still.
Look at the space. a 5 on 0 if you ignore the offside player.
Such a messy period of play, something didn't seem right, but hard to tell, and even with this amazing effort by myself ... it still would come down to interpretation anyway .....
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@MajorRage said in RWC: All Blacks v South Africa (Pool
:If you are an AB you have to expect (sad) people to go crawling through footage to find things and then try to make them go viral. Just means you've got to be super clean.
I have to admit, that after reading so much of it after the years, I have occasionally started to wonder if we do get some treatment as being the world number 1( and by some distance for a lot of it) over the last few years will mean some ref's will have pre-conceived notions.
However, after the Lions debacle, where there were full page spreads about the red card (first in history, more or less) and then zero about Garces flipping about playing the rules properly (both in favour of lions, both in last minutes, both deciding the results of the tests), I've decided that knockers are just knockers. Sad people who struggled to achieve nothing themselves. Sitting in Mummy's basement behind their thousands of screens desperate to find a morsel of AB "favouritisim" to try and make go viral. Forget Garces lack of PT/YC, forget the player being 10m offside before the Bok try, forget the penalty to Boks for brining down their own player - none is as relevant as Coles in from the side in a non-desciript ruck, or Read's clumsy grab at PTSD. None of it.
Boks were heavily tipped to win the thing by most fo the media up here (one well known pod cast had 6/6 predicting the Boks), and we've just (potentially) made them look stupid. If things go to form, I highly doubt they will get past the QF.
Forget this stuff as well, I don't have a twitter account so it didn't happen:
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@Machpants said in RWC: All Blacks v South Africa (Pool
:So who, exactly, are the players writing these messages on their wrist tape for? Not for themselves, unless they read their watches upside down
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In fact, what does wrist tape even do?It’s only a guess, but I reckon Sevu Reece wrote it for mum and dad.
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@mofitzy_ said in RWC: All Blacks v South Africa (Pool
:@Stargazer said in RWC: All Blacks v South Africa (Pool
:Extended highlights clip with different camera angles:
Good thing they posted extended highlights as the initial highlights were a joke.
One for @NTA : when LH at 45 degrees (Ofa in H2 penalty win) how does LH lock get any shove on behind him? Noticed when Marler used to do this Chris Robshaw (big unit) was usually in full contact behind him?
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@SammyC said in RWC: All Blacks v South Africa (Pool
:@Machpants said in RWC: All Blacks v South Africa (Pool
:So who, exactly, are the players writing these messages on their wrist tape for? Not for themselves, unless they read their watches upside down
https://resources.stuff.co.nz/content/dam/images/1/x/2/f/g/0/image.related.StuffLandscapeSixteenByNine.710x400.1x2e9h.png/1569201729724.jpg
In fact, what does wrist tape even do?It’s only a guess, but I reckon Sevu Reece wrote it for mum and dad.
Nope. That's a message for Garces, code for 'do we have a deal?'
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@Machpants said in RWC: All Blacks v South Africa (Pool
:So who, exactly, are the players writing these messages on their wrist tape for? Not for themselves, unless they read their watches upside down
https://resources.stuff.co.nz/content/dam/images/1/x/2/f/g/0/image.related.StuffLandscapeSixteenByNine.710x400.1x2e9h.png/1569201729724.jpg
In fact, what does wrist tape even do?Wrist tape is used to cover up a player’s “Matfield bar” tackling aid.
