@no-quarter curious as to why you say NZ has a massive problem with drink driving and speeding. I ain't lived there for decades, so I don't know but massive problem relative to what?
Stats show increases in accidents and fatalities? More dui charges? Worse than ever in history?

Not having a go but I wonder about authorities and media dramatising our road fears. Apparently there's money to be made out there.

As for the fuckwit in the article, what's the main, number 1 objective of our criminal justice system? Is it to protect society or the rights of criminals? If the former then MAKE him unable to drive, don't fucken ask him!

@mikedogz now that's analysis worth considering! Cheers Mike, made me chuckle

I have to admit that since learning about consanguinity, I found myself constantly studying the crowd faces for similarities.
During which I also noted that prayers didn't work

@mariner4life said in Has Hansen gone stale?:

@taniwharugby said in Has Hansen gone stale?:

@mariner4life what if the powder dry 'alley' is in that we had stuff we were trying to achieve in order to unleash these masterful moves that would wow the world, but cos our kicking was shite and we coudlnt catch, we were unable to get ourselves in a position to unleash/try this magical moves?

When you guys are talking about the "powder" you aren't talking about moves are you? If you are, then we are talking about different shit.

I am mostly talking about moves and changing plans from chip kicks, and changing strategies mid game.

I'm talking about moves that involve 6 or 7 rucks that lead towards a gap opening. Like what Ireland and England achieved. I'm talking about 3 second rucks that we didn't try for. I'm talking about a change to up the guts etc.

A feature of the win in Boerland was the changing of tactics during the game

I'm not convinced about powder dry but apart from tiredness and mental alacrity, how else to explain such an insipid and one dimensional approach to a massive game?

A huge game where we hardly fired shots, how to accurately describe that?

Live adversity training? Hmmm maybe ( seems spurious though)

@rembrandt that pro working class thing.
That's the big issue for me with the left.
So much of the nonsense comes from obviously reasonably well off middle class shills.
They obviously have no experience of being working class and are actually more privileged than the average person.
But they never offer to check their own privilege. That GQ dipstick was a great example, up front admitted that she wasn't responsible for the oppressed and somebody else would have to " foot the bill"

If this powder dry theory turns out to have a skerrick of reality, it's still not the reason we lost.

Ireland played and executed better.
There effort and commitment without the ball was magnificent. They were hungrier and held onto their tackles like demons.

For all our pointed out short comings, we can take nothing away from Ireland who planned and executed a fine way to beat NZ

Kudos to them

Classic Black Caps. Great win after posting the lowest 1st innings total at that venue ever.

Took a fair old jaffa too!

Ali quite conceivably could have continued milking till 3 to get and force Kanes hand.

Good start for Stead

Oh, and that spin vision camera being slightly offskew during the review didn't help the heart any...

@steven-harris said in Italy vs All Blacks:

For all the commotion that was made about releasing Matt Todd from his Japanese contract,he hardly played 20 minutes in the 2 most important tests of the tour..what was the point..?

To be fair that call was made many weeks ago without current knowledge of form and injuries.
You have to make an all or nothing call at that time

@nepia said in Ireland Vs All Blacks:

@no-quarter Also, we did so many stupid box kicks/high kicks in the middle of the park at times when we should have been holding the ball. Its play like this that makes me lean towards the keeping the powder dry theory.

One of those 1014 podcasts mentioned that every team wants to kick in that part of the field. First I'd properly thought of it but looking around it seems on the mark.

Those podcasts/videos really are an eye opener into the complexities of the pro game. Little things like spreading rucks and making defenders run an extra metre or so or where a defender goes after a tackle. Pretty much analysed to the nth degree.

I think the kicking is more about execution than not kicking. Just my take

@akan004 nah mate, it's all about the passing, that's all you need in a modern day halfback ( joking)