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The Crusaders have gone from having the best coach ever in super rugby to the worst coach ever.
How on earth did the Chiefs lose to this rabble??
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@Winger Palestine has their own land, their own country, their own rights and own government. They have recived more aid $$ than any other entitiy in the modern world.
Estimates are they have recived $40 billion from 1994 to 2020.
If it's an open air prison it's because Hamas has made it that way.
The only opression that Palestine suffers is that Isreal exists.
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I'm sorry I'm just finding all this talk about Hamas "winning" the PR war to be somewhat devoid of reality.
I doubt the "PR war" is going to build back all their tunnels, rebild the infrastructure, replace all the soldiers lost or captured or miracilously bring anyone back to life...
What exact PR are they winning over? Almost all the Arab nations have deserted them. Egypt has welded their borders shut to Palestine - their only help has come from Iran to which Jordan and Saudi Arabia both joined in on the side of Israel to defend (an Arab nation defending Israel would have been unimaginable 10 years ago).
Hamas is losing support of the Arab states in the middle east and getting beaten up on the ground in Gaza. Sympathy from the West aint going to achieve anything at all.
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And like I said, they don't care, nor should they care about the PR war...
To keep Israel safe it's what happens on the gound that matters, not sternly worded emails from politician's thousnds of miles away.
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I doubt Israel cares about the "PR war" and nor should they.
To suggest Hamas is winning is so objectionably laughable compared to the facts on the ground it's little more than gas lighting propaganda.
It's like losing the game 50-0 on the weekend, but claiming the moral victory because you gave a better after match speech in the clubrooms afterwards...
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It's the canes to lose this year, the teams just humming.
I'd agree with keeping their best team on the field to further gel their combinations unless guys are carrying a niggle and really need a rest.
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I think it's just rearranging deckchairs on the titanic at this point for the Cheifs in regards to winning the comp. The forward pack just doesn't have enough quality, a tight 5 filled with journymen and an unbalenced loose forward trio wont win you the big song.
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@KiwiMurph said in AUPIKI 2024 FINAL: Blues v Chiefs Manawa:
@Auckman said in AUPIKI 2024 FINAL: Blues v Chiefs Manawa:
Chelsea Semple’s BF career is pretty much over (or should be) after that howler. In the pouring rain, it should’ve been kicked to Ngaruawahia
She could have simply put the ball down and taken a goal line drop out. Would have been a far better option than what she did
Could have grounded the ball, kicked the ball, or passed the ball - basically anything other than what she did
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I'm happy with the loose forward trio for the Chiefs, just has better balance. Glad to see Sititi who is an out and out 8 get another crack.
Will certainly be a very interesting match-up, I'm looking forward to seeing how both teams approach and play this game.
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@antipodean I think the NZH live is bizarre fantasy land under the belief that in Auckland an Eden Park sized number of people peruse their weekend newspaper selecting which sporting event they absolutely will attend regardless of who's playing or what sport it is.
As opposed to the possible reality that, you know, sports enthusiasts don't attend every single sporting event no matter what it is, and maybe have only a few sports they are interested in and follow. And out of those they're interested in maybe only one or two they would shell out their hard-earned cash to attend as a special event or to purchase a season pass for.
You know like a normal person.
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@Kiwiwomble said in Super Rugby 2024:
"2022 Ardie Savea played 22 games, 11 Super Rugby and 11 tests"
And I guess that ratio is why the top level players feel burned out at the end of every season, it's just a lot of very high intensity test match rugby, all the time.
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Unfortunately the Cheifs loose forward trio is a bit of a mess. You have Finau who deserves his spot at 6 and Jacobsen as captian so you can't leave him out.
This means you then can't play Sititi at 8 as that would mean plying Jacobsen at 7 - which is an even worse option than Boshier.
Basically we lask a really good openside flanker.
So were stuck with the somewhat underwhelming combination of Finau, Jacobsen and Boshier it appears.
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@Auckman Kinda struggling to see the crossover from Wah's fans to womans rugby, would seem to be like someone complaining that Taylor Swift and Metallica are playing at the same time.
But I guess fabricated hoo-haa is all the rage these days, especially if you can appear morally virteous while doing it.
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The said the quiet part out loud in that the woman's game is expensive.
The woman's game is great for player numbers and getting new people into the game, but terrible from a revenue perspective.
So you have existing teams with bloated salaries already loosing money and invest heavily in another area of the game that will lose you even more money. The first one itself will get you into enough trouble as it is.
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A classic case of one team playing to their strengths and stopping the other in their tracks from using theirs and capitalising of the fustration that causes.
Dura forwards didn't stand up when they were needed, if they'd managed to stop the rolling maul they would have won but they let in 3 tries(?) via the maul and just as many out wide when their defence compressed too far in to stop the maul and left gaps out wide.
Shows sometimes how rugby is a simple game, sometimes all you need is one attacking play that works well and a little bit of brains on top to easily win games.
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I just don't think the Chiefs forwards are good enough to take this.
Every team NZ team in the comp has tried to bully the Hurricanes pack with no success, the cane's pack appear to be in one of those fortunate states where the whole is much greater than the sum of the parts. They impressed me and put on a masterclass against the Highlanders.
So I think it'll take a DMac special and some Chiefs magic to get them over the line here.
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There's just a big difference between a sabbatical that gives the player a chance to decompress and get their body right and picking players for the AB's from overseas carte blanche...
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@Canes4life As good a news as can be expected, feel for the guy was to be his breakout year this year but it's not to be. Bloody ref got in his way prior to the tackle that injured him as well, just bad luck all round.
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@Billy-Tell said in All Blacks 2024 - looking forward:
A lot of people look silly after all the weeping and gnashing of teeth over unsubstantiated and now patently false tripe that he was being lured back to NZ by a desperate Scott Robertson.
Yes a jolly good point, because after all it wasn't like people were commenting on the many stories being circulated by the media on the topic with the caveat "if this is true".
It was all made up by the posters here, with an obvious anti-Robertson bias in an effort to maliciously smear him.
And conversly all the rah-rah Roberston supporters who said it was a brialliant move to lure SW back into the AB's must be bitterly dissapointed his genius was merely unsubstantiated tripe.
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