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FrankLind wants me to say that the All Blacks humiliated the French. Hence: "give credit much?". Pure preciousness and I won't discuss it any more. The French fucked up their inside backs defence. However, I think they played really well at the scrum (yes - in terms of penalties and positive...

FrankLind - can I suggest that you are being a little precious about your lovely AllBlacks? I'm very sorry if giving credit to the French offends you. The AllBlacks are champions! They are world beaters! They are the greatest!! Happier now?

What the fuck? Both teams played well. Compared to other teams. Compared to England and Australia especially. Why have a problem with that????

Jumpers, New Zealand have been the top-ranked team at the previous 5 world cups yet failed to win one. In 2007, the smallest margin of victory for New Zealand in the pool stage was 40-0. And yet they lost the next week. You will - rightly - look like a complete arse if your team loses. Again. I...

It's a bit early for this kind of talk for me. We're not dead yet.

I made that bit up. He looks fit, though. Maybe it's the sports supplements that he obliquely refers to.

Not gunna happen.

I missed the game last night - had to go out. Just watching it now. I don't really understand the value in experimenting so much with the backline. I know there were injuries, but before the injuries unfolded, what were the coaching staff looking for? How can we be at this point and still...

Man, can we make whatever you said Rule 11. 'Cause it was the truth.

Chicken run. :lmao: Some of those chickens I find to be pretty good people. Anyway, I agree Paarl that Saffer rugby should definitely think of quotas as a short term measure. Let's hope rugby feeds through the system over time and folks come to their senses about soccer. Develop the grass...

A cancelled series would have been a fair result.

He's advertising what's in front of him. "Consciousnessness" anyone? :D

Ladies and Gentlemen, Mesdames et Messieurs, I introduce to you, a man with strange and mystical powers, a man who doesn't drink or smoke, or for that matter eat, who sustains his existence solely on the crystal clear air of New Zealand's South Island, a man who embodies the properties of...

I'm not sure "apartheid" should be in scare quotes. The Aftermath is unintentionally funny. Well done Malcolm Fraser for taking a stand. John Howard can't legitimately accuse him of changing sides. It's the Liberal party that lurched to the right. Politics board, anyone?

Whatever else happens in the comp I was coming first for a couple of games there. Which mostly illustrates that even a stopped clock is right twice a day.

I reckon the spirit of rugby is that the players get along after the game, and the fans get along after the game.

Just for the record, I'm currently hassling cafepress about delivery. I ordered it nearly a month ago. I want Australia to still be in the RWC when I receive it.

I reckon the North will have closed the gap with the South by the end of the tournament. It seemed clear to me that the TriNations were a little overvalued, and the RWC should provide some correction.

I actively avoid watching rugby with Kiwis. They're an awesome bunch of people ... until the rugby comes on. Then they tend to lose their senses of humour and perspective. This is especially a problem when they're a 120kg Samoan Kiwi. The only other group that I find annoying are the part-time...

For better or worse, refereeing is a bit part if rugby. The referee can really determine the shape of the game. This thread is here so that we can try to have an intelligent conversation about referee performance without ruining every single game thread.