Nz domestic rugby 2020

[Dan54]

Points table looking a little more realistic than the clearly-doctored one posted a week ago..

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Obviously, and as I said when predicting the mighty Canes to bounce back this week (ok I posted different to fool people) and once we shove the Clan aside next week, canes to come home with a wet sail and table will look real good!!!

 

[Dan54]

So much for Cruden being the difference, he's been outplayed by JG-B to the point of anonymity & then he's overcooked the last-roll-of-the-dice penalty touchfinder. Tribe need two scores in four minutes, they've seldom looked like scoring twice in the preceding 76.

Edit: Boshier over in the corner but surely it's too little too late, less than two minutes left.

I honestly believe that JG-B's biggest difference today was Jordie at back guiding things and taking pressure off him. I though Jordie was bloody good, as were a few of the boys! That bloody Coles can move for a hooker can't he, last hooker that was that quick was one who was going to get my change!!!

 

[Brumby Runner]

Gotta feel for Scrafton, that first YC was pretty harsh. Less than 20 to go so he won't be replaced.

WOB, towards the end it was conceivable that the game would go to golden point. Had that happened, I presume Scrafton could have been replaced at the appropriate time?

 

[Dismal Pillock]

Sam Cane blindsiding the halfback with a cheap shoulder shot was not the behaviour becoming of an All Black captain.

 

[waiopehu oldboy]

^ as mentioned in commentary he was lucky to stay out there esp given how soft Scrafton's first YC was.

 

[Brumby Runner]

^ as mentioned in commentary he was lucky to stay out there esp given how soft Scrafton's first YC was.

Which frlom memory was an offside tackle on Cane. Maybe Cane is a protected species?

 

[Dan54]

Sam Cane blindsiding the halfback with a cheap shoulder shot was not the behaviour becoming of an All Black captain.

No I know it was soft and very much giving your mate a bang as you go past, as was seen with TJ and him laughing as they came back for penalty, but not something he wants to be doing. It not park rugby.

 

[waiopehu oldboy]

Highlights

 

[aeneas]

It's very weird watching a canes side with a replacement level (at best) 13. But a wins a win!

I cant imagine Gatland is particularly enjoying this.

 

[KiwiM]

No surprises the reffing is a focus when Ben O'Keeffe is ref. The guy is simply not a great ref at this point in time. At least he only got the game between winless teams this time.

DMac wouldn't be in my All Black squad - yes he is 'brave' but he's also tiny, has a huge error count and plays a barbarians style game not suited to test match rugby. I still think Jordie is playing out of position and is a 12 playing 15 but he'd be ahead of DMac for me (Beaudy, Jordan and Havili as fullback options, in that order).

 

[waiopehu oldboy]

Remember this place?

It looks like this now:

Original demolition budget $12Mn actual cost $9Mn & less than 2% sent to landfill. The old boilers are now heating the hot pools at Franz Joseph, the old seating is scattered as far afield as Te Puke (small town near close to Tauranga in the Western Bay of Plenty). They managed to save some of the historic bits like the memorial gates, these will be incorporated into the new park.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/the-press/n...r-park-demolition-waste-a-scrap-dealers-dream

Edit: unlike Athletic Park & Carisbrook there's an Act of Parliament stipulating that Lancaster Park can only be used for sport & recreational purposes so it was never going to become a retirement home or medium- to high-density housing.

 

[Dismal Pillock]

the old seating is scattered as far afield as Te Puke

I wouldve bought one of those seats. For $1. So I could refurbish it into a seat for my bog.

Then every day I could legitimately say "just off to take a shit on what's left of Lancaster Park."

 

[zer0]

As a penthouse resident, I've no real interest in whatever it is that passes for sport among the cellar-dwellers, but it seems the Chufs really are going all in on this whinging strategy? If Cane keeps this up, then we'll need to hire Richie as an expensive consultant to come in and give him a slap before every match and interview until he remembers not to be a lil bitch.

 

[Dismal Pillock]

Has to be Gatland. Brought his NH diveball martyrdom sookery down under.

Cruden and Weber having a cry to the ref for the whole match about how everything is so, so, so unfair.

Cane postmatch tearful, emotional, distraught, wants his mummy.

 

[zer0]

Five minutes of the pre-MacDonald (praise be unto He) Blues treatment and they breakdown like C12H22O11 vs dihydrogen monoxide.

 

[Dismal Pillock]

As a penthouse resident, I've no real interest in whatever it is that passes for sport among the cellar-dwellers

What do they even do down there? Tearfully stumbling through mud puddles looking for their lost sports ball or something I suspect. "My ball, my ball, has anyone seen my lost sports ball?" they query the silent blackened skies, heaving pregnant dark clouds laden with another heaping helping of misery soon destined to rain upon their already drowned hopes and prayers for a better tomorrow.

 

[aeneas]

Remember this place?

.

Astle's 222 is my favourite memory from there.

 

[Dan54]

Astle's 222 is my favourite memory from there.

See zer), see how us cellar dwellers suddenly remember cricket!!!

 

[waiopehu oldboy]

Josh Dickson gone for four months with a broken fibula:

https://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/rugby...landers-lose-lock-josh-dickson-for-the-season

Geoff Cridge (NZU20 & Hawkes Bay) comes into the squad.

 

[Dan54]

Josh Dickson gone for four months with a broken fibula:

https://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/rugby...landers-lose-lock-josh-dickson-for-the-season

Geoff Cridge (NZU20 & Hawkes Bay) comes into the squad.

That will hurt the Clan, he was playing very good rugby, though Jack Whetton is not bad. Starting to look forward to this week's games already!