NZ vs England Test 2 2014

[It is what it is]

Perhaps the AB's should be playing NFL.
Firstly it was their clean out of passive defenders way ahead of the ruck.
Next came players loitering on the ruck fringes, creating holes for their inside ball runners.
Now we're seeing groups of players running ahead of the ball and using footwork and contact to shepherd trailing team mates.
Throw in the number of forward passes they threw and they're on track to soon join the NFL.
PS: They're good at it, but how long can this blatant BS continue?

 

[Dismal Pillock]

Perhaps the AB's should be playing NFL.
Firstly it was their clean out of passive defenders way ahead of the ruck.
Next came players loitering on the ruck fringes, creating holes for their inside ball runners.
Now we're seeing groups of players running ahead of the ball and using footwork and contact to shepherd trailing team mates.
Throw in the number of forward passes they threw and they're on track to soon join the NFL.
PS: They're good at it, but how long can this blatant BS continue?

 

[It is what it is]

Lost for words DP?

 

[Dan54]

Don't know about DP, but I was reading your post It Is

 

[waiopehu oldboy]

Doesn't a picture paint a thousand words? Whinge & whine are words, 998 to go.

 

[It is what it is]

Doesn't a picture paint a thousand words? Whinge & whine are words, 998 to go.

Here's 2 words for you WO "America's Cup"

 

[Quick Hands]

Anyone know who the ref will be for the 3rd test? Not Garces I hope

I assume he will be. Not even the IRB would fly someone half way around the world to run up and down the side line with a flag. I'd imagine the team of 3 will have 1 whistle and 2 flags each.

 

[waiopehu oldboy]

Here's 2 words for you WO "America's Cup"

Bernard Tomic? Greg Norman?

 

[cyclopath]

OK, all very good, maybe we all stop before someone goes over the top and it goes arse-up?

 

[Muttonbird]

Bad idea to streak at an NZ home game, you can assume all the security guards have grown up playing rugby!

That streaker was trivialising the national game. Very unwise thing to do.

 

[cyclopath]

That streaker was trivialising the national game. Very unwise thing to do.

I dunno about that - he was demonstrating tackling practice.........as a tackle bag.

 

[Muttonbird]

Perhaps the AB's should be playing NFL.
Firstly it was their clean out of passive defenders way ahead of the ruck.
Next came players loitering on the ruck fringes, creating holes for their inside ball runners.
Now we're seeing groups of players running ahead of the ball and using footwork and contact to shepherd trailing team mates.
Throw in the number of forward passes they threw and they're on track to soon join the NFL.
PS: They're good at it, but how long can this blatant BS continue?

All teams do this and occasionally get pinged for it although not nearly enough in my opinion. It is borrowed from mungoball and I hate it. Wouldn't take much for the IRB to stamp it out if they wanted to.

 

[Ruggo]

Dunno about taking the piss out of Bob Hawke crying. He turned it into an art form.

 

[Ruggo]

I dunno about that - he was demonstrating tackling practice...as a tackle bag.

Practicing a ball and all tackle?

 

[waiopehu oldboy]

OK, all very good, maybe we all stop before someone goes over the top and it goes arse-up?

Seen worse let go but fair enough Mr Fun Policeman, I'll get my coat, see myself out & save my Kim Hughes & Reeky Stuart references for another day.

 

[cyclopath]

Seen worse let go but fair enough Mr Fun Policeman, I'll get my coat, see myself out & save my Kim Hughes & Reeky Stuart references for another day.

I wasn't too bothered by what you said, but I could only see one way it would go next, so I thought I might head it off.

 

[cyclopath]

Practicing a ball and all tackle?

I thought "ball and all" is the tackle?

 

[FrankLind]

At the moment the All Blacks are so ominous that I just want their streak to end so that SA may contest the remarkable winning run you have had. Would love SA to end the streak, but am thinking mathematically here. Our chances are very slim of ever getting near our 17 game winning streak given the rugby landscape in SA.

Really?

SA has more 4 times the number of senior registered male rugby players in SA to NZ. Four times !!!
England has almost 5 times.
Australia (and I didn't realize this) has double the number of players NZ does.

 

[cyclopath]

Really?

SA has more 4 times the number of senior registered male rugby players in SA to NZ. Four times !!!
England has almost 5 times.
Australia (and I didn't realize this) has double the number of players NZ does.

I'd be careful believing any figures for participation put out by the ARU. They have been shown to be rubbery at best.

 

[FrankLind]

I'd be careful believing any figures for participation put out by the ARU. They have been shown to be rubbery at best.

Really? Why?
More so than other countries' figures?
You would admit Australia has significantly more senior male rugby players than NZ? Or not?