Un-Australian Activities 2020

[Dismal Pillock]

No match broadcast here at Hut Byron. Need the full warts-and-all Akira Report.

lol, "Blues tried a droppie with a 15 players on 12 advantage".

Mods, please ban these trolls who are spreading what must surely be fake news reports.

 

[ACR]

Ah. Never miss the vintage SA reffing displays at home.

 

[ACR]

Highlanders actually played pretty well in the first half. Couldn't back it up in the second. Bulls took their chances.

Long slog this year'll be.

 

[Ulrich]

I said a few weeks back the Lions would regress to pre-Ackerman standards. So it seems to be.

The Sharks have done surprisingly well, not because they do not have a good team, but because I was unaware how decent a coach Everit may be. Completely transformed them.

Happy for the Bulls, had them by 3 points simply due to the local news around their team. Highlanders are no benchmark this season though.

 

[Dismal Pillock]

Bulls v Landers, 1st half of this match was unwatchable. And not just cos each team fielded about 7 keen amateur level NPC type guys. Bulls jerseys, bluish camo. Landers flew all the way around the world to turn up in..... bluish green camo. FFS. Who played well? Who's on first? Who missed key tackles? WHO THE FUCK KNOWS. It was all a blur. Another nadir plumbed by this dickbrained competition. Oh well, at least the Bulls had the sense to switch jerseys at HT. Which left the Landers with nowhere to hide. Coughed up FIVE 2nd half tries. the fucken Bulls had only scored 5 tries all damn season. Landers #23 gives up easy try by charging out of the D line like an alzheimers patient chasing a fucken bus he missed in 1954

And THIS is the only NZ team in a televised match this weekend? The 2 bottom teams playing in identical jerseys. GO FUCK YOURSELF RUGBY. Zero coverage of the BLUES rampage through SA or their subsequent now-legendary iconic defeat of the Wellington Hurricanes.

 

[Ulrich]

Bulls v Landers, 1st half of this match was unwatchable. And not just cos each team fielded about 7 keen amateur level NPC type guys. Bulls jerseys, bluish camo. Landers flew all the way around the world to turn up in... bluish green camo. FFS. Who played well? Who's on first? Who missed key tackles? WHO THE FUCK KNOWS. It was all a blur. Another nadir plumbed by this dickbrained competition. Oh well, at least the Bulls had the sense to switch jerseys at HT. Which left the Landers with nowhere to hide. Coughed up FIVE 2nd half tries. the fucken Bulls had only scored 5 tries all damn season. Landers #23 gives up easy try by charging out of the D line like an alzheimers patient chasing a fucken bus he missed in 1954

And THIS is the only NZ team in a televised match this weekend? The 2 bottom teams playing in identical jerseys. GO FUCK YOURSELF RUGBY. Zero coverage of the BLUES rampage through SA or their subsequent now-legendary iconic defeat of the Wellington Hurricanes.

It's like the teams pitch up and then everyone realises "fek, you on ma team?". Why is this not discussed before?

At least sanity prevailed at HT.

Bloos on a roll DP, can't imagine what you will be like if they win the thing this year

 

[Dismal Pillock]

Bloos on a roll DP, can't imagine what you will be like if they win the thing this year

There will be a celebratory coronation photo essay roughly 812 trillion billion gygabytes long. It will crash the GAGR servers, I will be banned on the spot and giddily sprint outside straight into oncoming traffic and die with a huge smile on my face.

 

[Ulrich]

There will be a celebratory coronation photo essay roughly 812 trillion billion gygabytes long. It will crash the GAGR servers, I will be banned on the spot and giddily sprint outside straight into oncoming traffic and die with a huge smile on my face.

Do you think they have taken Suzie's virus too far given the French cannot get their slam as they deserve?

 

[formerflanker]

Bulls v Landers, 1st half of this match was unwatchable. And not just cos each team fielded about 7 keen amateur level NPC type guys. Bulls jerseys, bluish camo. Landers flew all the way around the world to turn up in... bluish green camo. FFS. Who played well? Who's on first? Who missed key tackles? WHO THE FUCK KNOWS. It was all a blur. Another nadir plumbed by this dickbrained competition.
The 2 bottom teams playing in identical jerseys. GO FUCK YOURSELF RUGBY.

Not the only marketing stuff up this weekend.
Viewers were treated to a team in grey and a little maroon named 'The Reds".
The other team outfitted in red jerseys were the Crusaders.
That's the way to attract new viewers to the game.

 

[waiopehu oldboy]

Tyrel Lomax suspended for three weeks for his attempted decapitation of Stephen Perofeta:

https://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/rugby...es-prop-tyrel-lomax-suspended-for-three-weeks

Lucky to be only three imo & again begs the question just what do you have to do to get full sanction?

