New Zealand Rugby Team Watch
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badabing59
Cyril Towers (30)
Thought so. The Poms bit hard and fast though. Only thing better than beating them is winding them up
waiopehu oldboy
George Smith (75)
Shag doesn't let them get like that any more than SGH did. Everyone's had plenty of footy so while some of the combinations may take a while to gel I don't see rustiness being a factor. AB by 20 this week, margins will probably get smaller once Poms A-listers arrive, 3rd Test will be the one we really have to worry about as by then they'll be over any travel fatigue.
JJJ
Vay Wilson (31)
Telegraph has picked it up now. Good click-bait.
Dan54
David Wilson (68)
Actually I not gwerty, most players don't watch a lot of rugby it seems, they tend to be tied to it 5-6 days a week practising and playing, and a lot only seem to watch odd games now and then. And to be fair Retallic has played against Lawes perhaps once or twice, I bet he can recall the christian names of Bok and Wallaby locks!!
Dismal Pillock
Michael Lynagh (62)
ha, loved this one, stepped off both feet then thought fuckit I'll just go with the maori sidestep
http://gfycat.com/MilkyScornfulAzurewingedmagpie
badabing59
Cyril Towers (30)
From rugbydump:
Henry Slade has eye Re-A-Rangered
Henry Slade has eye Re-A-Rangered
waiopehu oldboy
George Smith (75)
That is fucking awesome & one of the reasons I like having a big, hard & straight running guy on one wing & a 2nd FB on t'other. Smith or Jane May or may not have beaten the poor sod with a shimmy or whatever but neither would've trampled him underfoot like that.
Dismal Pillock
Michael Lynagh (62)
You couldve been proven right by that vanilla display vs Poms on weekend. Back 3 of Jane, Smith and Dagg with zero penetration, Dagg hooked after 50.
Sadly, as for rest of team, iHomo, those much-vaunted hundreds of caps of test experience are soon, alarmingly soon, going to look like a millstone dragging the team down.
SLOW.
WEAK.
Cane for Mccaw.
Crockett for Woodcock.
Me for Conrad Smith.
Mccaw pumped full of neckoids and converted to hooker by RWC 2019 for Mealamu.
Sadly, as for rest of team, iHomo, those much-vaunted hundreds of caps of test experience are soon, alarmingly soon, going to look like a millstone dragging the team down.
SLOW.
WEAK.
Cane for Mccaw.
Crockett for Woodcock.
Me for Conrad Smith.
Mccaw pumped full of neckoids and converted to hooker by RWC 2019 for Mealamu.
waiopehu oldboy
George Smith (75)
Well I did notice Jane get pulled down short of the 5m mark, reckon a bigger guy either scores or sets up a pick & drive from 1m out. Poms happy to kick it out & why not, their lineout was way better than ours.
Still reckon if McCaw's gonna be around for RWC he needs to be playing 6 or off the bench, KR's health permitting. Woodcock & Mealamu look past it, time to move on but with whom? FR looking like it could be our Achilles heel next year if not this.
Still reckon if McCaw's gonna be around for RWC he needs to be playing 6 or off the bench, KR's health permitting. Woodcock & Mealamu look past it, time to move on but with whom? FR looking like it could be our Achilles heel next year if not this.
Dismal Pillock
Michael Lynagh (62)
All Black captain getting left behind in steroid race.
--NZ Herald--
Richie Mccaw, the All Black captain, is getting left behind in the steroid race. The relatively pokey flanker was little more than a spiky-coiffured passenger during NZ's go-backwards fiesta versus England in the first test.
Mccaw, pictured here being dwarfed and left trailing by the best of British medical know-how. And Owen Franks. Who is, admittedly, a bit of a fat fluffybunny.
"Yes, I do need to get with the programme" said Mccaw. "Even their bloody fullback has bigger guns than me. Not to worry, I'll ask the English fellas as to where I can procure some of these beefy boy jellybeans. Maybe they have them in their pockets during the game. For mid-match top-ups. Maybe in the 2nd test I'll take some spare change to the next ruck or maul. We can make the transaction there. Righto."
