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Please tell me that's chatGPT or some such @Red Runner

Holy shit, "... Emoni Narawa will miss the rest of the season after puncturing a lung in last month’s win over the Springboks at Eden Park." https://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/360846698/all-blacks-winger-emoni-narawa-ruled-out-year-after-puncturing-lung-against-springboks

Blues have poached Eli Oudenryn from CruSadists. Bastards. https://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/360847495/blues-dip-crusaders-academy-sign-highly-touted-hooker-eli-oudenryn Harry Godfrey has done an ACL & needs surgery so will miss all of next season. @Dan54 your 'canes really need to take better...

Holland for Vaa'i isn’t that much of a downgrade @rugbyAU, bloke has 100-Test AB written all over him barring serious injury and/ or ridiculous Yen, Euros or Saudi money being thrown his way.

Vaa'i out, Holland into XV & PatT stays on the bench. Knee injury obviously a bit more serious than first thought or at least reported.

Marty Bourke stepping down as Cantabs coach at season-end after a four-year tenure. No mention of what's next for him but he's an AC at Tribe so maybe a promotion? https://www.thepress.co.nz/sport/360843040/canterbury-coach-leave-end-npc-season-toughest-decision-career

AB naming at 5:30pm NZDT. Clarke is reportedly upbeat about his injury but I can see where Razor, having locked away the Bled & extremely unlikely to head of 'boks for TRC, might give him some extra recovery time. So for me it's either 11. Rieko 14. Carter or 11. Carter 14. Reece. Only 2 x 5/8...

The article about Joseph's appointment also mentions a match v Georgia on Edit: 16/11 is close to being confirmed.

Jamie Joseph will coach the AB XV this year & next.

Only taking DMac & Love to Perth shows us that Razor's "four deep" plan for 2027 wrt 5/8 is RMo, Beaugan, DMac & Love. If it's gonna bite us on the arse, as I think it's almost bound to, I hope it's this week or in Chicago while there's still (barely enough) time to correct course. You can carry...

Heartland even more clear-cut (albeit there might be some minor adjustments to the current order) with eighth-placed 'nua a whopping 11 points clear of King Country. 7-from-7 Mid Cantabs nine points clear so will finish top but there's only five points from second-equal Whanganui & North Otago...

Cantabs (37 points), Otago (36), 'naki (32), BoP (31), Hawke's Bay (30) & Tasman (29) locked in for NPC Top 8 & will be joined by winner of Waikato (25) v Northland (24). Loser will be vulnerable to Counties (22) if they beat Tasman away. Wellington (19) look too far adrift even if they win v...

More to the point @Dctarget how did you go in your comeback game?

Up there with Campo's 1989 Lions series-losing whoopsie... Up there with Dan Carter v 2005 B&IL.

Yeah he has a presence (or mana as we call it over these ways) about him that ScoBar just doesn't.