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Eighth spot for a team seeded fourth is an absolute crap result. It is, however, a fair result based on our performances. We had an easy group and totally stuffed it up, then we lost every game after that. My first conclusion is that this campaign proves one thing: Friend is an absolutely crap...

Well, not too many saw that coming, me included. Finally we played close to our best. I don't think that form will win us a medal, but we are still in with a shot.

Absolutely wonderful win! I'm stoked for them. I haven't got FTA so I tried to watch it on the channel 7 streaming service. Its an absolute disaster!!! I got to watch 20 second grabs by toggling between channels before it hung up. Its a massive fail by Channel 7, they have totally...

Not just about! The absolute standout.

On that form a win against Canada is still likely, but I think the internal pressure is weighing them down. They are not playing with the clinical execution they started with. Britain looked very good in their quarter-final, NZ might be favorites but they could easily get done.

Last few years I would have agreed with you; this year not so much. He needs to lift his game next year.

Just thank your lucky stars you were born a NZer. I've got a roughly 5 week wait.

Going on his semi-final game for Peyper it'll be anything goes at the breakdown and forward passes are just as legal as backwards ones. Poite will be a nightmare because he doesn't care how you scrum if you are going forward you get the penalty and if you are going backward you get the yellow...

The Waratahs definely need a lineout/tight forward lock with skill and experience. We would take Etsebeth, du Toit, de Jaager or anyone else of that value if it would help advance the SA rugby development program.

I don't think there are many armchair critics who reckon they had an easy run. They were playing in the SA conference that had to play five NZ teams and they did very well and earned their finals spot. The Stormers on the other hand....

There is benefit of the doubt in rugby. There was doubt the ball was grounded over the line. The benefit of that doubt went to the defensive team. If five defenders all pile on top of an attacker before the ball hits the ground two metres over the try line, such that the grounding cannot be...

If the Canes win then the Lions have to travel to Wellington (providing they beat the Highlanders, which I suspect they will). Not considering this possibility was Ackermann's critical mistake in picking his reserves for the last game. If the Chiefs and Lions win then the Chiefs are back on a...

It has been very obvious over the period 2011-2016 that: The new stadium allowed him to build a playing style that was very different to the limited gameplan forced on previous Highlander coaches by the weather conditions. (Dunedin and Invercargill open arenas in winter are all about survival...

The Herbert comment has attracted considerable angst. Can I suggest that this angst should be more properly directed against Herbert. The quote suggests that he himself, not Stiles, is the one who is obsessively focused on QLD first. For all we know, Stiles read the quote and cringed...

MOC copped a lot of flack about his coaching expertise and success record in the places where he worked.

I reckon Hawkins will prove to be a big loss. He looked a MUCH better prospect than Debreczeni this year.

If what you say is correct, what does this say about the All Black coaching team. They've got about nine people in that team so by your analysis Hanson has to be a worse coach than anyone else in the world because he needs nine assistants to tell him what to do. That's bollocks. Some of your...

You were absolutely right up till Ackermann totally burned the script by taking his reserve team to Buenos Aries for round 17 and got beat. Thus it was that he lost the opportunity to play all the finals at home. Now all he can do is hope that the Chiefs do a number on the Hurricanes after two...

I agree that in the early weeks the P>B>P>NZ is pretty rough. However the P>Tokyo>P is very sensible. Long trip, but virtually no timezone changes, should have been a non-stopper too. They had to travel to Tokyo; IMO this was the best way to do it.

The Lions are the only team who have a chance IMO. The rest, Brumbies included, don't have a snowflakes chance in hell.