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Hes the future. Until he moves to Europe or Japan, at least.

Simone never got a fair stab. He was certainly the better player in Super Rugby.

Very rarely admits to a blatant error*

What a load of shit.

Campbell looked much better for Aus A. Still have some reservations but I Banks isn't playing so well that we can't afford to give him a go to see how he steps up.

Id be ditching all three of McDermott, Foley and Paisami in favour of White, Lolesio, Foketi. Wont happen though.

The most important game from here is the Wales game. We could lose the rest and it wouldn't matter too much. Beating a weakened Wales team that have had the wood over us since they snapped the losing streak ahead of the RWC is extremely important.

Do we have talent identification? pretty sure we sacked everyone to balance the books.

I mean I'm a miserable prick so I'm not really one to go off but, yeah, to me shit has been getting very dire the last few years on multiple fronts: quality of the game overall, standard of the refereeing, administrative decision making (except maybe the last year or two) and the absolute state...

Meh - Japan will start poaching NZ players too. They have far more yen than we have rapidly depreciating dollars.

Thats not what im talking about, but i agree.

Yeah the execution was certainly a bit off. The wrap around plays are a decent way of getting into space if you can get it through the hands fast enough to miss the 13 shooting out of the line - but the margins for error are pretty slim. If you set up too deep to give yourself enough time to...

Love that shithousery from White to seal the win at the end with the grubber. Beautiful.

When FF (Folau Fainga'a) is on he's a middling international hooker. When he's off he's barely Super Rugby standard. We miss BPA a lot. Losing a guy like him, who was really starting to come into his own at test level, is part of the reason we are struggling for consistency. As soon as someone starts growing into a...

I don't think it's unreasonable to expect an AR to be able to see in a straight line. Do you?

I watch both and while i think VAR is trash their officiating of things like offside lines and throw ins in real time is a 1000 times more accurate.

It blows my mind that in a supposedly professional sport the ARs miss a single not straight all test season. ARs in Football can manage the offside line with near perfect accuracy and it's in constant motion usually across four separate players. A lineout is fucking static and all the ref has...

The inconsistency around reffing high tackles is reaching truly dramatic proportions. Its anywhere from play on to red card and we almost never see the same penalty for the same offence - even on the same weekend. The Northern fuckwits can blather on about how the cards aren't ruining the game...

Fuck Dempsey.

All Bleks score off a clearly not straight throw. The Kiwi comms started the play with 'that lineout throw didnt look very straight' and finished it with 'executed to absolute perfection'. Righto boys. Throw in the try awarded after a clear to everyone but Jonker forward and Japan should feel...