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By the above criteria, for mine it's: 1. ? (Roncero? How was he for Stade this year?) 2. Bismarck 3. O Franks (but more for his 2011 Super form than the tests so far) 4. Horwill 5. O'Connell 6. Kaino (easily) 7. Warburton 8. Samo (won a super title and was huge in winning the...

Bollocks. Neil Finn is Crowded House, therefore Crowded House is kiwi.

I disagree. He was rock-solid with ball in hand, particularly in the AB's 22, and made a lot of important tackles. Kaino was also excellent, and I thought Whitelock was pretty sound. Woodcock was even good in general play. The Franks brothers and Thorn on the other hand were pretty quiet. I'd...

As an aside (sort of), I actually think we 'cheated' way less than usual. We've been developing a worrying trend this year of creeping offside close to the ruck when things get tight, but last night we really didn't - even in the first ten minutes when France were bringing all sorts of pain...

The 'Dingo' isn't really the derogatory bit - or at least, not as I'm interpreting it. That's just a joking attempt to aussie-fy him. The derogatory bit is 'mad robbie mcmad' etc. (what it lacks in subtlety it makes up in truth)

Is that what he's saying? Surely saying the French were good is a compliment to the All Blacks? I just think he honestly reckons the French were shithouse.

My issue is more with whether it's fair to allow a quick tap when the ref has called out two opposition players away from defensive line (including the best tackler in the team). And the Kaino 'elbow' was nothing. Worse contact gets let go in netball. Edit: I think we got some generous calls...

My old man stopped following rugby because of this tour. Big tennis fan now, which just isn't the same.

I love this team. I think Thompson has been playing great recently. His form dipped in the later super games and early tests, but it's picked back up, and it's certainly better than Vito's. With Woodcock starting to get his shoulder working, Kaino bringing the hurt, Kahui turning out to be a...

I'm embarrassed.

I'm heading to the 3rd/4th play-off. I figure it's the best place to catch the All Blacks..

Maybe he just meant they'd each won one tri-nations... Lies, damned lies and statistics.

Do you mean you actually were an all black? Because my U16's rugby experience really can't match that kind of chat.

Definitely. Fourie, F Steyn and Lambie actually make that backline pretty menacing.

I'm not disputing the truth of what he said. But I have mates who I think are dickheads and I'd never tell them (at least, not in front of a press conference). It's a team-game, and it's a bad look for one of the real superstars to publicly shirk responsibility, instead of saying: 'it's possible...

This is what shits me about Quade: http://www.stuff.co.nz/lightbox/sport/rugby/teams/australia/5644580/?KeepThis=true&TB_iframe=true&height=560&width=640 "When you don't have any momentum, you can't win"... That's a flyhalf (who had an absolutely shithouse game) saying it was the forwards'...

How about that fend at 2:58? Get. That. Outta here.

You get more lineout options and ball running with McCalman. Not that you need it with Elsom/Samo.

Fascinating, that. Obviously a couple of high-school teams can't speak for an entire rugby culture, but you'd think the trend might have been to take their cues from how the argies play it (i.e. delete 'they loved to run it in the', and put a question mark after 'backs?'). But I'm probably...

That's a big concurrent-posting-fail from me.