Kieran Read has retired from professional rugby
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He may not have been at his best since his serious back injury and surgery in 2017, but IMO he's one of the best no. 8s we've ever had. A true All Blacks great and it has been a pleasure watching him play.
Thanks for all the great moments, Reado. Enjoy spending time with your family, and good luck for what's next.
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Always seemed to lift for the Boks and played some insane footy against them. Fantastic player. I don’t think he was a natural captain but had some good moments as the AB captain. Although he did get stitched up by a French ref....
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2013 he was incredible.
Definitely faded at the end, but at his best he was the best 8 we’ve had.
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@stargazer said in Kieran Read has retired from professional rugby:
Interview with Kieran Read on the Breakdown (starts at approx. 41'20"):
That is/was a shocking mo
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@mackerzzzz said in Kieran Read has retired from professional rugby:
@stargazer said in Kieran Read has retired from professional rugby:
Interview with Kieran Read on the Breakdown (starts at approx. 41'20"):
That is/was a shocking mo
That’s just jealousy speaking. To be fair it does make him look like a 19th century prizefighter or someone who should be riding a Penny Farthing.
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I see Polite is now saying it was the wrong call at the end of the third 2017 Lions test.
"Many people called me after the game and told me, 'That was a mistake, but it was justice, the right decision to make'," Frenchman Poite told Rugby Pass.
"Even the World Rugby staff management gave me this call. But I said that I am paid to make a big decision at the end of the game. That was my concern."
Gutless.
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@mofitzy_ said in Kieran Read has retired from professional rugby:
I see Polite is now saying it was the wrong call at the end of the third 2017 Lions test.
"Many people called me after the game and told me, 'That was a mistake, but it was justice, the right decision to make'," Frenchman Poite told Rugby Pass.
"Even the World Rugby staff management gave me this call. But I said that I am paid to make a big decision at the end of the game. That was my concern."
Gutless.
And who exactly were these people who congratulated him and told him he made the right call?
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@canefan said in Kieran Read has retired from professional rugby:
@mofitzy_ said in Kieran Read has retired from professional rugby:
I see Polite is now saying it was the wrong call at the end of the third 2017 Lions test.
"Many people called me after the game and told me, 'That was a mistake, but it was justice, the right decision to make'," Frenchman Poite told Rugby Pass.
"Even the World Rugby staff management gave me this call. But I said that I am paid to make a big decision at the end of the game. That was my concern."
Gutless.
And who exactly were these people who congratulated him and told him he made the right call?
fluffybunnies
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@mofitzy_ said in Kieran Read has retired from professional rugby:
I see Polite is now saying it was the wrong call at the end of the third 2017 Lions test.
"Many people called me after the game and told me, 'That was a mistake, but it was justice, the right decision to make'," Frenchman Poite told Rugby Pass.
"Even the World Rugby staff management gave me this call. But I said that I am paid to make a big decision at the end of the game. That was my concern."
Gutless.
Not gutless, just pressure in a decision. Probably remembered how other refs have been treated post match by WR in similar circumstances.
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@crucial said in Kieran Read has retired from professional rugby:
@mofitzy_ said in Kieran Read has retired from professional rugby:
I see Polite is now saying it was the wrong call at the end of the third 2017 Lions test.
"Many people called me after the game and told me, 'That was a mistake, but it was justice, the right decision to make'," Frenchman Poite told Rugby Pass.
"Even the World Rugby staff management gave me this call. But I said that I am paid to make a big decision at the end of the game. That was my concern."
Gutless.
Not gutless, just pressure in a decision. Probably remembered how other refs have been treated post match by WR in similar circumstances.
That sounds gutless to me. His instinct and knowledge made him make the correct decision that he then squibbed on. He's honest enough to admit it now. Just as if we're honest we did ourselves out of another Lions clean sweep.
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@mofitzy_ said in Kieran Read has retired from professional rugby:
I see Polite is now saying it was the wrong call at the end of the third 2017 Lions test.
"Many people called me after the game and told me, 'That was a mistake, but it was justice, the right decision to make'," Frenchman Poite told Rugby Pass.
"Even the World Rugby staff management gave me this call. But I said that I am paid to make a big decision at the end of the game. That was my concern."
Gutless.
What the fuck is that statement?
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@machpants said in Kieran Read has retired from professional rugby:
WR needed the lions to be successful and ABs brought down a peg, so ‘justice’
I've said it before and I'll say it again. A significant part of my rugby fandom died that day on the back of that decision.
This only serves to justify that.
But I am, alas, just an NZ fan.
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@booboo said in Kieran Read has retired from professional rugby:
What the fuck is that statement?
It's fucking appalling is what it is.
The people that called him are morons. How can something be a mistake and the right decision?
And that is ignoring the corruption and cheating aspect by an international referee.
I'm with @MajorRage too. Wayne Barnes started my lack of faith in a sport that I still watch and can enjoy. Garces and Poite confirmed that I won't spend my money going around the world to watch anymore. Makes me both sad and bloody angry.
'I destroyed everything': Ref admits crucial mistake in All Blacks-Lions draw