All Black captain Richie Mccaw, seen here looking for next ruck or maul to develop.
--NZ Herald--
Richie Mccaw, the All Black captain, is getting left behind in the steroid race. The relatively pokey flanker was little more than a spiky-coiffured passenger during NZ's go-backwards fiesta versus England in the first test.
Mccaw, pictured here being dwarfed and left trailing by the best of British medical know-how. And Owen Franks. Who is, admittedly, a bit of a fat fluffybunny.
"Yes, I do need to get with the programme" said Mccaw. "Even their bloody fullback has bigger guns than me. Not to worry, I'll ask the English fellas as to where I can procure some of these beefy boy jellybeans. Maybe they have them in their pockets during the game. For mid-match top-ups. Maybe in the 2nd test I'll take some spare change to the next ruck or maul. We can make the transaction there. Righto."
All Black captain Richie Mccaw, seen here looking for next ruck or maul to develop.
waiopehu oldboy
George Smith (75)
Some potentially really really good news:
The All Blacks will take a wait and see approach over whether to bring back influential No.8 Kieran Read for the second Test against England.
Coach Steve Hansen says Read, who missed New Zealand's 20-15 win in Auckland, has got over his concussion problems and has been training well, and the issue now is one of match fitness.
"He did an hour and a half yesterday with no signs or symptoms," Hansen said on Sunday.
"It's just a matter, with all the lack of games, whether we chuck him back in or we actually do the safer thing and give him a week's more training and build him up and save him for the last Test."
yahoo.nz
Meanwhile on stuff.co.nz:
All Blacks coach Steve Hansen said today Savea "should be okay" after shaking off the knee injury that kept him out of last night's 20-15 win at Eden Park.
The All Blacks will take a wait and see approach over whether to bring back influential No.8 Kieran Read for the second Test against England.
Coach Steve Hansen says Read, who missed New Zealand's 20-15 win in Auckland, has got over his concussion problems and has been training well, and the issue now is one of match fitness.
"He did an hour and a half yesterday with no signs or symptoms," Hansen said on Sunday.
"It's just a matter, with all the lack of games, whether we chuck him back in or we actually do the safer thing and give him a week's more training and build him up and save him for the last Test."
yahoo.nz
Meanwhile on stuff.co.nz:
All Blacks coach Steve Hansen said today Savea "should be okay" after shaking off the knee injury that kept him out of last night's 20-15 win at Eden Park.
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Jim Clark (26)
an interesting article, would make for an epic game
http://intheloose.com/2014/06/09/north-vs-south-new-zealand-island-rugby-teams/
http://intheloose.com/2014/06/09/north-vs-south-new-zealand-island-rugby-teams/
badabing59
Cyril Towers (30)
He's back baby!
SBW signs with Counties Manukau for 2 yr deal
From NZ Herald:
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/sport/news/article.cfm?c_id=4&objectid=11274714
SBW signs with Counties Manukau for 2 yr deal
From NZ Herald:
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/sport/news/article.cfm?c_id=4&objectid=11274714
Dan54
David Wilson (68)
I am quite underwhelmed to hear this bad, I think I just over the whole SBW thing!!
Dismal Pillock
Michael Lynagh (62)
Fine by me although it would be nice if some uber hacker nerd type could cobble together some sort of cyber-cattlestop binary-sluicage siphon system to redirect every mention of him on the internet off to some deep web internet dump site.
Yes, this post too.
Yes, this post too.
badabing59
Cyril Towers (30)
In other news, Aaron Cruden re-signs with the Turbos, Chiefs and ABs til 2017.
Interesting article.
Where every All Black was born (+interactive graphic)
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/sport/news/article.cfm?c_id=4&objectid=11278276&ref=NZH_Tw
Where every All Black was born (+interactive graphic)
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/sport/news/article.cfm?c_id=4&objectid=11278276&ref=NZH_Tw