Canes v Tahs (and drinks?)

broughie

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He's lucky to get away with a YC there. He never tried to conest the ball, watched Beauden in front of him and tackled him in the air. Should be a RC if refs had a brain.
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I like the refs interpretation and the YC. Hate the impact red cards have on the game. No injury. Its was stupid but I'm good with it.

Mick Gold Coast QLD

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You hit the nail in the head...you ain't seen enough of them play if that's the impression they give you. If i did'nt know who they were and had never seen them play before, that impression would have me thinking they were your typical big strong island type rugby players, who enjoyed galloping around the field running over the top of players cos that was the only side step they knew lol.. They definitely ain't ball hoggers til its to late either type players.
 
 
P.s If they had a way to go yet?.....then why are both brothers in the mighty All Blacks?! Isn't that the pinnacle dream of every aspiring rugby kid growing up in NZ to be! :good:
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Fair enough Chico, I'll keep watching them ... to see if Steve Hansen, Ian Foster and Grant Fox know anything about anything! :sorry:

booboo

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How does this Kearns clown keep his job?</blockquote>Jeez he's a whingey whiney bitch. 
Much like the Sydney crowd. 
And reflective of the niggly bitch NSW players. 
But Kearns in full on whinge mode, particularly in the first half, really detracts from the enjoyment of watching. 
Sure he was right a couple of times. But wrong just as as often. And biased the whole time.

NTA

Crowd was really pissed about the trip on Kellaway and the face action on Foley. 
Otherwise, it was "home support" no different to any rugby ground in the world. 
The best thing about not having Fox is no Kearns

booboo

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Should be red</blockquote>
 
Probably should have been. It was more than "not in a position to catch the ball". He tackled him. Very lucky it wS only yellow.

booboo

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I agree it should be red but nothing else Pollock can do. He was being consistent.</blockquote>
 
No. Incident was more than in past weeks. So deserved more.

Nepia

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Crowd was really pissed about the trip on Kellaway and the face action on Foley. 
Otherwise, it was "home support" no different to any rugby ground in the world. 
The best thing about not having Fox is no Kearns
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You mean the wrestling for the ball on Foley? They were strangely quiet for Tahs infractions though - well, except for the pockets of Canes supporters.
 
As you say, that's what home support is for - although the crowd wasn't as feral this week as during the Chiefs game (and I had worse seats so you'd think I'd be near more bogans).
 
We had dipshit young guys sitting behind us the entire match talking inane shit. They're 23, how do I know this? They were discussing whether they were the same age as Taylor Swift and so they mentioned their ages about 10 times in the conversation.
 
I like the free buses from Central to Moore Park so I didn't have to wobble up the slope up to the ground.
 
How did that fat fella on the wing make a test team, and no I don't mean Savea (who was average yet again, tits for hands and his best run was a 20 metre bust going sideways across the field) but the prop sized Fijian for NSW?

NTA

<blockquote class="ipsBlockquote" data-author="Nepia" data-cid="595643" data-time="1468107979">You mean the wrestling for the ball on Foley?</blockquote>
 
Barrett was OK in that incident IMHO. 
Reserve prop straight onto the face, less so.

Nepia

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Barrett was OK in that incident IMHO. Reserve prop straight onto the face, less so.
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Was that is the same movement? I think that prop's arm was coming from behind Barrett so he actually would have had little idea of where his arm was. In saying that I was fine with a penalty for it - if only for the fact it kept the fans in our section from rioting - once they figured out the age gap between Swift and Loki.

NZRUGBYQUIZZES

Wife is not a native speaker of English so rarely makes much comment on what is being said during commentary, but even she though Kearns sounded miserable.
 
Great win for the Canes, Michael Cheika on the other hand will be worried given how poorly Australian teams have done this year.

NTA

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Was that is the same movement? I think that prop's arm was coming from behind Barrett so he actually would have had little idea of where his arm was.
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Yeah same movement.

Siam

The Kearns incident that riled me was when Phipps kicked the ball back into the scrum
 
We all watched the replay thinking "did he really do that?"
 
And yep, he gave it a wee nudge, along with the No.8
 
Not fuckwit Kearns though. He went into the replay thinking "no way did he do that so obviously Pollock is making shit up against my team"
 
Is that really the standard of commentary that's acceptable?
 
Is Aussie rugby trying so hard to get exposure in a saturated sports market that the broadcaster condones the biased ramblings of the pub drunk in the corner?

Canes4life

The Canes would have put 50 on the Tahs if it didn't rain to be fair. The Waratahs were sluggish in everything they did. Instead of backing themselves to play expansive rugby they reverted to an English type game plan. You would expect more from a Gibson coached team surely.

canefan

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The Kearns incident that riled me was when Phipps kicked the ball back into the scrum
 
We all watched the replay thinking "did he really do that?"
 
And yep, he gave it a wee nudge, along with the No.8
 
Not fuckwit Kearns though. He went into the replay thinking "no way did he do that so obviously Pollock is making shit up against my team"
 
Is that really the standard of commentary that's acceptable?
 
Is Aussie rugby trying so hard to get exposure in a saturated sports market that the broadcaster condones the biased ramblings of the pub drunk in the corner?
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I don't watch a lot of Super rugby these days but I did watch the game last night and Kearns does spew a lot of shit. The guy doesn't seem capable of being objective, but maybe that's his schtick for the cameras. Or maybe he is the fluffybunny he makes out to be

canefan

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The Canes would have put 50 on the Tahs if it didn't rain to be fair. The Waratahs were sluggish in everything they did. Instead of backing themselves to play expansive rugby they reverted to an English type game plan. You would expect more from a Gibson coached team surely. 
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Everytime they tried to get more expansive their skills let them down

Nepia

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The Canes would have put 50 on the Tahs if it didn't rain to be fair. The Waratahs were sluggish in everything they did. Instead of backing themselves to play expansive rugby they reverted to an English type game plan. You would expect more from a Gibson coached team surely. 
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It only rained for about 10 minutes, Canes inaccuracy contributed to the closeness of the game.
 
 
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I don't watch a lot of Super rugby these days but I did watch the game last night and Kearns does spew a lot of shit. The guy doesn't seem capable of being objective, but maybe that's his schtick for the cameras. Or maybe he is the fluffybunny he makes out to be
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I was on a school rugby tour in the early 90s and we played Randwick High so we went down to Randwick club training. One of the guys in the HS team had a pretty hot, but clearly young girlfriend. Kearns basically asked us for her details and told us her boyfriend better watch out. So yeah, I think he's just a fluffybunny.

reprobate

could someone give me a heads up as to whether the highlanders vs jags replay is worth catching? haven't seen the score yet.

Siam

Yes it is. Its the second best game involving nz teams is weekend 
Running and argie bargy

antipodean

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Everytime they tried to get more expansive their skills let them down
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Bingo. With the Tahs pack, the gameplan is pretty simple but effective; bend the line, draw in defenders and then spread it wide with pace. When executed well we're very difficult to stop. A number of times last night our execution let us down at just the wrong time.
 
For all the TMO gets involved, the trip on Kellaway should have been a YC, the neck roll/ face pull on Foley should have been more harshly dealt with and Pollock should have sent Coles from the field to clam down. No way I'd accept a captain speaking to me like that.

booboo

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Does this mean the Tahs will probably miss out on the play-offs? Very sad times. I will miss their gentlemanly conduct and sense of fair-play which has lit up the competition over the last couple of seasons.</blockquote>

The Silver Fern

Canes v Tahs (and drinks?)