The Silver Fern

Kemara ruled out for the season.

@canefan Playing club rugby in Palmerston North.

Well done Canes even with a halfback competent out of his depth at super rugby level in Enari.

First win I believe in Canberra since 2016?

Bulldogs getting a reality check.

@SBW1 Played 1 game for Auckland in NPC last year only to not play again for the rest of the season.

@canefan None of them have kicked on recently or are too young. Josh McKay ended up as a fullback/wing. Neither the 2018 and 2019 10s Cullen Moody or Ollie Lewis played NPC.

Alex Harford and James White both played NPC but that's it. Presume White will end up in the full Crusaders squad next year perhaps if JOC doesn't play on.

Mo'unga, McKenzie, then who? The increasingly desperate search to find the next great All Black first-five

New Zealand's greatest ever crop of first-fives surfaced during the 2010s as each Super Rugby franchise, at any given time, laid claim to having the country's best No. 10 on their team.

This is from 2020 and we're still not any closer to finding a new long term first five now 5 years later.

@mikey07 Makes sense. Harkin is clearly a better 10 and Love much better fullback.

There won't be a worse bombed try than Harkin's in 2025.

Ruben Love is not a 10. Hopefully Godfrey is back soon.

Very confident Ponga will leave the Knights.
That team is a walking disaster.

Titans are also not very good. Read somewhere the other day that no coach has gone on to head coach at a another NRL side after leaving them.

Roosters another awful side and that win in Round 2 was a fluke. Still not convinced on Penrith's chances of a 5 peat but a much needed win.

Reece Walsh is the most overrated player in the NRL. Meanwhile Halasima is the next big thing, also be typical if he's somehow at the Storm or Panthers in a few years.

@Tim His younger brother is better yet left NZ for Japan a few years ago.

Hunt at 9, Mahoney 14.

Reed Mahoney will get a chance in QLD origin this year now. Can already see him and Luai getting into some sort of fight/melee.

@bayimports I've always rated him. I think he'll be a top 3 halfback in the game sooner rather than later.

Well done to Rory. I didn't think he could win at the start of last week as I tipped Aberg or Schaufelle but by Saturday morning I was convinced it was his time to win the green jacket.

Agree @canefan very similar to the feeling of the 2011 RWC final.

@SouthernMann What happened to Jack Leslie Otago 10/12, injured or left the region?

@mariner4life Isaac Moses biggest fluffybunny in the game.

@African-Monkey I got a mate who's goes for the Knights and he wants AOB gone.

That 2023 10 game winning run is why he's still got a job. He can thank Ponga and Dom Young for saving him.

@African-Monkey Knights are awful and now destined for the bottom 4. Ponga looked disinterested.

Moananu looks a AB in waiting. I won't be writing off Bell yet, he was a real talent at U20s.