The big question is, do we need more rugby? And yeah I understand that we are not necessarily talking about any more games, just more structured International comps. But. Do we need that?
I hear many on here bemoaning the long drawn out death of NPC/Mitre 10. NTA choking on his cornflakes most mornings due to the ARU looking at more ways of increasing the $$$ at the expense of grass roots. More of the (increasingly) same international rugby will, IMO take us further down those paths.
Chris B. said:
raznomore said:
I can say his girlfriend/wife game has well and truly dropped though..
To my mind, it would be quite hard to find someone hotter than Elin in her prime.
Sometime ago someone did send me a slideshow entitled "Tiger: What he left behind" Basically some shots of his house and of Elin. Can't remember much about the house.
taniwharugby said:
https://rugby365.com/countries/france/video-players-giant-brother-confronts-julian-savea/
A giant fan – said to be the brother of Stade Francais player Sekou Malacou – invaded the pitch in the apparent attempt to get at Julian Savea.
Savea was yellow carded and the brother was taken away by security, although he seemed to be going fairly mental as he left.
Why not let him stay and fight Savea?
French club rugby ca be quite confrontational.
MajorRage said:
Tigers just teed off, the kids are in the bath, House is tidy enough so I’m settling in with some lagavulin 16 year.
Perfect Sunday.
Nice. not quite as peaty as the Laphraoig. I much prefer it.
@tim I think I would have a run a bit faster than that
@machpants Barnes is the proverbial stopped clock - he will be right every now and then. Sadly (from and England perspective) all valid points.
MN5 said:
Nepia said:
Rocky Rockbottom said:
6 Hemopo
7 Cane
8 Frizzleok, now that would be a test.
not saying that trio have got "first ever test loss to the Argies" written all over them but FFS HOLD ME MUMMY
still, rather Bum Splinters Frizzle than Luke Shitelock.
Why would you include Cane? Savea at 7 in that trio - now THAT would be a test.
I'm not sure why people are surprised about Fifita, Hansen clearly has a thing for running wide Tongan 6s. Why he doesn't like running and tackling Samoan-Maori guys is the big question. Well, actually, he does like one of them, just not the one who plays in the forwards.
Yeah Fifita has some freakish power and pace. At least equal to A Ioane who I have yet to see jump over a tackler at Mitre 10 cup level.
Pfft! Kyle Sinckler can do that shit.
booboo said:
At first glance this is one for "Tennis" or perhaps the PC thread, but realistically fits here.
If so-called progressive forces really want to wrest power back from the populist tidal wave that is ploughing through the foundations of liberal democratic institutions the world over they need to stop worrying about the feelings of millionaire tennis players and White House martyrs and start worrying about the feelings of ordinary working people.
That article encapsulates the current situation very well.
@majorrage said in NH International Rugby:
One of them has.
And we haven't come 3rd since, England haven't won.
Well may I be the (probable) first to congratulate you and also to register my surprise.
@majorrage said in NH International Rugby:
@booboo said in NH International Rugby:
@majorrage said in NH International Rugby:
@booboo said in NH International Rugby:
@jegga said in NH International Rugby:
@catogrande said in NH International Rugby:
@mikethesnow Gimp. I think the word you're looking for is gimp.
I’ll have you know he’s a deep thinker . It says so here.
https://rugby365.com/countries/england/mitchells-notorious-track-record/
Bwahahahahaha
"the results have been sub-par with the exception of his short stint at the helm of the All Blacks."
Fuck off. Par is 1st, not 3rd.
As much as I hate to say it, par for 2003 WC would really have been second. England results in the run-in to that tournament were very hard to argue against.
However, big difference between 2nd and 3rd. We had the cattle to get over the line in that semi, just not the whole package. I don't think we had the cattle to win it though.
I do agree generally, although I do think we could have beaten England. I gave us a 40% chance.
I felt we had outmuscled them in the forwards in Wellington* but they did enough to win. We were especially effective in thst game (and the two big scoring games in SA and Aus) when we kept it very close to the forwards (pick and gos, one off runners etc). When we tried to go a little wider v Aus in the semi we got picked off and shut down. I was expecting (hoping for) similar forward dominance in the final. Shame there was no final in 03 ...
But it would have been an injustice (one I coukd have lived with) if England had lost that.
*Don't start me on the 6 man scrum thing: that was a penalty try to Rodders all day long.
Fair, we definintely could have. One thing that England had, regardless of ability, by that stage was big match temperance. The semi showed that was one thing we didn't have.
I never believed we got as smashed in Wellington as the UK press would have you believe. The superlatives used to describe how the forwards beat us up in that game were off the scale bullshit. One 6 man scrum, does not dictate 80 minutes of rugby.
All heresay anyway ... the bastards won, we came 3rd, and I got laid.
Every rose, etc.
Aaaand any of that happened since?