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    #176

    @chimoaus Thanks, that's very handy!

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    #177

    @chimoaus I did it and came up with this for the final...

    bfcbb7e5-4eb5-4025-84cc-a4aebe239e66-image.png

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    #178

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    the photo looks weird, bench with fozzie and cane, uneven numbers at the back, load of people with eye shut or looking in different directions, cobbled together photoshop?

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    @Kiwiwomble Also look at how far Fozzie is from the ginga, weird he'd select him when you can clearly see he despises him. Are NZR enforcing a ginga quota on him?

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    @Nepia said in Rugby World Cup news:

    @Kiwiwomble Also look at how far Fozzie is from the ginga, weird he'd select him when you can clearly see he despises him. Are NZR enforcing a ginga quota on him?

    no one wants to catch gingervitus

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    @Nepia @Kiwiwomble They wouldn't have needed the backrow in the photo if Christie would have sat next to Fozzie on that bench and one player at the back would have taken Christie's chair. The others in the backrow could have filled the empty spots in the row in front of them. Obviously, Fozzie is too fat for even Christie to fit on that remaining space on the bench.

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    #182

    They are seated/standing in the order (alphabetical) that the players were announced. Only Cane was sitting on the bench until the coaches were added. Clearly, if we punt out Christie, Weber can go in the back row with the other giants.

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    @Nepia said in Rugby World Cup news:

    @Kiwiwomble Also look at how far Fozzie is from the ginga, weird he'd select him when you can clearly see he despises him. Are NZR enforcing a ginga quota on him?

    The real question is, does the quota extend to two players, and if so, who is the other one? Fletcher Newell? DMac?

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    #184

    @Nepia said in Rugby World Cup news:

    @Kiwiwomble Also look at how far Fozzie is from the ginga, weird he'd select him when you can clearly see he despises him. Are NZR enforcing a ginga quota on him?

    it makes sense to handle redheads gingerly. Learnings.

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    #185

    @taniwharugby said in Rugby World Cup news:

    @chimoaus I did it and came up with this for the final...

    bfcbb7e5-4eb5-4025-84cc-a4aebe239e66-image.png

    I wonder what that would pay at the TAB.

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    #186

    @Bones said in Rugby World Cup news:

    @nostrildamus Is that you Stephen Jones?

    I was serious actually, quite a few players are dual nationals, considered stars in the land of their birth, or even don't have the citizenship of the country they play for (no not Quade now, I'm thinking of a certain Will Genia!)

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    #187

    forgive my ignorance but is there a NZ supporters' song for this RWC? If not, could they try for a Kiwi one this time not a cover of some else?
    If there is a spot for requests, mine is to convert Black Sheep by Gin Wigmore, if only for the line

    Once you go black, you never go back
    I'm a black sheep (changed to freak?)

    I wasn't born a beauty queen but I'm okay with that
    Maybe radio won't mind if I sing a little flat
    I wear my boots to bed, hang a fern up on the wall
    To save me from a shallow break who wants to take us all

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    #188

    @nostrildamus said in Rugby World Cup news:

    forgive my ignorance but is there a NZ supporters' song for this RWC? If not, could they try for a Kiwi one this time not a cover of some else?
    If there is a spot for requests, mine is to convert Black Sheep by Gin Wigmore, if only for the line

    Once you go black, you never go back
    I'm a black sheep (changed to freak?)

    I wasn't born a beauty queen but I'm okay with that
    Maybe radio won't mind if I sing a little flat
    I wear my boots to bed, hang a fern up on the wall
    To save me from a shallow break who wants to take us all

    This is rugby. They don't really do song and dance

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    @canefan said in Rugby World Cup news:

    This is rugby. They don't really do song and dance

    True, in 2015 they chose an Ed Sheeran number.

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    #190

    @nostrildamus said in Rugby World Cup news:

    @canefan said in Rugby World Cup news:

    This is rugby. They don't really do song and dance

    True, in 2015 they chose an Ed Sheeran number.

    Who's 'they' - I don't remember an All Blacks 2015 song, and I was there for half of it

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    @frugby said in Rugby World Cup news:

    @Nepia said in Rugby World Cup news:

    @Kiwiwomble Also look at how far Fozzie is from the ginga, weird he'd select him when you can clearly see he despises him. Are NZR enforcing a ginga quota on him?

    The real question is, does the quota extend to two players, and if so, who is the other one? Fletcher Newell? DMac?

    I think you may be colourblind. 😉

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    #192

    @Machpants said in Rugby World Cup news:

    @nostrildamus said in Rugby World Cup news:

    @canefan said in Rugby World Cup news:

    This is rugby. They don't really do song and dance

    True, in 2015 they chose an Ed Sheeran number.

    Who's 'they' - I don't remember an All Blacks 2015 song, and I was there for half of it

    They is the press. Official or unofficial, I see Fire was cited as the All Black RWC 2015 anthem overseas, and local press should have known better

    Paint It, Black: New Zealand Rugby Songs part two - Article | AudioCulture

    Paint It, Black: New Zealand Rugby Songs part two - Article | AudioCulture

    The 1980s and 1990s During the 1980s – a decade which generally has a lot to answer for – there was somewhat of a rugby song revival. One of our most enduring anthems evolved when Murray Grindlay was commissioned by a Wellington advertising agency to writ

    (near end of page)

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    Jared Wright  /  Aug 8, 2023  /  South Africa

    Springboks rocked as three crucial players ruled out of World Cup - report

    Springboks rocked as three crucial players ruled out of World Cup - report

    The Springboks will be without key players Handre Pollard, Lukhanyo Am and Lood de Jager for their Rugby World Cup title defence, according to reports.

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    #194

    Am is extremely overrated, a very average defender who had a few very good runs on attack, don't think Esterhuizen is any worse. De Jager is decent, but the Boks have enough good locks, I reckon. Pollard is going to bite them in the ass, because they don't seem to have a kicker and just a bunch of full backs masquerading as first fives.

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  • Billy TellB Offline
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    #195

    @Tordah said in Rugby World Cup news:

    Am is extremely overrated, a very average defender who had a few very good runs on attack, don't think Esterhuizen is any worse. De Jager is decent, but the Boks have enough good locks, I reckon. Pollard is going to bite them in the ass, because they don't seem to have a kicker and just a bunch of full backs masquerading as first fives.

    I doubt they find a centre who chews gum as well as Am. Big loss.

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