I knew that the Ellis Park result was the worst thing to have happened to the ABs. Foster has single handedly destroyed the AB legacy.

Akira must be feeling great right now. Poor guy.

The judge clearly hates the ABs since he wants SF to remain in the team.

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.

Thank you Hansen, Henry, NZR and the senior ABs. This is on you clowns.

@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.

ABs ability to stop mauls already a lot better under Ryan.

@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.

@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.

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

@Canes4life said in Moana Pasifika v Hurricanes:

@akan004 said in Moana Pasifika v Hurricanes:

I don't get the hype surrounding Lakai. Seems average from what I have seen.

You obviously haven’t watched any rugby for about the last half a year. He’s clearly a very good rugby player. At only 19 he’s mature beyond his years.

By the way he’s usually an 8, not a 7.

I said he's overhyped but I didn't realise he was only 19 when I made that comment. Some of the chat is over the top though, Stephen Donald said on SENZ the other day that he could be one of NZ's greatest ever players. Based on what?

@KiwiMurph Didn't realise he was that young.

I don't get the hype surrounding Lakai. Seems average from what I have seen.

Could that seal it? Who's the clown commentating?

@taniwharugby said in Highlanders v Force:

wtf is up with our players and kicks in the 22.

Been happening for a number of years. Our players lack patience, always must score within a few phases or they will resort to silly grubber kicks.

Holland should be off for a HIA as well.

Beauden again lol

Scotland's ruck speed is unbelievable so far.

Surely they can't give this