<p>His own club banned him. Fucking good.</p>

<p>My english teacher at school always said proof read everything but did I ever follow those insructions?</p>

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<p>Sister, I thought?</p>
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<p>Yes sister is correct</p>

<p>- The NZ conference is the strongest it's been since the conference system began</p>
<p>- I suspect that the competition for All Black vacancies has contributed to the quality of the NZ conferences, as many of us suspected would be the case</p>
<p>- Less intra-conference games should help NZ teams given ours is traditionally the strongest conference</p>
<p>- I'm still not sold on the bonus point change, given that it still benefits teams in the weaker conferences that play against weaker teams. I get the arguments for the change, but I will withhold judgement until the end of the season</p>
<p>- The Jaguares and Waratahs have been the disappointments of the season thus far</p>

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<p>Shockingly, FIFA is caught up in the "Panama Papers" scandal.</p>
<p> </p>
<p><a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='http://www.theguardian.com/news/2016/apr/03/leaked-papers-fifa-ethics-committee-credibility-crisis-juan-pedro-damiani-eugenio-figueredo'>http://www.theguardian.com/news/2016/apr/03/leaked-papers-fifa-ethics-committee-credibility-crisis-juan-pedro-damiani-eugenio-figueredo</a></p>
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<p><img src="http://www.reactiongifs.us/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/shocked_moriarty.gif" alt="shocked_moriarty.gif"></p>

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<p>Really? Not saying he can't, I've just very rarely seen him kick the ball.</p>
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<p>I've seen him play 10 at club level, clearing well off both feet.. and the crusaders often use his kicking game to good effect.</p>
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<p>Last year in NPC Canterbury used him a lot to kick (in the games he was available) to take the pressure off Mo'aga</p>

<p>Cheers, I missed that one along the way.</p>

<p>its everywhere now, pretty much in every sport</p>

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<p>That's a point I've made elsewhere. It's astonishing the amount of people who expect him to still be playing at the level he demonstrated last year.</p>
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<p>With what seems to be a greater distribution of talent across the big Top14 teams now, it's small wonder Toulon aren't dominating - particularly when it seems a lot of players appear to be expecting the other stars in their team to do something magical.</p>
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<p>You can see Ma'a's frustration with this team-mates in this one clip</p>
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<p>Shit, if that's an incredible solo try I hope whoever made that vid doesn't watch highlights of Jonah or Cully, he's liable to have a coronary.</p>

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<p>For those of us in Aus...</p>
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<p>You beauty</p>
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<p>As of May, beIN sports will be part of your Foxtel package for no extra cost.</p>
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<p>Which means in the short term, Champions League Finals, and Euro Champs games, but more importantly, <strong>November Tour tests for the ABs</strong> (I've missed some crackers in the past couple of years). </p>
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<p>I'll stump up the $50 for that month and then turn Foxtel off again.</p>

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<p><strong>Todd </strong>:</p>
<p>Positives : Outstanding support play, great workrate, good speed.</p>
<p>Negatives : Never runs 60 metres breaking 6 terrible tackles fending off 3 guys & bumping off a terrible fullback in a way that he will never do ever nor has any AB loose forward ever because test match rugby doesn't have that level of shithouse D that we see in Super rugby but every year we try to select guys who do that but can't actually do what we need from a test player.</p>
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<p>Fixed. </p>
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<p>But which of the number 7's don't have outstanding support play, great work rate or good speed? Savea is probably better than Todd at all 3 of those. Apparently Todd looks like a test number 7 but so do they all.</p>

<p>ive seen worse.. no correction been in worse haha but then thats club rugby not professional..</p>

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What I mean by that is doing everything right, and making a (positive) difference when he does. Having an impact, often and not making mistakes.<br><br>
It's what I in my role as armchair selector look for when selecting my All Blacks team.

<p>Well at least it looks like he was running hard between the wickets....</p>

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<p>and me about 30 :(</p>
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<p>Don't worry, you gave me a start and still passed me!</p>

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<p>Qhen I watched there seemed to a reasonable crpwd admittedly woth large emlty areas having a great time.<br><br>
Preventing a drunken free for all is not fun policing. Should have had more of that at Eden Park in the late 80s and ODIs would still be sold out. But i suppose it's finding the balance between stopping idiocy and unnecessary gestapoing.</p>
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<p>The novelty has worn off, people are over it pure and simple.</p>

<p><strong>Reds: </strong>1. Sef Fa’agase, 2. Andrew Ready, 3. Greg Holmes, 4. Cadeyrn Neville, 5. Rob Simmons (C), 6. Hendrik Tui, 7. Liam Gill, 8. Jake Schatz, 9. Nick Frisby, 10. Jake McIntyre, 11. Eto Nabuli, 12. Anthony Fainga’a, 13. Samu Kerevi, 14. Chris Feauai-Sautia, 15. Karmichael Hunt.<strong> Reserves:</strong> 16. Saia Fainga’a, 17. James Slipper, 18. Sam Talakai, 19. Ben Matwijow, 20. Curtis Browning, 21. Scott Gale, 22. Sam Greene, 23. Ayumu Goromaru</p>
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<p><strong>Waratahs: </strong>1. Paddy Ryan, 2. Tolu Latu, 3. Angus Ta’avao,  4. Dean Mumm, 5. David Dennis, 6. Jack Dempsey, 7.Michael Hooper ©, 8. Jed Holloway,  9. Nick Phipps, 10.   Bernard Foley, 11. Zac Guildford, 12. Kurtley Beale, 13. Rob Horne, 14. Reece Robinson, 15. Israel Folau. <strong>Reserves: </strong>16. Hugh Roach, 17.  Benn Robinson, 18. Tom Robertson, 19. Sam Lousi, 20. Wycliff Palu, 21. Matt Lucas, 22. David Horwitz, 23.   Matt Carraro</p>

<p>it's last weeks sides</p>

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<p>Often though, they would join by touching him as they went past which is deemed legal for some reason.</p>
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<p>Yes what's often referred to as swimming.</p>
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<p>But there were even examples where guys didn't even bother doing that.</p>
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<p>Go watch the tries from the game where he got a hat trick.</p>