 

[waiopehu oldboy]

David Havili has had emergency abdominal surgery, apparently to remove a foreign object from his stomach, and will be out of action for who knows how long:

https://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/rugby...rs-fullback-david-havili-goes-under-the-knife

Step on up Mr Will Jordan..........

EDIT: newshub now reporting it as an infection not a foreign object, and bowel not stomach.

https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/spor...son-for-david-havili-s-emergency-surgery.html

CruSadists likely to rest a heap of guys v Sunwolves this week so the team that rocks up to Suncorp could have an experimental look to it.

 

[Dismal Pillock]

David Havili has had emergency abdominal surgery, apparently to remove a foreign object from his stomach

Sounds like someone's Crusader Stonemason Guild Induction Ceremony went horribly wrong.....

"Oh shit."

 

[waiopehu oldboy]

Week 7:

Fri 13/03 Chiefs v Hurricanes 17:05 AEDT
Sat 14/03 Blues v Lions 14:25
Sat 14/03 Sunwolves v Crusaders 16:35
Sun 15/03 Sharks v Stormers 0:05
Sun 15/03 Jaguares v Highlanders 10:00

 

[Dismal Pillock]

another week, another raft of matches not on telly

Week 7:
Fri 13/03 Chiefs v Hurricanes 17:05 AEDT 10 pm full replay
Sat 14/03 Blues v Lions 14:25 FFS
Sat 14/03 Sunwolves v Crusaders 16:35 LIVEFFS
Sun 15/03 Jaguares v Highlanders 10:00

Only seen Landers play one match this season but this years iteration are looking like the NZRFU canary in the coalmine visa visor the mass exodus. Some of those blokes are NOT super rugby players. Keen amateurs. No wonder this week the NZRFU has desperately tried to wheel out the "All Blacks XV" carrot chariot EOYT "please goddamnit would SOMEONE please stay behind and try to aim to play for the All Blacks instead of cashing in on the easy option of 800K p/a to mail it in for the Toyota Heavy Industries XV ffs please thank you."

 

[waiopehu oldboy]

Probably timely to check out the Top 8 roughly 1/3 of the way into the comp:

1. Sharks 20 points
2. Chiefs 18, points differential +69
3. Brumbies 18, +60
4. Crusaders 18
5. Stormers 17, +34
6. BLUES* 17, +25
7. Jaguares 15
8. Hurricanes 13

* capitalised just for Dismal & any other Loss Bleus freaks I mean fans who can't quite believe their eyes

Literally done on the back of an envelope so feel free to correct me if I've overlooked any obscure/ obvious reason why those rankings aren't quite right.

EDIT: CruSadists have a PD of +49 hence they're fourth not second.

 

[Dismal Pillock]

4. Crusaders 18
5. Stormers 17
6. BLUES* 17

My dedicated team of screenshotters, just waiting for the brief, fleeting moment, should it ever, ever possibly arise, that the Blues creep above the Cantabs on the ladder.

These, my volunteer staffers, have been on 24 hour round-the-clock standby every minute of every day since 2004.

 

[zer0]

The Blues are playing the Lions before the Crusaders play consume the souls of the Sunwolves. They really should (should) (SHOULD) beat the Lions, so have the team on DEFCON 1 standing for about 6:20 pm NZT.

Of course, TJ and Marshy will probably use all of their clout within Sky to prevent them from showing the table at the conclusion of the rugby union football match, should the unspeakable happen.

 

[Dismal Pillock]

so have the team on DEFCON 1 standing for about 6:20 pm NZT.

 

[Dismal Pillock]

Of course, TJ and Marshy will probably use all of their clout within Sky to prevent them from showing the table at the conclusion of the rugby union football match, should the unspeakable happen.

 

[Brumby Runner]

Probably timely to check out the Top 8 roughly 1/3 of the way into the comp:

1. Sharks 20 points
2. Chiefs 18, points differential +69
3. Brumbies 18, +60
4. Crusaders 18
5. Stormers 17, +34
6. BLUES* 17, +25
7. Jaguares 15
8. Hurricanes 13

* capitalised just for Dismal & any other Loss Bleus freaks I mean fans who can't quite believe their eyes

Literally done on the back of an envelope so feel free to correct me if I've overlooked any obscure/ obvious reason why those rankings aren't quite right.

EDIT: CruSadists have a PD of +49 hence they're fourth not second.

WOB, maybe for the first time since the conference system was introduced, the top 8 would be the same in the same order if there were no conferences involved.