Akira must be feeling great right now. Poor guy.

Is there a point in playing Whitelock until the 80th minute when they are clearly going to lose? Razor sure loves to run him into the ground and leave the ABs with a burnt out player.

@booboo said in Ireland II:

Interesting contrast in reaction to the two results, Chicago and Dublin.

Winners, losers, magnanimity and shit loss.

The Irish have been terrible losers today. All the kiwis who were happy for Ireland and their fans after the Chicago loss should hopefully now realise that others won't ever reciprocate that level of magnanimity towards us. I hope we will never ever see another day where an AB loss is accepted and even celebrated by many AB fans.

@pukunui said in All Blacks v BI Lions Test #3:

Fucking disgrace. I thought it couldn't get any worse than last weeks deciding penalty but that was a complete farce.

Fully expect WR to stay completely silent.

Has anybody ever seen a referee change his mind about a penalty from a non foul related incident? First time in history I reckon.

@taniwharugby said in When should Foster go?:

think the point is he was kicking for the 5m lineout, that is the difficult part, but given how far out he was kicking from, he shouldnt have been going for that lower % play...irony is, if he had gone for say 10-15m out, he woulda put it into the 5m....

I know he has said that he is happy to take the risk and go for extra metres and if it doesn't come off then he can live with it. That's fine if we are in the lead or at least are in the game, however this was a crucial time in the game where we were well behind and needed to score. It was definitely not the time to take a risk. This team lacks rugby IQ and Mounga displayed that perfectly with that kick.

I thought the big work on after the semi was to improve our physicality. We looked even less physical than last year.

@Stargazer Do you actually believe they didn't have to take a piss during the 8 hour journey?

"Retallick lucky he didnt break Hanigans neck "

Clown going nuts in the PC.

SBW will have a field day running at Sexton and Farrell, Teo is unlucky to be benched. Can't believe AWJ has retained his position as well.

Aussie based Ferners, Stan is now showing the SRA U20 games too. I didn't expect that. Well done Stan.

@antipodean Click on the team logo and you will find it there, but like Siam said, a lot of it is missing.

@antipodean said in Rebels v Blues:

Great time for Stan stream to shit itself. Useless fluffybunnies.

Totally forgot that it was being shown on Gem as well.

Anyone having issues with their Stan feed? Mine has been buffering for the last few minutes.

@taniwharugby said in Crusaders v Brumbies:

@akan004 came from AR didn't it?

I think so

Brumbies hard done by. Terrible call.

Not a fan of these camera angles.

@mattasaurus said in Highlanders v Reds:

I really thought the reds would have been better....

It's going to be a cricket score in Sydney

They haven't picked their strongest team tbf.

Direct to the head is not a red?

Surely a red

@broughie said in SRA Round 9: Crusaders v Blues:

@akan004 But do they stand out from what’s there already. It’s shades of average.

Zarn Sullivan is seen as a future AB by many. Faiane has alway been pretty good and is certainly a lot better than Plummer. Halfback is an area of massive concern but most would rate Nock as the best of an average lot.