Recent content by zer0

It's never really a competition.

Tense stuff. Losing what should've been the final breakdown was terrible execution, however. Taukei’aho was a big improvement over the ghost of Codie Taylor. I recall Lomax's scrummaging being average during Super Rugby so that needs to be sorted, possibly through selection adjustments. i.e., pair...

Would've liked to see Fainga’anuku on the bench. It's wet, brisk, the forwards are the best part of the team, and it's being played in Auckland. Which means

Sequences of matches and the strength of opponents (specifically and in general) seem both important and unaccounted for.

Otherwise, I want to like Proctor at centre but he seems to frequently get beaten on the outside. As much as it pains me to say, I think it's time to go crawling back to Rieko at centre. The attack isn't doing anything anyway so might as well shore up the defence in the meantime. For the...

I think some of these comments trying to infer Robertson's coaching ability from interviews are misguided. I don't care for the surf bro aura, but the interview after his first test was well articulated and full of excited detail explaining why decisions were made to do x, y, z (attack a...

Outside of the front rowers and Sititi, that bench of Chiefs and he-who-must-not-be-named-at-halfback does not fill me with confidence. Good sized forward pack though.

This should become the standard for Super Rugby injury reporting.

Good to see they're giving proper injury explanations and estimates rather than the nonsense the Super Rugby franchises were typically serving up. Should be made the standard for next season.

Old man Slipper ain't never seen such bullshit.

To say nothing of having to work across international borders. Imagine some poor 19 year old from rural northern Queensland being sent to Dunedin. RI-fucken-P.

If he's been performing well at centre in the Top 14 then just slot him straight into the squad for ALB or a winger. Bullying semi-pros/development players in the NPC isn't going to tell you anything insightful. Hardly like he'll be lacking match fitness either.

Most perturbatory.

> Team full of Chiefs players > Playing in Hamilton > Against les Bleus > Expected to win > In a final match of a series Local cow-cocky reaction:

idk how the Chiefs can choke for years and still continuously get rewarded for it. EDIT: Them fucking this one up though would be their pièce de résistance.