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3 Sharpe 2 Kepu 1 Pocock

Speaking of ball hogs, I think it was AAC (Adam Ashley-Cooper) who made a line break, then had 2 inside him in the open, but chose to take the ball into contact. Absolute horrible.

I think Craig makes up his mind who the "dominant" team is and starts awarding them all the 50/50 penalties.

I agree with the leek-eaters on here that Joubert's style of managing the breakdown really favoured the Wobs. There is starting to develop (more clearly than before) a NH and SH style of breakdown. To be honest, I prefer the NH style of shifting bodies, instead of the SH style of timing yourself...

I think the players play better rugby during the day, so I enjoy it more. More positive, better handling, lots of stuff.

This is a mushrooms XV. Absolute madness except in a few places: Dagg, Beast, duPlessis, Pocock, Read.

I think we should send an Allied team made up of British, ANZAC and Greek players against a Germany and Turkey XV. Time for a little payback! Or maybe a Coalition of the Willing team vs the Axis of Evil. Did you know Korea is now ranked head of Portugal? I say we bomb them into the stone age...

Couldn't agree more ILTW. This incident was seedy enough, now JON has made it corrupt, too.

1987 Aus / NZ 1991 England / UK 1995 South Africa 1999 Wales / UK 2003 Australia 2007 France 2011 New Zealand 2015 England / UK 2019 Japan South Africa and Argentina are surely the next cabs off the rank. I suppose USA / Canada as well. Maybe the Americas can host one together.

I think the TryRugby program is pretty good. They just need more marketing dollars.

At a mate's place in Bondi, which is as close to Auckland as we could get.

You're just wrong Emu. The point being made is that the law is one standard and the ARU has another. It would be normal for the ARU to investigate the incident against it's own internal rules, and make an interim judgement (about whether Beale can play) and then have further consequences down...

Was direct result of Welsh pressure in this match? Someone's been fiddling with my poll! :eek:

Honestly, I didn't see any pressure out of the ordinary. Can you call it pressure when the ball is sitting there at the back feet and no-one is shoving? I don't mind the 5 seocnd rule, but we could just go back to the old "if a bird can shit on it" rule, then it's out. I raised the topic this...

Because if you treat people like children they will behave like children.

I'll say this to the people defending their actions as "just boys letting their hair down." How many times did players like Eales, Gregan, Larkham, etc get into bother at 2am? You don't have to get arrested to have fun. But maybe there's a few players in the side now that are a bit more thick...

But what about the times he does have quick ball and he chooses to sit on it? Once or twice a game makes sense - you get quick ball but you look around and there's no-one there. What you should see in those cases is a 5 second delay while the runners rearrange themselves. But Genia does it much...

Genia's running game has hit 110% in the last fortnight. And there's no doubting his pass is long and fast. I think we've all got some questions about his kicking game. But the big issue is the egg hatching at the back of the ruck. Personally, I don't even remotely understand it. If I had just...

3 Ioane 2 Barnes 1 Kepu

Scotty, Quade smashed a camera, keep up. I think in cases like this, the ARU has to run an investigation alongside the police investigation. There is a criminal matter, which the courts will decide, and there is a behaviour matter which the ARU will decide. If we see Kurtley in gold, then I...