@Kiwidom Josh Southall coached club rugby in Christchurch for Lincoln Uni this year.

37 is the new 36?

Scheffler has now converted 10 straight outright 54-hole leads, a stretch that dates back to the 2023 WM Phoenix Open and includes 3 majors. He joins Tiger Woods, Jack Nicklaus and Gary Player as players to win the Masters, PGA Championship and Open Championship before age 30.

A good captain too, wouldn't hurt for more smarts on the field to counter Savea's input.

Jul 21  /  Sport What is Rugby360? And is it Saudi sportswashing? What is Rugby360? And is it Saudi sportswashing?

If the All Blacks have been approached to take part in the competition, they are certainly not letting on.

TDF fun to watch but no one can get near Pog, and following that no one can challenge Jonas for 2nd (yet at least), so the fun is really seeing who’ll get third.

When Almeida went down I thought it might be interesting to see what would happen to Pog either way less help, but he doesn’t need it. And, when Visma had the numbers they couldn’t use them, especially Yates didn’t have the legs to help Jonas which questions whether they should have set him free to get the stage last week (I think they had already given up tbh). If all were fit and supporting Jonas maybe he wouldn’t be 4 minutes behind. Can’t see him getting closer so it’ll be interesting to see how the fight for the podium shakes out.

Now Dame back to the Blazers. What a rental - gets his bag, the Blazers get him back, and they got how many picks?

A bit strange that they traded for Drue though.

@WoodysRFC said in Super Rugby - The Future:

@Bones said in Super Rugby - The Future:

@Nepia don't forget Super Rugby doesn't prepare players for international rugby if I conveniently ignore many in form SR players delivering at test time.

Apparently it's a lesser competition to the Top 14, URC, and English Prem too.

Top 14, right now yes. URC and English Prem, nope.

Jul 16  /  Sport 'First priority should be Samoa or Tonga' - Pacific rugby players choose club over country 'First priority should be Samoa or Tonga' - Pacific rugby players choose club over country

A handful of Manu Samoa players will be unavailable to play Scotland due to NPC commitments.

And after all of that he's just recommited to the Knights til 2027. Well done to his agent playing the game 👏.

@Windows97 said in NZ Rugby Collective agreement:

It was a great one-off injection of cash into the game and grass roots no doubt...

I could see the theory - that Silverlake leverage their digital/marketing knowledge to grow the AB brand and revenue.

In practice, that did not happen. NZR+ was a shocker and a money pit. That's the sort of shit that happens in a corporate. Foster's pretty scathing of the 'commercial focus' of NZR - but they seem to miss that getting the onfield stuff right leads to off field success as well. Crusaders have the best back office and it supports onfield success. Most other Super bakc offices seem ... poor to mediocre.

QLD lock Angus Blyth signs with the Tahs.

With Matt Philip also coming to Sydney it gives us some decent options

https://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/360755978/teenage-running-prodigy-sam-ruthe-breaks-two-more-1500m-records-sets-new-personal-best

@Steven-Harris IMO the Sharks missed Matich's work in those 1st phases and close to the rucks.

Friedrich was excellent in the 2nd spell though, after a poor 1st 40.

I am never a fan of NRU interfering with players going to clubs, but I would hope they try to persuade clubs from 'poaching' players.

MN did not need Letoga at 8, a few of the young fellas who joined.them this year have moved from thier club they grew up at, youncan understand people moving for success and a pathway to higher levels.

Not sure how you persuade them to stay at other clubs, but you need a stronger all round comp otherwise it will see other clubs weaken further.

@Bones said in All Blacks - loosie selections in recent years:

@MN5 said in All Blacks - loosie selections in recent years:

@Bones said in All Blacks - loosie selections in recent years:

@brodean I was just surprised to see Sotutu as medium and did a brief Google, which showed him as the same height and a couple of kilos lighter. Even Flanders was the same height, but significantly lighter (although I'd be very surprised if he's still only 108kg).

Its more down to height.

Kieran Read and Liam Messam were about the same playing weight but 1.93cm and 1.88cm respectively which bizarrely put them as "big" and "medium" respectively

They're the same height, David.

Don't say sorry to me. Say sorry to Messam.

@Snowy said in Rugby or NFL:

A lot of the TMO interference would be solved if guys like Murphy stuck to “clear and obvious”. To me that means watching a replay at normal speed, can you see something worthy of reversing on field call? If you have to slow it down and watch it 5 times, it is neither clear nor obvious! Therefore the decision on field stands.

And if you need more than 20-30 seconds to make up your mind it should be ref's call

Edit, I just repeated TRs point 🙄

@booboo said in Lima Sopoaga:

Sorry. Had to remove the quotation marks in the thread title.

Driving me up the wall.

That's the kind of modding we can all get behind.

@booboo said in WNBA:

I hear there’s an option for Angel Reese to phone a friend to make a layup for her.

@mikedogz

Have made a video, thanks for the spot ☺🙌